San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-03
AMERICAN CITIES.
Every Year Adds to Their Unique and
Costly Attractions.

Every Year Adds to Their 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
"close seconds" Buffalo has such a
place, and 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
lars in the floor of the greatest and
finest barber shop in christendom. And
Denver prides itself upon saloon
whose floor is studded with SEQ 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 swimming baths that no other
city parallels, and that city and New
Orleans and Galveston 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,
American cities-Cleveland and San
Francisco. st. Louis has two jewelry
stores nearly as fine. The most am
bilious shop for the sale of brick-a-
brac, outside of New York, is in Cleve-
land, and no city on the continent has
such book store as McClarg's in Chi
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
frst-class, and St Paul, Milwaukee,
Cleveland and Denver have each at
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 firemen call them
are in the only two cities in which
there are need and excuse for them.
lAOSS ClblCb NC" lOEh anu SuA-
ergo, in 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 in London that
are of 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 Garden 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 noblest 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
Yankee. -Harper's Weekly.