New-York tribune., 1895-09-18
AS CHICAGO SEES US.
MAYOR swIFTS IMPRESSIONS OF NEW
YORK AND NEw-YORK POLITICS.
BROADWAY AND ITS MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS
sTAGGER HIM-HE THINKS COMMISSIONER
ROOSEVELT HAS MADE TacTI-

hfNOAD"Ah AND ITS MAGNlFlCENT BUILDINGS
sTAGGER HIM-HE THINKS COMMISSIONER
ROOSEVELT HAS MADE TacTI-
CAL BIUNDER
Mayor George b Swift of Chicago was at the
Holland House yesterday. He had thick coat
OF Bar Harbor tan. and looked quite different from
the thin wornout man that passed through the city
six weeks He had just returned from walk
down Broadway with his little girl. and sitting
In the hotel corridor when seen by Tribune
porter He said In speaking OF New-York:
MY! my my! What town this is! Miles and
miles OF streets! Nothing but buildings and money.
and electric lights and solidity. 1t is wonderful ]
walked down Broadway to-day. and the sights
fairy made my eyes ache. Row after row Of solid
buildings. tremendous in strength and size Down
at the Battery there are enormous buildings, and
everything is alive with people. Then walk up
Broadway for three miles. All along the are
the kind of buildings. The street is
fanked both sides by buildings OF rare height
and sodity. There is break. The street is
built up solid. There is no place In the word like
Broadway. This town is compact and solid. OF
course, owing TO Its peculiar situation surrounded
1t is by water. there is chance for IT to
flow. and you have 10 build straight up into the air
instead of spreading out. Now. in Chicago can
flow over in every direction. We go clear to
the Mississippi If necessary. ! wish / could see the
future to know the exact conditions that will
govern in Chicago 2O years from now, when she is
old as NewtYork"
This outSurst OF enthusiasm about New-York's
solidity outlet for Mayor Swift's feelings
after a whole day spent downtown among the big
buildings. He said that Chicago had big buildings.
but that there much territory that the city
did not get that compact, solid businesslike look
that governed in New-York
ROOSEVELT AND wARING.
"One doesn't hear much of Mayor Strong now
adays" he continued. ut all seems TO be Com
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one of the papers that Colonel Waring has asked
for 100000 next year TO keep the streets clean.
That is an enormous amount; he ought to keep the
streets as clean with that amount parlor floor.
Now. in Chicago our street cleaning department is
allowed about quarter OF a million dollars year
TO clean the streets. Then again. they have about
have in Nswyork The streets S'e there h are SO vide
Compare the two. and then ask what could DO in
chicago qull. with that amount OF money ..
disiurbance L3okins at at '' It from S sensible point
Of view, nobody can Say but what he is right He
is man who will dominate any place in which he
!, Is put am CURIOUS to know what acton the
think that the consensus Of opinion Is that was
poor politics on the part OF Commissoner Roose,
town over to Tamnany on the next election II is al
most a certainty that the people VII not take
where the blame belongs. but viii place it on his
however' it will not be- the same old Tammany
They have been taught f bitter b lesson ana n0 MORE
be purer and better-that is, II they get chance
THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK.
Mayor Swift says that never in his life can he re-
member time in the history Of this country when.
nine months before the National conventions. there
was so little interest manifested In politics. He
said in speaking Of this apparent apathy Of the
American public: Il don't understand why the peo-
PIE do not take more interest in the matter Bust
ness goes on usual and nobody seems TO be TAX
ing the slightest interest in the matter Down in
Boston I saw banner that had on II Harrison
and Reed doubt though whether the s man nan TSm lSn
saw Mr. Reed while Viii d was ;, In :, ManS e 6ess to
}y e as apf he naPR wss 9Ss Se today
though, said. there is manifest lack OF inter
ever, the Republicans will elect the President next
year That is assured As far as ~, Tue Zen Deino
Gratis they seem TO be equally ietharsic ABOUT
when Mavor Swift was asked what he thought
about a possible third term for President CieVe-
Il should not surprised If the old fellow was s,,otc re
Individuality and he either snrewd oi esS aSS That ~
that YOU meet Cleveland man ne ~, Is Siv
land is lust perfect and that ne almost more than
human The American public is hck:e ana pecular
re-eect President Cleveland just in order to over
throw o.d traditions lie cannot be eecea Dnt .S =
has no preferred candidate On either side'
CHICAGO's PROSPERITY.
Mavor Swift said that the business OF Chicago
as he could see there nothing but prosperity IN
store for the Windy City. He said:
.'The great grain harvests through the North and
West this year will bring to Chicago this faH an |
abundance OF wealth. II Will make better times lot
the railroads the merchants the farmers the ciu- !
zens and everybody The timber Industry IS grow
ing and everything promises TO forge ahead during
Tho winter No great enterprises are being under |
.aLen in Chicago now We have great elevator roo II
for grain and IN every way capable or handnnS
oI,r business The cry goes up from chicago tha We
as honaessy in debt. | going to go back ana te
the Deon.e 10 go abroad and md out about 0ther
cities before complaining of their own. FOUND |
shat Roston's net debt s&.0cOGO Chicago. with |
three times as many peop.e and three times as
much area has only bonded. floating and actual |
dabt ali combined Of l!tt.e over S.O,lW NeX-
Work has a bonded Indebtedness of Sllev~Uo we |
are not so badly off after all We have wrought |
on, some municipal reforms that have heped a !
great deal We have the Civil Service avs PEI I
9scted IN Chicago now. We have three men on me |
commission who are mbued with the spirit OF th9 |
~ and are working heartily 10 maintain H. ! |
sunnose that we had sixty thousand Applications |
Co. 'nos,ons under the city government ast IA |
NJ was an enormous number, but II was perhaps |
dne N the fact that II was known that tnls OlVll
Service law would go into effect, and peope kn'~ |
that once In they were safe. All that mas pen I
r.ssad through now. and Chicago is on the hiSh |
road 70 n good, pure gov srnment