Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-22
A STUDY oF cAlcAeo-
Close Observations of the Most Remark
 ablc City on Earth.
Especial Corrcspondence.l

Special Correspondence.l CHICAGO, Fob. 1S.-AlI great towns of tho world have an Individuality peculiar to themselves which either attracts OF re- pols or is neutral, ns the case may be. At least this is the conclusion have arrived at. It Is very much like meeting a man. You either like him or don't like him, or you don't care a rap for him. If you are of philosophic turn, however, you will be apt to study him, whether he calls out any feeling in you or not. And so 1t Is with towns. A man of the aforesaid turn will study them, whether ho is charmed or disenchantcd with them, just for the delight of studying. This is my case. I'm studying Chicago. It is a big job, but I'm hammSring away at it just for fun. may know less about 1t after am through than I did before began, but little thing like that never phases n sCTibblCr in tho giving forth of his know all rcport. The less he knows about moro things concern ing n place tho surCr is he of his general analysis of it. For example, the subtle. knowlodgeablo kipling passed quickly through this town ono day, dreamed about 1t the next night and knew moro about 1t the following day than any police captain in 1t.
 Whether 1 likc Chicago or not Is n thing I cannot tell even for myself. I only know luSAI I atl sluhilNu uN It. ~ IS Hb hl- anu l everything is so much on the rush. Com pared with it New York Is almost Phila- | dclphian in the case of its gait and manner. | Everything is noise and hustle and wide streets along which people rush and tear | as fast as they can. They look us if they wouldn't stop even if old Captain Death came up to arrest them. They have one god, which is Chicago, and this god is his own prophet. This must be the greatest | town in tho world, because every body in it says it is, l am impCllCd to mako this statement in good faith by the rcmem- | brance of some provCrb or another which believe says that the world values men | and their possessions according tU tho Cs 1 timato which the men themselves put upon them.
 l If had never h,>n in New York. l would have thought that that town was | n sort uf slow, Up tho Hudson village whorn everything was out of gear and sev- 1 eral hundred years behind tho timcS-that Is. I would have thought this if I were guided by what the ChiCagoans hCro say | about it. AcCoTt,inE to their terSo way of putting it, New York isn't in it at all with ChicaGo. They have higher buildings | and C..n Ri more pigs in a day than the 1 whole uf New Works population could think o( in a year. And thus it goes. | Th,y even laugh at the idea of its being a | rival their town.
 l ThCrr k uur thing, however, that thi, town pu>>r-~rS above all others, and that thing Is scot. It is here, thCrc nnd every where Ii yru put clean collar un in | tho norniNG and wear 1t through th" dAy. you will in'i !.to be almost black when night c,,la,~ l asked ChiCagonn tho rCason 't ti.lS, !:uI fur answer he gaVT me a rrprpau;ltl look, We had been arguiu : all, ,1, of New York, and EC seemed 10 consider this an unfair question. When l adG ~d that it was pity perfection should haVo so dark q llCmish, he told mo that liz didn't sec thoUs2 If hrinSiuG sarcasm into an argument. He w;S otrndcd. I had touched tender spot.
 To ho serious, however, one must admit that Chicago is indeed a great town. Tro- mcndousuCsS iS tho dominant notc of it's personality. Power, power iS cvCrywhvre. It is shown in tho monstrous buildings, the marts, tho mighty grnnariCs and store houses and in tho long, wide streets along ! which people crowd and crush and pass and rCpasS \ great boom and roar Is all around you. IL slvms to come up from the earth. to fall from above. You are seized with awe, Ter you arc facing an ever growing ih.:S incalCulably VirilS and mighty, d thing uf myriad possibilities. It Is as Titan Hercules with the hundred hands of a BriArcus. And the roar and boom swrllS up nS You listen and dazCs you, BctorC you lies tho problem, nt once terrible and grand, of tho great modern city WhCro will it lad 10? What shall Do its outcome? you ask. There is no one to answer you--nO ono so keen or subtle or piercing enough of vision 10 solve the problem Tho unrAvCliug of it belongs tC itself. IL is even aS Vast genii escaping from n magic bottle. Tho Onl0okcr iz un able to analyzc, He has no timo for augh savc wondcrmcnt at this increasing, oscap ing thing.
 The men s, hero arc kCcnCr of fratur, and more set Cf face than the mon of any other great town hAve been in. The! are filled with that terrible energy whicl | springs from a lust for acquisition, TECl arc intent upon CunquCring and acquiring Conquering and acquiring what? l migh say that they wCrc intent only uVun tht getting and acquiring of gold. but if said this would EC making the mistake of tLc shallow, superficial sCrihhlcr wh, abuses this town L,vI~sC he thought i easier and smarter tU abuse than tu try [, understand. No, it is n,t gold that thcs people arc rcally rushing after. To then the yellow metal is but the counter whicl marks tho extent of tho possession 0 something which iS tn gold even as hroa, is to n stone. This sumothing is the sulv , ing of that problem of problcmS-hov best to live Mind you, do not mean |, , say that the people hero say or even kn0v that tho lattcr Is really what they ar after, but it is nevertheless They ma. mistake the counter, gold, for the thin! } it I. presents or tries tu rCprc~rnt, but thi Is G., cause they have not the time for anal ysis uf themselves and their motives.
 BART hENNEDY.