. Chicago. point, as well asa hotbed of sedition, Chicago became aprofitable haunt for those war leeches,the contractor and the bounty-jumper; 73 Chicago while black-legs and war-widowsflocked to the city in such numbers thatby night the downtown streets were thescene of brazen riotry. But meanwhilethe citys loyal young men were marchingforth to war, and their fathers, under theleadership of the Board of Trade, wereraising and equipping regiments. Theirmothers and sisters, too, were makingbandages and lint, or working like Tro-jans for the success of our memorableSanitary Fairs. The first of t
. Chicago. point, as well asa hotbed of sedition, Chicago became aprofitable haunt for those war leeches,the contractor and the bounty-jumper; 73 Chicago while black-legs and war-widowsflocked to the city in such numbers thatby night the downtown streets were thescene of brazen riotry. But meanwhilethe citys loyal young men were marchingforth to war, and their fathers, under theleadership of the Board of Trade, wereraising and equipping regiments. Theirmothers and sisters, too, were makingbandages and lint, or working like Tro-jans for the success of our memorableSanitary Fairs. The first of these took place in BryanHall when hostilities were at their height,but the second was not held until we hadbowed our heads in sorrow while the bodyof a martyrdd President was borne throughthe streets to the tolling of bells and thebooming of minute guns. The joy of vic-tory being stilled by grief, the temporaryFair building, which had been erectedwhere the Public Library now stands, 74 The Douglas Monument. The South Side became a house of mourning rather thana place of gaiety; but the return of ourvictorious troops and the presence at theFair of both Grant and Sherman madeus so gratefully benevolent that a quarterof a million dollars was poured into thecoffers of the Sanitary Commission, theRed Cross of those days. The city had prospered during the war,and its population had doubled ; but soonthe Great Fire laid it low. When a newChicago emerged from the ashes, thebroad avenues of the South Side becamea favored abode of our wealthiest the Fire, the lake front, as wellas Wabash Avenue and State Street, hadbeen lined as far north as the presentLoop by their residences of white lime-stone or red brick, standing either singly-with lawns surrounding them or collec-tively in blocks, as they were called, uponwhose stone doorsteps they used to sit IS Chicago on summer evenings, cooling themselveswith palm-leaf fans, v^^hile gossiping withtheir next-door neighbors. Many of t
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