Year: 1871

ment Of last Mondays mercy.


PULL TOGETHER


We cannot too earnestly nor too
strongly deprecate the feeling OF jeal.
ousy and rivalry regarding locations
which. among a iew-a very few, thank
God of our citizens, has resulted from
the destruction of the business
norton Of the city. How 10
build up again should be the first
thought of every citizen in Chicago
not where. A solid, united, earnest,
honest effort-by all the people for all
the people-this should be the grand
the holy sentiment of the hour. Let
no man stop to speculate upon the good
the fire may do him if this or that pub
lie or private building shall come few
squares nearer him than before. Let
him rather thank heaven that there is
credit enough left to secure its erection
on the self.same spot which witnessed
its ruin. That would be a grand
high achievement, if within one year
nav, within five years-the chief land
marks of the olden city might be found
in their old accustomed places, and
Chicago should thus seem herself
again. The tears Of grief which followed
the destruction Of the churches, the
schools, the asylums, the public build
ings, the temples of amusement, the
halls of trade, commerce, tratfic-would
turn to tears of Joy when once again the
old familiar haupts should be seen to be
peopled with the old familiar faces.
Let the dear old associations that nal
lowed the ten thousand precincts which
I,,t nd Ia
preserved, respected, and brought back
again Only thus can Chicago be again
Chicago. Let our citizens, then, of ev-
cry calling and pursuit, set about the
work of rebuilding. We want to see
all the old palaces in all their old places
and the word Resurgam cut into
every turret-stone. Chicago Post.


GREAT DEPOT.


We cannot think that there will be
breathed, ny any reasonable, thinking
soul, a word of opposition to the sale by
the city to the railroad companies of
the three blocks of ground bounded by
Monroe, Randolph, Michigan avenue
and the lake, on which to found the
finest depot in the world. Among the
other things this great calamity has ac-
complished, it has not failed to knock
the nonsense out of the most moonshiny
noddle respecting the ornamental por-
ton of the lake front of Chicago. There
will doubtless never again be residence
built on the South Division, north of
Park Row. The whole of the South
Side burnt district must be given up TO
trade and commerce. The lake front
will hereafter be devoted to use-no
longer to ornament. Commerce must
now have an opportunity to make again
the capital with which to afford luxury
and ornament. Room for railroad con-
venlences is the first essential of Chi
cago's new life. Railroads made the
Chicago of the past They will make
again the greater Chicago of the future.


The city needs the 100000 which
the railroads are still prepared to pay
for the three above specified. 1t does
not need the blocks. The houseless
need the work which the instant build.
ing OF this mammoth depot will afford
them. They do not need a playground.
The money of Eastern capitalists, on
which Chicago depends to re-erect its
ruined walls, needs the assurance which
the commencement Of this work will
afford them, that the burnt district is TO
be at once and energetically rebuilt and
repopulated.


The poor, the rich, the strug Cling men
at home, the sympathizing men abroad.
all have common interest in seeing
three million dollar depot instantly
started on the lake shore. We trust the
Council will comprehend the situation.
and lose not moment in respondingto
its clear demands. Chicago Post.


THE SITUATION.


The rain of Saturday night, the sys.
tematic work commenced by the Relief
Society, the rebuilding movements in
the burnt district, the orderly conduct
of the more needy sufferers, the pres
ence OF the military, the discovery that
the cylinders Of the great pumping en-
gines are unharmed, and will surely be
at work in short time, and finally the
resolution Of the banks to resume paw.
ments in full on Tuesday-have com
blned to put more cheerful aspect on
affairs. After the excitement and terror
and loss OF rest of the past week, there
will, perhaps, be temporary reaction,
but 1t will bring renewal of strength
and hope; and the disciplined forces of
reconstruction will commence work in
earnest. The knowledge we now have
that the worst is over is itself of un.
speakable Importance, for, while every
mind was strung upon the dread of new
fires no really efficient labor could be
performed by anybody.


When, on last Wednesday, we called
upon the people of Chicago to cheer up
we did not appreciate or estimate the
force OF character that was in them. Our
citizens have displayed noble heroism.
worthy of the abounding charity that A
has been showered upon them. They
nave shown capacity to help themselves,
and that alone is worth everything in
he way of re'establishing their credit
and procuring the necessary capital to
build up again. Let them 60 on as they
nave begun, not calling on Congress, or
he gods, for donations, or stay laws,and
hey will come out of the fire right side
llp, and presently we shall have our
lineage again, noble and more beauti-
ul than before.


The railways that have done so much
or us, will do more than ever before.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed