Price 50¢ : STS | And ¥) wr 2 Y ‘f ¢ bes ~o-oX JRutus Blanchard ne R.Blanchard and Company, WHEATON,ILL. & gemss, a Bed Listen’ 3 The New Jerusalem Church. 641 “ithe New Church, furnished at his own expense the various yw places occupied by the Society for worship, and for the transac- tion of its business, and procured and kept for sale the writings of Swedenborg, until the church rooms were procured in a build- ~ing erected by Mr. Harrison Newhall, at the north-east corner of “Dearborn and Randolph streets, and fitted up as a place for pub- ? wut ~ “lie worship. In addition to this generosity, Mr. Scammon subscribed lib- erally at all times for the replenishing of the treasury, and keep- he the Society free from debt. he pastor labored successfully for the interests of the Society, and preached most of the time on Sabbath mornings in the Saloon Building, till some time in 1851, when the church rooms were secured and fitted up on the corner of Dearborn and Randolph streets. Inthis new place for worship quite a large congregation attended the public services on the Sabbath, and it became quite apparent that Mr. Hibbard’s labors were not only satisfactory to: the Society, but eminently efficient in spreading a knowledge of the Heavenly Doctrines. A library had been established, and from this source general New Church reading had been provided. At the annnal meeting, held January 12, 1852, the treasurer re- ported that the Society was in a healthy financial condition, its. debts all paid, and a smail balance in the treasury. At the annual meeting held Jany. 11, 1850, a committee on music was appointed to superintend this department of public worship, and to effect its introduction, wheu they thought best, into the regular exercises of the Sabbath. It was voted in 1852, at the annual meeting, that the pastor or any member of the Exeeu- tive Committee might consider himself a representative of the Society in any general body of the church, when not otherwise specially represented. It does not appear on the records when the Society first pro- vided a Sunday School. The first time mentioned is in the rec- ords of the meeting of the Executive Committee March 25,1852, when thirty dollars were appropriated for a Sunday School Li- brary. ii the fall and winter Rev. B. F. Barrett delivered a course of lectures on Sunday evenings to crowded houses in the new church _ e-rooms, and also supplied the pulpit when the pastor was absent as a missionary and superintendent of the Illinois Association. From a resolution recorded on March 6th, 1853, it would appear that Mr. Barrett’s labors were highly appreciated and approved of by the Society. The Illinois Association, of which the Chicago Society and its members had from the first been a part, had held up to this time 41 642 The New Jerusalem Church. two annual sessions in the church rooms in Chicago, and it was woted this year, 1852, to invite the General Convention of the New Church in the U. §. to meet in Chicago in June, 1853. It met here, and its sessions were held in New hall's Tall, be- fore referred to, and subsequently, in the years 1860, 1868, 1871, the General Convention has been held in Chicago. From Newhall’s Hall the Society removed to a schoolhouse, purchased by. it, on the north side of Adams street, between Wabash avenue and State street, and caused a school, kept by Mr. H. O. Snow, a New churchman, to be established there.” The Society remained there until the ‘winter of 1857, when the build- ing was destroyed by fire. From thence it removed to an old church building which had been originally built by the Second Presbyterian Chureh, and had been removed to Harrison street, _ which was purchased by the Society and occupied by it until it built its new and commodious stone temple on Adams street, on the lot secured by Mr. Scammon in 1848, as before stated. It remained here until the great fire of October 9, 1871, de- stroyed it, together with a mission church building which it had placed upon a lot at the junction of Clark and LaSalle streets, opposite Lincoln Park. This temple was a very convenient build- ing, containing, beside the church proper, a basement room for social meetings, a pastor’s study and library room, and a residence for the janitor. ‘The Society had great prosperity, pecuniarily and otherwise. | Through the Rev. John H. Ragatoz,a German congregation and society were established and church built in the northwest part of the city, on Ashland avenue, just north of Chicago avenue, which is now used for worship by the German Society. It had also a mission church at the corner of Thirty-third street and South Park avenue, in which services were held until the building of the New Chureh Hall on Eighteenth street, near the corner of Prairie avenue. After the great fire the Society sold its church lot on Adams street, and with the proceeds purchased the property on Eight- eenth street, and a church lot at the corner of West Washington and Ogden avenues, and caused places of worship to be erected won them, and secured a residence for. the pastor adjoining the Eighteenth street Hall. Mr. Hibbard’s health failing, leave of absence was given him in 1871, and he went to Europe for his health. During his ab- ‘sence, and for some time before, the Rev. Calvin Day N oble was employed to preach for the Society as Mr. HWibbard’s assistant. ‘On Mr. Hibbard’s return theie was a division in the Society, a ‘part of the con: regation preferring Mr. Noble. These forded The New Jerusalem Church. 643 themselves into a second society under Mr. Noble, but it was dis- solved shortly after Mr. Noble left, and it has now gone out of existence. The panic of 1873 completed the financial ruin of many of the leading members of the Society who had been greatly embarrassed by the great and subsequent fires, so that the Soci- ety was no longer able to support their pastor, and he was employed as the general missionary of the General Convention. In March, 1877, those members of the church who thought that a younger minister and more central place of worship were desir- able, formed a new society, called the Union Swedenborgian Soci- ety, invited the Rev. L. P. Mercer to become their pastor, and established worship in Hershey Hal, on Madison street, between State and Dearborn streets, where he has preached since and is now preaching. | Worship and Sunday School are kept up in the North and West side places of worship, the Rev. W. F. Pendleton acting as minister. No regular worship has been had in Eighteenth strect hall since Mr. Hibbard’s resignation in 1877, although for a portion of the time Dr. A. E. Small has conducted the services, and Mr. O. L. Barlerand others have preached there, and Sunday School has been maintained under the superintend- ence, first, of Miss Auanna E. Scammon, and subsequently of Mr. It. A. Keyes. From the beginning New Church books have been kept for sale, and New Church libraries maintained. The first books were placed, in 1838, in the book-store of Mr. S. F. Gale, the first hook- seller in Chicago. The great fire of 1871 destroyed both a large stock of books kept for sale, and the New Church Library. A new supply was obtained, and the nucleus of a new library estab- lished on the three sides of the river, or in the three Divisions of the city, but the general embarrassinents of the members of the Society have rendered all their efforts feeble, and very little has been accomplished. Many hope for a new state of things with returning prosperity. It has been the aim of the Society to avoid incurring debts, and it has avoided them, except in obtaining places of worship. Debts have all been promptly paid off, except two for $5,000 each, and interest and taxes on the two places of worship at Eighteenth street and West Washington avenue. It was not the intention to incur those, but unforeseen circumstances kept those debts upon our hands, the two buildings costing $10,000 more than was intended. The members hope soon to get out of debt, and keep out. The Society has always provided for its own poor. It has al- 644 The New Jerusalem Church. ways recognized the duty of every one contributing to the sup- port of the church as the Lord should give him ability, and there has been a general, though not universal, endeavor to act up to this principle. Of the members of the Society who signed the original articles of association, only Mr. J. Young Scammon is living. He oe- cupies his law office in the building at the southeast corner of Lake and Clark streets, where he had his office forty-four years ago, in 1836. Of those who have gone, Dr. Franklin Scammon and Mr. John Sears, Jr., remembered the Society in their wills. The executors of the latter paid over 10 per cent. of the estate to the society. The Society cannot be said to be a proselyting community. It considers that it is its duty to provide means for making*known the doctrines of the New Church, and instructing those who de- sire such instruction. The members of the old Board of Trus- tees have generally been re-elected, and Mr. Scammon was chair- man of its Executive Committee until he was left out of the board, in 1877, at his request. But a vacancy occurring, an urgent and unanimous request was presented to him to resume his membership, which he con- sented to do upon the condition that he should not be expected to attend its meetings when it was not convenient for him to do so. On his retirement, Dr. Alvan E. Small was elected Chairman, and Alexander Officer Vice-Chairman, which positions they con- tinue to hold. Mr. R. A. Keyes is Secretary, and Mr. Olof Ben- ton Assistant Secretary. The Treasurer is Mr. Willet Northup, who has held that office for many years. He is also Treasurer of the Illinois Association. These gentlemen, together with J. Young Scammon, Robert E. Moss, Wm. A. Barton, James M. Hill, H.S. Maynard and Orlando Blackman, constitute the Execn- tive Committee, which has charge of the affairs of the Society. The action of the Society has usually been very harmonious, and a willingness to abide for the time being by the decision of the majority has generally, if not always, been expressed, while the wishes and feelings of the minority have always been re- spected. — ; Barly Chicago Methodism. 645 EARLY CHICAGO METHODISM. BY REV. ARTHUR EDWARDS, D. D. Civil records show that in 1831 Chicago contained but about a dozen families. The inevitable and indefatigable Methodist preacher was not far off. Church records show that in 1831 the old Illinois Conference had a Sangamon district, in which there was a “ Chicago Mission.” In the year last named Rev. Jesse Walker was appointed missionary to Chicago. This sainted ec- clesiastical “ Pathfinder,” even in 1831, had alr eady seen twenty- nine years of border service as a minister of the Gospel. In 1806, under the leadership of William McKendree, who was atterwards a bishop, Walker entered Illinois asa missionary to the entire territory. These twodevoted men traveled the un- broken wilderness between Kentucky and the heart of Illinois on horseback. They slept under their saddle-blankets beneath the smiling skies, and cooked their own meals in true pioneer style. Sometimes, perhaps, they thought the stars smiled grimly, for it is recorded there was much rain, rivers were overflowing, and during the journey their horses swam the swollen streams, while the riders carried their garments and Bibles across in their hands, raised high above their saddles. McKendree tarried a few weeks and returned to Kentucky. Walker remained alone, and by constant itinerating and camp meetings, succeeded in his noble work as he was accustomed todo. The fruits of his labor, and of the few who aided him in the ministry, is attested by the form- ation of the [linois Conference in 1816. This conterence, it is characteristically said, “had no boundary on the west, included the last Methodist cabin toward the setting sun, and took in all Missouri and Illinois, and the western half of Indiana.” They tell us that this tireless Jesse Walker had met Daniel Boone in Kentucky. Dr. Abel Stevens, the Methodist histori- an, says that Walker “ was to the Church what Boone was_ to the early settler—always first, always ahead of everbody else, pre- ceding all others long enough to be the pilot of the new-comer. Somewhere in the tide of pure, bounding blood that has nour- ished Chicago into a hardy metropolis, there throbs the pulse in church life which Jesse Walker stimulated when he came to the village in 1831. He lived here in that year, and when he was away on duty at distant points, his pulpit was filled by William See, the United States blacksmith, at the Chicago post, who had once been a minister in the Illinois conference. These 646 Early Chicago Methodism. two minist.rs, and Mrs. Col. R. J. Hamilton, were the first of Chicago Methodists. In 1832 a Mission district was for med, of which Jesse Walker was the presiding elder. ev. Stephen R. Beggs, who yet sur. vives, was pastor of Chicago station in that mission district. In 1833 Walker was both at the head of the district and pastor of “Chicago Mission.” In that year the first quarterly con- ference was held in the * Watkins School-house,” at the corner of North LaSalle and Water streets. At the Lord’s table during this quarterly meeting, there were present: William See and Henry Whitehead who were local preachers, Mrs. See, Charles Wisencraft and wife, Father Noble, Mrs Col. R. J. Hamilton and Mrs. Harriet Harmon. Mr. Whitehead, who survives, is a superannuated member of the present [tock River conference. In 1884 the first Methodist “class” was formed, and Charles Wisencraft was appointed “Class Leader.” These worshipped in Indian Chief Billy Caldwell’s log council house on the North Side, not far from the corner of Franklin and Water streets, or in Ingersoll’s tavern, on the west side of the river, between Ful- ton and Lake streets, or ina building on the North Side, be- tween LaSalle and Clark streets. The first church was built in 1834, by Henry Whitehead and John Stewart. The original contract is in Mr. Whitehead’s possession. The briefdocument provides for a “trame building, twenty-six feet by 38; 12 feet posts; sheeted and shingled roof; seats with broad backs, and a rail of separation down the middle; a neat pulpit; a platform for a table and chairs; the whole to be done in a workman-like manner,” and for the sum of $580. The contract bears the autograph of Jesse Walker, who agrees to accept; ‘these propositions given by Messrs. White- head & Stewart, on the part of the Methodist Episcopal church, signed June 380, 1834.” The house was duly erected on the north side, at the corner of Clark and Water streets. The aged Jesse Walker became superannuated in 1834, and died in holy trinmph in October of 18385. In 1834 Rev. J. T. Mitchell be- came pastor, and the church was strengthened. In 1836, the lots at the corner of Clark and Washington streets were purchased through Robinson Tripp, who survives asa member of thie church, now standing on them. In the fall of 1836 O.'T. Curtis became pastor, but in the finan- cial crash of the following year, loss, scandal, and overbearing moral pressure, tested the “church er uelly in common with the en. tire city and country. Men. remember to this day the devout and devoted Peter R. Borein, who was sent as pastor in the autumn of 1837. A year later a revival began under the labors oo Lrarly Chicago Methodism. 647 of this good man, and so greatly did the interest affect all classes, that three hundred, or about one-tenth of the entire population of the young city joined old Clark St. Church. Mr. Borein died soon after, and his last sermon is spoken of till this day. In the winter between 1837 and 1838, the church was moved over on the ice from the North side to the lots purchased in 1836, as stated. The house was enlarged to twice its original size. In 1839 8. Stocking became pastor, and he was followed by Hooper Crews, who served in 1840 and 1841, and who is still at work in the Rock River Conference. During his pastorate, the house was again enlarged as before. In 1842, under the pastorate of N. P. Cunningham, the church again became too small. In 1843 Rev. Luke Hitchcock, still living, was appointed pastor, and a colony from the old church, under the pastorate of Abram | Hanson, built a church on Canal Street. This colony afterwards became Jefferson Street church, and, later, Centenary church. In 1844 Wm. M. D. Ryan became pastor of Clark St., with Warren Oliver as assistant. Revivals followed, and the often enlarged house became too small again. A new building that cost $12,000 was dedicated in November, 1845. In 1846 Chauncey Hobart was pastor. In 1847 “ Indiana street ” church was set off from Clark St., and the colony is now identified as “Grace Church.” Rev. Philo Judson was pastor at the “ old hive” in this year. In 1848 Richard Haney was sent to Clark St. and he was returned in 1849. Rev. Stephen P. Keyes followed in 1850; Rev. John Clark in 1852; Rev. Hooper Crews in 1854; Rev. James Baume in 1856; Rev. W. F. Stewart in 1858; Rev. O. H. Tiffany in 1860; Rev. F. D. Hemenway in 1865; Rev. C. H. Fowler in 1868; Rev. W. ©. Dandy in 1866; Rev. J. A. Gray in 1867; Rev. W. H. Daniels in 1869; Rev. H. W. Thom- as in 1872; Rev. 8. A. W. Jewett in 1875; Revs. M. M. Park- hurst and W. A. Spencer in 1876; and in 1879, Rev. J. Wil- liamson. In 1858, under a charter, a new “church block ” was erected for the mother society at Clark street, at a cost of $70,000. The plan was to build a business block, in which stores and offices were to yield rents for the support of the church on the third floor. Notwithstanding the panie of 1857 and 1848, the trustees funded the debt of $70,000, paid taxes and insurance, and carried the project through. In 1865 the noble trustees began to aid sister Methodist Churches in tlie city, and few now existing have failed to secure help. From 1865 to 1871, the board had extended aid to the extent of over $70,000, the original cost of the first “block.” This building perished in the fire of October, 1871, but 648 Early Chicago Methodism. was replaced by a new one that cost $120,000, in 1872. The re- building was made possible by insurance on the old building, of $65, 600, and funds, given by Methodists to the fire fund, to the extent of $10,00V0. ~ This “old Clark Street”? Block is lnown all through the Church, and it has made a fragrant memory for itself. The erand men who were trustees under the charter of 1857, were Grant Goodrich, J.K. Botsford, Wm. Wheeler, Orring- ton Lunt, J. V. Farwell, J. W. Waughop and John Hayward. All survive save Mr. Wheeler. It is impossible to give space to detailed histories of many churches which have been colonized from the original church, or from its derivatives. A table at the end of this chapter will name them, and include the major items relating to their present status. Each church has its shining record of devout men and women. All are active and charateristically useful. The denomination has been an important factor in the city’s history, and to‘this hour it is grateful to co-work with sister denomi- nations in promoting the best interests of mankind. Among the most heroic, self-denying and successful ministers and churches are those of the German, and the various Scandi- navian component parts of the Methodist Churches working in the city. They are represented in the tables given below. "No pen can duly estimate the good they have done and are doing among the populations most. “directly. concerned. Their work is very successful. The Germans read the Apologist, edited by Dr. W. Nast, in Cincinnati, and the Swedes the Sandebudet, Chicago, edited suc- cessfully by V. Witting, N. O. Westergren, and Dr. Wm. Uen- schen. "The Chicago Depository, a branch of the Western Meth- odist Book Concern, was established in 1852. It purchased val- unable property at 66 Washington St., which was exchanged after the great fire of 1871, for other property at 57 Washington St. tev. Luke Hitchcock, D. D., whose name has already baen men- tioned in this sketch, and who for twenty years served as an agent of the Book Concern, has lived in Chicago and has done much to make the Western Concern and the Chicago Depository a success. Rev. Drs. J. M. Walden and W. P. Stowe are the present agents. The Northwestern Christian Advocate was established as an or- gan of the church, in Chicago, in 1852. Rev. J. V. Watson, D. D., was editor until 1856. Rev. T. M. Eddy, D. D., followed as editor in 1856 and served until 1868. In that year Rev. J. M. Reid, D. D., became editor, and in 1872 Rev. Arthur Edwards, D. D., (who had served as assistant editor from 1864) was elected editor, and he is now serving as such. The paper has a circula- tion larger than that of any Evangelical church in the West, Early Chicago Methodism. 649 save one, and that belongs to the Methodist Church, and is pub- lished in Cincinnati. tn The following statements relate to Methodist Episcopal Churches situated within the present city limits. The year of the appointment of the first pastor expresses approximately the date of the organization of the respective Churches : Cutcoaco Mission (now First Church, or “Old Clark Street”) Autumn of 1830, Jesse Walker; 1831, 8S. R. Beggs; 1832, Jesse Walker; 1834, John T. Mitchell; 1836, O. F. Curtis; 1837, Peter kt. Borien; 1839, 8. H. Stocking; 1840, H. Crewes; 1842, N. P. Cunningham; 1843, L. Hitchcock and A. Hanson; 1844, W. M. D. Ryan and W. Oliver; 1846, C. Hobart; 1847, P. Judson; 1848, Kk. Haney; 1850, 8S. P. Keyes; 1852, John Clark; 1854, Hooper Crews;1856, James Baume; 1858, W. F. Stewart; 1860, O. H. Tiffany; 1862, F. D. Hemenway; 1863, C. H. Fowler; 1866, W. C. Dandy; 1867, J. W. Gray; 1869, W. H. Daniels; 1872, H. W. Thomas; 1875, 8S. A. W. Jewett; 1876, M. M. Parkhurst and W. A. Spencer; 1879 John Williamson. Canat St.— Next “ Jerrerson St; ” and now “ Cenrenary.”— 1845, Sius Bolles; 1847, Harvey S. Brunson; 1848, R. A. Blan- chard; 1850, Wm Palmer; 1852, James E. Wilson and Wm. Keegan ;—Jefferson St.—1853, E. H. Gammon; 1854, Sius Bol- les; 1855, J. F. Chaffee; 1857, S. P. Keyes; 1858, R. J. White; 1859, W. McKaig; 1861, C. H. Fowler; 1863, Robert Bentley; 1864, Chas. Shelling; 1865, supplied;—Centenary—1866, C. ir Fowler; 1867, R. M. Hatfield; 1870, OC. H. Fowler; 1873, J. O. Peck; 1875, S. H. Adams; 1877, H. W. Thomas; 1880, A. C. George. Inprana Sr.—(Grace.)—1847, Freeborn Haney; 1848, John F. Devore; 1849, Zadok Hall; 1850, Boyd Lowe; 1851, John W. Agard; 1852, Sius Bolles; 1854, Thomas Williams; 1857, 8. G. Lathrop; 1859, H. Whipple; 1861, L. H. Bugbee; 1863, J. C. Stoughton.—G@race.—1864, O. H. Tiffany; 1867, A. J. Jutkins; 1870, M. M. Parkhurst; 1878, C. E. Felton; 1875, John Atkin- son; 1878, R. D. Sheppard. Trinity.—1864, J. H. Vincent; 1865, Wm. A. Smith; 1866, S. A. W. Jewett; 1868, T. M. Eddy; 1869, J. H. Bayliss; 1871, S. McChesney; 1874, O. H. Tiffany; 1877, W. F. Crafts; 1879, R. B. Pope. | Srats St.—Wasaso Ave.—1852, N. P. Heath; 1853, F.. A. Read; 1855, W. B. Slaughter;— Wabash Avenue—1857, Wm. M. D. Ryan; 1859, W. Krebs; 1860, H. Cox; 1862, hk. L. Collier; 1865, R. M. Hatfield; 1867, C. H. Fowler; 1870, R. M. Hatfield; 1871, S. McChesney; 1872, J. F. McClelland; 1873, J. L. G. MecKown; 1874, John Williamson; 1876, A. W. Patten; 1879 F. W. Bristol. 650 Larly Chicago Methodism. Owen Str.—Apa Sr.—1853, 8S. Guyer; 1855, C. French; 1856, Wm. Tasker; 1857, 1858 ane 1859, supplied; — West Indiana St. —1860, Jacob Hartman; 1862 , supplied; 1863, Wm. D. Skel- — ton; 1866, Robert Bently; 1868, J. Hartwell: 1869, W. F. Stew- art; Ada St.>-18TO#TeR: Strobridge; 1873, W.O. Dandy; 1874, J. L. G. McKown; 1875, J. M. Caldwell; 1877; S.\ He A Ggarniay 1880, A. Gurney. BripaEport.—Simpson CHapret.—1862, Peter K. Rye; 1863, M. B. Cleveland; 1864, Joseph Wardle; 1865 and 1866, sup- plied; 1867, E. W. Fs ay :— Simpson Chapel. —1868, W. Thatcher; 1870, H. W. Scovil le; 1871, H. Hill; 1874, A. Youker; 1877, TONER Alling. Dixon Sr-—1870, i. P. Marsh; 1872,\J. H. Thomas;° 187% and 1874, supplied; 1875, E.C. Arnold; 1877, E. M. Boring. Dus Prarmves St.—Maxwertt Sr.—Sr. Pavr’s.—1857, H. Whipple; 1859, supplied; 1860, E. Stone; 1862, L .Hawkins; 1863, H. M.* Boring; 1864, T. L. Olmsted; 1865, 8. Guyer;— Maxwell Street.—1866, A. T. Needham; 1868, E. W. Fay; 1869, W. H. Burns; 1872, 8. G. Lathrop; 1873, H. L. Martin; 1876,:A: Gurneys/1877, TePiMarsh:? 1879). 1e0 W-ab nels Futton Sr.—1874, R. 8. Cantine; 1876, 8. M. Davis; 1877 W.H. Holmes; 1879, Geo. Chase. Park Avr.—1865, supplied; 1866, A. P. Mead; 1867, J. H. Bayless; 1869, ne W. Thomas; 1872, W. H. Daniels: 1874, N. H. ‘Axtell: 1876, 8 3. McChesney; : 1879, T. Strobridge. Wrsiry eres ate ate Pracr.—1866, H. Whipple; 1867, M. H. Plumb; Grant Place: 1868, E..M. Boring; 1869, C. G. Truesdell; 1871, Ki. M. Boring; 1872, 8. C. Clendening; 1875, T. ess Marsh; 1878, F. P. Cleveland. Inprawa Ave.—MromcGan Avr.—1869, Hooper Crews; 1870, R. D. Shepherd; 1873, J. W. Phelps; 1874, M. M. Parkhurst; 1877, J. Williamson; 1879, G. R. Vanhorne. Sr. Jouns.—Oaxianp.—Lanoiry Ave.—1869, C. E. Mande- ville; 1871, C. G. Truesdell; 1872, J. F. Yates; 1873, L. Mere- dith: TST DS AY 2s. Willing; 1877, T. C. Clendenning; 1880, R. M. Hatfield. Western Ave.—1871, A. Youker; 1874, R. D. Shepherd; 1877, S. H. Adams; 1878, J. M. Caldwell. State Sr.—187 2, J. G. Campbell; 1873, M. C.. Stokes; 1875 W. A. Spencer; 1876, Ezra M. Boring: 1880, W. Thatcher. Haxsrep Sr.—1872, S. Washburn; 1874, H. Fa eis 7653 WwW: Craven; 1879, F. A. Harding. Crrcaco hes Mission, Ma ff Sius Bolles; 1856, 1857, 1858 and 1859, supplies; 1860, W. F. Stewart; 1861, supplied; 1862, J. W. Chadwick; 1863, H. Whipple; 1866, supplied; 1867 and 1868, 8. G. Lathrop; 1869, &e., supplies. Early Chicago Methodism. 