Show A NICE PLACE TO LIVE IN N the chicago tribune which has done its best in times past to write up the garden city now offers the public the following delightful picture of the same place in its present condition the municipal affairs of chicago chiea Chica goare are all at lodde ends and nobody knows what is 1 the matter but ev everybody understands that we have the foulest streets the dirtiest river the most inefficient police the most nauseous water the most board of public works and board of health in the world unless we look for their equal in turkey china or dahomey the sights and and i smells that greet reet the noses wherever within the in municipal uni cipal limits t the heway wayfarer goes would but for the unrivalled advantages of chicago as a place e of trade drive every man out of it and wo would luil lull also but for the influences of the lake and land breezes that do for us what the doctors cannot kill hill half the people before they could get out go where one will even on michigan avenue west washington street or the finest quarters of the north side and what we say is proved the streets and alleys are places of deposit for all that is foul and abominable old boots shoes s spoiled oiled meats and fish the garbage oi of tre the kitchens hitchens dead dogs cats and rats are if not as common as paving stones elsewhere a great deal more cons conspicuous and as for offensiveness the conglomeration is perhaps nowhere excelled ifa if a cellar is ls cleaned of itsie its decayed cabbages and potatoes if a bi nasty mess is to be gotten rid of anywhere the streets or the alleys is the catchall catch all which receives it if the festering contents of an open gutter are to be removed they are shoveled out into the street there to fester the quicker and stink worse than ever there is not a drive within the corporate limits over which four miles an hour our oun would not be a breakneck break neck pace taking it from end to end so broken is the pavement where pavement is laid down and so deep the holes where paving ilas has not been achieved the river is a great cesspool the like of which there is not in this country but no move is made to correct its terrible offensiveness though the contents of the stream might be changed every week if the authorities only willed it on every side slaughterhouses reek with putrefying putrefy ing blood and offal and side by side with them stand the distilleries which are re if possible os s i more oppressive but in in brantn rankness e s s 0 of smell which bickens sickens the whole man down to tile the very boot soles the ren rendering der in e establishments have the undisputed P aim and they I 1 too are manir many and as far as we know undisturbed undisturbed streets gutters river alleys distilleries rendering houses and all the abominations of which these are the chiefs seem to disturb no officials equanimity no policeman complains no health officer remonstrates no mayor fulminates no common council legislates As for the people besieged in their offices and wa workshops in their walks in their h homes 0 e s in their drives anh and in their churches h he s by stinks that to unaccustomed noses are unendurable they sniff and bear all sometimes with a curse and often with a grin some of them have even grown so insensible to what is filthy that they can drink a glass of chicago water before it has gone through a deep filter and not have it act as an emetic before it is half down dow n a test of the capacity of the human stomach to bear that medical philosophers should not overlook |