Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 19: Steel-frame buildings in Chicago
Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, revealed some of the amazements of the world beyond British Columbia…
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This is from “Kamloops Wawa” #131 (August 1895), page 116.
Here’s what the newspaper told its readers about these pictures, which you’ll learn were marvels in 1895, an era when Chicago was more highly developed than New York City:
Iakwa msaika nanich mokst aias haws kopa Chikago:
‘Here you folks see two big buildings in Chicago;’klaska komtaks mamuk aias sahali haws kopa Shikago.
‘they know how to build really tall buildings in Chicago.’Ukuk haws iakwa iaka drit sahali, klunas
‘This house here is very tall, about’<350> fut. Ilo stik haws ukuk, ilo
‘350 feet. This isn’t a wooden building; it’s not’ston haws ukuk. Chikmin haws ukuk,
‘a stone building. It’s a metal building,’stil haws ukuk. <X> Kikuli klaska mamuk
‘a steel building. Underneath they make’flor kopa chikmin(,) stil. Klaska iskom ayu rils
‘a floor from metal, steel. They take lots of rails’kakwa ril rod iaka rils, klaska mamuk klaska
‘like the rails of a railroad; they put them’
kanamokst pus mamuk skukum flor. Wiht
‘together to make a strong floor. Also’sahali kopa ukuk klaska mamuk iht wiht
‘on top of that they make another’flor, drit kakwa, pi wiht iht: tlun stil
‘floor, just like that, and still another; three steel’ril flor. Iawa klaska mamuk stil post,
‘rail floors. Then they make steel posts,’stil iktas pus mamuk sahali ukuk haws
‘steel items to raise that building;’kanawi iaka stil, pi sahali kopa ukuk
‘it’s all steel; and on top of that’stil, klaska mamuk mitlait aias tlus ston,
‘steel, they put beautiful stone,’kakwa glas, kakwa marbl, ilo stik; kakwa
‘like glass, like marble, not wood; so,’wik kata chako paia ukuk haws. Drit aias
‘that building can’t catch fire. It’s a very big’haws: ilip ayu kopa <1 000> rum mitlait
‘building; more than 1,000 rooms are’kopa ukuk haws, pi klunas msaika wawa
‘in that building, and you might ask,’Pi kata tilikom klatwa sahali ukuk haws?
‘ “Well how do people get up into that building?” ‘Klunas aias til lipii iht man, pi iaka
‘A person might have awful tired feet when they’tlap kopa sahali. Wik kakwa. Klaska mitlait
‘get to the top. It’s not like that. They have’kakwa ril rod, iaka nim ilivitor, drit tanas
‘something like a railroad, called an elevator, a really small’ril rod, mitlait kar, mitlait tikit man, pi tilikom
‘railroad that has cars; it has a ticket man, and people’piii <5> sins iht man pus klatwa sahali
‘pay 5 cents a person to go up’ukuk haws. Kakwa aias tawn ukuk haws:
‘that building. That building is like a big town;’<5 000> tilikom mitlait kopa iht haws kakwa:
‘there are 5,000 people in one building like that;’mitlait makmak haws. Mitlait makuk haws, mitlait
‘there’s a restaurant. There are stores, there’s’kanawi ikta kopa iht kakwa haws, drit kakwa
‘everything in one building like this one; it’s really like’tawn ukuk haws, pi drit ayu shikmin ukuk
‘a town, that building is, and it costs quite a lot of money, that’haws. Alta klaska tiki mamuk kakwa
‘building. Now they want to build such’haws kopa Nyu Iork. Ankati kopit Shikago
‘buildings in New York. It used to be only Chicago’mitlait kakwa haws.
‘that had such buildings.’
Well,
