The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
Impressions of Chicago.


Sir-Here are some of the reactions
of Philadelphia to Chicago:
Cheap tax1cab system-ewenty cents
for first half-mile and ten cents for
each succeeding Quarter-mile.
One system alone operates 1,400
cars. Every driver must be married
and each employe shares in the profits
OF the company.
The only time was thanked for
tips was by taxi drivers.
Most of the restaurants ARD. caba-
rets are in Easements.
Saw only one first class movie
house; others merely store fronts con-
verted.
Chicagoans say town is bankrupt.
Off Michigan boulevard the paving is
poor.
Park system under state supervi-
sion, which pleases natives, WHO fear
city supervision would spoil entire sys--
tenn. Parks are kept very cleaa and
at frequent intervals hang big baakets
painted shade of tree trunks in which
waste and debris are placed.
Lower part of town spoiled by
belching locomotives of Illinois Cen
trail railway.
Restaurants more moderate In price
than in Philadelphia.
Trains run out on left side and in
on right, reversing plan here.
Cold water in hotels warmer than
lukewarm.
More girls SEEM Out average o.
pretty girls well under Philadelphia
| star dard.
Buses 1ooking like tanks on bouie-
va1d and away behind Fifth avenue
in style and number in use.
2avcnerts on main streets OF LOOP
two or three feet above street level.
Most of the hotel rooms inside are
as dark a.. o'clock in the morning as
az 9 o'clc ok at night.
Saw s.nc drank at least twenty kinds
of ginger ale.
Plenty of golf courses, and evsry
thest ia Philadelphia.
Most of them flat and OF poor yard
age. Clubhouses very fine and locker
rooms splendid.
fee of from $500 to $4,000 and yearly
dues of from $3.50 to $3.50. Courses
| fla. and poorly bunkered.
| Seven or eight public COURSES IN
va, ABLY crowded.
Plenty of signs "Help US kesp the
abie to read them. Tribune and News
daily as big as our Sunday editions.
| Biggest visible assets, park system
Plenty of public bathing beaches. nc
sisrs in parks: keep off the grass:
w. H. E. also noted that nearly al
the rolling stock on scores of road.
running into the city are antiquatee
and of wood. The observation !:
myopic and we save an exception
The finest trains in the world run out
of Chicago, East and West. North and
South.
Another matter we don't intend t.
do anything about is Admiral Sims
speech.
Georges may or may not be able Il
sting Jacques. In any event. the kind.
ly years will erase all poignant mem
cries of the coming contest, but the
one bruise Jacques never will be able
to ameliorate is the recollection tina
he fought his war in a shipyard-
| Or, as Andy Richards would have
phrased it. "ostensibly."
| Now that the season again ap,
proaches its zenith. we renew our sug'
gestion to American League pitchers
Why not groove the ball when tbs
Babe" is at bat? He couldn't hit this
! ball harder than he does when they
try to work the corners, and it may be
the grooved ball is his weakness.
| Congressman Appleby wants to open
sessions of congress by singing THE
Star Spangled Banner. That pretty
he's tenor.
| We are always hard-put for a last
paragraph. How do you like this one:
| THE quick brown fox jumps over the
| law HACK dog"