The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-13
THE PAST OF CHICAGO.
The Garden City Of Illinois Has a
Wonderful History.
A Few Interesting Facts-How Canals.
Railroads and tl.o Great Lakes Have
Helped the Western Metropolis-Cli-
cago to the Mississippi by Water.
IoopYnlaHr, 1893.

COPYRIGHT, 1885,
In the latter part of May went
east, and have returned to the city in
which Potter Palmer's wonderful man
sion and some astonishing perpetra-
lions in the gardeners art are located,
not to mention worlds fair. The
journey set in contrast this fair to the
continental relations east and west
Two general facts stood out-namely,
the rising utility of coal or fuel to the
whole country, and the extension OF
the manufactures into the heart of the
west. / saw at GAINESVILLE, an old and
dulish town in Ohio, one of the most
extensive potteries on the globe. seem
ing to cover hundred acres, on the
banks of the Muskingum river. About
twelve years ago l went to lecture in
GAINESVILLE, and they were making
few wheetbarrow loads of colored
tiles for interior paving and fireplaces.,
Some son of genius had come along,
without the means to pay for his
nights lodging, and told them that
they had beautiful tile clay Through
the tariff "a standard of protection was
obtainedwhich insured eastern capital
lists to buy the plant. and now the
harmonious poftery cylinders and
chimneys stud the plain. making the
place miniature Stoke.
The iron education Of Pittsburgh
has served as a9great university and
training school to advance into Ohio
and ont to the great lakes. Wheeling,
which was neglected little town
in the Panhandle Of Virginia, has be-
come another furious Pittsburgh.
passed Fostoria, where Charley Foster
failed, between the Oates went east
and returned, through his enterpris.
ingstown in the Black Swamp Of Ohio.
Looking over this town one seems to
see Its volatility, with more glass fac
tories than are necessary, with rail-
roads drawn through the place to
whoopsit up, and, though the develop
ments have been important, no.
ticed a large number of the oil der
rfclsddle, as if the product had been
pumped out. A liberal politician Gre
ates expenses originally notnecesnry.
Like the habit of tipping waiters, the
result lis that at last one cannot get
his breakfast unless he pays extra for
it. &c.. assisting Legislators in their
election expenses establishes apreee-
dent, IN which gratitude is q lively
sense of favors to come. Though
wheat dropped to about sfxty-uine
cents bushel on the LIST Of June, it
was fourteen cents higher than in
1851, and twenty-five CENTS higher
than in 1859, when Pierce had
been elected president. Ohio and
Pennsylvania have much better
farm and town improvements than
either West Virginia or skates west of
0a1io. The country issdeveanpiutg sloug
the new railroad lines, ASST city years
hence it might look sliizeTF with
brick instead of shanty Improvement
At nearly every 'stationspf size I saw
tile.works, to drain the fields, and in
sarueteaa wandering oklahomaafarmer
beside sme upon The mystery df these
tiles. absorbing water' fzalzpngh their
PORES and passing 1t ,dxssn the schannel
o~cyiinder SO as to&asyt fields. Said
this farmer tonnes II hspe inst secured
my one hundred and .tseerrty-fve acres
OF land in Okaaareuaa, whereI waited
for months TO get my p5ece, almost
starving to death meantime. It is.ss
good land as they have in the world,
and the Indians have taken their par
cells in severalby, Like the whites Ok
lahoua City and Guthrie will be the
chief Places
sAndYang the country, as came
aaomg, Imade one OF two novel discuv-
cries. For instance. there is only one
county of Illinois bstween Chicago and
Wisconsin. The county OF Cook, in
which Chicago stands, reaches to the
Indiana line. On the other side Of the
Indiana line are acnly three counties of
Indiana fnterpesed between Illinois
and Michigan, and these support three
STRONG lake ports. Chicago therefore,
is the emporium of WISCONSIN, Indiana,
western Michigan and Illinois.
II Iwere to ask almost any grown
man whether Michigan was east of
Chicago or west of IL he would say:
Certainly, east" Yet Michigan
reaches one hundred and forty miles
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