651 _ Winter Sr.—1877, Geo. Chase; 1879, Wm. Craven. Exotanurt.—1879, J. W. Richards.—Linootn Sr.—J ackson St.—Aspury Cuapet.—Norruwest Cuurcu.—MILwavukeEeE Aver. —Inprana Sr. are flourishing missions. GERMAN M. E. CHURCH. Sourn Cutcaco GerRMAN—VAN Buren St.—1852, A. Kellner; 1855, F. Schuler; 1856, H. F. Koeneke; 1857, C. Holl; 1859, L. Lass; 1861, F. Kopp; 1863, L Lines; 1865, Chr. Loeber; 1867, E. Wunderleck; 1870, R. Fickencher; 1872, Chr. Loeber; 1875, supplied. 1877, C. I’. Allert. Sourn Wesr German Misston.—1872, P. Hinner; 1874, J. Blatch. Dayton Sr.—-1875, J. Berger. Nort Stor German—Inprana Srreet.—Criysourne AVENUE. 1852; Philip Barth; 1853, C. ‘Wenz; 1854, L. Lass; 1855, J. H. Westerfeld; 1856, F. Kopp;—Clybourne Avenue.—1857, J. Schafer; 1859; J. Haas, Jr.; 1860, F. Kluckholm; 1862, Wm. Plafile; 1865, J. Blatch; 1868, G. L. Mulfinger; 1870, F. Rinder; 18738, supplied; 1874, J. W. Roecher. 1877, J. Schnell; 1879, G. H. Simons. GrerMAN City Misston—Buppan Sr.—1870, G. H. Simons; Portland Street.—1872, W. Keller; 1875, B. Lampert. West German—Maxwe tt Strrerer.—1855, Henry Senn; 1856, Kt. Fickencher; 1858, W. Winter; 1860, I. Lines; 1861, L. Lass; 1863, P. Hinners; 1866, F. Fischer; 1868, R. Fickencher; 1870,C.G. Becker; 1872, J. W. Roecher; 1874, G. L. Mulfinger; 1876, C.A. Loeber; 1879, F. Gottschalk. Revsen Str.—Asuiranp Avz.—1868, J. Blatch; 1869, P. Hin- ners; 1871, supplied; 1872, G. L. Mulfinger; 1874, I’. Rinder; 1877, H. Wegener; 1879, J. Bletch; 1880, J. J. Keller. EmMANUEL Cuurcu.—1879, G. H. Simons; 1879, J. Schnell. Zion Misston.—1877, H. Lemke; 1878, Wm. Karnopp; 1879, F, Meyer. SWEDISH M. E. CHURCHES. Swepe Misston (afterwards May St.).—North Side.—1853, S. B. Newman; 1855, Erick Shogren and N. Peterson; 1859, J. Bredburg; 1860, J. Bredburg and Eric Carlson; 1861, A. J. Anderson and Eric Carlson; 1864, supplied; 1865, N. O. Wes- tergren and V. Witting; 1868, Nels Peterson; 1870, A. J. Anderson; 1873, E. Shogren and Alfred Anderson; 1875,— May Street.—N. O. Westergren and E. Shogren; 1877, D. 8. Sorlin; 1878, J. Wigren. Market Sr.—1877, A. J. Andersen; 1879, D. S. Sorlin.—Souru Craper.—Haven Sr.—F. Ahgren; 1878, N. O. Westergren. 652 arly Chicago Methodism. NORWEGIAN M. E. CHURCHES. Inprana St.—First Cuurcu.—1877, A. Haagensen; 1878, J. H. Johnson. Diviston Sr.—Sxeconp Cuurcu.—1877, C. I. Eltzholts; 1878, J. De L. Thompson. PRESIDING ELDERS. A list of presiding elders of the district of which Chicago has been a part, is subjoined. Some of the names do not appear on other lists: Intrnors ConrerENnce.—In 1831 and 1832—Sangamon district: Peter Cartwright, Presiding Elder; in 18383, Simon Peter, P. E. vi 1834 and “1835—Chicago District: John Sinclair, P. E.; in 35, W. B. Mack, P. E.; 1836 to 1839, John Clark, P. E. mak 1840 Rook River Conrermnon was set off from the Illinois. John T. Mitchell was P. E. cf Chicago district, 1840 to 1841; ILooper Crews, 1842 and 1848; James ft. Goodrich, 1844; James Mitchell, 1845, 1846; John Chandler, 1847; Hooper Crews, 1848; A. L. Risley, 1849, 1850; John Sinclair, 1851, 18525850. 1854: J. W. Agard, 1855, 1856, LSE Guo ae Take: Hitchcock, 1859; iE. M. Boring, 1860, 1861, 1862; Stephen P. Keyes, 1863, 1864; Hooper Crews, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868; Wm. C. Dandy, T8609 1810.18 (17 1872: Andrew J. Jutkins, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876; William C. Willing, LETT WS 08, 1879, 1880. The following figures, expressing the status in the autumn of 1879, relate to Churches in the city limits. ENGLISH CHURCHES. Value of Teachers and Members and] church pro- | Scholars in Names of Churches. Probationers. perty. Sunday School. Clavic Strenko: da oe wrk eke ieine mcawe $123 000 127 WabashiAwenneus /4n5 eee eles oe 208 65 000 330 Prinity tienes lean bate ee ea Gent weet 450 150 000 493 Michigans vene, sso. cins% sees ceo s' 425 62 000 721 Langley Avene, .\i+> sae oes sve bine 238 20 000 625 State’ Street: .s oe pele Mien ee eie ee eh 100 3 500 175 (Tracer ee met, Cesc ohne ete eee 325 85 000 807 Grant PINGes, coke ike sea ewes wee 3 9 000 ee RA ACC rie mers eee ts) 825 97 000 806 ATLa SEP COLE ca seein totes oe orale eke 29 60 000 508 Park vA Vanuesers cies hele oe ore ee aye) 293 Western WA yeniue;s.s oy pene otters 305 10 000 385 Bulton Strectinn 440m bee ok Bele as 195 4 400 381 Dixon Street, isi t cue as bie a aie tee ates 83 2 500 174 Dts Paul's ars cee wie doy Meee ee ees 302 6 COO 303 Halsted Strettediws. tf 40 eee Sets | 150 50 C00 847 SINIHRON; is Delvnine AE Ree seen Seen 162 1 509 190 Emmaniels: .sann ot eee 4 aba eee ariel 110 147 JackSOn Sureeti. ty hte aie eet 4\) 3 200 133 Winter Street). sess 00.4 Abele tee 10 000 180 3 Early Chicago Methodism. 85 GERMAN CHURCHES. Clybourne Avenue)... ) The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Ltlinois. 661 Chicago—not to sympathize with the cause of abolitionism, but to condemn this assault on the constitutional right of the freedom of the press. It was called to be held in the Saloon Building, a small public hall on the corner of Clark and Lake streets, on the third floor, and the meeting was held not without fears that it would be broken up by a mob. There was an abundance of cau- tion used in the calling and holding of the meeting, to avoid any collision “ with the fellows of the baser sort.” Rev. F. Bascom, of the First Presbyterian Church, Dr. C. V. Dyer, Philo Car- penter, Robert Freeman, Calvin De Wolf, and some few members of the Baptist and Methodist churches, were the leading spirits of this meeting. A watch was set to give seasonable warning of any approach of a mob, should any one be sent howling upon the track of these devout men, mourning for Lovejoy, and en- deavoring to give voice to a right minded public opinion. But there was happily no demonstration of mob violence, and the meeting was not a large one, but probably fully represented the interest which Chicago then took in the fate of Lovejoy; the city was at least saved from the disgrace of a mob. It was not then pre- sumed that an abolition press would have fared any better in Chicago than it had at Alton. The public were not prepared to tolerate any such newspapers. This was the first anti-slavery meeting, if it may be called such, held in Chicago, of which there is any recollection. The men who were present became prominent afterward in the anti- slavery history of Chicago. The men who were willing to be known as abolitionists, soon after this event, were mainly a nucleus that formed around the First Presbyterian Church, em- bracing a few individuals who were Methodists or Baptists; but in almost every instance they were professing Christians, who were led to take a stand by the death of Lovejoy. Here was the begin- ning of that anti-slavery sentiment that became a power in Chi- cago, and made that city distinguished throughout the country as one that proved itself a law-abiding community by sheltering and protecting the fugitive slave against illegal arrest. A few months after the death of Lovejoy, the people of the West saw this announcement in G. D. Prentice’s Lowzsville Journal; “ Benjamin Lundy, the Quaker and Anti-Slavery Pio- neer, is about to go to Illinois to succeed Lovejoy in printing an abolition newspaper.” Prentice had known of the career of Lundy, and was personally friendly. It was then said that Lun- dy, the non-resistant Quaker, who was known as a prudent though a fearless man, was the only person the merciless people of Illinois would let live in their midst as the publisher of a newspaper that opposed slavery, and it was very doubtful whether 662 The Anti-Slavery Agitation ir Lllinois. even he could be allowed to find a place for the rest of the soles of his feet in the Prairie State. But during the year 1838, Lun- dy, according to promise, made his appearance in Illinois. The last compliment paid him before he left Philadelphia was the burning of all his worldly effects by the mob in Pennsylvania Hall. He had only a subscription book to begin his publication with in Illinois. The Genius of Universal “Emancipation, a paper which has been printed for many years, in many cities and States, now hailed from Hennepin, but was really printed at Lowell, LaSaile county. The notable thing about this paper, for our purpose in this connection, was that it carried upon its front- let this motto: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” etc. This was the motto and the plat- form of Lundy’s journal; the paper was for the restoration of the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence. We can better understand this line of argument in history by referring to the character of the anti-slavery agitation as car- ried on by different sects in different sections of the country. The anti-slavery movement was largely an emanation of the religious sentiment. Leading men in it were usually professing Christ- ians, and largely developed i in the line of personal piety and hu- man benevolence. ‘There were a few persons who were earnest wbolitionists who were avowed unbelievers, and probably from a logical inference growing out of the fact that the majority of the professing Cl iristians of the country pretended to believe that the bible authorized slavery, making God the author of that abominable system of iniquity. But slavery in all its as- pects was very largely a political institution. It was created by law; it must be abolished by law. There was no class of aboli- tionists that proposed the removal of slavery by the political power of the nation. It was universally regarded as a State in- stitution, and it was a perversion of the facts and a misrepre- sentation of the position of the agitators, the assertion that there was any purpose to meddle with slaver y by an undue exercise of legai authority. ‘It was a movement for a moral appeal to the slaveholders to action of themselves, for their own salvation. . Therefore the fact should be remembered that many of the active abolitionists were among and from the slaveholders of the South ; and a sad thing it was for the people there that they drove such men from their midst. The abolition party was divided up into sects; some were for carrying that reform mixed up with other good meas- ures, such as women suffrage, land reform, and temper ance. Some were for making it a political question, carrying it to the polls, as they said; others were not for soiling the reform in the The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. 663 muddy waters of politics. Garrison stands forth as a leader, but he was not for voting at all, and declared for “no union with slaveholders,” in Chur reh or State. The voting abolitionists formed a political party in 1840, and nominated James G. DIrney, formerly a slaveholder, for the Presidency. But this section was again divided into other sects. Some were only Free Soil; some merely against the extension of slavery, and the Gerrit Smith section was the very antipodes of the Garrisonian section. They believed in the unconstitutionality of slavery, and would have had it smitten down by a decree of the United States Court. Garrison’s special characteristic was his repetition of Elizabeth Heyrick’s English propogandism of immediate and un- conditional emancipation, as in opposition to gradual emancipa- tion, on the logical inference that slavery being a sin should be immediately forsaken by profession of repentance: Great stress is laid on Garrison’s work for originating this doctrine in this country, and giving it, as it was said to do, the great moral power <=) that carried it through to success in emancipation. But the vir- tue of this claim is much over-rated. Garrison did not originally préach it, nor was it finally carried to completion in the ending of slavery. Emancipation came through the madness of the slaveholders and the use of the war-power, in judgment without repentance. But there were anti-slavery people among all these sects, ex- cepting the non-resistants, who believed in the saving power of the Declaration of Independence. They believed in the neces- sity of continuing to administer the national government on the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that failing to do so, all political parties had gone intoa state of apostacy. The reform in Illinois particularly 9 was propogated on this basis. An- ti-slavery men here were trained to be so, on the truths of the Declaration of Independence. ‘They were never divided or troub- led with the divisions that characterized the East; under the strin- gent lead of Garrison, Gerrit Smith or Greeley. They fellow- shipped all. these, but followed the lead of none of them. They were working for a genuine Liberty Party to administer the gov- ernment on the Constitution as it is under the Declaration of In- dependence as the Magna Charta. It is necessary that this ex- planation and distinction be understood as we proceed further in this hitherto unwritten history. Benjamin Lundy, the pioneer, as we have said, when he came to Illinois, set up the banner of the Declaration of Independence on the ground of the ordinance of ’87. He had always held up that banner. It was always the motto of his paper. Lovejoy’s Alton Observer was in no sense a political paper; it was a Pres- 664 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in I llinois. byterian religions journal, claiming the right to discuss slavery as a moral question. The Liberty ‘Par ty of 1840 was not formed when Lundy came to this State; he died the year betore its or- ganization. But it had been proposed. Lundy favored such a party in politics, based upon the motto of his paper. His “Genius,” through many difficulties, was only irregularly pub- lished. He lived only to set up that banner; to become the nucleus of a new party, and one which at last should triumph in the nation. His leading idea was armed with tenfold more force than Garrison’s Immediatism or Gerrit Smith’s Unconsti- tutionality of slavery. It was for going back to fundamental truths, and putting all th'ngs right from the beginning. He died, leaving his banner flying, and his mantle to be worn by others. His newspaper was continued, with a partial change of name, by Hooper Warren and Z. Riverine the writer of this sketahe But the motto and the principles and objects continued. Mr. Warren was then an old man, and had been the editor of the only anti-slavery paper in Illinois, the “dwardsville Spectator, at the time of the Convention question. Mr. Eastman was a young man, and had never acted with any then formed political party, but whose youthful aspirations and hopes had been, while resid- ing in New England, for the formation of a political organization delivered from the national apostacy, which should administer the government on the doetrine of the Iathers—the natural equality of all. He had advocated such a party while associated with Mr. Lundy in his “ Genius.” In 1840 a Birney Presidential ticket was formed in Illinois, in the rural region of Farmington, Fulton Co., by those who had stood by Lovejoy at his death. It received at that election only 144 votes, only one of which was counted in Cook County, and the honor of that one count lies between two votes cast in Chica- eo, one by the late Dr. C. V. Dyer, and the other, Calvin De- Wolt. The successor of Lundy’s journal, the Genius of Lrver- ty, did not appear till after the election of 1840; but it advocated the continuation of the Liberty party in opposition to a large portion of friends who had co-operated with the Anti-slavery Society. The Hlinois Anti- slavery Society had been formed at Alton, just before Lovejoy’s death, and was one of the steps that led to the hostility that was manifested against the abolitionists, and the organization was cemented by his blood. Annual meet- ings of this society continued to be held, and officers elected; but many persons who had supported it, were opposed to the formation of an anti-slavery party in polities, and they turned back, and walked no more with the followers of Lovejoy. The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. 665 Warren and Eastman’s Genius was printed on Lundy’s press, in LaSalle county, till 1842, and it had succeeded in estab- lishing landmarks in all sections of the Northwest. The only other journal of the kind then printed in the West was the P/i- lanthropist, at Cincinnati. An informal committee of the anti- slavery people of Chicago, who had made up their minds that they should no longer vote with the old political parties, a ma- jority of whom were of the First Presbyterian Church, under the pastorate of Rev. F. Bascom, invited Mr. Eastman to remove with his newspaper to Chicago. Dr. Dyer was the party com- missioned to extend this invitation. As the result of it, the Western Citizen was started as the organ of the new Liberty party for the Northwest in 1842. That journal made the plat- form of that party in the introduction which appeared in its first number, as follows: ‘In political affairs, our object is simply to carry out the principles of the Declaration of Independence. We stand on the same ground where Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and other honored patriots stood before us. We wish to save this nation from the evils and the curse of slavery, and from the political de- generacy which has fallen upon us, through the influence of a departure from the first principles of liberty. If the objects which were sought to be obtained by the political reformation in the time of the Revolution, were then worthy of pursuit, they are equally so now ; and we shall not cease to urge the importance of them upon the people. ‘‘ We are firm in the belief that it is impossible to sustain a free government by the administration even of good laws, without the prevalence of correct pub- lic opinion, grounded upon morality and a proper allegiance to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. : ‘*We shall endeavor to establish these truths, by presenting them clearly, forcibly and fearlessly, and in a spirit of meekness and kindness. On their ac- complishment, we see no reason why our government should be overturned—our constitution trampled under foot—or the union dissolved ; or why the church organizations should be destroyed, or the ministry be annihilated. We wish it distinctly to be understood that our course is reformatory and not destructive.” When Mr. Lincoln had been elected to the presidency, eighteen years after this declaration of principles was written, a copy was transmitted to him, calling his attention to them as the funda- mental principles of the Republican party which had triumphed in his election; and he responded in recognizing their applica- tion, and inviting a special interview with the writer in regard to them. | | In May, 1842, at the time when arrangements had been made for establishing the Western Citizen, the last anniversary meeting of the Llinois Anti-Slavery Society—consecrated by the blood of Lovejvy—was held in Chicago; and the first Liberty State Convention was held, which, as a political organization, succeed- ed the other asa mere moral society. This State convention laid 666 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Lllinois. down a platform of principles, and issued an address to the peo- ple. One resolution gives the gist of its doctrines: ‘‘ That freedom or slavery is the great question of this age and country—one which must be met, discussed and settled on fair, just and consistent principles, before prosperity can be expected again to smile on our land.” We can understand now the application of these truths and warnings, and how much better it would have been for the na- tion had they been heeded. The convention. pnt in nomination Major C. W. Hunter, of Alton, for governor, and Frederick Collins, of Adams county, for lieutenant governor. These were the first candidates of that ini- tiatory party. The Western Citizen was put into the hands of Mr. Eastman as its editor and publisher. By his invitation, Ichabod Codding, whom he had known at the East, left Connecticut and came to Illinois to become the leading orator for the Liberty Party. Chief Justice Chase has described Mr. Codding as being the most eloquent speaker he ever heard from the platform. The la- bors of Codding, as a speaker, were very effective in building up the cause. Owen Lovejoy became a co-worker with this party at this convention, giving up, with some reluctance, the society formed at his brother’s martyrdom. James H. Collins, a promi- nent lawyer of Chicago, who had some time before been converted to religion and abolitionism, at that time gave in his adhesion to the Liberty Party then formed, as the party of his future politi- eal lite. L. C. P. Freer and Calvin DeWolf, Philo Carpenter, and most of the men since prominent in that reform, identified themselves with this new party. Dr. C. V. Dyer was probably the most active of the Chicago reinforcements. He procured the place of meeting, which was in Chapman’s Hall, a building oc- cupying the oround of the new bank building on ‘the southwest corner of Randolph and LaSalle streets, west of the log jail, on the public square. This convention was the beginning of the organization of abolitionism in Chicago, that became nationally known for its earnestness and thoroughness, and locally recoy- nized for its association with the Under oround Railroad, and had a imarked effect on the polities of the ‘State, and ultimately the fate of the nation. Its projectors probably builded wiser than they knew. After this convention the Liberty Party always put candidates in nomination for every State election; and candidates for Con- . gress were brought out as fast as the principles of the party cained ground in Congressional Districts. As the conflict for. its idea’ went on, the contest was intensified by the political The Anti-Slavery Agitation im Lllinors. 667 issues that were coming up in the nation, growing out in part of the moral agitation that was going on in the land. Then came the annexation of Texas, for the purpose of extend- ing the area of slavery, followed by the Mexican War, as the re- sult of that national robbery; then the acquisition of a vast ex- tent of territory, and the contest that came of it, as to its fate in regard to the extension of slavery into it; the Wilmot Proviso, the Nebraska and the Kansas bills, squatter sovereignty, and the contest for freedom in Kansas, which brought old ‘John Brown to the front; these, all supplemented by the passage of the Iu- gitive Slave Law, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, bri inging down these events of this exciting agitation till 1854, on which period hangs a new dispensation. During this time the Liberty Party was looming up in power and in importance. It was the only party that was capable of grappling with the events that were pregnant with the fate of the nation. _It was a period of political and moral commotion unparalleled in the history of any nation. It was the period of intense agita- tion of the slavery question in every respect. The Democratic party had said in its platform that it would resist this agitation, and then went on and furnished fuel for the agitation. The Whig party, in its platform, said they would discountenance this agitation, and then gave countenance to the agitation that was aimed against the principles of this little Liber ty party. And in Ilinois this little party became the most thoroughly organized and concentrated political combination ever before known in this State, and probably not since equaled in intensity and efficiency. In 1852 it numbered ten thousand votes and held the balance of power in a majority of the Congressional districts. The voters were all readers of their organ, the Western Citizen, which through all the changes and modifications of Free Soilism, con- science- Whiggery and Independent Democracy, and American- isin, remained true to its one idea, the Liberty Party to preserve the. government as the succession of the party of 1776, that had formed the nation. This national agitation brought two important men of Illinois to the front as national men, namely, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. They were leading men, representing oppo- site principles and antagonistic elements in the fate of the nation. Into the area of the consecrated freedom of the Northwestern Ordinance came the conflict of the ideas which should rule the fate of the nation, and these men in the order of events seemed to be the representatives of the struggle of these ideas for the as- cendency. But the Liberty Party was the only organization that was prepared to meet the emergency. 