Chicago.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 30 April 1891, Page 3

Chicago.

In imagination we are apt to plac< Chicago, the city of stockyards anc meat killing, away back in the ney Western States of America, but it is far from being so. The immense water-way dividing the Dominion o: Canada from the United States commences at the Gulf of St Lawrence, and up the river St Lawrence through lake Ontario, traffic is carried without hindrance. The Ontario lake receives at the Niagara falls the waters from lakes Erie, Huron, Michagau and Superior, cuid between each of these lakes water communication exists, and on the southern point of lake Michagan the city of Chicago stands. Here seven or eight different lines of railroad unite, and a journey of 1000 miles has to be made by rail to reach it from New York. The position has made the town, and here it is intended to hold the Columbian Exbibitian. We have noted before that our cousins intend to spare no expense, and time after time the progress of the v;v.-U get-* reported. A correspondent t. .\j t'.nit '" 'J-'o burst suddenly on a huge metropolis after a thousand miles of railroad travel is apt to make one feel somewhat bewildered. To step from the train into streets which are wider and busier than anything which may be found in Europe, to feel one's self surrounded by tall buildings ten, twelve, fifteen, and even twenty stories high ; to hear the hotel clerk informing a visitor that twenty three thousand (23,000) people can be comfortably housed in a single building in the city ; to be assigned to a room on the ninth floor of the hotel and from the window to overlook a panorama of immense buildings, whose horizon it is impossible to discern, all this is calculated to take one's breath away and to make one feel that his ideas of America were far from being equal to the reality as it is found in Chicago. Surely there is something unusual astir to-day, we suggest to the guide, or why so many ladies to be seen ? No, this is State Street, as it appears every day in the year. A broad thoroughfare, which effaces our recollection of Broadway, New York. Shops, such as Oxford Street, London, cannot equal. A roadway where four lines of tram-cars may pass at once, still leaving space on each side for two or three carriages abreast. And round about the shop windows hovers a restless throng of of women, the poorest clad of whom is yet well dressed. For contnuation of reading matter see fourth page.)