The age-herald., 1897-09-22
MATT MINOR
 IN CHICAGO.

ColdeSt place in the Unit2I States. Everybody on the dead run in Chicago. Got to run or get run over. Chicago people are always talking aboui them
 selves Mighty bad form. Great blow hards. Every man you meet wants to show you the highest building in the world. Keep you looking toward fhs
 heavens all day. Chicago people have
 big feet, They never see them. Always looking up. If they looked down tley would see the muddiest and dirtieat town
 in the world, except New Orleans: It
 was in Chicago that the black shirt was
 invented. Man who invented 1t had ed time and it would not sh0 0w dirt.
 Black shirts are very popular in Cii cago. Not wern anywhere else. Every body in Chicago wears a frowning coun- i, tenanca. Looks like the face of 8 protest ed note. Afraid they are going to be
 robbed or hustling to rob somebody, don't know which. Dead sure somebody will get robbed. like Chicago. That
 is like to spend few days in town and watch the people.
 Funny thing about State street On one side you see nothing buc farmers
 and the plain people, as my dist;n- g1hshed friend, William Jennings Bryan,
 would state it. On the other side is ahe
 dead swell aristocrats. If you don't get
 on the right side of State street you don't
 get into the 400. Society in Chicago 9,oi6s
 a pretty higfh head. IL is also looking
 toward the sky One of the great charms
 of Chicago's social circ'e are the slaugh-
 ter houses
 I was in Chicago some years ago re-
 porting national convention. Was en-
 tertained by some friends The most in-
 teresting place they took me was to the slaughter house. tt was there that l first met Phil Armour Phil. you know,
 got rich killing hogs. Guess hes the
 biggest butcher in the worll. Of course.
 Phil don't now go out in the Tnn and
 stick the pigs as he did when he was
 young, but he looks like 4 hutchar stlll
 Got hands like hans. Guess Phil Ar
 mour's a pretty decent kind of a man.
 Made powerful lot of money. Owns lot of the town. I don't care fo- his money
 That cuts no ice with ne so long as I
 cannot get any # tt. Phil would own
 nore of the town if It were nrr for
 Yerkes. Yerkes is the nan that really
 holds the deed for the place He owns
 all the street railways. You cannot ride
 on any car in Chicago without putting
 a nickel in YerlSes' pocket. He don't
 only own the town but the city coun-
 cil legislature and governor He's hot
 stuff, fe is. Yerkes put up great ob-
 servatory near Milwaukee not long ago.
 Got a telescope larger than the Lick Ob-
 servatory in California. JAS soon as
 Yerkes looked through the telescope he
 saw other worlds. He claimed them
 Said they were his He owned every
 thing in sight That's the kind of man
 Yerkes is Yerhes got dead sore on Chi
 cago some years ago. Tried to break
 into society. Couldn't be done. Yerkes
 had a history. When he was a young
 man in Philadelphia he went wrong. Got into some kind of complication with the courts. The courts got the best of it. YerlSes took his medicine When
 he got out he went to Chicago Got rich. He now lives in New York. Saw Mrs. Yerkes a few weeks ago in New York at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Looked like she had million dollars worth of dia-
 monds on her fingers and around her
 neck.
 Saw George nI. Pullman. Went up in his building. Met him in the eleYa tor. George don't speak fo many people. Afraid they will ask him for a pass in his sleeping cars. He don't give many
 passes. Don't pay big wagts to his labor ing rnen. But Pullman's rich. Cold blooded kind of a citizen. Charity would get a KIondyke freeze if 1t went up against Pullman. Pullman really warts 10 be president of the United States. Said so orlce. A friend of mine was interview ing him one day in New York. Reporter was jollying George and made the re- mark that he ought to be president of the United States instead of the Pullman Palace Car company. George smiled. Looked we'll pleased. Said he thought | that he would make a good president l Felt ceraain if he was a candidate the I laboidng people would support him all
 most to a man. Guess George don't rad | the papers much. Or at least, he didn't | read them during the strike of '93 | That's when George got roasted. That strike cost him an awful lot of money Had to go down in his pockets very often. Wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't a little short of groceries and vegetab1es about the house dukng the strike. Pull | man likes dollar. Does run good cars |