668 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. Previous to 1852, the State of Illinois was regarded as one of the most solidly democratie states in the Union. The people were only allowed to send to Congress one opposition member, called whig, at each congressional election. And this opposition infln- ence came from the conservative, Henry Clay-school of politics, that had overflowed from Kentucky into the interior of [linois, overlapping the area of Egypt, which was always darkly demo- eratic. This conservative whig influence sent a Lincoln, a Baker and aYates to Congress at different elections, as the single opposi- tion representative. And Stephen A. Douglas, a native of Ver- mont, seemed to have made himself the demi-god of the State, as fully as John C. Calhoun was of South Carolina. The State was of course, earnestly in support of all the measures of the Democratic party, and these measures were being artfully inanipulated to bring Douglas prominently befvre the public as a national man, with an impetus in the direction of the Presidency. Mr. Lincoln, as an attorney and an honest man, and of genu- ine, progressive conservatism in politics, had grown into ‘great esteem with the people of all parties. He had won in Congr ess some reputation to his damage, as a politician, by his opposition to the Mexican war. Douglas was the leader of the debate through the Senate, of the principles on the platform in the State. Douglas was mainly responsible for the squatter sovereignty theory of governing the territories, as well as for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and was one who was known as an ad- vocate of the Fugitive Slave Law. These measures put the whole country in a state of ferment. Mr. Dougias took the stump in their favor, while Mr. Lincoln was known to be opposed to them. In 1852, the Fugitive Slave Law abomination had been passed; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was a measure pending. The Liberty party maintained an unbroken front in its organization. The democratic party was feeling the disrupting influences of its iniquities from free-soilism, yet “apparently growing stronger in its sin, by the concentration of all the rowdy forces of the nation in its favor, and the prospective coming of the solid South on the slavery question. The whig party was sensibly weakening from the protest of the conscientious whigs, and the higher moral plane on which the party stood. There were signs ot disruption and the formation of a new party, on the distinct issues which the democrats had made for their party lines. Thinking men of the Liberty Party realized that they were in possession of a balance of power, as between these two weaken- ing forces, which might be used effectually for the advancement of their principles ‘and objects. The State was despotically democratic under the lead of Douglas, who had even then an ™~ The Anti-Slavery Agitation in 1 lLintois. e 669 eye on the Presidency. The party had every member of Con- gress, excepting Richard Yates, who had been elected by a small majority. The Liberty Party now knew by the,numbering of their votes that they had it in their power to turn the scale in favor of the weakening Whig party, or let the power remain with the Democrats. In the election of 1852, they stood by their colors on the presidential vote, and gave to John P. Hale nearly 10,000 votes. But enough of them, under the advice of their leaders, and the indirect influence of the Western Citizen, so diverted their votes to Congressmen, who they knew were pledged to their principles and against Douglas’ pet doctrines, that they secured the election of several Whigs to Congress, and independent democrats, so that the State was at once taken out of the hands of the democrats, and that arrogant power in Illi- nois was broken forever. It was at this election and by this policy that Hon. E. B. Washburne was first elected to Congress. Who now can measure the consequences that grew out of that choice? Mr. Lincoln was made the candidate of the Whig party in the winter of 1854 against the re-election of Gen. Shields to the Senate. The Liberty party vote had contributed to the election of a so-called Whig delegation in Congress. A large number of Free Soilers and Independent Democrats had contributed to the same result. In the State legislature the Free Soilers and Liberty party held the balance of power. It was thought that it was asking a little too much that they should be required also to ‘magnify the old Whig party, by giving their power to the Sen- ate also, as they would have done had Mr. Lincoln been elected by their votes, and it would have been accounted a Whig party triumph instead of atriumph of the people, and the Liberty party would have been held responsible for selling out to the Whigs. They had to study the art of using their power and keeping it. For this reason Mr. Lincoln did not receive the sup- port of this class of representatives, as Mr. Washburne and Mr. Norton had received that class of votes; but the Independent and Liberty vote was given to Lyman Trumbull, and he was elected Senator, and Mr. Lincoln reserved for a higher position. It was a most fortunate thing, indicating wise political manage- ment, that Mr. Lincoln was not elected Senator at that election. The Republican party was informally organized in 1854, con- summated in the nomination of Fremont in 1856. The Liberty party holding to its principles, was only merged into the Repub- lican after this date. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise soon followed this election, and Mr. Douglas seemed to vainly hope to recover his 67 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. lost popularity at home, by tle success of this measure, and the ‘double-sided view that seemed to some extent, to be taken of it at the North and South—at the South as a measure for the exten- sion of slavery beyond its original boundary line; at the North as favoring the extension of liberty beyond the line of its former restriction, Mr. Douglas’ artful insinuation of the act was that if it was originally wrong to pass that compromise, it was now a long- deferred right to repeal it. But the moral sense of the nation interpreted it otherwise. It was looked upon along with the Dred Scott decision, as treading down the last barrier against the supremacy of the slavery power. This repeal put the antagonistic forces more directly in battle array. Mr. Douglas’ term in the Senate was to expire next, and the re-election, or the election of another one in his place, would ocenr in the session of the legislature in the winter of 1858-9. Mr. Lincoln was opportunely i in reserve to be put into the field in this contest. Mr. Douglas was looking to the endorsement of his own State after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in “his own re-election, and as a stepping-stone for the higher position of a nomination to the presidency, by the democratic party. The old Whigs had unlimited confidence in Mr. Lincoln; he was the most popular man in the party. But there was some earnest inquiry by those who had previously opposed his election as Senator, as to his fitness to represent them in the hoped-for re-organization of party on the question of the Liberty Party resolution of 1842, “ Freedom or Slaver y.” Would Mr. Lincoln be such a partisan that he would elect to live or die as a Whig, and die with his party? or was he prepared to live if his party should die? Affairs had got to that state that it seemed as if the good old Whig party, which had been much idolized, must be the first to die for the people. The editor of the Western: Citizen, about this time, visited Springfield in company with Cassius M. Clay. He took the oceasion to call upon Mr. Lincoln, but had no conversation on politicalsubjects. He remembered that a client of Mr. Lincoln’s, who was the agent of the Underground Railway at Springfield, and who had employ ed Mr. Lincoln as his attorney in all times trouble, and who greatly esteemed him—had paid for a copy of his paper from year to year, Which he had had addressed to A. Lin- coln. Je remembered thatat the mast-head of this paper, this motto had been ever carried as Lundy had carried it—“* We hold these truths to be self-evident,” ete.; and he had some desire to know how this doctrine fitted on the great lawyer who was the defender of the agent of the Underground Railroad The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Lllinois. 671 against legal prosecution. This agent said Mr. Lincoln was all right on the negro question ; he gave money when necessary, to help the fugitives on the way to freedom. There was some desire to know if he would stand right on the National questions if he were elected to the Senate, as there was then a prospect of his being a competitor of Judge Douglas. An interview was had with Mr. Herndon, his law-partner. Mr. Herndonsaid Mr. Lincoln was all right. ‘ He has been an attentive reader of your paper for several years ; he believes in the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and he is a great reader of the abolition papers. He is well posted. That he might get all sides of that question, I take Garrison’s Lzberator, and he takes the National Fra and the West- ern Citizen. Although he does not say much, you may depend upon it, Mr. Lincoln is all right; when it becomes necessary, he will speak so that he will be understood.” And he did speak to the Bloomington Convention. After this there was no lon- ger any opposition to Mr. Lincoln from the most radical of the abolitionists. They understood him;,they knew that he was wholly with them; that the great inspiration of his life, was the restoration of the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, to the administration of the government. Mr. Douglas found that his doctrine of, squatter sovereignty rather over-acted itself with his own democratic party. He builded worse than he had contemplated, and he was brought into discord with a wing of his own party on the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas, which had been adopted by the Mis- souri invaders, and which he strenuously opposed because there was too much squatter sovereignty init. But on his return to Illinois at the close of the session, in the spring of 1857, Mr. Douglas expressed in his speech at Springfield, a determination to maintain all the positions he had taken in the Senate on the slavery question, intimating that he might even sustain the Le- compton Convention, and its slaveholding constitution, and on this basis go before the people for re-election. Whenever Mr. Douglas made a speech defining his policy, the public expected areply from Mr. Lincoln. In this instance they were not dis- appointed, and in two weeks Mr. Lincoln reviewed Mr. Dong- las’ leading speech. In this speech occurs this remarkable pas- sage, referring to a portion of Judge Taney’s memorable Dred Scott decision: ‘In those days (early times of the country) our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, con- strued, hawked at and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. All the powers of earth seem rapidly combining against him. Mammon is after him; ambition follows, philosophy follows, and 672 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. the theology of the day is fast joiming the cry. They have him in his prison- house; they have searched his person, and left no prying instrument with him. One after another they have closed the heavy iron doors upon him; and now they have him, as it were, bolted in with a lock of a hundred keys, which can never be unlocked without the concurrence of every key; the keys in the hands of a hundred different men, and they scattered to a hundred different and distant places; and they stand musing as to what invention, in all the dominions of mind and matter, can be produced to make the impossibility of his escape more complete than it is.”’ There is almost the hint of prophecy in this paragraph. Mr. Lincoln, in less than eight years, led by Providence, found the instrument to unlock that prison-house without the key, and set the prisoner free. In this same speech at Springfield we find the following: ‘“‘He (Douglas) finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Independence includes ati men, black as well as white, and forthwith he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all, and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend that it does, want to vote, eat, sleep and marry with negroes. I pro- test against this counterfeit logic. * * * If I donot want a black woman for a slave, it does not follow that.I want her for a wife. * * In some respects she is not my equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with a Buri coranecae) asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal and the equal of all others. The Senatorial question was the great question of Illinois in the year of 1858. Mr. Douglas was already on the stump in de- fense of his measures which he had pressed upon the nation, through the Senate. Mr. Lincoln, who was regarded as his nat- ural competitor and opponent, had been prompt to volunteer to reply to Douglas’ introductory speeches, an extract from one of which we have just given. The unusual practice was resorted to by the new party of Republicans, of holding a State Convention for the nomination of a candidate for Senator, and Mr. Lincoln was cordially put in nomination. The question was not to be determined by their votes, but by the votes of the representatives in the State Legislature. Therefore, in the canvass representa- tives were selected in view of settling the Senatorial succession, whether it should be Douglas, a democrat, or Lincoln, a Repub- - lican. It was well understood that in Mr. Donglas’ case it would settle more than the Senatorial question; with him it was also a nomination for the Presidency. With Mr. Lincoln it was only a contest with this champion Democrat for the senatorship, but more in the contest than on anything else, for the prospect of defeating Mr. Douglas on his own ground did not seem very brilliant. This story is told of Mr. Lincoln, that illustrates his view of the situation. An inquirer says to Mr. Lincoln, “ What do you” “Ty S> The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. 13 expect to do? You don’t expect to beat Douglas, do you?’ Mr. Lincoln responded that it was with him as it was with the boys who made an attack on a hornet’s nest. “ What do you expect to do, boys? You don’t calculate to take that hornet’s nest, do you?” “We don’t know that we shall exactly take it, but we shall bedevil the nest.” “So, Mr. Lincoln said, “if we don’t capture Douglas we shall hedevil his nest.” That is about the way Douglas found it, some time after the election. The debate which followed between Lincoln and Douglas, was one of the most important political debates that ever “oceurred in this country. Mr. Douglas had already become a national man through the strength of his character and genius, and for his daring in political lofty-tumbling. Mr. Lincoln was not well known beyond his own State, but athome well known as a keen debater, and a match in logic and hard-drawn arguments for his brilliant opponent. Mr. Lincoln was nominated as a condidate for the Senate, at the convention at Springfield, June 17, 1858. At the close of the convention, he struck the key-note of the debate on the issues of the day, i in the opening paragraph of his speeeh. It has since been numbered with others of the remarkable historical and pro- phetical utterances of that wonderful man. It is the famous declaration that this Union could not permanently endure half slave and half free. It is matched only by Mr. Seward’s “ irre- pressible conflict.” Said Mr. Lincoln: ‘*If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to doit. We are now far in the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not closed, but has constantly augmented. In my opimion, it will not cease until a crisis has been reached and passed, A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot permanently en- dure half slave and half free. I do not expect the union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North, as well as South.”’ This was uttered, as Mr. Greeley says, by one born in Ken- tucky under the influence of slavery, and but recently a conserv- ative politician, four months before, Mr. Seward put forth his more Classical prophetic statement; and the two are more in- teresting for standing in parallel companionship. Said Mr. Seward: ‘These antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results. Shall I tei! you what this collision means ? They who think 43 PM 674 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. Jt is an irrepressible con- flict between opposing and enduring forces: and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.” In this same Springfield speech Mr. Lincoln gave the best in- terpretation ever made of the pepular term of squatter sover- eignty, which, while in its proper phase it expressed only the rightful basis of government, was so perverted in this case as to mean: “If any one man chooses to enslave another, no third person shall be allowed to object.” On another occasion he forcibly expressed the same idea in the reversed sense: “I ad- mit that the emigrant to Kansas and Nebraska is competent to g¢overn himself ; ‘but I deny his right to govern any other person withont that person’s s consent.” In this canvass Mr. Lincoln held seven joint debates with Mr. Douglas, and made innumerable speeches on other occasions. Mr. Douglas’ character and position was well known throughout the nation, and he was regarded as the foremost champion of the measures which characterized the slave policy, and one of the ablest debaters of the country. The originality and freshness of Mr. Lincoln’s speeches—his terse and homely style—the perti- nence of his illustrations, and his inimitable humor, attracted to him publie attention; and the debate had hardly closed before he became equally known throngh the nation, and the eyes of the public were upon these two men as the most ‘prominent political personages of the country. Mr. Douglas used to say, rather sneeringly, during the debate, that Mr. Lincoln was after his place—meaning ‘the senatorship. Mr. Lincoln never shrunk from the imputation that he was the Republican candidate for that ‘office. But Mr. Douglas was also looking for another place, of which his election to the Senate was only the stepping-stone, and that was the Presidency. The thoughts of some may have been led in the direction that this new man, rising so rapidly into popu- larity in the West, might also be an opposing candidate in the same election, but there were then no marked manifest demonstra- : tions in that line. But the result was that Mr. Douglas carried a_ majority of the representatives; there were in the senate fourteen Democrats and eleven Republicans, and in the house forty Dem- ocrats aud thirty-five Republicans — making a majority on joint ballot of eight for Mr. Douglas—the close vote of Mad- ison county even turning the scales but Mr. Lincoln had a plu- rality of more than four thousand in the popular vote. And so Mr. Douglas kept his place, got his election, and got his coveted ‘nomination to the presidency, but the nomination of a divided party, and he the rock on which it split. The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Lilinois. 675 An overruling Providence seemed to direct in the affairs of the nation in the ordering of the fate of this remarkable man, Abra- ham Lineoln; in permitting the defeat of the first pdinination, when it was a great grief to his friends—and again in the second nomination against Mr. Douglas; for he was reserved for the higher position of the Presidency. He did not get the * place” of Mr. Douglas, to which he and his friends for him aspired, but he got that greater place to which Mr. Douglas had been aspir- ing, and it was a “place” into which he was called by that Sn- preme Ruler of the Universe to whom he had reverently ap- pealed, and to a higher position than being the Father of his country—-for it was to be its Savior. The fact stands, that Mr. Lincoln was elected as the first Re- publican President. The party that elected him was formed in 1854. It came from the nuclens of the Liberty party of 1840, which came of the modern anti-slavery agitation. It was not the child of the Whig party or any other party; it had had no succession, as has been claimed for it, and neither has its oppo- nents, the democratic party, any such historical suecession as has been claimed for that. The Republican party of Lincoln was the restoration of the party of the Declaration of Independence, to bring back the nation froma state of apostacy. The demo- cratic party had no succession from Thomas Jefferson, for he wrote the platform of this restored party when he wrote ‘that Declaration. But the Democratic party was born of Andrew Jackson, with Martin Van Buren for its god-father, and. it was baptized into the doctrine that “to the victor belongs the spoils.” In its childhood it was affianced to loaferism and rowdyisin, and in its maturity became the ally of American slavery. Mr. Lin- coln’s election was the defeat of that party, and it was to have been hoped that, ripening inte maturity, in rebellion and treason, that its overthrow would have been a death from which there was no possible resurrection. Mr. Lincoln seemed to have been inspired for the mission to which he was called. He doubtless received his early impres- sions for his lessons in political reform, from the motto that was ever before him in the anti-slavery newspapers which he read, and the constant reiterated teachings of the little Liberty par ty that was leading his destiny: ‘“ We hold these truths to ‘be self: evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, ” ete. This was the chord of harmony in his soul, to which every sentiment and every ac- tion of his being vibrated. Therefore in his debate with Doug- lass we find him constantly harping upon that chord. This is seen in what we have quoted already, Mr. Douglas treated the 676 The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Illinois. Declaration of Independence with contempt. Mr. Lincoln’s en- deavor was to bring back the people from the heartlessness of apostacy to a lively sense of the beauty and truthfulness of those principles. He felt that they were the sentiments of his new party, and he led the party still further along in respect and love for those principles as its vitality. In the platform of the convention at Chicago, which put Mr. Lincoln in nomination for the Presidency, May 16, 1860, is this declaration: ‘That the maintenance of the principle promul- vated in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in the Federal Constitution—[now repeating the celebrated motto of Liberty |—is essential to the preservation of our republican in- stitutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the Union of the Statés, must and shall be pre- served.” For that end was Mr. Lincoln, under God, called to the head of the nation. In the debate Mr. Douglas said: “No man can vindicate the character, motives, and conduct of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence except upon the hypothesis that they referred to the white race alone, and not to the African.” If there were such a thing as political blasphemy, we should think this wereit. Mr. Lincoln responded: ‘My good friends, read that carefully oversome leisure hour, and ponder well upon it; see what a mere wreck, mangled ruin, it makes of our once glo- rious Declaration of Independence.” After his election, going from his humble home at Springfield, to which he never returned alive, on his way to enter into the Presidency, he was beset on his way by plots for his assassina- tion, but was turned aside by invitation to Philadelphia to a flag- raising over Independence Hall, where the Declaration was signed eighty-four years before; and on that occasion he gaye ut- terance to these remarkable words: ‘“‘T have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was something in the Declaration of Independence, giving Liberty not only to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that, in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. * * * Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon this basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. But, if this country cannot be saved with- out giving up that principle, I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated upon this spot than to surrender it.” Did he then know that the assassins were on his track? This hope of the world, Judge Douglas and the Democratic party would have crushed out. The space for this chapter will not permit us to quote the The Anti-Slavery Agitation in Lllinors. 677 abundant extracts from his abundant writings, where he thus shows forth the inspiration of his soul, in being the one called of God to bring back the nation from its far wanderings from its own faith and hope. Charles Sumner, in his memorial oration in commemoration of the life of Lincoln, strikes that chord, and shows us in numerous extracts what was the secret of the power of Lincoln. In a measure this a chapter of unwritten history. The scribes of history at the East have failed to tell the world of that patient working of the anti-slavery men of the Northwest who followed the martyrdom of Lovejoy and the example of Lundy in their faithful adhesion to the truth of the Revolutionary fathers, and in the regenerating power of their Declaration; and that they led such a man as Lincoln,in that path of national salvation. It is a great truth and marvelous to our comprehension, that the policy of the forefathers to keep all our national territory free as God had made it, as in the Ordinance of the Northwest, shculd be the saving policy of the nation at last, against that apostacy that would have made all the nation slave territory; that in the area of that ordinance should this problem be worked out; and the man, who is styled the Savior of his Country, be called to that position by the voice of (rod. There is nothing more appropriate with which to close this chapter, than that pathetic appeal of Abraham Lincoln to the nation, to aid him in his work, in the last sentences of his first Inaugural Address: ‘‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though pas- sion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriotic grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this proud land, will yet swell the chorus of the union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angel of our nature.”’ 