The Helena independent., 1893-12-29
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HOW CITY WAS MADE.

HOW AZ CITY WAS MADE.
A writer in the New York Times, who
has been making a careful study OF the
growth Of Chicago, sums up his obser-
vatiops with reflections that should be OF
profit to the people ct every other Amer
icau CITY. The ses-st Of the marvellous
advancement Chicago has made is pri-
marily due, he discovers. to civic pride
and faith in destiny. No Chicagoan has
ever doubted from the beginning that
his city was to be the greatest and the
crandest on earth. That was hall the
battle for supremacy. Animated by
that faith the citizens have worked to-
oether as one man to accomplish great
aims, Whenever an enterprise that
would benefit the city has been proposed
by anybody cooperation has been the
watchword. Whether it was the found.
ing Of an art school or university. or
providing new water supply, or park
system, or boulevards, whatever the OBJ
iect, nobody thought OF detracting from
its meri: or of preventing its accomplish
ment.
As the writer in the Times shows, the
Worlds fair is not considered by Chica-
goans as their greatest achievement.
That was the thing best known to the
cutside world, but, in the Chicago opin-
ion, greater things have been done for
that city. Enormous bequests have
been made for monuments, churches,
asylums, hospitals and Libraries. Rock
efelier, who gave the big fund to the
Chicago university, has not been its
only benefactor. Many millions have
been added to its endowment by citizens
of Chicago. In addition to this Lake
Forest university has been endowed to
tho extent OF So 100000. and
the Northwestern university at
Evanston has received 100000.
Nearly all this money has been contrib
uted by wealthy residents of the city.
During 1898 the men and women of the
city gave 100000 to public institu-
tions. The Columbian museum. the
outgrowth of the fair, we'll illustrates
the spontaneous movement of the peo-
pie when a worthy object is proposed.
All the money necessary for this great
treasury was given within very few
. days.
We cannot better conclude than in
the language Of the Times writer: ut
was, after all, drop in the bucket for a
o,t ioh .,Ff ~
money to secure pure water, is spending
many millions more for drainage. Be-
fore the Worlds fair was projected the
city had decided to dig the great drain
age canal which will carry the sewage
OF the city down to the Mississippi river.
This improvement will cost the city
S22.OOO,OO0 before the end OF 1896, and
ten millions mere before it is completed
Not staggered by such a load, the peo-
pie OF the city are now figuring On
building a canal from Lake Michigan tc
Lake Ere, lao miles long, which would
bring the western metropolis 600 miles
nearer the geaboard by the water route
1t is estimated that this canal would
cost $50, O,OOO,0 600, aud that 1t would pay
five per cent interest on that amount
But it would be permanent improve
ment, and it would be Of almost incal
culable benefit to the city.
'Such schemes as this are not yapor
GUS to Chicagoans. They have implicit
confidence in themselves and in tn
city, and they are not afraid to bacl
their opinions and plans with thei
money, which has come to them 80 fas,
"This civic pride and faith in the des
tiny of the city, this enterprise, thi
spirit OF philanthropy, this ability t
make wise investments, will make Chi
cago within decade the most wonder
full city on the face Of the globe. 1t
brief history, its almost total destruc
Iion by fire twenty-five years ago, if
population now of 100000, the trans
formation which is now going on in il
business district, the magnitude an
magnificence Of its commercial builC
irgs, which are replacing those put u
only 4 few years ago, and which surpae
anything Of the kind in the history {
the world, it's universities, churche
and public buildings complete d III
nomenal record and foreshadow q sti
more phenomenal future"