The Washington times., 1905-05-23
Correspondent Views
Of Life in ChicQgO
Home of Pop Arson Has Many Claims to &
Place on the Baseball Map-pro-
duCed Ban Johnson

CHICAGO. May 23.-Chicago is great
but not beautiful city on the shores Of
Lake Michigan.
1t is also in on everything else that's
going, as Eastern wisenheimers have
learned after many painful financial
experiences.
Chicago has many claims to a place
on the baseball map.
Pop Anson's Home.
The pr'ncipal one is that it furnishes
the daily sustenance and raiment of
Pop Anson. When he dies he NAV be
claimed by many cities. even as Homer
was. but he is q long way from dead
at present In fact, he is an exceed
ingly live one. having but recently
copped the job OF city clerk. He
said he was usually IN his Office from
10 a. m, to . p. m, but sometimes he
had other affairs 10 attend 10, ana IT
would be hard to tell where to find him.
He was warned against bringing on ner-
Vous prostFduon from too intense de-
yotion to the duties of his position, and
said he was trying TO bear up @DFaVeiy.
Busy Man.
When not busy telling people at the
City Hall that he Is too busy 10 talk 10
them, Pop can be found at his billiard
parlors on Madison street.
His opinions are not easily eiicited,
but he viii loosen up at times and hoot
the spitball. He says 1t is a. fgment OF
the brain instead Of a materiahty OF
saliva and that the pitchers OF the
country sprang 1t to keep their names
| before the public and TO josh the news
papers.
is willing to express definite opinion
at any time, and he does not say so, but
it may be inferred he thinba Re could
lam that spitban just as he did the
cid curves for fifteen years.
Banefui Ban.
Chicago was also the pumping station
for the hot air Ban Johnson used to
spring about the Washington club until
he made good by selling il 10 Washing
ton investors.
He exhausted his reservoir when the
club was disposed of and his remarks
have been normally cool for several
weeks. Perhaps the in-and-out frigid
blasts which assail the town at vary
ing and noncomputable interval af
fected his chest. Anyhow. the public
has experienced a very decided relief
and viii give thanks TO whatever cause
it was which brought about TIC change.
Barkeeps and BARRIERS.
a distinguishing fee ture of Chicago is
the dignified bearing and generally
prosperous appearance of its barkeeps
and BARRIERS. The knights of the spoon
and scissors in the big hotels are truly
impressive beings, and the stranger
hesitates TO disturb their literary pur-
suits IN reading the fight news to have
them mix the morning cocktail or trim
the waywaFd locks TO their credit, be
il said. that the members OF these two
noble and essential professions are gem
orally neat, and, we may remark,
gaudily tasty in their grooming but
there Is no place where the casual
visitor is SO struck at first sight with
the possibilities of the art artorial, as
applied 10 mixers, and clippers, as in
Chicago never does anything by
halves.
Swift Changes.
The truth of this is In no way more
forcibly brought to attention than by
the startlingly swift changes by which
person walking along several of the
main streets passes almost in
twinkling from the location Of immense
retail stores, thronged with shoppers,
and the cIeanest and best persons in
the city. TO an endless procession of
honk atonks. where the display of a
one dollar bill means lifting OF the
eyebrows. and the flashing Of a FIVE spot
is a sure sign you are going TO be fol-
lowed with disastrous results to your
self and the change from the fve-tf
you get the change.
Within two or three blocks on the
same street where, in the hustle and
confusion of modern life in great
city men are courteous and women
gracious. may be seen slanternly or
corsetiess amazons chasing the duck"