678 The Union College of Law. THE UNION COLLEGE OF LAW. This institution was at first organized as the Law Department of the University of Chicago, in the fall of 1859. It was indebted for its origin pr oximately to the liberality of some of the leading members of the Chicago Bar, conspicuous among whom was Hon. Thomas Loyne, who contributed the sum of G5, 000 towards the endowment of a law professorship. Other members of the bar united in a guaranty to secure to the professor a sum of money which, together with the income of the endowment fund, would aggregate $2,000 per annum, for such a period as would suffice to give the experiment a fair trial. .An invitation was extended to Henry Booth, Esq., who was then engaged in the practice of law at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to come and assume the principal charge of the new enterprise. Encouraged by this generous expression of confidence and assurance of substantial aid on the part of the Chicago Bar, Prof. Booth accepted the proposal and entered at once upon the work. J udge John M. Wilson and Grant Good- rich, of the Superior Court of Chicago, volunteered to assist him during the first year. The school was opened in September, 1859, with twelve students, David Dudley Field, of New York, delivering the opening address. The attendance had increased to the number of forty or more in the fall of 1861, when upon the call for volunteers for the war, the patriotic response was so general that the class was at once reduced to seven. During the progress of the war, and for some time afterwards, the attendance was so small that for want of funds to employ an assistant, Prof. 300th was compelled to assume nearly the whole burden of con- ducting the school, besides which he found it necessary to engage in practice for his own support. In 1862, and for two or three years ensuing, Hon. H. B. Hurd was associated in the manage- ment of the school, and rendered much valuable assistance. In 1867 Hon. I. G. Wilson, now Judge of the Appellate Court for the First District, was envaged i in the school for a year, proving a snecessful and very satisfactory instructor. Subsequently, KR. Biddle Roberts, Esq., John A. Hunter, Esq., a graduate of the ‘school, and Van Buren Denslow, Esq., were successively em- ployed, and labored earnestly and efficiently in the cause of legal education. Many lawyers, now in successful practice in this and other States, will long retain pleasant recollections of the services of these gentlemen in their behalf. But during the whole period, from the commencement of the school until the fall of 1870, the chief burden and labor of instruction was borne by Prof. Booth. 5 fp ° The Union College of Law. 679 Besides attending to his own department, whenever for any cause his associates were unable to attend to their duties, he took the vacant place, and during nearly half of the period aforesaid, he had no assistance whatever. In July, 1870, concurrently with the adoption of the new con- stitution, Prof. Booth was elected to the bench of the Circuit Court of Cook county, and for a season retired from active duty in the school, only giving an occasional lecture. The great fire of 1871 temporarily broke up the school, but the students soon rallied under the charge of Professors Roberts and Hunter, who continued to perform the duty of instruction until the following summer, when they both retired from the service. In September, 1872, at the usual time of opening the school for the fall term, a class of twenty pupils having presented them- selves for instruction, and no one appearing to perform the duty, Judge Booth volunteered to teach them gratuitously, devoting an hour in the inorning before going into court, and another hour in the evening after adjournment. "In this manner the school was kept from disbanding until February following, when Prof. Denslow partially relieved him of a duty which was becoming somewhat burdensome. Judge Booth, however, still continued to render gratuitous service to the extent of teaching an hour each day after court, during nearly the whole of his official term of nine years. In the summer of 1873 the Northwestern University deter- mined to carry into effect its long cherished plan of connecting a Law Department with that institution. The friends and premo- ters of legal education were strongly impressed with the convic- tion that ‘the existence of two rival law schools in Chicago would be highly detrimental, and that the end in view could be best served by a union of the two Universities in the support of a single school. Overtures were therefore made between parties representing these two institutions, respectively, which resulted in a concession by the University of Chicago, to the Nortlwest- ern University, of an equal and joint interest in the Law School. By this plan the Union College of Law, which is the name as- sumed under the new arrangement, is placed under the control of a joint Board of Management, consisting of eight gentlemen, four of whom are chosen by the trustees of each University, the President of the University being included in the number. Con- currently with the adoption of the new plan, the corps of profes- sors was enlarged by the election of Hon. Lyman Trumbull and Phillip Myers, Esq., on behalf of the Northwestern University, and Hon. James R. Doolittle on behalf of the Univ >rsity of Chi- cago, Prof. Denslow being also retained on behalf of the latter 680 The Union College of Law. institution. Judge Booth also continued his connection with the school, as Dean of the Law Faculty. Under this arrangement the Union College of Law has enjuyed a higher degree of prosperity than ever before. The professors now in charge are Hon. Henry Booth, L. L. D., Dean; Hon. Wil- liam W. Far well, A. M., late judge of the Circuit Court of Cook county, on the Chancery side; Hon. Harvey B. Hurd, reviser of the Statutes of [llinois; Hon. Marshall D. Ewell, 1b: D.,“aue thor of the work on Fixtures bearing his name, and a law writer of acknowledged ability; and Dr. Nathan 8. Davis, M. D., L. L. D., Lecturer upon Medical Jurisprudence. The usual number of students in attendance at present is about one hundred. The College has adopted a graded course of study, requiring for its completion two years, of thirty-six weeks each. The diploma ad- mits to the bar, and it is the aim of the faculty to secure thor- oughnegss, and to elevate the standard of legal education. Prac- tice in moot courts, training in forensic speaking and extempo- raneous debate, constitute part of the exercises of the school. The most serious obstacle which the Union College of Law has to contend with, is that presented by the numerous law schools springing up,in the West, some of them offering a course of. study requiring one short school year for its completion; others occupying two years, of twenty-four weeks each; all necessarily eee, by reason of the brevity of the term of study—all lacking the thorough drill given in this institution, but at the same time presenting to the student the tempting offer of a di- ploma without much hard study, and the hope of an easy access to the bar. With such institutions the Union College of Law can enter into no competition, but relying upon the just appreci- ation of the legal profession and of the public, will strive to de- serve success, as well as to win it. This school has no endowment whatever; the fund originally contributed by Mr. Hoyne for that purpose, having unfortunately been lost in the financial embarrassments of the par rent institution. The moderate compensation of the professors is derived wholly trom what remains of the tuition fees, after deducting therefrom the rent of rooms and other incidental expenses. Consequently the professors find it necessary to pursue other business to obtain a support. This isunfortunate in some respects. To come before the class wearied with the labors of the brush, or the contests of the bar, is to teach under great disadvantage. The professor should be in a situation to give his freshest energies and best thoughts to his work. Whether the Union Col lege of Law will ever be so happily cireumstanced that its professors can devote their whole time to the business of instruction, is a problein for the future. The Union College of Law. 681 Such a consummation is perhaps too much to expect. While it is considered that all educational institutions require endowment or public support to secure the best results, Law Schools of all others seem to be least favored; yet, it would seem that there might well be a public and general interest taken in the support of schools for the tr aining of those who are to mold the legislation of the State for good or evil, and who must be depended on for the-administration of justice. This sketch would be quite defective without mentioning in terms of the highest commendation the liberality of the Law In- stitute, a. corporation composed of gentlemen of the Chicago Bar in opening the door of its excellent hbrary to students ofthe Union College of law, free of charge. DIE FREIE PRESSE OF CHICAGO. By Max. EBERHARDT. The first number of the Freie Presse was issued in Chicago of July 2, 1871; it was then published as a weekly, and was in sympathy with the Liberal wing of the Republican party, and subsequently proved a very keen and able advocate of the movement which, as we all know, resulted in the nomination of Horace Greely for the Presidency. The great fire which occurred not many months after the paper had been started, interfered with the issue of but one number. The paper was published as a weekly until February 5, 1872, when it began to be issued as a daily and weekly, besides having a separate i issue on Sunday. Though started without the aid of much capital, its rapid growth and success as a ready spokesman, and an unflinching advocate of a broad Liberal policy within the Republican party, are but evidence of the energy and perse- verance which Mr. Michaelis has devoted to the business and editorial manage- ment of the paper. It is now being published by the German American Pub- lishing Company, and employs 108 persons in its various departments. It still maintains its position as an independent Republican newspaper, and provides a larger number of Germans with reading matter than any German newspaper concern in the country. The Freie Presse is entirely free from debt, and its business is managed on a sound financial basis, and with a view to a ready and strict discharge of all its obligations. It is one of the many enterprises in the city of Chicago which testify to the rapid growth, not only of the Western me- tropolis, but of the entire Northwest. THE GREAT FIRE OF 1871. “A voice is ringing in the air, A tale is trembling on the wire, The people shout in wild despair: ‘Chicago is on fire.’”* In the year 1871 A. D., and the year 38 of the existence of Chicago as a city, on the 1 th, 8th and 9th of October, occurred the oreat fires. They mark an episode in Chicago history never to be forgotten. The official census of the city for 1870 was 298,977. Its population at the time of the fires, one year later, at a prudent estimate, may be set down eight per cent. more, making 322,895. A small portion only of these were born here. They had been drawn hither by those incentives which the local- ity offered for speculation, not only in the rise of real estate, but in the facilities which the place offered as an emporium for the sale of every kind of merchandise, to supply the increasing wants of the great Northwest in the building up process in which she was then, and must still for many years, be engaged, before she will have taken upon herself the conditions of political and social maturity. The extra stimulus which the war had given to the increase ot business in Chicago had subsided, and a lull in that impulsive haste that had long o been a distinguishing feature here, had set- tled upon the city. The volume of staple business was without diminution, the real estate market was firm, and the demand for this important auxiliary to wealth was healthy; but yet there was evidently an undercurrent manifest in moneyed circles, sig- nifying that prices of it would not soon again advance, at least, by any eccentric movement. After the war was over, a gener al expectation followed that prices for everything would fall imme- diately, and as one, two, three and four years had passed without any serious reduction, either in goods or real estate, the people of Chicago had begun to believe that no such destiny was in store for them. Such was the feeling in the spring of 1871. The latter part of the summer and -autumn following passed without rain in the entire Northwest. The whole country was so exhausted of moisture that even the night refused her cus- tomary allowance of dew on the vegetation, and the grass was crisp beneath the feet of the hungry cattle of the pasture. The *“ The Fall of Chicago,” a poem written by Mrs. 8. B. Olsen, while the fire was burning, and published in a pamphlet. (682) The Great Fire of 1871. 683 earth was dry as ashes to the depth of three feet, and the peaty bogs of the marsh were as combustible as the contents of the furnace. Southern winds prevailed, bringing warmth without moisture, and fanned the forests into universal tinder. Even the summer’s growth of the prairie would feed a flame in places where it had not been grazed down or mowed. Chicago was not unlike the country around in dr yness, and, unfortunately, the well-built buildings of stone and brick which composed her cen- tral portions were : partly surrounded by cheap wooden buildings, characteristic of all Western cities of sudden growth. It was among these that a fire broke out a little before ten o’clock on the night of October 7, 1871, on Clinton street, near its crossing of Van Buren street, two blocks west of the river. Owing to the inflammable character of the building where it began, “and the strong wind that blew directly from the south, it quickly spread to adjacent buildings, and ere it could be extinguished, burnt over the area lying between Van Buren street on the south, Clinton on the west, Adams on the north, and the river on the east, except one or two small buildings on the outermost corners of. the blocks. This was the largest fire that had ever visited Chicago up to this date. The next evening, Sunday night, October 8, at about the same hour, a fire broke out six blocks south of the first fire, in a cow- stable on the north side of De Koven street, a little east of Jef- terson. The current account at the time attributed it to the kicking over of a kerosene lamp by a cow, while its owner, a wo- man named O’Leary, was milking her, and in the turmoil of the hour, this theory was accepted as a veritable truth, published in the newspapers, and even in some of the books giving the his- tory of the fire, but no evidence can be found to sustain it, while, on the contrary, the following statement would go to disprove it, or, at least, involve the cause of the fire in mystery. On the following morning, (Monday), Clinton S$. Snowden, now city ed- itor of the Chicago Times, and Edgar L. Wakeman, now man- ager of the Louisville Courier-Journal for Chicago, while the fire was yet consuming the buildings in the North Division, vis- ited the scene where it started. Here they found a large crowd of excited men speculating on its cause, and here was the hut of O'Leary, with doors and windows barred, while her cow stable. where all the crowd supposed that the fire or iginated, was re- duced tv ashes. The two sight-seers now determined to force a passage into the O’Leary hut, and to this end pried up one of the back windows with a board and entered the premises. They found Mrs. O’Leary in a fearful state of suspense lest she should be arrested as an incendiary, but somewhat under the 684 The Great Fire of 1871. influence of stimulants to brace up her courage for the occasion. She solemnly denied any knowledge of the cause of the fire, and if she knows its cause, without doubt she will carry the mysteri- ous burden while she lives. The above circumstances are stated because they describe the first interviewing of Mrs. O’Leary, and both of the gentlemen are now well-known journalists of Chi- cago. Their statement accords with the following, from the foreman of the first engine company on the ground, which is- here inserted as official: Cuicaco, November 14, 1880. Mr. Rufus Blanchard, Dear Sir:—In compliance with your re- quest as to the origin and condition of the great Chicago fire, J would state, that being the first officer at the fire, that I received an alarm from the man in watch-tower of engine company No. 6, one minute in advance of the alarm given by the watchman in city hall tower. On my arrival at the fire, which was in the alley bounded by Jefferson, Clinton, Taylor and DekKoven streets, I discovered three or more barns and sheds on fire. I connected to the nearest fire plug, located on the corner of Jefferson and DeKoven streets, and went to work. As to which barn the fire originated in, I could not say. As to the fire not being checked in its northward progress, I would state in explanation, that previous to the great fire of 1871, watchmen were stationed in the city hall tower, to keep a lookout for fires; and if a fire was discovered by either of the men, he called the operator on duty in the fire alarm office, loca- ted on the third floor below the watch-tower, and instructed him what box to strike. On the evening of Oct. 8, 1871, the watchman on duty in the city hall tower, discovered the fire, and ordered the operator to strike a box located one mile southwest from the fire, which he should have located one mile northeast, and which would have brought the first alarm engines instead of the second, which re- sponded to the alarm given by watchman, the first alarm en- gines remaining at their respective houses. In conclusion, I would state that the above are facts. Wirtram Musuam, Foreman of Engine Co. No. 6. Whatever might have been its cause, there is no reasonable suspicion that it was the result of incendiarism. Before the strong south-westerly wind which was then blowing, it penetrated diagonally across block after block, at first cutting a swath about 80 teet wide, gradually increasing in width in passing through the cheap wooden buildings in its track, leaving behind a fiery The Great Fire of 1871. 685 wake, making slow but sure inroads, laterally on both sidex, At 11:30 it had reached the open ruins of the previous night’s devastations, Though up to this time the utmost exertions of the firemen had been feeble and unavailing against the progress of the flames, it was hoped that the broad space burnt the night before would arrest the northern progress of the fire, and the river its eastern progress. Butby this time it had attacked the planing mills and various manufactures of lumber along the west side ot the river, between Taylor and Van Buren streets, and a living mass of fire, covering a hundred acres of combustibles, shot up into the clouds, lighting up the midnight hour with a sheet of flame, which dashed hope of arresting its career to the ground. At one bound the wind carried burning brands, not only across the river, but even to Franklin Street. These newly kindled fires immediately spread, and the South Side was ablaze; and now it assumed proportions that exceeded in magnitude its intensity thus far. The whole South Division was now thoroughly sine it being evident that not only the entire business area of the city must burn, but nearly the entire North Division lay in the track of the destroyer in its irresistible progress before the wind. Still a ray of hope was left to the North-siders, and to the owners of the Tribune building also, which was supposed to be fire proof. This hope was dispelled two hours later, as will appear from the following account, written in Sheahan & Upton’s History, from notes as they viewed the scene from the upper windows of the Tribune building: « About one o’clock, a cloud of black smoke rose in the south- west, which, colored by the lurid glare of the flames, presented a remarkable picture. Due west another column of smoke and fire rose, while the north was lighted with flying cinders and destructive brands. In ten minutes more, the whole horizon to the west, as far as could be seen from the windows, was a fire cloud with flames leaping up along the whole line, just showing their heads and ean from view like tongues of snakes. Five minutes more wrought a change. Peal after peal was sounded from the Court House bell. The fire was on La Salle street, had swept north, and the Chamber of Commerce began to belch forth smoke and flame from windows and ventilators. The east wing of the Court House was alight; then the west wing; the tower was blazing on the south side, and at two o’clock the whole build- ing was in a sheet of flame. The Chamber of Commerce burned with a bright steady flame. ‘Lhe smoke in front grew denser for a minute or two, and then bursting into a blaze from Monroe to Madison streets, proclaimed that Farwell Hall and the buildings north and south of it were on fire. At 2.10 o’clock the Court ILouse tower was a glorious sight. At 2.15 o’clock the tower 686 The Great Fire of 1871. fell, and in two minutes more a crash announced the fall of the interior of the building. The windows of the office were hot, and the flames gavea light almost dazzling in its intensity. It be- came evident that the whole block from Clark to Dearborn, and from Monroe to Madison, mnst go; that the block from Madison to Washington must follow; Portland Block was ablaze, while every- thing from Clark to Dearborn, on Washington strect, was on fire. At 2.80 the fire was half-way down Madison street; the wind blew a hurricane; the firebrands were hurled along the ground with incredible force against everything that stood in their way. Then the flames shot up in the rear of Reynolds’ block, and the Tribune building seemed doomed. An effort was made to save the files and other valuables, which were moved into the compos- ing room, but the building stood like a rock, lashed on both sides by raging waves of flame, and it was abandoned. It was a fire proof building; and there were not a few who expected to see it stand the shock. The greatest possible anxiety was felt for it, as it was the key to the whole block, including Mc Vicker’s Theatre, and protected State street and Wabash and Michigan avenues, north of Madison street. When the walls of Reynolds’ Block fell, and Cobb’s building was no more, the prospects of its standing were good. Several persons were up-stairs and found it cool and pleasant—quite a refreshing haven from the hurricane of smoke, dust and cinders that assailed the eyes. “Meanwhile the fire had swept along northward and eastward. The Briggs House, the Sherman House, the Tremont House, had fallen in a few minutes. The bridges from Wells to Rush street were burning; the Northwestern Depot was in a blaze, and from Van Buren street on the south, far over into the north side, from the river to Dearborn street, the whole country was a mass of smoke, flames and ruin. It seemed as if the city east of Dearborn street and to the river would be saved. The hope was strength- ened when the walls fell of Honore’s noble block without ignit- ing that standing opposite. The vacant lot to the sonth seemed to protect it, and at seven o’clock on Monday morning the whole of the region designated was considered saved, no fire being visible except a smouldering fire in the barber’s shop under the Tribune office, which being confined in brick walls, was not con- sidered dangerous. Every effort was made to quench it, but the water works had burned, and the absence of water, while it announced how far north the flames had reached, forbade any hope of quenching the fire below. There was one remarkable turning point in this fire, in which everything was remarkable; and that was at Madison street bridge, where every one expected to see the fire re-cross to the west aaa and commence upon a new path of destruction. Directly across : The Great Fire of 1871. 