The times., 1899-06-18

During the past week the police census
of the city OF Chicago was completed. and
it was a proud time for Chicago. That
expansive and ingenious town has for
some time been wildly desrous of reaching
the two-million mark. and it appears from
the census that there are now 2.OSSOiS
citizens inhabiting the territory inside the
city limits
1t should not be inferred from this that
Chicago is a crowded place. There is no
danger that the citizens will have TO stow
themselves away in underground tene-
ments, after the manner of San Francisco
Chinatown. for some time TO come, and,
although there are many tall buildings, the
majority of the people live in structures
not more than five or six stories high.
There is plenty of room for an even larger
population, since. according to the New
York SUM- the city covers some two hun
dred square miles of the good State of Hi
nois. The Sun" can be relied on to tell
the truth, even about Chicago.
1t is time that the country in general
understood the real greatness and unique
ness of this metropolis of the Middle West.
II is not only large and populous city,
but its people are engaged in marvelously
diversified employments. 1t might almost
be compared to modern department store
on an immense scale. In it one may hnd
citizens engaged in conducting stock mar
ket operations by means of a real Board of
Trade, and other citizens peacefully en-
ployed in raising frogs. On one street are
-l,n Ind hot OH inv in
ing the paintings OF Aubrey Beardsley and
the poetry of Stephen Crane, and on an
other are whiskered rustics who raise corn
and oats all day and read the Farmers
Almanac and James Whitcomb Riley in
the evenings. 1t is to be regretted that
the census was taken at a time when the
farmers of the city were busy with their
crops or some really interesting agricul-
tural statistics might have been obtained
! from the dwellers in Jefferson, Worth. Nor
wood Park, Austin, Cicero, and South
! Evanston; but it is currently reported that
| the crops will be large in these districts.
/ in order to celebrate the reaching of the
1 two million mark.
Chicago is, in fact, the only city in which
! all the advantages of both urban and bu-
collie existence may be obtained. One may
not only follow the vociferous and re-
/ luctant porker into the packing house
and watch his transformation into
silent sausage or hermetically- sealed
deyiled ham, but one may trace his
course back TO his native farm and
enquire his pedigree Of the intelli
gent Chicago farmer who supplied him
! to the stock yard company. The grain OF
| Chicago supplies Chicago's wheat and corn
operators with medium OF speculation.
AS Chicago grows, it is confidently ex-
pected that her boundaries will be so ex-
tended as TO take in first the entire State
of Illinois, and then the Mississippi Valley
while it is not improbable that, reaching
out for room in another direction, she may
build a flooring over the waters of the
lake, and enterprising spectators are al
ready considering the plan of using the
Chicago River a roadway. There is
really no knowing what this remarkable
city will do next. But when, in the course
of time, she reaches New York and makes
preparations to engulf that burg within the
limits of Greater Chicago. 1t may conf.
IDENTIFY be expected that there will be fun
That will be a time for spectators to re-
tire to a safe distance, such as the Other
side of the Atlantic Ocean, and watch the
combat.