Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-26
AN IMPR EssIMIsTIc SKETCH.

appearance in print, and wishes that |
such responsibility be laid where it be.
longs-at the door Of the editor.
Some Surveyor General should arise |
and tell US where the boundary lines of
the East and West lie, for at present
they are sadly indeterminate. If Oma-
ha is the metropolis of the middle west,
as the Inhabitants claim. then Chicago
must be on the boundary between West
and East, and we in the Black Hills can
reckon our longitude from the Missouri,
and Cleveland, of course, is East
But 10 all New Workers and Boston.
ians deny this, placing Omaha on the
outposts of civilization, reegating the
Black Hills to the limbo Of the great
Unclassitied where Indians still roam
their hunting grounds, and Wild Bills
and Deadwood Dicks still disport them
selves, and insist that Cleveland but
marks the line where the West begins.
As there seems no Court of Appeal to
settle the point | found convenient
letter "R" fades from speech and the
letter "A" broadens into infnity, there
is the East.
On one point all agree, that
Chicago is THE metropolis of the
country second only to New York
Metropolis" is a good word, but humbly
l submit better-a maelstrom-a hu-
man maelstrom-rushing, roaring and
seething. Two things the stranger in
this center of western strenuosity needs.
Yes, three. First guide, wise and
wary second money, and third, more
money.
Marshall Fields Grand Opening"
was still to be enjoyed when / was
there, and all strangers-m inisteral and
| otherwise-were taken to view thous-
and dollar hat. and, incidentally, the
/ wonderful decorations of that biggest
store in the country" We Americans
dote on that word big" with its super
lative. heard OF town in Ohio which
boasted the biggest rascal" in America
One must have the power of kipling
to depict Chicago. She is the acme of
our western material civilization, made
! possible by the concentration of wealth,
Drawn and brain. AS for me, looked
| admired, | wondered and escaped in
to the quiet haven of the Art Institute
Let no ethink he has seen the best Chi
cago has until the bronze statue Of a Pill
grim by st. Gandens, the greatest sculp-
tor America has produced, has been
seen, with landscape of Carrot, bathed
in shimmering, silvery light. Other
wonderful things too. A stretch of the
Lake front to be snatched from com.
merce and transferred into park in
violable forever from greed, libraries
and social settlements, juvenile courts
and night schools These, | submit, are
as valuable as automobiles, sky scrapers
and thousand dollar hats
To journey from Chicago eastward in
October is privilege, for the trees were
gorgeous in their gold and crimson. The
many beautiful towns were embowered
in glory, and the placid rivers but re-
tlecled more loveliness Cleveland re-
ceived US with gray skies and pouring
rains, indeed the weather for six days
made one long for furs, or the Black
Hills. or both
| Cleveland is great city well past the
half a million mark a commercial CEN
ter producing much beside eminent citi-
zens, such as John D. Rockefeller and
Mayor Tom Johnson Said a Cleveland
youngster in answer to the question,
"What does Ohio produce" John d.,
Mayor Johnson and Mrs Chadwick
The last scene in the tragi-comedy of
the Chadwick case occurred while we
were there and the newsboys told US Of
! it, crying call about the death of Cassie,
| Cassie Chadwick" DR.. Chadwick is a
ruined life exile with his daughter from
their beautiful, old fashioned home on
Euclid Avenue
In Cleveland Mr.. Rockefeller is pres.
| ent always in name and fame at least
The church where he worships is point
ed out as "Mr. RockefeIler's Church :"
His pastor, revered and scholarly
man, as "Mr Rockefeller's preacher"
One is hidden to observe that the mar
BILE shaft in beautiful Lake View ceme
terry where his dead rest, towers high
above the others, and the lodge and
stables even of his princely home are
objects for the tourist to mark.
Mayor Tom Johnson was much in
evidence, conducting his campaign for
fourth mayoraty term, and flashing
about the streets in an enormous scarlet
automobile. That prophet may still
be without honor in his own country
was made clear to us by newspapers and
pacards.
All street car lines in Cleveland come
to the square where the soldiers and
sailors monument rises stately in bronze.
A fitting memorial of THESE whom Ohio
gave to her country in the Civil War,
but THE monument is that of Garfield in
Lake View cemetery. High above the
city it towers. Bas reliefs tell the
story of his life without, while mosaics
depict THE NATIONS grief within, around
the heroic figure Of the man, lost to his
country so sadly, while in the vaults be-
low where visitors stand in awed silence
is the great bronze collin where the re-
mains Of Garfield sleep. Near by is the
most beautiful memorial chapel in our
country, q pure specimen of Doric art in
gray marbles, and nos FAR off there
CLEANS through the trees tho marble
vault, where Mark Hanna, maker of
Presidents, rests.