. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. andanxious observer now tofall asleep, and in dreamsto be gifted with thisprophetic foresight, andtodiscern the change that four-score years are to bring. It is 1S92. Close at hand he sees the streamlet, now amighty channel—a fine, broad, deep water-way, runningstraight between long piers out to the lake, and stretch-. KKUHKAH (WELLS) 96 The Chicago massacre of 1812. ing inland indefinitely; bordered by elephantine elevators,spanned by magnificent draw-bridges, each built of steeland moved by steam; carrying
. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. andanxious observer now tofall asleep, and in dreamsto be gifted with thisprophetic foresight, andtodiscern the change that four-score years are to bring. It is 1S92. Close at hand he sees the streamlet, now amighty channel—a fine, broad, deep water-way, runningstraight between long piers out to the lake, and stretch-. KKUHKAH (WELLS) 96 The Chicago massacre of 1812. ing inland indefinitely; bordered by elephantine elevators,spanned by magnificent draw-bridges, each built of steeland moved by steam; carrying on its floods great pro-pellers of 100,000 bushels of grain capacity. Lookingnorth, west and south, he sees serried ranks of enormousbuildings towering for miles on miles, each one so tall asto dwarf the fort and the block-house to nothingness. Hesees hundreds of miles of paved streets, thronged withinnumerable passengers and vehicles moving hither andthither, meeting and impeding each other, so that some-times so many try to pass that none can pass; all mustwait until the uniformed guardians of the peace bringorder out of chaos. Every acre of ground in sight isworth millions of dollars. His dreaming ears must be stunned by the thunder ofcommerce, his nostrils shocked by the smell of the vastfood-factories, his skin smutched wnth the smoke of theburning fuel all about him, to keep these
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