Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-06-09
CHICAGO.

streets with eyes and mouth wide
open that we deliberately stopped
on the corners to count the number
of stories to the sky-scraping bald
ings-that we said great scott, and by
gosh, and gewhil,ikins every now and
then-that we grabbed hold of our
neighbor when the elevator suddenly
dropped down couple of stories
that we got mixed up on State street
and Michigan avenue aud Washing
ton Boulevard and had to ask Il pc
liceman the way to our hotel.
The best way for the people of this
neighborhood to get to Chicago is to
90 By the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad.
You can get on train at Shenandoah
Junction or Martiusburg and be in
Chicago in twentyfour hours. 1t is
a lovely ride over the West Virginia
mountains by daylight now, so you
had better take the noon train, and
do your sleeping while you are travel
ing across Ohio and lnGiana, which
are as flat as a pancake and quite un-
interesting after the first twenty miles
or so.
Chicago was not laid out until 1880
a hundred years after Shepherds
town was settled. But, unlike Shep-
herdStown, she didn't stay laid out
very long. She grew and grew and
grew, eventually outstripping Shep-
herdstown, until now she has pOpu-
lation of 1,42S, 900, or 1,42G,35O more
than we have. But let that pass-may.
be we will catch up yet.
Chicago is built along the shores
of Lake Michigan, beautiful body
of water. Its site was swamp.
The whole city is perfectly tlat-not
hill ten feet high in the whole
town. The youngsters there can
never know the pleasures of coastinS
there's no down-hill, no uphill.
The Chicago river runs right through
the city, its two branches uniting IN
the heart of the town. 1t is navlSa
BILE for vessels of considerable size,
and it seems extremely queer to look
up u street and see ship with tow
ering masts pass slowly across it. At
a little distance, of course, you can
see the water, and at first you Won
der what sort of ship it is that goes
sailing through the streets Of Il city
There are drawbridges at almost
every street crossing the liver. One
street, though, passes under the river
by means of a tunel built for the ca
BILE cars. You feel queerly as you go
under the river-you're afraid she'll
spring leak or bust through.
The high buildings in Chicago are
something wonderful. There are
plenty of them twelve or fourteen
stories high, several sixteen stories,
but the Masonic building crowns them
all with its twenty stories, and
tower couple of stories more on top
of that yet. You wonder how they
can stand, so tall they tower, yet
there they are. They are mostly used
for office purposes, and many eleva-
tors swiftly carry tenants and visitors
up and down. The Great Northern
Hotel is fourteen stories high. 1t is
customary to make your will before
retiring if you get on the top floor
SUNDAY IN CHICAGO.
Chicago has, we believe, the repu
tation of being the wicledest city in
the United States. 1t deserves its
reputation. You'd probably not
know it was Sunday if you didn't look
at the calendar. 1t is gayer than 9th
er days, you'd notice, and much more
lively. The big stores are closed, but
the little shops are wide open. The
aires give performances to bigger
crowds than on week days. Saloons
run at full blast. ADJUSTMENTS of ev-
cry sort are pushed to the full limit.
Godlessness prevails and the day is
big picnic 1t is the day for the beer
gardens and questionable resorts-for
the excursion companies and the
managers of amusements. There are
five hundred churches in Chicago, but
there must be five thousand saloons.
ID. l.. Moody, the great evangelist, is
conducting services there at this time.
Large crowds go to hear him preach,
but how insignificant in numbers they
are TO the hosts who congregate at
the steamboat wharves and the rail
road stations. The sweet voice of
Sankey singing spiritual songs does
not draw like the tlashily dressed wo-
men in the low concert halls. OF
course, the foreigners, of whom the
population is so largely composed,
are responsible for much of this desc
Grafton OF the Sabbath. Generally of
the worst class of their native coun-
try, they bring their goddess ways and
evil habits with them, and lower the
standard of our own people to an APP
palling extent. If you are not al
ready Disguised with the foreign i'm
migrants coming to the United
States, go to Chicago. You'll soon be
mighty sick of them.
AT NIGHT.
Chicago in the evening and at night
is Il sight for country eyes. When
the great stores are closing and
clerks and workmen are leaving their
places of toll, wonderful panorama
is presented on State street as TIE
thousands of people push their way
along. Then when the electric lights
are turned on, the places of amuse
nent opened, and the people of every