687 this bridge were the Oriental Flouring Mills, which were saved from destruction by the immense steam foree pump attached to the mill, by which a powerful stream of water was thrown upon the exposed property, hour after hour. This pump undoubtedly saved the West Division from a terrible conflagration, for if the Oriental Mills had burned, the combustible nature of the ad- joining buildings and adjacent lumber yards would have insured a scene of devastation too heart-sickening for contemplation. The scene presented when the fire was at, its height in the South Division, is well nigh indescribable. The huge stone and brick structures melted before the fierceness of the flames as a snow-flake melts and disappears in water, and almost as quickly. Six-story buildings would take fire, and disappear forever from sight, in five minutes by the watch. In nearly every street the flames would enter at the rears of buildings, and appear simulta- neously at the fronts. Foran instant the windows would redden, then great billows of fire would belch out, and meeting each other, shoot up into the air a vivid, quivering column of flame, and poising itself in awful majesty, hurl itselt bodily several hundred feet and kindle new buildings. The intense heat created new currents of air. The general direction of the wind was from the southwest. This main current carried the fire straight through the city, from southwest to north-east, cutting a swath a mile in width, and then, as if maddened at missing any of its prey, it would turn backward in its frenzy and face the fierce wind, mow- ing one hage field on the west of the North Division, while in the South Division it also doubled on its track at the great Un- ion Central Depot, and burned half a mile southward in the very teeth of the gale—a gale which blew a perfect tornado, and in which no vessel could have lived on the lake. The flames sometimes made glowing diagonal arches across the streets, trav- ersed by whirls of smoke. At times, the wind would seize the entire volume of fire on the front of one of the large blocks, de- tach it entirely and hurl it in every direction, in fierce masses of flame, leaving the building as if it had been untouched—tor an instant only, however, for fresh gusts would once more wrap them in sheets of fire. The whole air was filled with glowing cinders, looking like an illuminated snow storm, At times ca- pricious flurries of the gale would seize these flying messengers of destruction and dash them down to the earth, hurrying them over the pavements, with lightning-like rapidity, firing every- thing they touched. Interspersed among these cinders Were larger brands, covered with flame, which the wind dashed through windows and upon awnings and roots, kindling new fires. Strange, fantastic fires of blue, red and green, played along the cornices of the buildings. On the:banks of the river, 688 The Great Fire of 1871. red hot walls fell hissing into the water, sending up great col- umns of spray and exposing the fierce white furnace of heat, which they had enclosed. The huge piles of coal emitted dense billows of smoke which hurried along far above the flames be- low. If the sight was grand and overpowering, the sound was | no less so. The flames crackled, growled and hissed. The lime stone, of which many of the buildings were composed, as soon as it was exposed to heat flaked off, the fragments flew in every direction, with a noise like that of continuous discharges of mus- ketry. Almost every instant was added the dull, heavy thud of falling walls, which shook the earth. But above all these sounds, there was one other which was terribly fascinating; it was the steady roar of the advancing flames—the awtul diapason in this carnival of fire. It was like nothing so much as the united roar of the ocean with the howl of the blast on some stormy, rocky coast. Great calamities always develop latent passions, emotions, and traits of character, hitherto concealed. In this case, there was a world-wide difference in the manner in which men witnessed the destruction of all about them. Some were philosophical, eveu merry, and witnessed the loss of their own property with a calm shrug of the shoulders, although the loss was to bring upon them irretrievable ruin. Others clenched their teeth together, and witnessed the sight with a sort of grim defiauce. Others, who were strong men, stood in tears, and some became fairly frenzied with excitement and rushed about in au aimless manner, doing exactly what they would not have done in their cooler mo- ments, and almost too delirious to save their own lives from the general wreck. Of course, the utmost disorder and excitement prevailed, for nearly every one was in some, degree demoralized, and in the absence both of gas and water, had given up the en- tire city to its doom. Mobs of men and women rushed wildly from street to street, screaming, gesticulating, and shouting, crossing each other’s paths, and intercepting each other as if just escaped froma mad house. The yards and sidewalk of Michi- gan and Wabash avenues for a distance of two miles south of the fire limit in the South Division, were choked with household goods of every description—the contents of hovels, and the con- tents of aristocratic residences, huddled together in inextrica- ble confusion. Elegant ladies who hardly supposed themselves able to litt the weight of a pincushion, astonished themselves by dragging trunks, and carrying heavy loads of pictures and orna- mental furniture for a long distance. Some Hiss theinselves with all their jewelry, for the purpose of saving it, and strug- gled along through the crowds, perhaps only to lose it at the hands of some rutiian. Delicate girls, with red eyes and black- The Great Fire of 1871. 689 ened faces, toiled, hour after hour, to save household goods. Poor women staggered along with their arms full of homely household wares, and mattresses on their heads, which sometimes took fire as they were carrying them. Every few steps along the avenues were little piles of household property, or, perhaps, only a trunk, guarded by children, some of whom were weeping, and. others laughing and playing. Here was a man sitting upon. what he had saved, bereft of his senses, looking at the motley throng with staring, vacant eyes; here, a woman, weeping and tearing her hair, and calling for her children in utter despair;. here, children, hand-in-hand, separated from their parents, and’ crying with the heart-breaking sorrow of childhood; here, a wo- man, kneeling on the hot ground, and praying, with her crucifix. before her. One family had saved a coffee-pot and chest of draw- ers, and raking together the falling embers in the street, were boiling their coffee as cheerily as it at home. Barrels of liquor _ were rolled into the streets from the saloons. The heads were: speedily knocked in, and men and boys drank to excess, and’ staggered about the streets. Some must have miserably perished in the flames, while others wandered away into the unburned dis-. trict, and slept a drunken sleep upon the sidewalks and in dcor- yards. ‘Thieves pursued their profession with perfect impunity. Lake street and Glark street were rich with treasure, and hordes of thieves entered the stores, and flung out goods to their fel- lows, who bore them away without opposition. Wabash avenue was literally choked up with goods of every description. Every one who had been forced from the burning portion of the divis- ion had brought some articles with them, and been forced to. drop some, or all of them. Valuable oil paintings, books, pet animals, instruments, toys, mirrors, bedding, and ornamental and useful articles of every kind, were trampled under foot by the: hurrying crowds. The streets leading southward from the fire were jammed with vehicles of every description, all driven alone at top speed. Not only the goods which were deposited in the streets took fire, but wagon loads of stuff in transit, also kindled, and the drivers were obliged to cut the traces to save the animals. There was fire overhead, everywhere, not only on the low, red clouds, which rolled along the roofs, but in the air itself, filled with millions of blazing fagots, that carried destruction wherever they fell. Those who did rescue anything from the burning buildings, were obliged to defend it at the risk of their lives. Expressmen and owners of every description of wagons, were extortionate in their demands, asking from twenty to fifty dollars. for conveying a small load a few blocks. Even then there was no surety that the goods would reach their place of destination, as they were often followed by howling crowds, who, would 690 Lhe Great Fire of 1671. snatch the goods from the wagons. Sometimes, thieves got pos- session of vehicles, and drove off with rich loads of dry goods, jewelry, or merchandise, to out-of-the-way places.” As early as three o’clock, on the morning of the 9th, the fire attacked the North Side. It has not been definitely known ~ where it first began, but it is certain that the Water Works, a mile distant from any portion of the blazing South Side, were among the first buildings visited; and their speedy destruction, cutting off the water supply, all hopes of extinguishing the fire fled. Two large elevators on the north bank of the river were also in flames immediately afterwards, and the wretched inhab- itants living east of Franklin street, beheld with dismay the ap- proach of the destroyer both in front and rear. Suddenly the entire population seized the most valuable things they could carry, and fled, either to the lake shore, or westward across the river, or directly before the pursuing enemy, northwardly out ‘Clark or Wells Street. Says Mr. Colbert: 7 “A terrible panic ensued. There was sudden screaming and dashing about of half-clad women, gathering up such valuables as could be suddenly snatched. There was frantic rushing into the streets and shouting for vehicles. There was anxious inquiry and anon distressed cries for absent protectors—a large portion of the men being on the far side of the river, and in many cases unable to reach their homes. Then there was a pell-mell rush through the streets, sone of the wild faces pushing eagerly in this direction and others quite as eagerly in the opposite; and children screaming; and shouts resounding; and brands falling in showers; and truckmen running each other down; and half- drunken, wholly desperate ruffians peering into doors and seizing valuables, and insulting women; and oaths from lips unused to them, as hot as the flames which leaped and crackled near by; and prayers from manly breasts where they had slumbered since childhood; and every other sign of turmoil and terror.” Those who took refuge on the sands of the lake-shore, found it a treacherous asylum. ‘There was no escape to the northward, tor the narrow passes farther in that direction were a sweltering current of hot air pouring over the crested margin of the lake, like the vomiting of a furnace.. Meantime the heat soon began to be almost insupportable where they were, and in this extrem- ity, at places, they were forced into the shallow waters of the lake to protect themselves from burning till they could be rescued in boat. By four o’clock in the afternoon of the 9th, the fire had burned out. Its progress against the wind on the South Side was ar- rested by the etforts of private citizens and a small military force under Gen. Sheridan; but on the North Side it burned. as long ch The Great Fure of 1871. 691 as buildings stood before it, and died away on the open prairie for want of fuel. In its early stages, after the flames had crossed the river, and were rapidly devouring the business portion of the city in the South Division, Lind Block, on the west side of Market Street, between Randolph and Lake, by dint of great exertion on the part of some of its tenants, successfully resisted them. The well- known house of Fuller & Fuller, occupied the central portions of this block; and in reply to the writer’s inquiry how it was saved, Mr. O. F. Fuller stated that while the fire was burning on the West Side, and approaching towards them, they took the precan- tion to provide an abundant supply of water on each floor of their premises, and constantly applied it to the most exposed portions of the building when the fire reached their immediate vicinity, having previously cut away wooden signs or any other combustible material outside. During the greatest heat the outside walls of the block were too hot to bear the hand on, but still every man remained at his post inside on each floor, subject to the order of a sentinel, whose business it was to eall them away if the building ignited. Three times a retreat was ordered, under an impression that combustion had taken place, but hap- pily this impression was a false alarm, growing out of the lurid glare from adjacent flames, reflected from the windows of the building, and each time the men returned to their posts, where they continued to ply water to the heated windows, while was raging “Fire to right of them, Fire to left of them, Fire in front of them.” Said Mr. Fuller: “The fire, viewed from the rouf of Lind Block at this time, presented phases of thrilling interest. At two o’clock a.m., Market street and the approaches to Lake and Randolph street bridges were crowded with loaded vehicles hurrying to the West Side, and this retreat grew into a stampede when the Gar- den City hotel, and the buildings on the East side of Market street, from Madison to South Water, ignited. After burning fiercely for but a briefspace of time, they fell in quick succession in the general ruin.” The next morning when the light of the sun was piercing through the smoke and flames that now enshrouded the entire business portion of the South Division, there stood Lind Block, a solitary relict of its former grandeur. Beyond it, toward the East, the eye could catch transient glimpses of many a grim old ruin in its ragged deformity, amidst the accumulating clouds of smoke that rose to the sky in dissolving forms, and told 692 The Great Fue of 1871. the tale of destruction. Besides Lind Bloeckin the South Division, the house of Mahlon B. Ogden, in the central track of the fire in the North Division, was saved, while all else around it was left in ashes. Mr. Ogden, shortly after the fire, informed the writer that he remained in his house as long as he could without being sur- rounded by fire, when he, with his family, retreated with the crowd; but that he kept the roof of his house covered with wet carpets while he was in it, and it being in the inside of a square, with trees all around, as if by a miracle it did not burn. No attempt will here be made to record personal incidents of the fire. These are almost infinite, and their records may be found in the several large volumes pnblished inimediately after the fire, but the following account of the action of the city au- thorities, taken from the ‘Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, is an historical document which shows the elastic force of the people of Chicago in their promptness to grapple with the duties before them: “The homeless people of the South Side were for the most part received into the abodes of their more fortunate neighbors, or taken to the hearts and hospitalities of those to whom a day before they were utter strangers, without formalities or ceremonies, for a kindred sorrow which had left no human interest untouched had done its work. “Those of the North Division had betaken themselves for the night to the sands of the lake shore, to Lincoln and other small parks, and the ¢prairies. Comparatively few had found shelter tor the night. “Those of the West. Division who were left homeless were for the most part sheltered in the churches and school-houses, and on the prairies on the northwest of the city. Comparatively few ot those who had fled before the flames, had tasted food since early Sunday evening, and hunger came to them to add its terrors to those of exposure, and in many instances apprehension of death. “ And then came the greatest terror of all, the consciousness of the fact that families had been separated; husbands and wives, parents and children were missing. The flight had been so rapid, and in all directions the thoroughfares had been so ob- structed, and in some cases utterly. impassable, by the crowding of vehicles and masses of people, and the city itself a wave ot fire—it is no marvel that under these circumstances, thousands tor the time were lost sight of, and became lonely wanderers, and that hundreds perished in the flames. “The seeds of permanent or temporary disease sown, the bodily suffering and mental anguish endured, can never have statistical computation, or adequate description, The Great Fire of 1871. 693 “The bodies of the dead, not less than three hundred in number, who perished in the flames, were given interment at the county burying ground. “The city authorities were prompt in their endeavors to bring order out of the chaos which, in some measure, we have assayed to describe. The Mayor telegraphed to neighboring cities, first of all, for engines to help stay the ravages of the fire, and for bread to feed the homeless and destitute.” A council of city officers was held, who issued and signed thie following, which was the first proclamation from the Mayor and Government: PROCLAMATION. WueEnEas, In the providence of God, to whose will we humbly submit, a terrible calamity has befallen our city, which demands of us our best efforts for the preservation of order and the relief of suffering: Be it known, That the faith and credit of the city of Chicago are hereby pledged for the necessary expenses for the relief of the suffering. Public order will be preserved. The police and special police now being ap- pointed will be responsible for the maintenance of the peace and the protection of property. All officers and men of the Fire Department and Health Department will act as special policemen without further notice. The Mayor and Comptroller will give vouchers for all supplies furnished by the different relief committees. The headquarters of the City Government will be at the Congregational Church, corner of West Washington and Ann streets. All persons are warned against any act tending to endanger property. Per- sons caught in any depredation will be immediately arrested. Meg the help of God, order and peace and private property will be pre- served. The City Government and the committee of citizens pledge themselves to the community to protect them, and prepare the way for a restoration of public and private welfare. It is believed the fire has spent its force, and all will soon be well. R. B. Mason, Mayor. GEORGE TayLor, Comptroller. (By R. B. Mason.) CuAruEs C. P. HoupEn, President Common Council. T. B. Brown, President Board of Police. October 9, 1871, 2 p. m. Promptly following the above proclamation, and growing out of the exigencies of the day, or the hour, as it came, others were issued; and no better account of the action of the municipal gov- ernment can be given than that which is contained in these sev- eral official papers, and therefore, without comment, which would be needless, the text of these proclamations, which in some in- stances were only fly-sheets, is Baresi given. BREAD ORDINANCE.—NOTICE. CuIcaGco, October 10, 1871. The following ordinance was passed at a meeting of the Commen Council of the city of Chicago, on the 10th day of October, A. D., 1871: 694 The Great Fire of 1871. An Ordinance Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago :— SxcTIon 1. That the price of bread in the City of Chicago for the next ten days is hereby fixed and established at ezght (8) cents per loaf of twelve ounces, and at the same rate for all loaves of less or greater weight. Sec. 2. Any person selling or attempting to sell any bread within the limits of the City of Chicago, within said ten days, at a greater price than is fixed in this ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty of ten (10) dollars for each and every offense, to be collected as other penalties for violation of City Ordinances. Suc. 8. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. Approved October 10, 1871. Attest: R. B. MASON, Mayor. C. T. Horcuxiss, City Clerk. MAYOR’S PROCLAMATION—ADVISORY AND PRECAUTIONARY. 1. All citizens are requested to exercise great caution in the use of fire in their dwellings, and not to use kerosene lights at present, as the city will be without a full supply of water for probably two or three days. 2. The following bridges are passable, to wit: All bridges (except Van Bu- ren and Adams streets) from Lake Street south, and all bridges over the North Branch of the Chicago River. 3. nee a eet eee 100,000 Kaskaskia River ist 2 wee.) aeiobios ae dbp ide Deer ciccieah tas ok Reena 50.000 Little . Wabash: Biven. cc ve eee eb e > beens tes ce so cle nae 50,000 Financial History of Ltlinois and Chicago. 715 It is not the purpose of this paper to relate the detailed histo- ry of the debt. Notwithstanding the payments and reductions made in the twelve years, from 1841 to 1858, such had been the accumulations of unpaid interest, that on the first of January, 1853, the princi- pal and overdue interest still unpaid amounted to $17, 398,985. Under the act of 1857, the arrearages of interest accrued and then unpaid were funded to the amount of $2,973,029. Irom the date of the act of 1845,imposing a tax to pay inter- est on the debt, down to Nov. 30, 1860, the direct taxes collected from the people of Hlinois and paid on account of principal and iuterest of their public debt, was as follows: RECEIVED AND DISBURSED 1146 MILL INTEREST TAX. 2 MILL TAX, PRINCIP AL. To November 30, 1846.... $ 62,024 To November 80, 1850.... $165,789 ERAN TO 1 BAB So kit see 2 234,944 TOUT GOR La UNC A Me earcteis ¢ "492,167 borden Pagel to 0 Ban Ale geen eee 296,827 ES52 TOs leo endear ee. oss 711,221 TOPO TOLLOUG ites: wuss eee 366,394 LSHAIO VE Ot anes ce oe 1,113,418 1 ch ag fon) Rolly GU” hacia a ae 528,258 1Sob te Lec hee ar eg eok. 1,887,554 OTLB SG ec kas 966,420 Lei ORL SOO e, feieesfea ciate 1,192,010 PEOOTO EG. aes a st ae 1,047,884 —-——- ROU UOLLOGU Cyc. seas ak 949,082 LOCALS sae c a neces el $5,052,153 Mahe ete tt $4,451,933 | Grand Total.......-. $9,503,486 With these and other payments, the State debt, November 30, 1860, still remaining unpaid, was $10,346,017. The Legislature of. Illinois anthorized the city of Chicago to make certain expenditures for the purpose of deepening : and oth- erwise improving the Illinois & Michigan Canal. This act gave the city a lien on the canal for the amount not exceeding $2,800,000 to be refunded at the pleasure of the State, from the earnings of the canal. The great fire in Chicago took place i in October, 187 71, and the Legislature, at a special session, assumed this expenditure, and bonds to that amount were issued to the city in satisfaction of the lien. In this way $2,800,000 more was added to the cost of the canal, and the bonds issued for that purpose were added to the debt of the State then unpaid. The debt of Illinois has been comparatively a light burden since 1860. Up to that time thetax had been a grievous one. A half million of people in 1845 bravely began to tax themselves to pay interest on a debt, which then, with accumulated interest, was nearly $18,000,000. Three years ‘later they adopted a perma- nent tax, to pay the principal of that debt. The great recovery which followed the adoption of these measures, soon enabled the State not only to meet its current liabilities for interest, but also 716 Grade of Chicago Streets. to begin the payment of the principal and, funding the long over due interest, to begin the reduction. In addition to this, the State in 1856 began to receive an increasing income from the Illinois Central Railroad Company. In 1870 the two mill tax was discontinued, being no longer needed; the interest fund tax was reduced to a nominal sum. The whole tax for ten years on ac- count of the public debt has been nominal, or wholly omitted, and the State treasury has during that time been always in ad- vance of the maturity of the outstanding bonds, which the credit- ors preferred to hold, than to surrender. And now, on the first day of January 1881, the last outstand- ing piece of scrip, warrant, voucher, coupon and bond of the State of Illinois ,has become due, and has been paid, and the heroie work begun in January, 1842, has been completed, and Illinois has been delivered from her bonds, has been emancipated from the chains in which Governor Ford found her, and is FREE rroM DEBT, GRADE OF CHICAGO STREETS. | The first houses erected in Chicago were built on spiles set into the ground, sufficiently elevated to fix the lower floor above the possibility of being flooded by excessive rains. Of course cellars or basement kitchens were not to be thought of. Later, when a better class of buildings were erected as business blocks, private grading up the streets in front of them began to be practiced, some of which grading may have been done by a street tax an- thorized by the corporation, but the first street grade was not es- tablished till 1855, as appears from the following letter from Mr. Moody, Ass’t City Clerk. ; R. BLANCHARD, Wheaton, Ill., DEAR Sir: [have looked up the question of grades of the city, as you requested. I find the first ordinance was passed in March, 1855. Thisestablished the grade of Lake street at about 8.62. The present grade of the street is 14 feet. My figures refer to the plane of low water of the Chicago river in 1847 as fixed by the canal commissioners, and mean 8.62 feet and 14 feet above that level. I find several other streets where the change is about the same. On the West Side the change is not so great, being originally estab ished ata higher point. I estimate the change at about three feet. Yours truly, Joun A. Moupy. The grade of the whole city is now sufficiently above high water to admit of convenient basements, and is doubtless established on a permanent basis, never again to be changed. The Catholic Church in Chicago. 