| Show AN IMMENSE enterprise CHICAGO comes to the front once more with one ot those gigantic schemes for which she has made herself famous the business men of that city have now in contemplation an enterprise which will dwarf in its past history it is the establishment of a vast freight clearing house one hundred and fifty buildings each six stories high will be erected at a cost of the idea embodied in this scheme is to have one central point where merchants can receive goods from all railroads entering chicago thirty two acres of land haat been leased eased for 99 years and the necessary structures will be erected immediately railroad oars cars will reach different floors boon of the building by means of an inclined track if 2000 barrels of produce are shipped to a commission merchant the consignment will be received at the freight clearing house I 1 should he sell part for city delivery or should he reship part to bome fome outside point it can be delivered from there there alq twenty three railroads and thir thirteen steamboat lines entering chicago the business of all these will be concentrated at one point near the intersection of Twelfth oF twelfth street and the south branch of the chicago river expedition in delivery and in the reshipment of freight is what is aimed at the buildings will be grouped around one vast central warehouse which will at first receive all the in and out freight from this central point will be distributed goods for the various points of the compass the surrounding buildings will be used as store houses bouses and in a sense branch freight houses for the different railroads as well as warehouses for the wholesale merchants the id advantages vantages arising from this plan will be many the expense of drayage will be out cut one half the time consumed in street transit will also be reduced considerably besides all losses incidental to rain dust accident sun and dirt will be avoided st louis and san froncisco isco have houses of this character but on a very small scale that projected at chicago chicag 0 1 will meet all the business requirements of a great commercial centre it will expedite and facilitate the sale and transfer of produce of all kinds it will relieve the cen congested thoroughfares of the city and it will prevent a vast anici amount ent of sulphurous language on the part of teamsters policemen merchants and the general public |
