The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26

Don't know as YOU particularly care
for horse food" he apologies between
nouthtuls, but that's the cult in this
| neck o woods nowadays"
THE cult?" you inquire as he plunges
more deeply in his bran mash.
"Precisely," he mods. Were living
in cults out here now We've got Bos-
ton beaten TO culture"
He shoves back the remnant of his
| health food luncheon with an express
| sion that surely says that he wishes It
was steak smothered with onions and
thanked by an ample girthed staff Of
vegetables and faces you-you New
Yorkers-with determination to set your
path straight.
Along in the prehistoric ages-which
in Chicago means about the time of the
worlds fair--we We're trying TO live up
to anything and everything, but par
ticularly the ambition to be the over
whemingest biggest town in creation
and TO make YOU old New York look
like an annexed seaport. We had no
cults. no woman's societies, nothing ex-
cept lot Of men making money hand
over fist. killing hogs and building cars
and selling stuff at retail by catalogues.
I
particularly care. We liked plain shows
as long as the girls in them weren't
plain and we had motto that a big
lady carried around on shield. The
motto was I Will and translated It
meant to the bottom of the sea with
New York or st. Louis or any other up
start town that tried to live on the same
side Of the earth as Chicago. We were
going to have 100000 population in
side of two years and"
He dives again into his cultish lunch
and after moment resumes:
The big lady has lost her job and
we've thrown the shield-motto and all
into the lake. We're trying to forget
the motto and that's why we've got the
cult habit. We're class and we're close
| on the heels of YOU New Yorkers-only
last winter they began to pass the
French pastry around on a tray at my
clsb. We learn quickly and then go
YOU one better. We've finally given
Jane Addams the recognition and the
support that she should have had a
dozen years ago, We're strong and
were sincere for cultlre-the univer-
sity to the south Of us has had some
funny cracks, but that is all history
Together with the one to the north of
MS they are finally institutions-and
Chicago respects them as such.
Take opera. We used to think II
was a fad to hear good music and only
| the society folks went to hear it-so
that the opera fairly starved to death
when it came out here. Now they are
falling over one another to get into the
| Auditorium and our opera company Is
| not only an institution but you New
Workers would give your very hearts to
have il in your own big opera house"
"You'll build an opera house out here
| then" YOU venture. the biggest"
He interrupts.
"Not necessarily the biggest" he cor
reefs but as fine as the very best"
ST. Louis does not think very much
of the l;ads bridge these days. Yet it
was only a few years ago that 1t was
| Dragging about that wonderful concep-
ton of the spginesr-who had finally
spanned the lordly Mississippi and right
at his chief city. But other bridges
have come, two huge ungainly railroad
structures to the north and a public
bridge to the south-that Is, it will be a
public bridge If the voters of st. Louis
ever cease quarrelling about it. At the
present time it is hardly bridge. only
"A great span over the water and for
long months absolutely unprovided with
| approaches because the taxpayers OF
| St Louis refuse to vote the funds for
it's completion. So it is that the Eads
bridge is to-day but single agency out
of three or four for the spanning Of tho
river; it too has grown grlmy in forty
Years and the railroad travellers who
come across through its lower deck only
remember that from II thcr" leads
under the heart Of the city If 81 Louis
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