A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . Like manyevents, fraught with momentous consequences, it had a trifling cause. A cowkicked over a lamp in a stable on De Koven Street, which set fire to the gale swiftly carried the flames into some adjoining lumber yards and framehouses. All the conditions were favorable for a tremendous conflagration. Thefire swept over the south branch of the Chicago Kiver, and raged furiously in SETTLEMENT O
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . Like manyevents, fraught with momentous consequences, it had a trifling cause. A cowkicked over a lamp in a stable on De Koven Street, which set fire to the gale swiftly carried the flames into some adjoining lumber yards and framehouses. All the conditions were favorable for a tremendous conflagration. Thefire swept over the south branch of the Chicago Kiver, and raged furiously in SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY. 417 tlie business jiortion of the city. The main channel of the river was leaped asif it were a narrow alley, and there were anxious hours when thousands believedthe whole city was doomed. As it was, the fire-swept district covered four orfive miles, and fully 20,000 buildings were burned. It is believed that 250 liveswere lost, about 100,000 people made homeless, and $192,000,000 worth ofproperty destroyed. Chicagos affliction stirred the sympathy of the whole country. Contribu-tions were sent thither from every State, ;iim1 everything was done to aid the. THE BURNING OF CHICAGO IN 1871. sufferers who had lost their all. With true American pluck, the afflicted ])eoplebent to the work before them. Night and day thousands toiled, and within thespace of a year a newer and more magnificent city rose like a Phrenix from itsashes. Chicago to-day is one of the grandest and most enterprising cities in theworld. SETTLEMEXT OF THE XORTHWESTERX BOUXDAKY. We had made a treaty with England in 1846 which located tlie line of ournorthwestern boundary along the 49th parallel westward to the middle of the 418 ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON AND GRANT. cliaunel sejiarating the contiuent from Vancouvers Island, and then southwardthrough the middle of the channel and of Fucas Strait to the Pacific was found, however, there were several channels, and it was impossi
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