71 = THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHICAGO. BY WILLIAM J. ONAHAN. The history of the Catholic Church, in Chicago, dates from 1674. The first chapter begins with Mather Marquette. The narrative of Father Marquette’s memorable explorations formed the necessary introduction to this history of the Discov- ery and Conquests of the Northwest. There is a certain unique fitness in devoting its closing part, to an account of the growth and present position of that Church, whose sacred rites he celebrated on the banks of the Chicago River, upwards of 200 years ago. The memory of Father Marquette, is held in reverence and admiration by every Ameri- can, no matter before what altar he worships, or what the form and tenets of his religious creed. He is honored as a courageous and heroic explorer, and a zealous and Apostolic Christian Mis- sionary. He is held in veneration for the grace and beauty which shone in his character, and the gentle and benignant qualities that were illustrated in his labors. His lonely and touching death on the opposite shore of Lake Michigan fitly crowned a life consecrated to a noble mission. That mission was the salvation of souls. He was a priest of the Catholic Church, and a missionary of the Society of Jesus. It was on the oceasion of Father Marquette’s second trip to the [Illinois country that he made a brief sojourn at the site of the future city of Chicago, and here, Noy. 1, 1674, on the banks of the Chicago river, having erected a temporary hut which served as a chapel, he solemnized the mysteries‘of his faith. His congrega- tion comprised the two woyageurs, his companions, and the few Indians who had gathered in the vicinity. | Thus, upwards of 200 years ago, the Catholic Church conse- crated the site of the future city by the solemn rites and cere- monies of Christian worship. It is not deemed necessary to enter into the history of the subsequent missionary labors of the pioneer apostles of that ehurech, who devoted their labors and consecrated their lives in the effort to win to Christianity the Indian tribes of the prairies. Dr. John Gilmary Shea, and Protessor Parkman have made the narrative familiar. 718 The Catholie Church in Chicago. With the close of the French dominion in the Northwest, effected by the Treaty of Utrecht the presence and labors of the black-gown gradually disappeared from the scene; though one or more of the zealous missionaries would, from time to time, re- appear in the'then forbidden territory, to recall and renew amongst the Indian tribes the teachings of the pioneer fathers. Some semblance of Catholic faith and teaching was thus kept alive and preserved by the Indians of Illinois up to the beginning of the present century. Prior to 1843, Chicago and the entire State of Illinois was embraced within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the See of Vin- cennes, Indiana. Up to the year 1835, the religious wants of the Jatholie settlers of Chicago and vicinity were supplied by the occasional visits and ministrations of a priest from Detroit, or Vincennes, In that vear, the Rev. Bernard Schaeffer, was assigned to the mission of ‘Chicago, as its first settled pastor. His varliest eare naturally was the erection of a place of worship which he ac- complished, though not without labor and dithculty, in conse- quence of the poverty of his flock. Before I'ather Schaeffer’s death, which occurred in 1837, he had been reinforced in the person of Rev. Father St. Cyr, who still survives, and is now in retirement at Carondelet, near St. Louis, venerated and honored for his career of missionary labors. + The earliest mention of Chicago in the official Catholic almanacs, occurs in that published for the year 1839, which gives this brief notice: “Rev. James O’Meara, Chicago, visits occasionally Mt. Juliet, Calumet, Smallfork, Ulinois Canal, ete.” During the adininis- tration of Father O’Meara, visits to Chicago were made by Bishops Loras, of Dubuque, and Bishop Purcell, present Arch- vishop of Cincinnati. These prelates came to reconcile difticul- ties that had arisen between Father O’ Meara and his people. The original Church built by Father Schaeffer had meantime been removed from the corner of State and Lake to the corner of Madison St. and Michigan Avenue, where a lot had been secured from the U.S. the same, on which was erected at a later period the Episcopal residence, known before the fire as the “Bishop’s Palace.” Following the history of this primitive Church edifice, we find it moved, some years afterwards, to the well known site of St. Mary’s Church, the southwest corner of Wabash Avenue and Madison street, and from there it was again displaced to give way to the well known Pro Cathedral—dear Orv Sr. Mary’s. The old build- ing was moved tothe rear, where it served as a_ school The Catholic Church in Chicago. 719 house and place of meeting for the societies of the Church. The Rev. Father Badin——“ Old Father Badin” , as he was familiarly designated in the West, was an occasional visitor to the Catholics of Chicago, in the early days, and many interest- ing reminiscences and “anecdotes connected with his labors, are told by early surviving Catholic settlers. He founded a local temperance society, which embraced nearly all the Catholic male adults in Chicago at that time. Fron 1840 to 1842, Rev. Father St. Palais, afterwards Bishop of Vincennes, was pastor of the Chicago Mission, and he had tor his assistant Rev. Francis J. Fisher. The Catholic population of the diocese, which then included Indiana, Michigan and Illinois was estimated in the official Al- manac for 1842, at 25,000. The formal official history of the Catholic Church in Chicago dates from the appointment of its first Bishop—Right Rev. William Quarter. The Catholic “ See of Chicago,” was established in 1844, Bishop Quarter was consecrated in New York, March 10, 1844, and took formal possession of the newly-created See Sunday May 5, following; thee eremony of installation, being held in the old’ Church previously referred to. Bishop Quarter was accompanied to Chicago by his brother— tev. Walter J. Quarter. Bishop Quarter was obliged to begin his Episcopal work at the foundation. He built and completed St. Mary’s Oathedral which was solemnly consecrated Sunday, Oct. 5, 1845. He found- ed the College later known as the “ University of St. Mary’s of the Lake” and through his foresight and efforts, a charter for the institutiow was subsequently obtained from the legislature of the State. ‘The College was first opened and formally dedicated, 4th, July, 1846. Enrolled among its earliest students were many names that have since become honored in the ranks of the Priesthood, and others distinguished in public life. Rev. Dr. Jno McMullen, who has just laid down his trust as administrator of the diocese, and the gallant and lamented General James A. Mulligan, occur in the ‘first register, with others that might be macied. To Bishop Quarter, is likewise due the credit of havi ing secured the passage of the law incorporating the Catholie Bishop ‘of Chicago as a “Corporation Sole, with power to hold real and other property in trust for religious purposes.” Bishop Quar- ter’s Episcopal rule was not ot long duration. Incessant and laborious toils undermined his health, and on Passion Sunday, 1848, his flock in St. Mary’s received for the last time his Episco- pal blessing. On the 10th, of April ensuing, he expired in the 720 The Catholic Church in Chicago. arms of his beloved and always faithful brother. Loved and lamented by all, his remains were solemnly deposited in his Cathedral, according to his wish, and a votive tablet long re- mained in St. Mary’s, recalling his memory and his memorable works. ; : His brother, Rev. Walter J. Quarter, acted as administrator until the appointment of Bishop Van de Velde, in 1848. The Right Rev. James Oliver Van de “Velde, had previously filled an important position in the Jesuit University St. Louis, Mo., and was a member of that Society. He was formally installed as Bishop of the diocese in the Cathedral of St. Mary’s, in 1849. The same year was commenced the Church of the Holy Name, under the direction of Rev. Father Kinsella, who was at the same time rector of the “ College of St. Marys of the Lake.” Associated with Father Kinsella were the well known Fathers Clowry and Breen. St. Patrick’s Church, corner of Desplaines and Randolph, had been established; and about the same time, also, a Church for German Catholics was dedicated, which latter was located on Washington St. near 5th Avenue? The first of the religious orders to obtain a foundation in Chicago, was that of the Sisters of Mercy, the foundation of their convent on Wabash Ave. being laid in 1846, under the direction of the accomplished and lamented Mother Agatha, whose early death in 1852 was greatly mourned, not only by Catholics but by the entire community. Bishop Van de Velde’s administration was troubled and cloud- ed by discussions and difficulties, which finally resulted in his resignation and transfer to another field of labor. His appoint- ment to the diocese of Natchez, dates from July, 1853. In that year the experiment of a Catholic weekly journal was attempted, under the inanagement of Mr. William Linton, then recently from St. Louis. Associated with Mr. Linton in the editoral chair was James A. Mulligan, a young lawyer of promise, and possessing first class talents as a writer. January 8, 1854, the “Chicago Catholic Institute” was found- ed, a literary association which embraced for many years the leading Catholic young men of Chicago, in its ranks and mem- bership. The course of lectures given by it in the fall of that year, pre- sented to the Chicago public, Dr. O. A. Brownson, Thos. D’ Arey McGee, James A. McMaster, Donald McLeod, and others. On the removal! of Bishop Van de Velde to Natchez, the Rev. James Duggan of St. Louis, subsequently Bishop, was appoint- ed administrator of the diocese, which position he continued to The Catholie Church in Chicago. 721 hold until the installation of the Right Rev. Anthony O’ Regan, likewise of St. Louis, who was consecreted Bishop of Chicago: July 25, 1854. His administration, like that of his Episcopal predecessor, was soon marred by unhappy differences with some of the leading priests of the city, finally resulting in the dismissal from the diocese of Messrs. Kinsella, Breen and Clowry. The bad spirit and resentments sown during the unfortunate feud (we do not assume to fix the responsibility), occasioned much bitterness of feeling, and, being unable or unwilling to: bear the burden of discontent, Bishop O’ Regan sought peace by following the example of his predecessor. He too resigned. Dr. O’Regan was transferred to a See 2. p. f, and retired to. Ireland, where he spent the rest of his days in theseclusion of a College with which he had been connected in earlier days. In 1859 the Right Rev. James Duggan, the same who had charge of the diocese five years previously, and who in the mean- time had been promoted to the Episcopal dignity as co-adjutor to: the Archbishop of St. Louis, was transferred to Chicago. The increase in the Catholic population up to this time had fully kept pace with the growth of the city. Churches had mul- tiplied on every side; various institutions of charity had been. founded, and the establishment of Catholic schools became the rnle in nearly all the parishes. The House of the Good Shepherd, otherwise known as the “ Magdalen Asylum,” was founded in 1857, and the same year the Jesuits opened a church “out on the prairie.” The prodigies and wonders accomplished by. the Jesuits under the energetic leadership of /ather Damen remains to-day the pride and marvel of the West Division. The Jesuit institutions in Chicago merit a separate chapter. A magnificent Church of imposing design and vast propor- tion; a grand College completed in all its appointments, and pos- sessing a°museum perhaps, unequaled in the West, besides a fine library carefully selected, containing 12,000 volumes; numerous und capacious Schools, having an attendance of fully 5,000: an immense building lately erected for the use of the Societies of the parish—all these testify to the zeal and energy of the great order. In addition to the church of the Holy Family, on West 12th St., the Jesuits also built two other Churches, one on 19th St., near Halsted—the Church of the Sacred Heart—the other corn- er of 18th and Paulina Sts., St. Pius Church. The latter is now in charge of Rev. Hugh McGuire—the for- mer remains under the control of the Jesuits, and its pastor is 46 722 The Catholic Church ir Chicago. the renowned Father Damen himself—the pioneer, projector and builder of nearly all the great works first noted. Many other of the religious orders had already obtained a foothold. The Bene- dictines and the Rtedemptorists were assigned to German con- eregations, and each built np fine and capacious churches in the North division. The female religious orders had been equally active—notably the “Sacred Heart, ” which was fortunate in its first superior “and founder in Chicago—Madame Gallwey, a woman of great mind and possessing prodigious energy of character. The progress of the Church in Chicago during Bishop Dug- gan’s reign was certainly remarkable, and to the public eye all seemed fair and prosperous; but there were causes at work which effected to bring his official ‘administration to a painful and mel- ancholy termination. Needless now to recall the deplorable controversies and dissen- sions which sprung up in 1868-9. It is a painful chapter in the Catholic histury of Chicago. The malady that afflicted Bishoy p Duggan became so serious as to necessitate his removal, in 1869, to St. Louis, where he has re- mained ever since, under the kind ‘and terider care of a commnu- nity renowned for their experience and skill in the treatment of like cases. Though enjoying robust health, Bishop Duggan has never recovered, or shown signs of recovery, from the infirmity which had taken root and suddenly obscured an intellect once bright and promising. Up to the recent appointment of Archbishop Feehan, Bishop Duggan remained titular Bishop of Chicago. Rev. Thos. J. Halli- gan Pacted as administrator after the removal of Bishop Duggan fo St. Louis, and continued in that capacity until the arrival of the Administrator Bishop, Right Rev. Thomas J. Foley. THE ADMINISTRATION OF BISHOP FOLEY. The appointment of the Rev. Thomas Foley, of Balerieae as Bishop of Pergamus, z. p. 7, and Administrator of Chicago, was announced at the end of the year 1869, and his formal con- secration took place in Baltimore, February 27, 1870. He came without ceremony or ostentation to enter upon his grave and critical charge, and the felicitous opening words of his installa- tion address to the clergy and laity, delivered in the Cathedral of the Holy Name the Sunday following his arrival in the city, “Peace be to you!” was a happy omen “to all the faithful. It was not only the key-note to—it was likewise the watchword of, his ad- ministration to the end. The Catholie Church in Chicago. 723 During its comparatively brief existence, the Episcopal See of Chicago had been the scene of many and serious troubles. There had been feuds and failures, contentions and recrimina- tions, suspensions and removals, to the grief and affliction of the Catholic body at large; but at no time was there suspicion of personal scandal; and never did there appear a germ of schism in any of the unfortunate ecclesiastical dificulties that had arisen between the Ordinary and his clerics. These troubles were bruited abroad as indicating that Chicago was an ungovernable and an intractable diocese, though never was impression le:s well founded. Certainly there had been difficulties from time to time. Au- thority may have exercised its power in instances with doubtful wisdom; and obedience and docility too often, perhaps, were wanting on the part of those whose duty it should have been to set the example of submission. But all this, and much more, that might be alluded to, it is not wise to recail in specific detail, still less to comment on and criticise. To ignore it altogether, however, would be to omit what has passed into the public histo- ry of the period. From the beginning to the lamented close of Bishop Foley’s administration, no sign of faction, no token of feud, ever made an appearance, and he lett the diocese at his decease in a condi- tion of concord and prosperity, which constitutes the best tribute and the highest testimony to his prudence as an administrator, to his zeal as a bishop, to his charity as a man. The overwhelming disaster of the great fire in October, 1871, razed to the ground many of the finest churches and leading Catholic institutions of learning and charity. Besides “dear old Saint Mary’s,” there was swept away the Cathedral of the Holy Name, the beautiful Benedictine Church of St. J loseph; the Church of the Immaculate Conception, St. Michael’s (Redemp- tionists), and St. Paul’s. Of the charitable institutions, first in all minds was the Orphan Asylum, then situate adjacent to the Cathedral. The poor or- oe were all saved by the almost superhuman exertions of the good Sisters in charge, of the Order of St. Joseph. The convent and asylum of the Good Shepherd, the Alexian Brothers’ hospi- tal, and the hospital of the Sisters of Charity, the Convent and Academy of the Sisters of Mercy, the Christian Brothers’ Acad- emy, and the schools attached to all the churches named, except only the Cathedral, which, by some strange anomaly, was up to this without a parochial school! All these, together with con- vents and academies of the German congregations, were utter] as swept away in that memorable fire. . [24 The Catholic Church in Chicago. ' Needless to refer to the wreck and ruin of private homes, and tv the public and personal losses caused by the fire. Ten years have not yet passed since that eventful October night, and yet scarcely a vestige of that wreck now remains visi- ble, and, more surprising still, the fire itself is hardly a living memory. If referred to at all, it is as if it were an event in the far away past, like the great fire of London. So swiftly do we live in these days of electricity and tele- phones ! But the great destruction and loss was met by Bishop Foley with a promptness and decision which brought out the strength and beauty of his character in a stronger light. The orphans were homeless: he instantly provided for them. A large number were transferred to asylums in the cities of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee. The Good Shepherd nuns, and the religious of the other houseless orders, and their different charges, were pro- vided with temporary asylums. The Bishop himself accepted the hospitality of the Jesuit Tathers, and made their college hishome. His fine house, corner of Michigan avenue and Madison streets, with its valuable and unique library, rare paintings—accumulated in great part by Bishop Duggan—had gone into the common wreck. A few of the books, and two or three pictures, hastily rescued, were all that remained, I1is solicitude, however, was for more important in- terests and concerns. He dispatched several of the leading priests on missions through the country to collect funds to aid in re- building and restoring what had been destroyed. He encouraged all who had suffered to begin anew. The unexampled energy which characterized the rebuilding of Chicago infused itself into all circles and classes. The Catholics, owing to position and circumstances, were least able to set the example in this gigantic task, but, aided by generous benefactions trom abroad, they, too, set to work and proved themselves no laggards in reconstruction. The cathedral was rebuilt, more beautiful than before; a new St. Mary’s was provided, although in a different quarter; the other churches were gradually re- newed; convents, asylums, hospitals, schools, were reared again in the familiar places, and, after the lapse of a few years, affairs were restored to a settled condition. Meantime the population of the city had grown beyond all calculation. Not only were the disasters of the fire repaired in an incredibly short space of time, but it was made to appear as if, indeed, the fire itself was only a “blessing in disguise.” A new era, and a grander destiny, seemed to open out in prospect for this wonderful city. Certainly no people in history have ‘The Catholic Church in Chicago. 725 shown themselves more energetic, more public spirited, more broad minded, than have the men who rebuilt Chicago; nor is there a city in America more free from the cramping restraints of bigotry. | The Catholic charities and public institutions of Chicago are a proof and a testimony to this honorable characteristic. . People of every denomination, and of no denomination at all, aided in the hour of necessity; and a large class of non-Catholic merchants and others continue still to help them generously. After the fire, numerous additional religious orders were in- troduced, and nearly all the known communities and religious congregations—those at all events known in the United States— now possess a foothold and institutions in Chicago. The most notable, though the humblest of the late comers, The Little Sisters of the Poor, have a spacious house and upwards of one hundred inmates. It would be tedious and monotonous to give in detail the titles of the religious orders established in Chicago—the Catholic Di- rectory and even the Chicago Directory will serve to supply the hiatus for those curious in such matters. The number of the Catholic population of Chicago has long been a disputed question. It is certainly not fewer than 200,000 souls, and there are those whose judgment in the matter is entitled to consideration, who aftirm that it approaches more nearly to 250,000, or one-half the entire population of the city. The growing importance of Chicago, it is known, had long ago fixed the attention of the authorities of the Holy See, and but for the obstacles growing out of abnormal relations and the sit- uation of the titular Bishop, it is not doubted that it would have been created a Metropolitan See at the time that dignity was con- ferred on Milwaukee. Bishop Foley would have worthily become the dignity, but it was ordained otherwise. In the prime of his manhood, in the midst of his usefulness, and surrounded by the honorable and shining monuments of his zeal, his charity and his love for religion, he was unexpectedly to all, called to receive the reward appointed for the faithful shep- herd. He died February 19th, 1879. With the death of the greatly lamented Bishop Foley, this sketch may suitably be brought to a conclusion. . By way of supplement, a few statistics may be grouped show- ing the Catholic population of the City, the number of Churches, Schools and Academies, Asylums, Hospitals and other institu- tion founded by, and under the patronage of that denomination. T26 The Great Chicago Fire. The number of Churches in the city, including also Hyde Park, and the town of Lake, both practically forming part of the city, 1s 43: The Catholic population of the city and the towns named, is not less than 250,000. The school attendance in the Catholic parochical Schools and Academies is fully 25,000. The College maintained by the Jesuits, St. Ignatius College, supports a staff of 23 professors, and hasan attendance of 200 students. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum shelters and provides tor 8300 Orphans. The German Catholic Orphan Asylum for 100, and an Asy- lum for Polish and Bohemian children: The Catholic Reformatory for boys under the charge of the Christain Brothers, contains on an everage, 175 boys. The House of the Good Shepherd has upwards of 300 inmates, under the benificent guidance of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The Home for the Aged Poor, provides for 103 old people of both sexes, whose daily wants are ministerd to by the prodi- gies of charity, “The Little Sisters of the Poor.” Three great hospitals are sustained by the Catholic religious orders. The Mercy Hospital by the Sisters of Mercy; St. Joseph’ s Hfospital by the Sisters of Charity; and the Alexian Hospital by the Alexian Brothers. The Catholic Female Academies are numerous, and occupy a high rank. We may instance: St. Xavier’s Academy, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy; the two Academies of the Sacred Heart, by the ladies of that {n- stitute; besides several Seminaries conducted by German Sister- hoods. Very many of the Catholic churches of the city are fine and costly edifices—notably the Cathedral of the Holy Name, Church of the Holy Family (Jesuit), St. James’ Church, (Wabash Ave.) St. John’s Church (Clark and 18th,) St. Mary’s, St. Columbkills, St. Anthony's, St. Michael’s, St. Joseph, St. Anne’s, St. Stanislan’s etc. ete. The Catholic charitable institutions, and societies claim a separate chapter, but the limit of space, assigned to this sketch will not admit even the most meager notice. Considering the position and resources of the Catholic popula- tion, it must be admitted that prodigies of religious and charita- ble zeal have been shown in building up and maintaining so many costly institutions devoted to the service of God, and ‘the needs of their fellow creatures. Innumerable temperance, and benevolent societies, the noble Imports and Eaports of Chicago. 127 organization of &t. Vincent de Paul, serve to promote the wel- fare and elevation of the members, and assist the suffering poor of the city. By the eying wish of Bishop Foley, his vicar-general, the Rev. Dr. John McMullen, became the administrator of the dio- cese, an appointment which was subsequently confirmed by the authorities of the chureh. He conducted the affairs of the diocese with signal ability and discretion until the recent appointment and installation of the Most Rev. P. A. Feehan, Archbishop of Chicago, who com- mences his rule under happy auspices, and who alr ready has won the esteem and affection of his people. