. Book of the Royal blue . CHICAGO ALTUMXAL FKSTIVITIES. 19 Tuesday, October 10th, was taken upbyseries of reunions, lireakfasts, dinners andreceptions, with another industrial and his-torical jiarade at nif^ht. The occasion lor Chicagos celebrationwas the comjilete recovery trom the ertectsof the terrible fire twenty-ei<^ht years at^o,on October yth. When it is cmsidered thatthe city as it stands to-day is practicallyonly twenty-eight years old, one is certainlyimpressed with the stupendous energy withwhich the population have worked and plain, Stewart, Tacoma, StockExchange, Columbus Memo
. Book of the Royal blue . CHICAGO ALTUMXAL FKSTIVITIES. 19 Tuesday, October 10th, was taken upbyseries of reunions, lireakfasts, dinners andreceptions, with another industrial and his-torical jiarade at nif^ht. The occasion lor Chicagos celebrationwas the comjilete recovery trom the ertectsof the terrible fire twenty-ei<^ht years at^o,on October yth. When it is cmsidered thatthe city as it stands to-day is practicallyonly twenty-eight years old, one is certainlyimpressed with the stupendous energy withwhich the population have worked and plain, Stewart, Tacoma, StockExchange, Columbus Memorial, Mar-quette, New York Life, MedinaTemple, Fisher and Monadnocklluildings, which are all practically overfifteen stories high. There are hundredsof other magnificent structures frum tento twelve stories high. These buildings arel)rincipally of steel superstructure, withstone or terra cotta outside finishings andtile inside finishings, making them practi-cally fire-i)ro()f.
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