Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-04-14

within two mouths the condition -
Chicago will he better than il has Ia
fore il Years" said W II FriIbee IL
Chicago in The Morton last evening
ia spite IL sneers at the dirty oondliiol
IL the streets. they are being cieaDs.i as
rapidly as possible. All the men and eli
the iearas that can lie scsom n.osiAted
are III york, and when the new mayor
goes into office lie viz see that the
streets are everything they ought Il bs
l vas not . Carter Harrison man. hat
believe he y ia make Z good mssos Has
risen is not the brutal thax. tough and
boodl~r that he has been REPRESENTED 10
he On the contrary. he Is al honorable
nam, and one II the keenes.. skrewdest.
most alert politicians IN the west
The ambition III his life 10 10 be
limit The old man would like "a spend
the last days q his political life IN the
senate and 10 pulling wires 10 that end
lie knows he must square himself With
the people and repudisie the newspaper
charges that he Was the candidate 81
the toughs and the thugs lie viii do
IL. too. lie went 10 Indiana 10 escape
the msmbers IL the gang, AID ~hen be
returns he will make god clean sp-
Iointmenis lie will give Chicago one
at the best city governments II has ever
had"
While in Chicago l visited jackson
park sand Col. Frank klss-ley ~
Sweets yesterday afternoon. Every
thing IL IN confusion there and only a
Chicago man can zee juss how they are
going Ia get things IN shape Ia open the
fair May !. Many Of the driyewsys are
unfinished. having TO he macadsmized
yet. The buildings as a rule are far
from being ready. The Michigan build
ing is not Yet finished. The paint on
the outside has scaled OF in many place
and II will be necessary Ia 90 n great
deal of work before the structure 10
ready. Still il is a very pretty building
and will he credit 10 the state. To an
outsider il looks 40 il there were yet two
months work to be done before the
grounds are in the condition they are ex-
pected Ia he. But everybody in Chicago
claims that May l ~ill zee everything
completed. For myself. am inclined
to doubt this. and think the persons
that wish to see the fair and not he dis
appointed better wait until the last 81
June or the first 81 July
One IL the latest additions To the film.
fam nickel in the-slot machines il an
ingenious hit ~ mechanism that has
been placed in all the hotels 81 the city.
The nickel in placed in the slot and il il
goes the right way the machine will dis
gorge three nickels. II il doesn't go the
right way-snd il usually doesn't-the
man las the satisfaction Il knowing
that be isn't the only person buncoed by
the continuance. The man is always n
to shot and the machine usually wins
in a walk. Occasionally a man succeeds
in downing it. and Chicago drummer
actually broke the bank in The Morton
house yesterday. There was only 20
cents in the cspacious nav 81 the au-
coopered it. However. the machine
could not be expected 10 down a mem
Der Of the 'profesh man engaged in
the same sort Of business.
George A. Roof will probably he the
next postmaster at Big Rapids. said
Charles ID. Crandall in The Morton last
night Mr.. Roof has the Endorsement Of
Prof Ferris, the defeated democrat can
didate FOR congress- and that amounts
virtually to an appointment There are
several other candidates Among them
are John Lauden. W. y. Nesbitt and
John T. Clark. But Mr.. Roof was chair
man Of the congressional committee.
and Prof. Ferris is well pleased with
the manner in which the campaign was