New-York tribune., 1905-07-16
CHICAGO'S WHITE WAY.
Pleasure Places to Keep Westerners
from Nezc-Y ark.


Chicagoans within the limits OF this sadly sprawled
city according TO the latest report Of the city d.
rectory man, and 1.-The Three Million or Bust
Club Is rejoicing at the increase and the possibility
OF realizing its reason for being.
The city having expanded in every direction ex-
cept eastward even the lines Of the neighbortng
States. the Three Million Club is at loss which
way to turn. Lake Michigan is the limit Tor ex-
pausion in an easterly direction There are towns
the other side OF the lake. but they are in an
other State. There are fish in the lake. but it Is
not believed that they would make good citizens
Look for the leak" is the advice OF "ainky
Dink'' McKenpa.
4r1s leak ta de game" echoes 'eBathhouse John
coughIin BY cable from Europe Oats what de
Hollanders did to save der country when de dykes
busted"
And the leak IN Chicago is not hard to find
Whenever q here gets together oy nook OF
crook e bundle Of money that can be valued in
six or seven, or even eight, figures he moves 10
New-York He takes with him his family worse
than that, far population STATISTICS are con-
cerned he carries his servants with him. in order
that he may not be entirely stranger IN a strange
land His poor relations follow, making stlH rur-
ther subtraction from this city's population
The reason for this Is plain as the fact. chi
cago offers few opportunities TO spend money oi4'I
iantly There sites for palaces even Ii
one can afford to send an architect TO Europe 20
copy them. What's the Of fine Paris gowns
the women ask. when one has no good place 90
show them? What's the use OF millions WAeh ONO
can't make 10000 bets on LIiS poHleS- A~O'' -
one make a splurge in a grand opera box when
there is no Metropolitan Without a grand opera
box, where can the women show their jewels?
IT'S bunk to stay here" says the Chicagoan'
and as soon he gets rich he announces 70 TIE
family It's New-York for ours
The Lake Shore Drive knows them no more Aue
rovaI suites OF New Yorks big hotels make thelF
acouaintance and later they bu1c lhouu-
mental home on Riverside Drive OF oth-ave-
This is the leak that "Hinky Dink' and Ba'n-
id aE0
that is troubling the Three Million Club.
The remedy they have decided on is 70 give Chl-
cago Great White Way ike New oIFA > hI0d--
way II will be blazing with electric hshls anu
closely punctuated with cleaning eating places
theatres hne hotels. and. above all things. d COPY
OF the Metropolitan Opera House All TINS VIII Ao1
be situated j street. as IN GolnaLl' LoI ~
Chicago everything extends around the mex col
It's limits, however. Will be within STRIKING us
tance and it Will furnish abundant opportunity for
displaying Western wealth in It's own environment.
Z NAV not sLop the native Chlcasoan from MI
sla.I..s 70 Ne~-I his DaAA balance Pc
il VIVA calch nl4lliuna4re from LuI ItneT "esI-
restaurant CaIled Inc Sta.es. whicu occupies me
DasenCnJ OF Lne ttepuOnc bulIdlils, a SAS ~
of New-1ork type 4here Is AotnlAs AAe t1-1
STATES in \ew-4oFK. Or II any otAet c-t5. lv4 ti
uiatler, ana one wonders tha Chlcaso s4lo uu ots'
maze any Lnng N sdch SAtl4s sOou t1-''I 49,, - -
u4vIu4lg restaurant into sections tSpItSet tl-s
every sLale II the Unon. Is most appfopt4ass @ LoI
C!lc4so, Ia nc no ot-iTL -tI TlrS re. ,nt, IL Is lne
U1e enters The States by marble stairway
which IS decorated WIN tne three sdteWays 10 L4e
Unted states. Un one SIDE is Ne"-4oLh Edy, WIN
the Statue OF Lloe-ty IN prominence, Inc ooutea @
cotton wharVes at New-Orleans. Tne Western gaLe
CIo!Gea gale al sunset WITH Udume lugger
Oe So II lhs stoisf Sass of the i enolous dining room
oooths, each OF which represents a @ olale, ana @ con
event in the early history OF Lhe state Inere IS
also picture Of the Governor. ana another Of q
prominent general or public official. For instance
tne New-Yo booth. which occupies corner and
contains three tables, SHOWS Two wei e&eeqteu
scenes OF tne days when Lne 1lgtcn oeeupieG - Ma
Ii1ee1ns dIZ-ioea t6e honors with a ghotograph OF
i Iheodors Roosevelt he looked when ne was
The Texas painting shows some cowboys in d
spirited hght wlIh the Indians; California IS repre-
sented by giant. redwood: Ohio by an authentic
painting of john Miller warning Fort Frye of an
second time one inds La Sale naming LOUISIANA;
Massachusetts IS yyplned by the Aayhewer cr9is5
toward Plymouth Rock; Pennsylvania. by carpen-
family their way TO church down a street bor-
dered with quaint Colonial houses; Maine, by a
| turpentine camp in the forest.
The District of Columbia has boxed in, canopied
draped with the American flag. The White House
and the new Pension BUILDING are reproduced: The
photographs are those OF Presidents Washington
It has become quite the fad to dine in the booth
representing the native state OF the guest of honor
ana in chicago one is likely 70 hnd the oregon
Jersey. eTsa! &C '-''-- u -0iN ol
Each booth contains a long distance telephone
and the from Boston or New-York can talk
with his wife sweetheart ne takes his
luncheon It is also possible to telephone from
is finished in green and the furniture is stained
that color. The menu and wine card is complete
as any TO be found IN Gotham, and Il the other
resorts Of Chicagos new district Of pleasure keep
up with the pace set by The States Broadway
I must look TO her laHres.
The Pompeian room OF the Auditorium Annex
the big hotel on the lake front, is to be enlarged
part Of ChicaRo's new scheme OF expansion. 1t has
fountain fer it's centreDfece.
This Pompean room. bv the wav. has been a
potent factor in shaping the drinking customs of
/ Chicago. IT used to be entirely the fashion 10
! step up and have something The plare they
Stenped up TO was the bar. and the something they
had rye whiskev nine times n ten. Then
came the cool soft lighted room with a marble
nnor and polished columns and CHICAGO learned TO
refresh Itself string at table. Instead Of whiskey
! the~e was ~hau7pa gne
The fountain in the centre proved great att~ac-
wa6@3 n the poo At its base On daredevil wagers
and thus themselves written up" Duke Foris
his last visit 70 America adSed the fame or
/ the room hv giving a banuuet here TO assort-
Tneu+ of rhorus girls No wonder 1t has been found
necessary nearly TO d6uble its size The work is
under
Another re4reshnent institution IN the theatre dis
frict which is hepfnR IN keen Chca gosns I'D late
after theatre is the Collers The first thing
/ great glass football The wall decorations the
flags and coats-of- arms OF the different colleges
After the theatre one hnds good many college
/ the inn They gather under the OF
tle'r respective colleges and occasionally punctuate
late with a college veil. The evening after
big athletic contest in the East, the Yale-Harvard
J stftutonB gather to drnwn their sorroWs ceIe-
/ brate thei- Joy the victory.
! There are scores OF other places IN Chicago TO
which and play at being Fiddv. but they
! are neither typical unique On the South Side
! Chicago has Tenderloin which would be toll
Grated IN New-York for minute Tt Is as wide
ramp and IL seldom troubled by the a7ninistra+fon
It IL typical Of the oldtime Chicago The time Of lts
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