The herald., 1894-08-03

its reportorial staff. The eastern news
papers do not pay the handsome edi-
torial salaries they did 25 years ago, but
they spend 10 times as much money for
telegraph and cable service and in gath
ering news generally. On the whole.
however, the daily paper of the present
day is far ahead of what it ever has
been, and the reader gets all the news OF
the world for few cents q week."
Chicago" continued the major,
contains more miles OF beautiful con-
tinuous drives than any other city in
the world. Its boulevards are, If not
more numerous, moro elysisn than
those OF Paris. Its parks are the daily
breathing places of tens OF thousands
and the Sunday resort OF hundreds OF
Thousands of the poor. But it is, all the
same, the nastiest city in the world.
Ali the filth of all the filthy parts OF
New York, Boston, Cincinnati, st.
Louis and Baltimore could not make as
big a pile as could that of Chicago. 1t
is a city with hundreds of miles of back
streets. so called, and hundreds OF miles
of alleys. 1t is city with million
garbage boxes that are not emptied
sometimes for month. 1t has the most
inefficient, drunken, murdereus, pimp-
K
any city in the world, although | am
compelled to say, the police force OF Chi
cago have the hardest creatures to deal
with in America.
Escapes OF all kinds and all national
tiles prey upon Chicago. Il seems to
me that if man commits any crime in
the United States-and especially if it
be bunco steering, burglary, forgery,
bigamy. theft, adultery, etc., and his
local officers get hard after him-he
makes break for Chicago. The poor,
the forlorn, and the wayward of both
sexes, from all over the country, when
all other places fail them, start for Chi
cago. More murders took place there
last year than in London and New York.
There are more of the dangerous class
there than in any other six of our larg-
eat cities. This is partly owing to the
tremendous foreign element - princi-
pally Italians, Bohemians and Poles
and partly to bad municipal govern
ment.
1.-THE city that could pat a man like
Carter Harrison in the mayors chair
could furnish a Prendergast to assassin =
ate him. That was the sowing of the
wind and the reaping of the whiriwind.
should wish to say, in this connection,
that personally, Carter Harrison was a
most rosy and attractive man i'm short,
a traveller. a scholar and gentleman.
But, as the chief magistrate of Chicago,
he was moro dangerous than its most
dangerous thugs and gamblers, because
he was friend, to all intents and pur-
poses, of the depraved and villainous
class. His method OF ensuring bis
election was as infamous as Nero's dia-
bolicsl solo while his town was on fire.
Hopkins. the present mayor, is less
desirable even than Harrison for the
latter never played the dude. the bigot
or the hypocrite. Peoksnif wouldn't
be in it with Brother Hopkins. Wash
burne. the cigarette.smoking mayor.
was another curiosity. He got in by
accident-treachery on the part of Har-
rison-and must have laughed up his
sleeves-both of them-during his
whole term of Office. AS for aldermen
of the city, they are the toughest and
wickedest set of men entrusted with
municipal business in any land. The
press of Chicago is unanimous in this
| declaration.
"The press OF Chicago, like the press
| OF all other big American cities, has not
| that power of the press that existed 40
Chicago are greater than those Of any
city in the union in many respects, it
seems to me. OF course, am not lutte
sure of this. But 1 think the Chicago
Tribune is the greatest newspaper in
| America, the Chicago Herald the hand
soonest, and the New York Sun the
ablest edited. The Philadelphia Times
and Brooklyn Eagle are also ably edited,
| and the Louisville Journalv
| Mr.. Truman continued: "Chicago is
| the greatest friend Southern California
| has got. Hundreds of her rich and sue
| cessful men winter here every year and
return along in April and May and sound
its praises in symphony. More than
half of the fruit, and much of the wine
produced in our southern counties, are
sold in Chicago. Hardly day passes
that some one of its papers does not print
something kind and exhilarating con-
cerning this fairy cline of the pome-
granate and the lime, where every man,
nearly, may sit under his own vine and
fig tree. And everybody knows what
has been done for all of this section by
the Santa Fe railroad. which, more than
any other one thing, has advanced
Southern California to the point of pros
perity it now occupies. Every winter
will see larger crowds of Chicago people
as sojourners than it's predecessor, if
am not greatly mistaken. The necessity
of modern frst-class Gin every way
commercial hotel, either on the Main
and Tenth.street site, or elsewhere with
in short distance of the banks and de-
pots and postoffice, is apparent. Tour
lists, and all-the-year.round travellers,
complain of our greatly inadequate &C.
oommodations for the multitude that
want and are willing to pay for the
best. San Francisco will come down here
by the thousands upon the completion
of the coaet road, and if there is not
some strictly modern. first-caas hotel
ready for them, we shall lose them.
This fact should be borne in mind, as it
is the intention of the Southern Pacific
to put q San Francisco and Los Angeles
vestibuled flyer on that most pictur-
esque road, with dining car. composite
otc cupp1ioS m;th alaatrip appli.