Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
LINCOLN PARK CARS ON SUNDAYS.


growing affairs. But Chicago, create,
than any of them, is but of yesterday and
it raises a smile to read in Ford's History
of Illinois that in his administration Nau-
VOC was much larger than this city and in
Lincoln's life that the political influence
of Vandalia was great when that of Chi,
cago was 10 even taken into account.
What an amazing growth that was
when the fertile Illinois imagination
actually ran out of names for new cities,
Gent geography recklessly bestowed 200
line of settlements. What q queer state
fast in Moscow and dine in Cairo; may
drive in a few hours from Carthage to
Warsaw, fly rapidly to st. Petersburg and
Paradise. Plenty of good Indian names,
too, which would have given n local flavor
to the nomenclature, and on various old
maps the name of this place is spelt in
seventeen different ways, the main line of
Eschikagou, Echicaqu, Chikagu and Chi
cagou to it's present title.
Well, in 1913 there was at least one man
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two or three. In 1912 there was quitea
settlement and in the once very popular
story entitled 'Hardscrabble" the plot
turns upon the massacre of those who
lived On an outlying farm. In 1887 the
place was Incorporated and contained
4,17O people. Soon after the Illinois Cen
trail railway was an assured success, and
the world knows the rest. What are
Tyre, Venice and Amsterdam to such a
growth as that? In 1S47 I first heard the
name of Chicago when my fathers neigh
bors, away down in western Indiana, be-
gan to haul their wheat here and to haul
back the three prime necessaries of that
time, salt, leather and mackerel. Now
the city's limit stretches almost to the In
diana line and wheat is even cheaper than
it then was. But the farmers do not have
to haul it SO far.
Away from the immediate vicinity OF
Jackson park one sees nothing in Chicago
to indicate that a Worlds fair is going on
unless some of the amusements may be
said to do 50. Libby prison is here, and
Uncle Toms Cabin and all sorts of piano.
ramas of battles and other historic events.
And there is an entirely new play which
all the visitors from the rural regions
think they must see. In it is Columbus
and the Indians, George Washington ana
the ballet girls are mixed up with lovely
operate display and enlivening music,
with the usual catching songs and phrases
and the usual happy disregard of historic
sequence. But the people like it.
In historical relics of every kind Chicago
is si%ngularly poor. The Indians made q
pretty fair clean up in 1912. Three great
fires in succession took most Of the Oh
structures, and in 1871 the truly great fre
swept all the rest. Aride out the Twelfth
street cars will take one to an alley near
the corner of Jefferson and DeKoven
streets and on that alley is a frames hed
exactly where the famous O'Learys haa
their shed in 1871. On Oct. 8, that year.
exactly at S:45 p. m. (for a railroad man
was noting the time when he saw it, tne
fire burst through the roof of that shed
There was no COW in the shed and no milk
ing going on and the O'Learys were IN
bed. The old legend is but a legend, Dut
still the spot is historic, for there the great
fire started. Near the northeast corner OF
North Clark street and Fullerton avenue
still stands the old Huck house looking
just as it did when the women covered !.
with wet clothing and saved it, for at thu.
point the most northern spark OF the grea'
fire was put out. Chicago is, indeed d
very new place, very much newer tnan
Denver or San Francisco, Salt Lake C%y
or other far western places, probably tno
very newest real city in the word.
j. H. BEADLE.
r. Cornely, assistant director general OF
the California Midwinter 1nternation".