Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-12
SIGHTSEEING IN CHICAGO. CONTINUED.
By The Editor.

There is one thing that strikes a
man unused to large city like Chi
cago, with great force when first in
that place. Its the interminable
hustle of traffic and folks ever clog
ging the streets and sidewalks both
of which are in the business sections
quite wide and in some places being
further widened by chopping off the
fronts of the skyscrapers and build
ing them back. Our editorial asso-
ciatien had an Illustrated lecture by
the Commission man whose duty it
is to direct the converting of Chica-
go into the city beautiful. He show
ed us what had been, was being done
and would be done IN that line and
stated that seventy five years would
be none too much TO carry out their
plans. Handling the ever longest
ing traffic IN a great city is a prob
lem which like the poor, they ever
have with them. He showed that
research had revealed the fact that
after the London fire in the 18th.
century an eminent Englishman
formed plan for its rebuilding
which would have made it instead
of Paris the City Beautiful, as the
Partisan authorities a century later
discovered and adopted this man S
plan. He hopes to have the front a.
long Chicago river show the beau
tlful driveways, ornamental bridges,
and esplanades which have made the
fame of the Seine and Paris world
wide. Well a word more about the
first impressions of Chicago to the
man from these parts. We arrived
on Sunday, the third time the .wri-
ter had visited that Lake city. We
thought we had gotten used to the
noise and jammings on sidewalks and
street corners that evening by walk
ing about in it, by next morning
we're awakened by the mighty roar
swelling up from the streets through
our closed window reminding US a.
gain that Chicago was astlr and on a
business day. The clatter of thous-
ands of hoofs on the paved streets,
the changing of street car and other
bells. the thousand and one noises
human and otherwise
made babel of sound, accumulated
every now and then oy the rumbling
roll of the elevated street cars and
trains, which resembles the reverber-
alton of low toned thunder more
than anything else.
Before entering onto a description
OF our visit to the Stockyards, going
where we travelled on these elevated
cars. let US pause to say that these
articles are not written to entertain
those who have been to Chicago and
seen the sights, but for the benefit
Of those who havn't, some of whom
hope to go and others of whom will
only learn of it as told in this and
other ways by those who have been.
However we might add that there
may be something which we noticed
and will write about that escaped
your attention if you have been there,
Just as if we talked with you some
thing would probably come out that
we overlooked. Illustrating tn S
point will state that this writer has
Just been reading Upton Sinclair S
The Jungle, book which we can't
as it's too horrible in it's
pictures of realism to entitle it to
The name or place of good book,
though it's descriptive features are
some of them very good, and enabled
Is to better understand some things
We saw IN the packing house plants,
hough of course much has been
hanged there for the better since
he revelations of that book caused
uch stir with consequent investi-
sationS. So we can all learn from
me another after all. Our space is
lp and we trust the appetites of a
ew of our readers anyway have been
Vhetted for the next installment
lealing with Stockyard town.
No. Ix,1r4 c,c,,,o -, ~.