Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-11-25

Ine second OF America ana tne nItn
Of the world. Alexander Beaubien's
experience is unique in history.
Chicago extends for twenty miles
along the lake front II is about ten
miles wide. Its area is 191 square
miles The total street mileage is
279S, and the total length of the sew.
ers is 1927 miles.
II requires the service OF 10000 peo
pie to transact the city's business
The salary list is S15,OO0,OOO. The
expenditures of the city for the first
three months Of 1908 was over 500.
100000.
Chicago has S192 physicians, III
trained nurses, S57 undertakers, 922
drug stores and 81 cemeteries, yet its
death rate is only 162 to the thousand
of population.
Twenty thousand manufacturing
plants with an invested capital of
s6OO,OOO,OOO pay s2OO,OOO,OOO yearly in
wages and turn out products TO the
value of $1,000 900 600.
Chicago's first bank was establish.
ed in 1885. Now fifteen national
banks and thirty-six state banks and
trust companies, besides private
banks, are required to handle the
financial business. Last year the
clearings of the associated banks
amounted TO more than eight billion
dollars and the balances were over
S65S, 100000.
Last year were received at Chica-
go's port Of entry over seven million
tons Of merchandise, on which import
duties to the extent Of nearly ten mil
lion dollars were collected.
Chicago has $50 churches, twenty
nine converts, twenty-one Libraries
ffty-eight hospitals. sixty asymms
two universities, 292 public schools
275,OOO public school children, and the
finest orchestra in the world
There arc 1882 retail groceries 1875
meat markets, $500 saloons, 200 hotels
$50 laundries. 81 theaters. 76 pawn
shops. 446 confectionery stores, SOS
apartment houses. and 113 bulldill
and loan associations.
Chicagos fire department own
property worth two million dollars
There are "a engine companies. dv'
Are boat crews, 27 hook and ladder
companies, and four hose companies
Last year the nremen saved 144 lives
There were 5125 fires, involving prop
erty OF the total value Of about III
millions. The loss over insurance
was little over S5OO.0OO.
The aesthetic world sneers at Chi
cago's stock yards, They are, how
ever, the biggest thing Of the kind OF
earth and their products go 10 al
civilized and some savage countries
The shipments Of last year were
Dressed beef, .O49,sOl,7 ,765 pounds
cattle 9O9.91s: sheep. SS1,72s; hogs
1 1,251 ,79s; dressed pork. 150.61I
pounds; lard. 3s249S.O69 pounds
meat in various forms. 6G0. $50 .79I
pounds These figures do not ine,ud
hides, soap, candles. brushes. curle'
hair, glue and other products In whicl
J the slaughtered beast is utilized 4
the last pairing Of his hoOfs. Il Ia u
J be- noted that the intelligent yisito
J always makes II a point TO see thi
. marvel Of industry.
In fifty years Chicago has grown L
be the railroad center OF AmericH
There are six depots at which 20 dii
ferent trunk roads and half a dozeI
: other roads enter Al these depot
> 1916 trains arrive and depart ever
twenty.four hours.
The first shipment OF grain consist
' ed Of 7S bushels Of wheat. Il wa
made in 1888. the year OF the fra
grain elevator. The year 1854 Ja'
' the first steam elevator and tota
shipments OF 100000 bushels Oh
cago Is the grain market Of the worlc
. Chicago Is one OF tho greatest port
IN the world lts tonnage Is so pc
cent greater than that Of New Yori
and nearly as much as that OF Bait
more. Boston and New York con
lbiIed
Chicago has II large parks an
many smaller ones The total are
Us nearly 2OO0 acres Collectlvel
these parks are the finest IN the work
Thus we see from this brief sketc
that in two generations Chicago ha
grown from nothing % the second cit
T n the United States and the hfth cil
: Of an the nations: from a portage b.
I tween two rivers 20 the railroad cel
{ ter of a continent and one Of n
f. greatest ports Of the world; from a
I Indian trading post 10 the grain an
) provision market sof the globe
. mere infant IN age. oyergrOwn ar