CHICAGO.— THE CITY OF THE WORLD.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 September 1880, Page 2

CHICAGO.— THE CITY OF THE WORLD.

. + A writer to the Otago Witness, saysj — * The best block of buildings in Ihe most fashionable par's of London, Men» Chester, or Edinburgh, cannot compare with those of Chicago. These eilie* have, doubtless, many single buildings equal to those of their American rival, but none of them have equal blocks and streets. How much this means of enterprise and undying energy, consiJerina i hiit ten years ago more than 17,000 of her best buildings were laid in ashes in a single week, cannot well be put into words. Her people seem not to know what it is to cow^r before a difficulty. When they found their ci y too low for < fficient drainage, they lifted its centre teu feet in the air, while the world looked on and wondered. When the waters of Lake Michigan, at (he edge, were too impure to drink, they tunnelled- for their wa>er (wo miles under the lake, and drew their supply from a part where the wafer was pure, supplying tho city not only with (lie pure wafer, but supplying it with forre enough to reach Hie top of the i tallest building there. Nor have (hey been wholly occupied with engineering and sireet architecture. They have boulevards and public parks, of which (hey. ere justly proud. For churches I never saw such a city. There are said to be 230 of these, and nearly all are Roth c and of slone, while some are really inijjuificent. Among tho sights of the city are enormous ' elevators ' for unloadin>» railway cars of grain, and load ships. It is a wonderful process, bul would require too much space to describe. The one I visited then contained more than a million bushels of grain, and hud loaded a ship that week with 80,00^ bushel in an hour and a half wihout either sacks or hanling. ____________