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF CHICAGO. BY M. E. COLE. The following act, establishing the collection district of Chi- cago, was passed by the Congress of the United States on the 16th day of July, 1846: Be it enacted by the Senate and Louse of Lepresentatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled; That a collection district be and hereby is established upon the western shore of Lake Michigan, to be called the District of Chicago, within which the port of Chicago shall be a port of entry, on the western shore of said lake, from the dividing line of the State of Indiana and Illinois, northward, to the town and river Sheboygan, and inclusive of the same, which are within the territory of Wis- consin. uksd heal, GS decane aeeh supe > 259.74 $ 1,882.26 1848 BALA ee BCR Rt 640.47 1,784.83 1849 BOLO ONE) sae edtu ls ech benans 707.50 2,609.52 1850 ASZSO PGi che daccens Pianos 1,060.55 4,935.21 1851 4 OO 4 Plies ev eeeuesk hex, 176.75 2,816.00 1852 LOG 1 O BBG aa er we teeuene se 577.89 2,400.00 1853 10:86. 46 it oro teetecea bes cte 838.40 2,853.01 1854 BOL SRAIZO Pi jes eserves sedate 1,119.50 5,017.75 1855 673, S2157D. Wl oateaeserepeste ses 1,549.05 7,295.00 1856 205,195.00 $ 872.50 1,826.50 11,971.83 1857 143009 .25 iT eseectwerescoewes 2,151.97 14,586.00 1858 ROTE O14) eee caeks veces eyes 1,598.64 14,097.11 1859 23,131.89 277.00 1,044.67 12,723.00 1860 G8, 919553 nol Seine ctesadpteeens 1,661.13 12,576.00 1861 AD 140535) Gut cusvesech sasece ess 2,137,382 12,525.00 1862 BLO2G 14 iy cethaeserscseee 2,753.67 12,809.35 1863 65,980.59 $ 9,760.13 8,432.10 12,317.45 1864 158,454.92 10,962.97 3,581.70 15,670.00 1865 127,931.74 28,006.60 3,910.02 17,213.00 1866 893,406.55 22,953.85 4,137.06 20,146.40 1867 511,081.89 382,842.78 8,768.55 81,585.40 1868 659,880.73 81,192.72 4,475.64 59,831.83 1869 588,835.71 82,859.07 4,370.50 70,019.82 1870 691,066.82 28,135.07 4,189.89 58,425.30 1871 827,964.81 7,922.08 1,884.42 65,942 00 1872 1,397,395.72 9,434.84 year pi ae G | 100,917.99 1873 2,150,586.382 8,530.56 7,928.66 161,662.39 1874 1,854,645.389 7,959.82 8,214.56 134,981 97 1875 1,447,290.21 3,800.13 7,951.64 121,808.44 1876 1,647,002.17 2,451.46 6,901.89 144,484.10 1877 1,370,079.52 2,096.54 7,112.92 123,818.96 1878 1,497,939.12 2,846.93 7,067.65 98,191.92 1879 1,482,063.56 4,882 06 6,906.66 94,210.48 1880 2,238,537.62 5,882.42 7,529.20 119,682.50 As has been previously stated, the exports direct from Chicago, as shown in the following table, are not complete, and do not give a correct statement of the total or aggregate export business at the port of Chicago, as the only available statistics are those covering exports sent from Chicago on through bills, it being impossible to separate shipments from Chicago which exe) through other custom houses, from the business of that district, thus affording no opportunity for Chicago to know the real magni- tude of its export trade. Imports and Exports of Chicago. 731 The following table shows the value of merchandise exports from Chicago for the years named, as shown in the record of direct and through business from the port: Year | Ending Domestic. Foreign. Total. June 30, | 1856 Do Ai Ri catasks sheescddncieateves save $1,345,223 1857 1,585,096 $ 3808.00 1,585,404 1858 iP 718 00% SLAPS: Ceo “ae Ree 1,713,077 1859 Pe eUt LOD Ow Um UME Meas Side eca'eedvceet esd on enains & 1,269,885 (1860 el Gly Lec Ul Pretec es ess Tavuandeah odes <2. 1,165,183 1861 3,522,343 ean Ge tare sedeueandes exe esa + 8,522,348 1862 Doe diem MEW Uiceveckosaressdess Gotte voce sans 2,303,275 1833 EA OES | ADE ears sh we otis tonhb ace apeteede + « 3,544,085 1864 DulleOOk BPE) Seek sek chameg ends deleckoere vice 8,529,034 1865 BRNO Yn. TOM ltomens beeameteetagetitasree ses 4,590,350 1866 2,636,539 > 7,936.00 2,644,475 1867 1,818,463 5,908.00 1,824,371 1868 6,052,062 caees due ound e¢bedies sis save de << 5,052,062 ‘1869 GoTA2rZDGe WY ES Weasasanectehssateiescreedeeas s 3,742,256 1870 2; 611,678 $ 1,394.00 2,613,072 1871 5,573,660 6,514.00 5,580,174 1872 8,088,629 1,757.00 3,090,886 1873 6,039,125 10,538.00 6,049,668 1874 7,110,0 2,884.00 7,112,986 1875 3,427,759 1,596.00 3,429,355 1876 3,398,847 47,704.00 8,446,551 1877 8,413,373 21,265.00 3,434,638 1878 8,765,855 16,044.00 8,781,899 1879 2,829,582 6,980.00 2,836,562 1880 3,438,671 6,708.00 8,445,879 The following table shows the number and tonnage of vessels built, also the tonnage of vessels documented at the port of Chi- cago, Ill., from August, 1846, to June 30, 1880, inclusive : Year Total Total satel ace Enrolled ~ Pane Pree Tonnage. mera | Srieaneee | Aggregate. BOLT WD fica cateein MRetkr vests scons |. Ovedel Moe doeates 3,951.56 3,951.56 Phar Ren Gao ts aee-pedh | pipe Ske Wi RE Bib ie ae ee rn 10,488.62 10,488.62 1849 13 Pw ANEW SE Ge 25 Ae 5 BEE Mee 17,832.43 17,332.43 1850 13 TeGol sz lel aeesecreesattece AES. a lly 21,242.17 1851 - 4 BO LGsOG We cs. Cadedies foetus 23,103.45 23,103.45 1852 ni LOL Tae Weatevenceasieee ts " 25,209.30 25,209.30 1853 9 PISS So |Biitered. stedcee. 27,015.75 27,015.75 1854 16 05 200.06) Motcccterdcusesees: 31,041.04 31,041.04 1855 iy WE CAZ 21 DIOS semis sete 50,972.00 50,972.00 1856 21 4540447 ee aeee oakete om 57,407 380 57,407.30 1857 9 aD 225 1. febacnlaeses aaah ace 67,316.92 67,316.92 1858 7 BGA IE covert varesccs 67,001.23 67,001.23 1859 3 230.01 1,057.56 67,065.78 68,123.39 DEM Liguve sts etocee tabobetecvire c¥ 1,624.00 77,192.05 78,816.05 732 Vital Statistics of Chicago. " | al ™ Total Total : Registered Enrolled : pacing | Number | cortage, | image, | oud licensed | -Agrepate 1861 4 1 O8.02201 Go. atataeereetens 85,743.66 85,743.66 1862 5 1,411.83 1,100.89 107,256.48 108,357.42 - 1863 85 9,783.18 1,385.59 125,298 76 126,684.40 | 1864 96 11,468.01 9,682.37 150,558.65 160,241.07 1865 84 8,521.07 4,223.31 71,220.55 75,444.41 1866 12 ® 942.385 | 2,569.50 84,115.83 86,685.33 1867 36 1,896.22 521.91 94,814.14 95,336.05 © 1868 29 7,153.80 8,313.61 97,846.36 100,753.71 | 1869 16 2,346.08 2,079.65 101,966.22 104,314.58 1870 15 1,676.67 956.04 92,365.16 93,625.49 1871 12 1,771.49 494.96 93,423.98 93,918.97 1872 6 OZO LLM ces teteeeie ess. 95,195.04 95,195.04 1873 18 4,664.15 8,073.74 102,878.99 106,252.73 1874 14 3,562.98 38,644.27 92,322.20 95,966.47 1875 12 500.89 8,843.06 77,284.24 86,077.30 1876 11 775.93| 11,915.40 76,802.85 88,218.25 1877 6 377.10} 14,980.69 69,885.53 84,866.22 1878 13 612.18| 17,406.48 68,579.97 85,986.45 © 1879 5 180.46] 138,042.61 65,175.92 78,218.53 1880 1 37.04 5,062.96 71,415.06 76,478.02 _VITAL STATISTICS OF CHICAGO. Among the essential conditions necessary to the growth of large cities, a healthy location may be set down as the first and even an indispensable one. Torpid livers are a millstone around the necks of business men, and are a stumbling-block to the progress of any locality whose inhabitants are afflicted by them. Lappily for Chicago, its atmosphere is salubrious, notwithstanding the whole country around is flat. Its elevation above tide-water is 600 feet as an average throughout the city, and from the great plateau on which it stands the general grade of the entire country southward to the Gulf of Mexico declines at the rate of between three and four inches to the mile. ‘To the East, down the coun- try, along the lakes and through the valley of the St. Lawrence, the declination is only a trifle less per mile on the average, the distance to the sea being somewhat greater. Northwardly and westwardly, for about 500 miles, the general level of the country (though varied by gentle slopes and oval ridges to the west, and some precipitous river banks and uplifts to ‘the north) is only a little above that of Chicago, and over this broad surface the wind plays, breathes and ventilates, dissolving and neutralizing any stagnant or dormant accumulation of bad air. Vital Statistics of Chicago. 733 Table showing the number of deaths each year from 1843 to 1879, inclusive: Year. 1845 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 Population. 7,580 8,000 12,088 14,169 16,859 20,023 23,047 28,269 34,434 38,738 60,652 65,872 80,028 84,113 93,000 90,000 95,000 112,172 120,000 138,835 160,000 169,353 178,900 200,418 220,000 252,054 280,000 298,700 Deaths.’ 129 806 313 859 520 580 1,547 1,334 843 1,652 1,205 8,834 1,988 1,897 2,170 2,050 1,826 2,059 2,072 2,578 3,623 4,044 3,663 5,931 4,648 5,984 6,488 7,328 Remarks. Increased mortality due to prevalence of scarlet fever. Scarlet fever prevailed, 66 sé The first record of deaths by City Sexton. First small-pox ‘‘scare’’ occurred this year. Cholera epidemic—678 deaths; one in 36 of the population. Cholera epidemic—--420 deaths. 216 deaths from cholera; small-pox prevails, 630 deaths from cholera, and 9 deaths from small- pox. Only one death from cholera; 54 deaths from dys- entery. Increased mortality mostly due to Cea from which there were 1,424 deaths, Only 147 deaths from cholera; 150 from dysen- tery ; 30 from small: pox. Typhoid and malarial fevers prevalent; 16 deaths from small-pox. Remittent and typhoid fever prevalent ; scarlet fever appears;*dysentery epidemic. Scarlet fever. and Syee Dar s peey ails 66 66 66 Decrease of scarlet fever and increase of diptheria; of the latter 154 deaths occurred. Only 45 deaths from scarlet fever, and 112 from diptheria. 835 deaths from scarlet fever; slight increase from nearly all other causes. 405 deaths from scarlet fever; 115 deaths from small pox; erysipelas prevails. From small-pox, 283 deaths; typhoid fever, 192 deaths; erysipelas, 34 deaths. From small-pox, 57 deaths; typhoid and malarial fever, 330 deaths. Deaths from cholera, 990; typhoid and malarial fevers, 422 deaths. Only 10 deaths from cholera; 123 deaths from small-pox. Small-pox, diarrhceal diseases, scarlet and typhoid fevers prevail. No epidemic influences; increase of deaths due to increased population. No epidemic influences; increase of deaths due to increased population. aad Vital Statistics of Chicago. ee ae eT eT ee Ee ee Re Nn Se ett Cnn ray eee Wee pS See ae Syn PE eS Year, | Pop'la’n. | Death. | ' 1871 . 1872 , 1873 ' 1874 834,270 867,396 380,000 395,409 407,000 420,000 439,976 450,000 480,000 6,976 10,156 9,557 8,025 Remarks, Statistics imperfect in consequence of the destruction of Records by the Great Fire, Oct. 9. 655 deaths from small pox. Increased mortality due to overcrowding of workmen engaged in rebuilding the City. 517 deaths from small pox, and 117 from cholera. No deaths from cholera; 90 from small pox. Principal causes of death, diarrhoea and lung diseases. Scarlet fever and ADS pr se 66 és éé Free from epidemic influences. Diptheria and scarlet fever prevailed; no epidemic. i i tt The population for several of the foregoing years has been es- timated, and, for several, based on directory statistics. The following table ite the nativities of those who died in Chicago in the year 1879: Nativities. Chicago U. S8.—elsewhere Germany {reland Beeeorvessnend eeeceseod Other foreign countries.. Unknown eeeorveornd REMARKS. 4,808 Of the aggregate deaths this year were 4,570 1,423 | males, 4,044 females, 1,915 married, 6,095 911 single, 414 widows, 190 widowers, 8,505 white, 748 | 111 colored. Premature births, 101; still 668 | births, 692. Comparative mortality for the ten years ending 1879, giving the death rate per thousand of population: Year. 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 REMARKS. The death rate for 1879, for New York was 25.82; Brooklyn, 20.49 ; Boston, 19.72: Philadelphia, 17.17; New Orleans, 23.66; San Francisco, 14.18; Baltimore, 19.53. eee The foregoing statistics have been obtained from M. K. Glea- son, M. De Register of Vital Statistics for Chicago. The Calumet Club. 735 ‘HE CALUMET CLUB. lpY F. B. TUTTLE. ' The Calumet Club was organized on the 4th day of April, 1878, at a meeting of gentlemen, who, “being desirous of form- ing a club for social purposes,” had signed a document pledging their personal assistance in the organization of the same. A charter was procured the 138th of "April, the following officers having been elected to serve for the first year:—Pr esident, Gen. Anson Stager; Vice-President, Mr. Chas. J. Barnes; Treasurer and Secretary, bid ys? Tuttle: Directors, the above mentioned officers and Messrs. Chas. W. Drew, Augustus N. Eddy, J. G. Coleman, 8. J. Glover, E. F. Getchell, Edson Keith, and Wm. Chisholm. 3 The large residence on the northeast corner of Michigan Av- enue and 18th Street was secured under a three years lease, and thrown open for an iaspection by members, Monday evening, May 27th, 1878. The formal opening occurred June 3rd, when the club gave its first reception to the members and their | ladies. ‘The reception proved a success in every particular, and the precursor of other equally enjoyable entertainments. In the following October, the Club gave its next reception, when one hundred and thirty meri- torious works of art were displayed on the walls of the Club Hlouse—a rather ambitious undertaking for a six months old Club. The art reception was followed by one given to the State Microscopical Society, the members thereof exhibiting over one hundred instruments with interesting objects. On the 24th of January, 1879, a reception was given to Miss Minnie Hauk, “as a mark of recognition of her efforts on behalf of the sufferers by the Chicago fire.’ In pursuance of a resolution, adopted at the first annual meet- ing of the Club, a reception to the Old Settlers of Chicago, resi- dent prior to 1840, was given on the evening of the 27th of May, 1879, the first anniversary of the opening of the Club House. Jt was indeed a happy thought, to thus honor the men, who by their perseverence and “ go-ahead-ativeness,” had done so much to build up the city. They had made Chicago their home when it was but a small prairie village; had suffered privations incident to a frontier settlement, but had felt sufficient confidence to in- vest such funds as they accumulated, for very few brought 736 The Calumet Club. money with them when they came to the “far West,” in land that sold in 1835 at prices that now seem incredible, as for in- stance, $1.25 an acre for the ground on which the Club House now stands. A syndicate composed of several members of the Club, has just purchased 54 x 1634 feet of this same property, with improvements, at $38,000, with the intention of tearing down the present building, and erecting on the site, one in every way suited to Club purposes, containing in addition to the ordin- ary reception rooms, ete., a large assembly room for art exhibi- tions, concerts, lectures, banquets, etc.; suites of private dining rooms, bowling alleys, and a grand dining room, besides eighteen or twenty rooms for members, the income from which will ma- terially aid in offsetting the interest to be paid on the amount of money invested in the establishment. But to return to the Old Settler’s reception, an occasion that gathered together so many silvered-haired gentlemen that a lady who rode to the Club House with her husband, gazing throngh the open window at the unusual sight in Chicago, actually did her best to persuade her husband not to enter, as “it was a secret society, for they all wore white caps.” The guests at this time were seated in the parlors where they listened to addresses by the Rev. Stephen R. Beggs, who held a service in Fort Dearborn in 1831; Ex-Chief Justice John Dean Caton, “the father of the Chicago bar,” who in his own words “was an old resident of six weeks’ standing before two hundred and fifty inhabitants could be counted to authorize a village incorporation under the general laws of the State;” Judge Henry W. Blodgett, who came to Chicago in 1831, a mere lad, but strong enough to be one of the hundred who bore muskets in old Fort Dearborn, when every man, woman, and child in Illinois north of Ottawa and east of Nock River, were gathered there for safety; Judge James Grant, now of Davenport, Iowa; the Hon. John Wentworth, who has done so much to rescue from oblivion the early history of Chi- cago; Judge Grant Goodrich, who came to Chicago when there were but eight frame buildings in all the territory now covered by the city; the Hon. J. Young Scammon, who in an early day was said to be “crazy on the subject of schools,” and it was added “that the people would not allow their money to be wasted ;” ex-Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bross, who, though not technically an old settler, has been by his writings and researches, more or less identified with early Chicago; and by Henry Strong, Esq., who delivered an address of welcome that was replete with facts per- taining to the past and present of Chicago. The Zribune of the following day says:— “The gathering was called to order at 8:30, by Mr. S. B. Cobb, The Calumet Club. 737 Chairman of the Committee on Reception, o 7 3 5 " 4 and, the programme being completed, the Chair- man further announced that the Old Settlers would adjourn. from business to ]unch. And the old settlers didn’t stay upon the order of their going,. but repaired at once to the lunch-rooms adjoining. In one of these a long table was set with a cold supper of sandwiches, salads, and ices, reinforced by the delicious concoction of the _ fragrant berry. Such as could not get within this room were served in the reading-room. ‘The table in the main supper-room. was rendered additionally attractive by a clever imitation in sugar of Fort Dearborn, placed directly in the centre. After supper, Mark Beaubien got out his fiddle, “rosined” the bow, got the venerable instrument in tune, and in less time than it takes to write it, “Long John” Wentworth had a number of choice spirits under way to the accompaniment of the liveliest kind ot dances. The veterans, ably assisted by some of the young men, who were n’t exactly following out Long John’s advice with re- gard to keeping suth hours as would result in a surplus of corn on their Cobb (no more were the veterans themselves), scampered around at an equally lively rate, and the fun was of the fast and | furious, though innocent, kind that a lot of happy children might . indulge in. In short, it was glorious, and the old fellows, as well as the young fellows—-to whom it must have been a novelty enjoyed it for all it was worth. ‘The festivities were drawn out until some time after midnight, when the gathering broke up, amidst many repetitions of the unanimous verdict that the old settlers’ reception had been an unqualified success,—one far be- yond the most sanguine hopes of its promoters,—and amidst a general wish that the reception might not be the last of its kind.’” The “ general wish” was gratified; as the reception not only proved an occasion of great enjovment, both to the club and its guests, but also caused a renewed interest in the early history of Chicago, it was resolved by the Board of Directors, that such re- ception be given on the third Thursday of May in each year hereafter. The success of the reception was largely due to the Old Settlers’ Committee of the club, who labored energetically to perfect its details and to compile alist of the early residents who were still living. On the 17th of November, Gen. and Mrs. U. S. Grant were received by the Club; and on the 15th of January a Reception was given by the Bachelor Members of the Club. The first reception to the O:d Settlers partook largely of a literary character, and succeeded in awakening a renewed inter- est in matters pertaining to early Chicago, and in causing many publications relating thereto, among others, a pamphlet contain- AT 738 The Calumet Club. ing the speeches made at the reception, and a record of the Old Settlers who registered that evening. The register was not as complete as it was hoped it would be, many of the elder gentle- men having been obliged to leave the reception before the speeches were concluded. On the cecasion of the second annual reception to the Old Settlers, many names were added to the re- cord, which is particularly interesting, as the dates, etc., were writ- ten by the parties themselves, with the exception of Mr. Oliver C. Crocker’s, of Binghampton, N. Y., who came to the Club House one morning in July, 1879, to register, and before doing so, asked the pr ivilege of resting a few ‘moments on the lounge, as he felt ill. Ile grew rapidly worse and died the second day after. The dates were afterward supplied by his family. The following are the NAMES OF THE OLD SETTLERS OF CHICAGO, WHO CAME PRIOR TO 1840, REGISTERED AT THE CALUMET CLUB. NAME. Adams, Charles Adams, William H. Adsit, James M. Ailen, Edward R. Allen, Thomas, Arnold, Isaac N. Batchelor, Ezra, Bailey, Bennet, Baker, Franklin, Baldwin, William A. Balsley, John, Bascom, Flavel, Bates, John, Beaubien, Mark, Beecher, Jerome, Beggs, Stephen R. Berden, Nicholas, Blackman, Edwin, Blarsy, Barnhard, Blake S. Sanford, Blodgett, Henry W. Boone, Levi D. Botsford, Jabez K. Bowen, Erastus S. Bradley, David, Bradwell, James B. Brookes, Henry, 3rown, Lemuel, Bryan, Frederick A. Burley, Arthur G. Burley, Augustus H. Burnet, Gen. Ward B. Campbell, James, Carter, Thomas B. Carpenter, Abel E. Carpenter, Philo, Jastle, Edward H, ' Caton, John Dean, Chacksfield, Geo. Church, William L. Clarke, Henry W. ‘Clarke, L. J. Couch, James, Clarke, Norman, Cobb, Silas B. DATE OF ARRIVAL. 1835, Sept. 1837, Sept. 1838, April 2. 1839, July. 1835, Oct. 1836, Oct. 1837, June 4, 1834, Auzust, 1838, May, 1836, June 13, 1839, 1833, July, 1832, May 20, 1826, 183838, July 1, 1851, June, 1337, Sept. 1839, May, 1837, June, 1834, June 15, 1837, June, 1836, May 31, 1833. 1833. 1835, Oct. 1834, June, 1833, Oct. 1833, Feb. 1836, Oct. 1835, May 11, 1837, May 25, ee Aug. 1836, May, 1838, Sept. 1833, June, 1839, May, 1833, June, 1835, Nov. 1836, May 16, 1838, June, 1836, 1836, 1835, 1833, May 29, BIRTHDAY. Norwalk, Conn. Westport, Conn. Spencertown, N. Y.. Cortland, N. Y. Broome Co., INgeX Hartwick, N. ie Paxton, Mass. Harford Co., Md. Watertown, N. Y. Austerlitz, N. Y. Pennsylvania. Lebanon, Conn. Fishkill,N. Y. ¢ Detroit, Mich. Remsen, N. Y. Rockingham Co., Va. Germany. Jericho, Vermont. Germany. Burlington, Vt. Massachusetts. Lexington, Ky. Connecticut, New York. Groton, N. Y. England. England. Cumberland, R. I. England. Exeter, Nee Exeter, N. H. Pennsylvania. Northumberland}Co., Pa, New Jersey. Savoy. Mass. Massachusetts. Dutchess Co., N. Y. Vermont, New York, Vermont. Montpelier, Vt. AGE. PRESENT ADDRESS. 65 Norwalk, Conn. 64 Chicago. 70 Chicago. 61 Aurora, Ill. 70 Chicago. 64 104 Pine Street, Chicago. 59 Milwaukee. 68 Chicago. 62 Chicago. 71 26314 111. Street, Chicago. 66 Chicago, 76 Hinsdale, 1. 76 Chicago. 79 Newark, Kendall Co., Til. 61 Chicago. 78 Plainfiel dh IOUE 76 Englewood, Till. 64 Chicago. 69 Chicago. 63 Racine, Wis. 57 Waukegan, 70 Chicago. 66 Chicago, 64 Chicago. 69 Chicago. 51 Chicago. 59 Hyde Park, TIl. 96 Kenwood, Iil. 59 Chicago. 66, Chicago. 60 Chicago. 70 New York City. 70 Chicago. 62 Chicago. 65 Aurora, Ill. 74 Chicago. 69 Chicago. 67 Ottawa, Ill. 70 Chicago. 62 Kenwood, Il. 64 Chicago. 51 Chicago. 79 Chicago. 71 Racine, Wis. 67 Chicago, NAME. Cleaver, Charles, Cook, Isaac, Crocker, Oliver C. Densmore, Eleazer W. DeWolf, Calvin, Dodge, Martin, Dodge, W.S. Dodson, Christian B. Doty, Theodorus, Drummond, Thomas, Dyer, G. R Eastman, L. Egan, Wiley M. Elliott, James F. D. Ellithorpe, Albert C. Fergus, Robert, Ferguson, Andrew, Flood, Peter F. Follansbee, Charles, Freeman, Robert, Freer, L. C. Paine, Gale, Abram, Gale Stephen F. Gates, Phi.etus W. ° Germain, George H. Gilbert, Samuel H. Goodrich, Grant, Goodrich, T. W. Goold, Nathaniel, Graff, Peter, Granger, Elihu, Grannis, Amos, Grant, James, Gray, Franklin D. Gray, George M. Gray, John, Gray, Joseph H. Gray, William B. H. Hadduck, Edward H. Haines, E. M. Hall, Philip A, Hamilton, Polemus D. Hanchett, John L. Harmon, E. R. Harmon, Issaac N. Hawley, John S, Herrick, Charles, Hickling. William, Higgins, Eben, Higgins, Van H. Hilliard, Lorin P. Hoard, Samuel, Hoffman, Michael, Holden, Charles N. Holden, James, Hollinshead, Wm. Hooker, Jas. L. Horton, Dennison, Howe, Frederick A. Huntington, Alonzo, Hoyne, Thomas, Hubbard, Gurdon §. Jones, Nathaniel A. Kehoe, Michael, Kellogg, Artemas B. Killick, I. E Kimball, Mark, Kimball, Martin N. Kimball, Walter, King, Tuthill, Knickerbocker, H. W. Lane, Elisha B. Lane, James, Lange, Oscar, Laflin, Mathew, Lathrop, Sam, J. } The Calumet Club. DATE OF ARRIVAL BIRTHPLACE, 1833, Oct. 23, 1834, February, 1834. June, 1835, Sept. 1837, Oct. 31, 1838, April, London, England, New Jersey. Union, N. Y, Paris, N. Y. Luzerne Co., Penn, Salt Point, N. Y. 1839, May, Salt Point, N. Y. 1833, August, Burwick, Penn, 1837, New York. 1835, May, Bristol, Maine. 1835, Nov. Clarendon, N. Y. 1839, April, Amherst, Mass. 1836, Nov. Ballston, N. Y. 1838, May 30, 1839, April 1, 1839, July 1, 1836, April, 1835, June, 1836, May 9, New York. St. Albans, Vt. slasgow, Scotiand, ° Laurens, N. Y Ireland. Massachusetts, 1838, Pennsylvania. 1836, May, Auburn, N. Y:! 1835, May 22, Warwick, Mass, 1835, May, Exeter, N. H. 1837, June, Madison Co., N. Y. 1839, New York, 1836, June, Bristol, England, 1834, New York, 1832, Benson, N. Y. 1838, July, New Hampshire, 1836, Sept. 10, Albany, N.Y. 1836, New Hampshire, 1836, New York, 1834, a 23, Enfield, N orth Carolin 1839, Sep. Sharon, Conn. 1834. June, Sherborn, N. Y. 1837, New York, 1836, July, Boston, Mass. 1837, Sept. Boston, Mass. 1833, May, Salisbury, N. H. 1835, May, Oneida, N. Y. 1836, June 4, New York, 1834, New York, 1835, June, New York, 1833, Aug. Fredonia, N. Y. 1833, Aug. 3, Fredonia, N. Y. 1837, May, Ridgefield, Conn. 1837, April, Westford, Mass. 1835, March, England, 1836, April, Jamestown, N. Y. 1837 New York, 1836, May, 1836, Oct, 18, Unadilla Forks, N. Y. Westminster. Mass. 18387, Oct. Germany, 1887, New York, 1839, May, Springfield, N. Y. 18: 36, May, Stroudsberg, Pa. 1834, June, Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y. 1836, Aug. Connecticut. 