Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-12-01
CHICAGO H(AD-UPS.
POLICE ALL FOREIGNERS.
Fine Stores - The Rookery Building :
Moving Day-A City of Magnificent
Distances Last Letter Of
The Series.
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Special Correspondence to the Evening Capital
Although Chicago is progressive city
it is still primitive in its "wild and
woolley" Western acts Of ''hold up. !"
During three weeks stay in this city
there kas not been a single day in which
the daily papers have failed to record
not one "hold up" but several; some OF
them at noon day, and in prominent
streets.
This is enough to give any city black
eye, 6guratively speaking. but il does
not seem to interfere with Chicago's reg
ular routine. or prevent people coming
here. The Chicago police are all tor
eigners. and the majority of them are
Swedes. If you ask Chicago police
man question, unless you are linguist
and familiar with all the foreign tongues,
you will not have the faintest idea OF his
answer. for it viii be anything but Eng
lish.
We asked two to direct US to the Hay
market statue. and we are still puzzling
our brain to know what they said in re-
ply but it sounded much like the language
the Hawaiian villagers used at the Omaha
Exposition. However, to us it was He
brew. II is said the police force of Chi
cago are poor lot. and certainly from
the daily hold-ups there, the sand-bag.
ging and the little protection offered pc.
destiians after dark. and sometimes even
at noon day, there is something lacking
in this branch Of the municipal govern.
ment.
Perhaps the statue at Haymarket Square,
the scene OF the anarchists riot and mur.
der of several police few years ago, has
had some little effect on the element in
that locality. The statue is an imposing
one Of an officer of the law, who, with
uplifted hand, says in the inscription be-
meath; "In the name Of the people of the
State of Illinois. command peace -
Just where the statue stands the police
were murdered by anarchists during the
Haymarket riot. Chicago is said to be
the only city in the world that has a
store that for many years has not clos.
ed its doors night or day for 36y days in
every year. This is prominent cigar
store, and has night force as well ss a
day force Of clerks.
AT night they sell cigars and tobacco
to those returning from the theatres latter
this to the newspaper force as they wends
their way homeward in the early morning
hours; by this time workmen are on theii
way to their daily labors and stop in foi
their tobacco. and so there is no time to
close the doors of this popular cigar store
night or day. The Rookery Building
has population of 1000 doing business
under one roof. Think OF it. Half the
population Of Annapolis working daily in
one building. Something new in the way
of desert here is pie a la mode. This is
apple pie served with ice cream. Try it;
it is delicious. Another popular way oil
serving ice cream in the West is in the
halves of canteloupes. II the canteloupes
are Rocky Fords." as those one gets
in Colorado, the combination is very fine,
for there are no canteloupes grown any.
where like the "Rocky Fords."
Chicago has regular moving day, OF
rather two Of them, and these are school
holidays. Evidently the children are i'm.
portant factors in the moving scheme.
All leases date from May Ist to May Isl
of the succeeding year, and this is "mov.
ing day." No matter at what time YOU
rent a house or fiat in Chicago, your
claim to that house expires with the fol.
lowing first day of May, and must then
be renewed if you intend to remain.-
There are no stores in any city, not even
excepting New York, to equal the i'm.
mense establishments in Chicago. Many
Of them employ thousands of clerks and
occupy several acres. In one of the
stores here one can buy all the way from
box of bird food to a ton of coal, OF
from a cradle to coffin. In this same
store there is notary public. two tele'
graph Offices, and bank. One can gel
married in this store if he so desires, as
the magistrate is always on hand. Every
thing can be procured here but a death
certificate.
No city in the world pays more atten-
ton to window decoration than Chicago.
At Christmas whole plays are enacted in
some Of the store windows. The larger
stores. occupying several blocks, have
daily displays of the complete furnishing
of every room in house, and these win.
dow decorations are displayed in the
most artistic fashion. Chicago is a city
of such magnificent distances that some
times to call on ones friend who lives on
the West Side when one lives on the
North Side. he has to travel 90 miles
farther than from Annapolis to Baltimore
yet in the same city. Some of the ele-
waited roads have stations at the upper
floors to the entrance Of several popular
stores. In this way one can take the
elevated, do all the shopping one wants,
and not be on the street or from undel
cover from start to finish. Bootblacks
do thriving business in Chicago, for it is
one of the dirtiest, muddiest cities on the
continent, and such black mud, tool
The Windy City seems to have been
built on marsh, and some one has said
that some day it will be wiped of the
map. either by being swallowed up in
the Lake. or sinking in its own mud pud.
die. To build in Chicago it is necessary
to dig down from 8 to 10 feet. lay piles,
las shough for q bridge.) and literally
anchor the foundation for the building
before erecting the steel skeleton On
which TO hang il. As we said in starting
our Chicago letter, this is indeed won
derful city, and it would be futile to even
attempt to describe it. We have, there.
fore, only mentioned few Of its features
which, perhaps. are not generally known.
And now We bring this series OF letters
to close. trusting they have been oi
some interest, and possibly of benefit tc
our readers, and that they have enlight.
ened our Eastern friends on subjects per