Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-12

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spend month in Chicago, and spend
each day in seeing greater sight The
great boulevard on the lake front, the
parks, the underground system Of dis
tributing freight, now over 100 miles
in extent, that vast acreage of build.
ing known as Rockefeller Chicago
University, the suburban train service,
the stockyards all take a great deal Of
time to see, and a week in Chicago
only enables one to skim over the sur
face.
Among the sights of the city are
the new First National bank, with its
5000 employees, $s,OOo,OOO capital and
Sl00,0O0,0OO deposits. 1t has II stories,
and single Office rented by a Salem
man on the eighth floor costs $75 a
month. The first three stories and base.
ment are occupied by the bank. There
are thousands of safety deposit vaults
and paper money is stacked mp like
cordwood. One does not see much gold,
and it is not in use. The gold stand
ard, so far as actual gold coin
transactions are concerned, is myth in
the East. The bulk of the business is
done on crisp, new silver certificates,
which read payable in silver dol.
lars. - What a farce, when twice the
nation has declared for the gold stand
ard, we must still have this paper
money, payable in Ascent dollars. The
funniest thing of all is that the East,
which was so clamorous for gold, never
sees any, and the West, which cried out
for silver, has all the gold
We spent a day in the art museum,
seeing the pictures, sculpture and plas-
ter casts. am no judge of art, but if
it were my museum l would consign
about two.thirds of the stuff on exhi.
bition to the rubbish heap. But IL
passes for art, and thousands go and
spend their time looking for it. A
thousand young men and women are
studying art, as it is called. They are
drawing from life and still life, from
dressed and nude subjects. We had a
special permit to visit all the class
rooms, and for the life of us cannot see
much good in standing up naked man
or woman before u hundred young peo-
pie for them to "draw at, - and call il
art. In all the hundreds of students /
hardly saw one that was well fed, or
didn't have a strained, nervous, and
many of them a strenuous, "hunted" 4"
look ON their faces. To my taste, saw
prettier oil paintings in the Auditori.
nm hotel than in the art museum. But
a man from the West don I know it all.
Speaking of well.fed people, / saw
professional nurse from one of the hos.
pitfalls who pleased me very much. Out
about 50tR street are some hospitals.
She came out of one of these, boarded
the street ear with an elastic step, ear
rying dressing case. She wore blue
ulster that fitted her. A neat little
cap and veil of the same material com.
pleted her outward costume. Her dress
was snow white from head to foot. She
had red cheeks, bright eyes, fresh,
rosy, plump appearance, the picture of
health, What a blessing such a person
must be TO a sick room. A well man
might fall in love with such woman
To sick one she>would be an angel
We spent a morning on the Board of
Trade, and were submerged in the tow.
ering Babel Of commereialism that
swallows up 500 to 1000 carloads of
farm products daily. A guide showed
us through all the operations, from the
small army Of men under the weighmas-
ter, who gathers up cars on all the
different lines of railway, to the final
distribution of the grain through the
big milling and exporting houses. OF
course, it is all great TO an outsider,
and all / remember is taking lunch
with two or three hundred oats, corn,
wheat and stock gamblers, who were
jolly good fellows with seven-story ap |
petites,
The restaurants and theatres Of Chi
cago are almost without number. You
can go to different one every day in
the year The meals are heavy. They
bring you soup enough for two or three
persons at each place. We took in the
Great Northern, North
Rock Island la Rome, the
biggest chop suey joint on Clark
street, the College Inn, headquarters
Tor all the big sports, the Woman's