River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-05
AMERICAN CITIES.
Every Year Adds TO Tsssr Unique ant
Gosfly Alterations

Every Year Adds TO TSssr Unique and
Costly Attractions.
New York still leads the vulgar race
With the most costly art gallery bar
room, but the other cities boast what
their saloon habitues would call
lose seconds" Buffalo has such a
place, aud whereas New York has long
had bar-room with silver dollars let
into the floor, Chicago led with the
idea, and has FIVE times as many dol
finest barber shop in christendom. And
Denver prides itself upon saloon
whose floor is studded with $50 gold
coins There is no candy and soda
water shop in America to equal one in
Chicago. whose walls are coated with
looking-glass cut to CLEAN like Jewels
We pride ourselves upon our railway
depot but Philadelphia has two fine
ones-the Pennsylvania and the Read
ing-and St Louis Union depot and the
Illinois Central railway depot in Chi
cago are splendid stations San Fran
cisco has swimmi' z baths that no other
city parallels, ar that city and New
Orleans and g weston have refreshing
water-side resorts within their bound
aries the like of which the people of
other cities are put to trouble, expense
and travel to get at Chicago has
jewelry store second only to Tiffany's.
and approached in only two other
American cities-Cleveland and San
Francisco. St. Louis has two jewelry
stores nearly as fine. The most ann
bilious shop for the sale of brici<-a-
brac, outside Of New York. is in Cleve-
land, and no city on the continent has
such book store as McClarg's in Chr
cago. Pittsburgh has one of the finest
and most modern theaters in the world.
wherein the actors are cared for as
they are nowhere else while at work.
The best theaters of Chicago are of the
first-class. and St Paul. Milwaukee.
least one theater that is finer than
some noted ones on broadway.
Many cities now display tall build
ings, but the only dizzy ones-'sky-
scrapers," as the fremen call them
are in the only two cities in which
there are need and excuse for them.
Those leities are New FORK and Chi
ergo, ia both of which, for different
reasons, the business districts are
cramped. As for the club houses of
the country, there are none of the con-
ventional types here or n London that
are of a higher grade than three in
Chicago-the Chicago, the Chicago
Athletic and the Union League. There
are few cities of the same size in the
east that have better headquarters
than the Detroit Minneapolis, Pacific
Union and Bohemian of San Francisco,
and the Boston club, of New Orleans
The Jewish club, of Cleveland, should
go in the same category. The Garten
verein, or GarCen club, of Galveston.
Is a unique institution, delightful
beyond any form of variation of
the country club in America The
modern plan of putting the kitchen
in the tops of buildings has been
adopted in certain clubs and hotels in
many cities even of the size of Milwau-
kee, and still smaller Duluth. In their
concessions to the women and their
quarters for them the western clubs
are far more progressive than most of
ours in the east A large, costly and
attractive arcade" or interior court
of shops in the business center of
Cleveland. is said to be the finest, ex-
cept one that is in southern Europe.
The public parks which Chicago al
ready possesses, and those which are
in course of development in St Louis,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis and San Fran
cisco, are among the noOlest works of
our people. Noble, splendid residence
streets are among the possessions OF
Cleveland. Minneapolis. st. Louis, San
Francisco, Detroit and New Orleans.
the finest ones of the semi-parkway
type are in Buffalo. St Paul and Mil
vankec -Harner's Weakly.