. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . miles, it has in the inter-vening period, in spite of disasters that would have discouragednine hundred and ninety-nine cities of a thousand, grown untilby the last census it w^as shown to be the second city in theUnion and the sixth in the world, wdth one million ninety-eightthousand five hundred and seventy-six people within its onehundred and eighty-two square miles of territory. In the great fire of 1871 $200,000,000 worth of property w^assw^ept away by the flames. The fire burned for two days andmore, sweeping over sixty-five acres eve
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . miles, it has in the inter-vening period, in spite of disasters that would have discouragednine hundred and ninety-nine cities of a thousand, grown untilby the last census it w^as shown to be the second city in theUnion and the sixth in the world, wdth one million ninety-eightthousand five hundred and seventy-six people within its onehundred and eighty-two square miles of territory. In the great fire of 1871 $200,000,000 worth of property w^assw^ept away by the flames. The fire burned for two days andmore, sweeping over sixty-five acres every hour, and eating upseven and a half millions every sixty minutes, and yet there isnot a Chicagoan living who will not say that the fire was ablessing in disguise. From the ruins of that conflagration rosethe Chicago of to-day. Since 1876 fifty-seven thousand build-ings have been erected at a cost of $256,000,000, and with astreet frontage of two hundred and fifty-six miles ; Chicago hasa park system now that is one of the most magnificent in the. 72 world, embracing nineteen hundred and seventy-five acres ; herboulevards and drives are unequaled in America ; her com-merce amounts to over a billion and a quarter dollars per an-num ; every year she handles fi:-om $200,000,000 to $300,000,-000 worth of live stock ; Chicago is the greatest railroad centrein the world—twenty-six independent lines entering the city ;$190,000,000 are invested in manufacturing establishments, whichemploy one hundred and seventy-seven thousand hands, to whom$96,000,000 is paid in wages, and whose products reach a valueof $528,000,000 ; and the city is, moreover, the greatest mari-time port in the United States, the daily arrivals and clearancesof vessels exceeding those of New York by nearly fifty per cent. A train of cable-cars, four long, glides by you with a whir-ring sound and goes speeding up the long, wide, straight ave-nue ; another train of equal length, coming the other way,whirls around a
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