New-York tribune., 1905-06-18

Chicago. Tune 1e-Now that Chicago Is pe.ns
-. -,oarer rSew-York by two hour 9ulnp''
-, q. tho rivalry OF enterprlslns iaii.
..,gas I. Is time that the Gothanlile 'uAtis ~
os,+,ooI owes on the great city of the west -
&c an eighteen hour journey now d nie'o -,
~isb+ trim. 8 case of afternoon tea IN Ne" ~,
81 q cornparativeIy early breakfast III
= coon a. will be sixteen hours, ana ai'eA
~. r,are night run, every mile OF II ee'"eeA
twilight and dawn. All this, too' Wl'nou' --
,o,x,ne the aid OF electricity that n1ooeril
and speed wonder, but with the s'4e
power Of the steam locomotive
Every record broken In these conCesIs "a
sneea makes Chicago more of a suouro VI
york. Already there are dozen men WIZ &c
,,,rtnsllv become commuters. Two or three
- -,.ao,, they make the round trip between
Crbioaeo and New-York. and their faInlleS IA
,1a,aI boulevard or on the Lake Shore DriNe
~ o,+ IN oak Park or Evanston do not mss
-ha-, more thsra Englewood or Poughkeepsie
saoi,,as mis-. saeir committing fathers ana
brothers ,r
a thousand times day, perhaps the New
Yorker calls up his business brother IN Oni-
csgo over the long distance telephohe' Oh LAO
(vbicago man asks Central to get him this num-
her Iohn or that number Morningslde. lnoeeu'
the telephone girls in the two cities know Ihe
exchange names OF the. one almost as Wen as
tbosa of the other. If the New-Yor doubts.
let him call up Central" and ask for such anu
s,,ch number Harrison. or Gray. or Blue or
1.ras or Craceland. The answer will come
hack. "ru give you long distance; that ex-
change is over in Chicago
Scores Of wires are busy all the wideawake
hours between New-York and its new and most
Western suburb. carrying commercial ana So
ciaI Observation-Disclosures are not available oul
,ba kilograms of a day need five figures in the
counting.
In q score OF other ways are the two cities
coming together, finding common interests a'
everv turn. binding each other into an unoi-
ahle union with bonds of various sorts. in
Guiding ticker tapes and steel rail ribbons
And what manner of place is this new sub
urb?
BAD hammered" quickly answers one New
York explorer, who has just seen a gang Of
striking teamste.s make raid on STUCK
wagon, hauling the teamster 'scab" and his
police protector to the street, where they nam
rner their heads with cobblestones
"A city sprawled here. there and everywhere.
writhng like a prehistoric creature In lnorla4
pain" characterizes another.
"A heaven on earthP cries still third New
Yorker-this one an ''auto" maniac, who has
been fined twice for speeding on Riverside
Drive and faces a jail sentence for third Of
fence TT has three hundred miles OF the finest
kind Of speed road. and the cops are too busy
with strikes TO remember that there Is speed
limit set down in the statute books"
"a place TO make money. but not to spend 1t,
observes a Gothamite of the sage type with
truth
The third Mecca Of the United States Of
America for a laundrynan," saws Sun Lung.
winding UP his perfectly braided queue. indi-
eating thereby that Chicago is only exceeded in
dirt. SCOT and smut by Pittsburg and Cincinnati
1T ain't got subway and it amt got no
Hfppo5roue!" boasts the sporting New-Y Yorker
~and IT amt got no racetrack since they be-
gan TO enforce the law. HUH Little old New
York for mel
So one might go through an endless list for
New-York and Chicago are as different as
Northampton, Mass, and Snohonish Wash
There is g hustle about Chicago all the time
That one ooly sees in New-York in crowds rush.
ing 70 a fire and the daily evening spectacle of
half million hungry Brooklynites irving TO
board the bridge cars at the same time The