. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . green park ; and whichon that fatal Sunday night in October, 1871, while its bell wasstill clanging out the dread alarm, took fire from a piece ofburning timber, carried by the strong wind for miles, and wastotally destroyed. The present building was begun in 1877,upon the ruins of the old one, and was completed five yearslater, the total cost being something like $5,000,000. You enter from the Washington Street side the tunnel-likecorridor that extends through the entire length of the basement,peep in for a moment at the Health Department,
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . green park ; and whichon that fatal Sunday night in October, 1871, while its bell wasstill clanging out the dread alarm, took fire from a piece ofburning timber, carried by the strong wind for miles, and wastotally destroyed. The present building was begun in 1877,upon the ruins of the old one, and was completed five yearslater, the total cost being something like $5,000,000. You enter from the Washington Street side the tunnel-likecorridor that extends through the entire length of the basement,peep in for a moment at the Health Department, pay a briefvisit to the City Detective office, where is located the so-calledsw^eat-box, where criminals or suspected criminals are subject 74 to the pumping process before they are regularly committed,and get an idea of the Chicago police force from the CentralDistrict station, and a notion of the fire alarm system in theoffices devoted to that department of the municipal service. Onthe first floor, to which vou ascend, you find the offices of the. IN LEWISTOWN NARROWS, Department of Public Works, police headquarters, and theoffices of the mayor of the city. Here, too, the citys financesare kept in order, while on the floor above are found the roomsof the municipal law department and the Board of Educationoffices. The council chamber, in which the citys sixty-eightaldermen meet and legislate for the people, is on the fourth 75 floor, and there, also, is the pubHc Ubrary, with its one hundredand sixty thousand volumes, and its reading-room, which ispatronized by about seven hundred thousand people annually. In the Court-House you are of course chiefly interested inthe courts, where you get an impression of American justice asadministered in Chicago; but you take time to visit the officesof the sheriff and the coroner, both of whom, being countyofficers, here have their apartments. La Salle Street, upon which you emerge, is the money streetof the city. All about you are banking
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