1854, July, Buffalo, N. Y. 1835, Vermont, 1837, Sept. 1, 1818, Oct. 1, 1838, Sept. 1839, May, 1838, Nov. 1836, Sept. 1839, Sept. 1836, Oct. 1833, Sept. New York, Windsor, Vt. Rutland, Vt. Ireland, London, sa: renesee Co, N Saratoga, N. Y, Rome, N. Y. EG . 1835, April, New York 1§33, Oct. New York, 1836, New Hampshire, 1836, Ireland, 1838, Sept. Gothenberg, Sweden, "1837, May, Southwick, Mass. 1834) Sept. Providence, R. I. a, 66 139 AGE, PRESENT ADDRESS, 64 Chicago. 76 St. Louis. 68 Binghampton, N. Y. 58 Chicago. 64 Chicago, 64 Montague, Mich, 66 LaFayette, Ind. 69 Geneva, Il. 77 Chicago. 69 Winfield, T1. 67 Joliet, Til. 65 Maywood, 1 Chicago, 55 Mattoon, d 00 Chicago. Chicago. 77 Geneva Lake, Wis. Chicago. Chicago. Naperville. Chicago. Galewood. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. 333 Walnut St., Chicago. Chicago. Milwaukee. Jhicago. 4 Chicago. Kaneville. Chicago. Davenport, Iowa, 61 Chicago, 60 Chicago, 68 Jefferson, 67 Hyde Park. 58 Chicago. | 68 Chicago. Waukegan, Ills, 60 Chicago. 65 Chicago. 73 Chicago. 62 Chicago. 52 Chicago. 59 Aurora, Il. 66 Racine, Wis. 65 Chicago. 64 Chicago, 58 Kenwood. 64 Chicago, 80. 205 Morgan St., Chicago. C ‘hicago. Chicago. Elkhorn, Wis Watertown,N.Y. Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, 243 White St., Chicago. Chicago. 390 W. 12th St., Chicago, Chicago. Southport. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Naperville, Chicago. 75 Chicago. 69 Chicago. 77 Chicago. 68 Bristol, 11. 54 740 NAME, Lock, William, Loomis, Henry, Loomis, Horatio G. Manierre, Edward, Marshall, James A. The Calumet Club. DATE OF ARRIVAL. 1839, 1836, Feb. 1834, May 8, eo Aug. 4, MeDaniels, Alexander, Hes May 27, 1836 McDonnell, Chas. McFarran, Jno. H. McNeill, Geo. Metz, Christopher, Mills, John R. Milliken, Isaac L. Miltimore, Ira, Mohr, M Morrison, Daniel, Morrison, Ephriam, Morrison, Ezekiel, Mueller, Jacob, Murphy, James K. Murray, R. N. Myrick, Willard F. Noble, John, Ogden, Mahlon D. Oliver, John A. Osborn, A. L. Osborn, William, Otis, Seth T. Page, Peter, Patterson, J. G. Parker, John, Peacock, Elijah, Peacock, Joseph, Peck, Charles E. Pierce, Asahel, Plum, W. V. Poole Porter, Hibbard, Powers, William G. Price, Cornelius, prindiville, J ohn, Prindiville, Redmond, Xand, Socrates, Raymond, Benj. W. Reader, D. L. Rees, James H. ex tord, Stephen, Richards, James J. Rodgers, ‘Edward K. tooney, William, Rumsey, George F. Rumsey, Julien §S. Satterlee, M. L. sawyer, Sidney, Seammon, J. Young, Scott, Willis, Seott, Willard, Scoville, William H. Sherman, Alanson_S. Sherman, Ezra L. Sherman, J. S. Sherman, Oren, Skinner, Mark, Smith, David S. Snowhook, Wm. B. Sollitt, John, Stearns, Marcus C. Steele, James W. Stewart, Hart L. Stow, W. H Stubbs, S. A. Sturtevant, Austin D. sullivan, Eugene, Surdam, Samuel J. Taylor, Augustine D. Taylor, Edmund D. April, 1837, April, 1837, June, 1837, Oct. 1839, 1837, June 17, 1831, June, 1836. June’ 14, 1839 June, 1835, July, 1834, May 1, 1837, January, 1837, June 12, 1836, October, 1837, October, BIRTHPLACE, Philadelphia, Burlington, Vt. Burlington, Vt. New London, Conn. London, Eng. Kath, N. Y. Treland, Whitehall N. Y. England, Baden, Germany, Connecticut, Saco, Maine, AGE. PRESENT ADDRESS. 66 Chicago. 62 Burlington, Vt. 64 Naperville. 66 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 70 Chicago. 64 Willmette. 71 Chicago. 67 Chicago. 62 Chicago. 57 Chicago. 65 Chicago. 63 Chicago. Verm’t, [died June 10,’79]66 J anesville, Wis. Switzerland, New York, Oneida Co., N. Y. New York, Rochbach, Ger. Ireland, Washington, N. Y. Bridgeport, Conn. Yorkshire, England. Walton, Dela. Ca.2Ni YY. Elizabeth, Union Co. ANE W atertown, Conn. , Ridgefield, Conn. Watertown, N. Y. Pompey, N. Y. Newburg, N. Y. Boston, Mass. 1837, September, England. 1830 England. 1836, November, Montpelier, Vt. 1833; October 8, East Calais, Vt. 1836, July, 1831, October, 1833, September, Jefferson Co , 1835, , May, New York City. Philadelphia. iN. & Auburn, N. Y. 1836, September, New York City. 836, Ireland. 1836, August 23, Ireland. 1834, February, 1836, June 5, 1833, July, Wendell, Mass. Rome, Oneida Co., Milton, Pa. 1834, August f1, Stroudsburg, Pa. 1833, June 27, 1835, July, Charlotte, Vt. Salina, N. Y. 1835, November, Ipswick, Mass. 1837, May,’ 1836, June 14, 1835, July 28, 183 9; 1839, May, Treland. Troy. N. Y. Batavia, N. Y. Litchfield, Conn. Albany N. has 1835, September, Whitereld, Maine. 1826, New York. 1826, August 26, New York, 1837, May, New York. 1836, N ovember 1,Vermont. 1856, Newton, Conn. 1834, September, Newtown, ING Ye 1836, Nov. 1, 1836,"July, 1836, May, 1838, 1836, August, 1836,’ Nov. 7, 1832, 1834, July, 1838, July, 1837, Mareh: 1839, May, 1833, June, 1835, April, Vermont. Manchester, Vt. Camden, N. J. Treland. York, England. Naples, N. Y. New York. New York. Utica, N. Y. State of New Jersey. Thettord, Vt. Treland. Troy, N. Y. Hartford, Conn. Virginia. EN AEN 7a Watertown, Wis. 59 Chicago. 64 Chicago. 68 Chicago. 68 Chicago. 54 Chicago. 64 Naperville. 69 Chicago. 76 743 Sedgw’k St.,Chicago. 67 Elmhurst, 111. 64 Chicago. 64 Laporte, Ind. 67 Chieago. 67 Ann Arbor, Mich. 64 Chicago. 63 Vernon, tik 70 Hinsdale, Mich. 62 Chicago. 66 Chicago. 64 Chicago. 66 Chicago. 66 Aurora, Tl. 75 149 W.Wash. St.,Chicago. 72 Chicago.Died May 30,79 65 Chicago. 59 Chicago. 54 Chicago. 538 Chicago. 76 Des Plaines, Il. 77 Calumet Ave., Chicago. 68 Chicago. 66 Chicago. 75 Blue rand: Ih. 54 Evanston. 66 359 Ontario St., Chicago. 67 Chicago. 59 Chicago. 56 Chicago. 65 Chicago. 68 301 Ontario St., Chicago. 66 Hyde Park. 69 Chicago. 71 Naperville. 56 Chicago. 68 Waukegan, 61 Riverside. 61 Northfield, Ill. 63 E. Van Buren Street. 65 Chicago. 63 Chicago. 64 Chicago. Z 65 Chicago. 63 Chicago. 71 Chicago. 76 Chicago. 72 Chicago. 71 Chicago. 63 Chicago. 68 Chicago. 62 Chicago. 84 Chicago, 76 Chicago. NAME. t Taylor, L. D. fs Taylor, W. H. Tripp, Robinson, Turner, John, Tuttle, Frederick, Vail, Walter, VanNortwick, John, VanOsdel, John M. Wadhams, Seth, Waite, George W. Walter, Joel C. Watlon, Nelson C. Wayman, Samuel, Wentworth, John, Whitehead, Henry, Wilcox, Sextus N. Willard, Alonzo J. Williams, Eli B. Wilson, John L. Winship, James. Wolcott, Alexander, Wood, Alonzo C., Wright, Freeman G. Wyman, William, Yates, Horace H. The Calumet Club. DATE OF ARRIVAL. 1834, June, 1834, June, 1834 1835, April, 1836, January 3, 18389, April, 1837 1837, June 9, 1835, July 4, 1839, Nov. 15, 1837, June, 1834, January, 1833, August, 1836, October 25, 1833, September, 1839, October, 1838, September, 1833, April, 1834, May, 1826, November, 1834, June 4, 1834, August, 1832, September, 1837, June, 1838, March 14, BIRTHPLACE, Hartford, Conn. Newport, Conn. Vermont. Philadelphia, Pa, ! New York. zt Rahway, N. J. New York. Baltimore. Goshen, Conn. * Walcott Village N. Y. Goshen, Conn. Essex County, N. Y. England. Sandwich, N. H. Chatham, England. Stockbridge. Lancaster, N. H. Tolland, Conn. New York City. Palmyra, N. Y. Middletown, Conn. Farnham, L. C. Shaftsburg, N. Y. England. New York. AGE, 58 Chicago. 71 Brooklin, Miss, 74 Chicago. 72 Chicago. 70 Chicago. 65 Newburg, N. Y, 70 Kane Co.,, Ill. 67 Chicago. 66 Elmhurst, Il. 60 Hyde Park. 68 Chicago. 63 San Francisco, Cal. 69 Chicago. 64 Chicago, 68 Chicago. 53 Chicago, 62 Chicago. 80 Chicago. 65 Chicago. 53 Chicago. 64 Chicago. 69 Granby, P. Q. 78 Racine, Wis. 62 Chicago. 64 Chicago. PRESENT ADDRESS, +Registered at the first reception or prior to the second. *Deceased. The second reception was less formal and more social in its character, a greater opportunity being given to renew old ac- quaintances, at least one instance occurring of two former room- mates meeting, who had not seen each other for forty years. After prayer by the Kev. Flavel Bascom, of Hinsdale, IIl., an address of welcome was delivered by the President of the club, Gen. Anson Stager, and responded to by Judge Blodgett. Music of “ye olden time” was dispensed by Mark Beaubien, and that of the present day by the Chicago Quartette. Supper was served in the three billiard rooms, the central ornament being a floral ship, the “Illinois,” named after the first schooner that entered the Chicago River. Some difference of opinion existed among the old settlers in reference to the first vessel having been the “Illinois,” but Mr. James L. Hooker, who was a passenger on the “Illinois,” wrote under date of May, 15, 1880, from Watertown, N. Y., that he wished to correct a statement made at thie first old settlers’ reception, that the first schooner to enter the river was the “Ariadne,” but that it was the “Illinois,” Captain Pickering. Believing that, as he says, he “knows whereof he writes,” it was decided to put the name “Tllinois” on the side of the floral [ship, for if the schooner was not the “Illinois” it ought to have been. Besides the above mentioned letter, there were a great many other interesting ones received, recalling events that occurred in the early days of Chi- cago. ‘These letters are mounted in an album for preservation, and are highly prized by the Club. Among those that have already been published, was one from Mr. A. F. Clarke, now 742 The Calumet Club. living in Marietta, Georgia, giving a brief account of the first club ever organized in Chicago. It was formed in the winter of 1836-7, and was called the Pickwick Club, the members assum- ing the names of Dickens’ characters.’ The Calumet Club closed its first year, with a membership of two hundred and twenty-seven, and with $2.500 invested in government bonds. The second fyear the members numbered three hundred and sixty, and the bonds amounted to $5,000, par value, with $3,540.92. cash on hand. At the present time the membership is nearly four hundred, ‘and the surplus funds a- mount to $13,000. The club proposes to make a special feature of its library, and especially of matters pertaining to early Chi- cago. In addition to possessing a number of books relating to the city that are now out of print, the club has acquired by gift, about two hundred cabinet-size photographs of the Old Settlers, a file of the Chicago American for the winter of 1839-40, and a map of Chicago in 1834, by J. 8. Wright. The old settlers committee has lost during the past year, a member that was highly esteemed by all who knew him, Mr. James H. Rees. The committee as at present constituted, con- sists of the following gentlemen: Silas B. Cobb, Horatio G. Loomis, Arthur G. Burley, Frederick Tuttle, Marcus C. Stearns, Joel C. Walter, Mark Kimball, Jerome Beecher and Franklin D. Gray. ‘ The present officers of the Club are Gen. Anson Stager, Presi- dent; Mr. Edson Keith, ist Vice President; Mr. A. G. Van Schaick, 2nd Vice President; Mr. F. B. Tuttle, Secretary and ‘Treasurer; and Messrs. W. F’. Blair, Alfred Cowles, J. W. Doane, Chas. W. Drew, Jas. B. Goodman, Edson Keith, X. L. Otis, R. L. Perry, Anson Stager, F. B. Tuttle, and A. G. Van Schaick, Directors. The success of the Club is due in a great measure, to the general spirit of concord that has existed among the mem- bers. May they continue to 7 “Smoke the Calumet, the Peace-Pipe; And as brothers live henceforward.” Western Associated Press. %43 THE WESTERN ASSOCIATED PRESS. Although the electric telegraph is to-day the indispensable auxiliary of the Associated Press, yet news had been collected, transmitted and published through individual and associated effort for several years prior to the establishment of the Morse line between Washington and Baltimore. ‘To the success of the news enterprise of James Gordon Bennett of the Wew York LTerald, from 1835 to 1842 ean be traced the origin of the Asso- ciated Press. It is related that one morning atter the Herald had published some exclusive news, a knock was heard at the door of the editorial rooms of that paper. “Come in! answered the editor. The tall, gaunt figure of David Hale (of the Journal of Commerce) entered. One of the magnates of Wall street journalism was in the office of a despised penny paper! But Hale was a practical man. He saw the handwriting plainly enough. There was very little circumlocu- tion about him. ““» at New York for the Associated Press at an additional ost of $10 a week to each paper. During the campaign the Zrwune paid out about $100 a week for specials. The war caused this to multiply two or three times, say $250 per week—about the present average of a day. Zhe total cost of issuing the Trrsune in 1855 was about $50,000, and for the year 1880 considerably over $500,000. The revenue has increased at a greater ratio, and the Zribune is to- day one of the most profitable newspapers in the world. Wilbur F. Storey purchased the Chicago 7imes in 1862, and I believe paid about $12,500 for it. The following approximate statement will give a good idea of its growth: 1862—Cost of telegraphic news about............4-- $ 10,000 OE ie ec SCL BES! DO Uiiea eine ar sgt or has ot sta B ke de oie 60,000 $ 70,000 Je ioeoat of teleoraphic NEWS... uc cd sees ated» ae $ 73,000 CA VARRET Te). TIE AP Oe OR BS oes Pty eee ee Pe Oe 460,000 $533,000 Pi Gost of telecraphi¢ neways... 2... a 5. es dee $ 85,000 Cle omex pelea ares aie tata a ok ad as w cle signe 440,000 $525,000 Telegraphic rates were less in 1879 than in former years, and so of white paper and other expenses. In 1880, expenditures and receipts fae both been much larger than they were in 1879. Mr. Storey has put a value of $1,500,000_on his newspaper es- tablishment. In 1869, the members of the Western Associated Press paid the Western Union Telegraph Company for tolls on specials, $175,501.23. The same papers during the year ending June 30, 1880, received the enormous amount of 29,627,884 words of special news, for which they paid for tolls, the sum of $353,672.- 39. They paid out also for whatis known as “ Regular,” or As- sociated Press Report, $141,901.82. Thus the papers of the Northwest and of the States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkan- sas, paid nearly one-half of the amount collected of the press of 750 Western Associated Press. the United States, by the Western Union Telegraph Company. During the same period, the papers of the New York Associated Press, paid the Tel. Co. for specials, $195,216.62, and for “ Regu- lar” dispatches transmitted to New York, $62,953.91. The above figures do not include the cost of collecting and editing, which was about as much more. The reports of the Western Associated Press are collected at two great centres—New York and Cincinnati,—and the other large cities, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Louisville, Nashville and Memphis, re- ceive on circuits. This report sent from New York, passes through a repeater at either Cleveland or Pittsburgh, to Cincin- nati and Chicago simultaneously. The latter repeats to Mil- waukee, St. Paul, etc., and the former to Indianapolis and St. Louis on one circuit, and to Louisville, Nashville, and Memphis on another. The report collected at Cincinnati, is relayed on the circuits before mentioned, and on another circuit for Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit. At Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Mil- waukee, and St. Louis, condensed reports are prepared and sent out on other wires to the papers of the interior cities. Reportis also made up at Cincinnati for New York, and at Chicago for Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake, Sacramento and San Francisco. Wm. Henry Sirs. The Chicago Law Institute. 751 THE HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO LAW INSTITUTE. BY HON. ELLIOTT ANTHONY. In the year 1852 I came to reside in the city of Chicago, hav- ing been admitted to the bar at Oswego, New York, in June, 1851. I had but very few books and felt the need of works of reference every day. The firm of Scammon & McCagg had at that time by far the largest library of anybody in town, and their office was constantly resorted to by members of the profession to consult their books, and access to them was neverrefused. They were very kind to young men, but those of us who were just starting out in life thonght it would be much better to have a public library, which should be open to all and which should be obtained by aggregating our capital. I broached the subject to a number of my acquaintences and associates, and they all agreed that it was a proper thing to do, and ought to be done. Some time before this, a voluntary association had been formed for the establishment of a Law Library, and was actually in ex- istence, and they had procured a few books, but it had fallen into decay, and many volumes which had belonged to’sets of reports and treatises had disappeared, so that it did not amount to much. I had heard of the New York Law Institute, which had been founded by Chancellor Kent, and ascertained {that it was an in- corporated institution, and was in successful operation, and [ resolved to visit New York and investigate it. Acvordingly, in the summer of 1855 or 1856, I went to New York and called at the rooms of the Institute, which were at that time in the old City Hall, and examined its charter and by- laws, and all of its workings. I found that it had been chart- ered by a special act of the General Assembly of the State of New York, was a stock company, that its shares were 100 dollars each, which the subscribers paid in installments extending over some three or four years, and that said shares were subject to-a yearly assessment of 25 dollars. It was at that time in a most flourishing condition and had on its roll of members all of the leading lawyers in the city. They did not, at that time, have any printed copies of either the charter or by-laws, and as I did not have time to copy them, returned without them. In the spring of 1857, I think Sand- ford B. Perry, Esq., came here from Boston to practice his pro- fession, and we formed a partnership. He came on first to look over the town before locating perma- 752 The Chicago Law Institute. nently, and the matter of establishing a public Law Library was broached to him, and he became interested in the project and on lis return East procured copies of the charter of the old Athe- néum and some other libraries, and when he came back brought them with him. The provisions of these charters and by-laws were examined, but did not suit either of us, and I accordingly resolved to write for a copy of the charter and by-laws of the New York Law Institute. I wrote to Alexander Spaulding, Ksq., late Judge of the Marine Court of the city of New York, whom I knew as a fellow-graduate of Hamilton College. In due. time the charter and by-laws came to hand, and, to my surprise, made a large package, and with them a bill for copying of some twenty-five dollars. This was to me, at that time, a large sum: of money. After some delay, I got together the amount, enclosed it ina letter and sent it to Mr. Spaulding, but it was lost in the mail, and I had to make it up. The Legislature was to hold a session in the winter of 1857, and Mr. Perry and myself set to work to draw up a charter. Judge John M. Wilson at that time was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Van H. Higgins had been elected a member of the lower House. It was thought that if their names were put in as corporators that it would stand a better chance of pass- ing than if obseure and unknown names were inserted. Accord- ingly they were fixed upon as corporators and finally my own name was added as a mere make-weight, as I was wholly un- known. After a considerable deliberation, the charter of the New York Law Institute was adopted as a model, and the act of incorpora- tion drawn up. As I had never been to Springfield or seen any legislative body, I resolved to visit Springfield and see to its passage. : I accordingly visited Springfield, explained the matter to Mr. Higgins and other members of the General Assembly and it was introduced, and put upon its passage. I kept watch of the proceedings, but the session was wearing away and I could not learn anything of its fate, although assured that it would finally pass. Tearing, however, that it might be buried beneath the vast number of private bills—which at that time absorbed almost the entire time of the Assembly—I again went to Springfield to see about it, and on the 18th day of Feb- ruary, 1857, was present when the final roll-call was made. I went with the Engrossing Clerk to the Governor, saw it signed, and procuring a certified copy of the same from the Secretary of State returned home with it. In 1857-8 the new Court House was in the process of erection, and I was very anxious to have a The Chicago Law Institute. 753. room set apart for the future library. Hon. Charles B. Farwell was at that time County Clerk and potent in all county matters, and with his aid and assistance a room was assigned the Library, although not a book had been purchased and the Institute had not even been organized. The room was a large one, with an alcove looking out upon Randolph street. Nobody but Mr. Farwell, myself and the building committee knew anything about this. assignment of the room, and things progressed favorably until! one day the Board of Supervisors came together, inquired into: the matter and resolved to change everything, cut up the room: and give the alcove to the Coroner. Mr. Farwellisent for me and I used all my powers to persuade them not to do it, but they were incorrigible. Finally, in despair, I went to Judge Manierre and told him what was up, and he immediately adjourned his court and went for the Board individually and collectively, and after a great deal of argument and persuasion, order was restored, the partition which had been set up to separate the alcove from the main room was taken down and things restored as they were ante bellum. The Institute was in due time properly organized, with Judge John M. Wilson as President, Van H. Higgins, Vice-President, and myself as Secretary. Judge Manierre took a great interest in the matter, advanced the money to buy carpets and tables, and fit up the rooms, and gave it his support till the day of his death. An arrangement was made with themembers of the Old Law Library, by which we took their books and gave them stock in the new corporation. A part of the money which I had to pay for the charter and by- laws of the New York Law Institute, was allowed me, and the Institute grew in favor, and books were purchased as the funds were supplied by subscription to the stock. The charter was a liberal one, and contained all the powers necessary for such an institution, and in October, 1871, contained about 7,000 volumes, which were valued at about $30,000. All this collection was de- stroyed by the great fire of the 8th and 9th of October, 1871, to- gether with the court house. We immediately undertook the task of restoring it. In this we were most generously aided by gifts from personal and professional friends in all parts of the country. Through the influence of Governor Hoffman, of New -York, we received from the State of New York, a complete set of all the New York reports, and from the State of Indiana, a full set of their reports. From a report for the year 1871, now lying before me, I extract the following: «The annual meeting of the Institute, required by its by-laws to be held on the first Monday in November, in each year, was duly called. T54 The Chicago Law Institute. “Tt convened November 6, 1871, within the shattered walls of the court house, in the ruins of the county court room, adjacent to the late library rooms of the Institute. ‘Smoke still rose from the ruins of the city, and the delibera- tious of the meeting were more than once interrupted by the fall- ing of crumbling portions of the masonry of the court room. The meeting was lar ve and the interest profound. Upon full and earnest discussion it was determined forthwith to relay the foun- dations of the library, and as speedily as practicable to re- store the Institute to the degree of usefulness it had attained before the fire. To that end, an assessment for the current year, amounting to one-fourth of ‘the par value of the stock of the sharehol ders, was levied; a liberal provision for the admission of new members was adopted, and its affairs were committed to the charge of a board of managers, selected from among the most eminent members of the profession.” ILaving been instrumental in founding th» institute originally, it was thought best that I should try my hand at it again, and I was accordingly elected President, and set about the ‘task of re- founding it. Rooms were, after a considerable delay, procured in the new structure, erected by the city at the corner of Adams and LaSalle streets, where it has remained ever since. ‘The Bar took a great interest in restoring the library, and to-day it has about 18,000 volumes. It has had for its Presidents, Judge John M. Wilson, Judge Walter B. Scates, Judge George Manierre, Hon. Van H. Higgins, Elliott Anthony, Judge W. K. McAllister, Hon. Wm. H. King, Hon. James P. Root, John M. Rountree, John N. Jewett, Charles W. Reed, George Payson, Lambert Tree, Sidney Smnith, Julius Rosenthal, Robert Hervey and George Gardner. Julius Rosenthai was for years the librarian, ‘and to him the institute is greatly indebted for the judicious care exercised by him in the purchasing and procuring of books, and the members of the Institute, in order to show their appreciation of his ser- vices, did, at the annual election in 1879, vote him an honorary meinber for life. Among those who took a prominent.part in the organization of the Institute were Sanford B. Per ry, George Manierre, James P. Root, William H. King, John A. Thompson. and Ita Scott. The number of members of the Institute at the present time is 406.