. Chicago. uildings, orrouged denizens of the underworld be-came his neighbors. Only Hyde Park, a quondam suburb,has been able to withstand the incursions 69 Chicago of both industry and infamy. Being themost American portion of the city, it hasfought, back to the wall, with New Eng-land weapons, protective associations andlaw and order leagues having thus far pre-served its upright character. Containingthe only dry district in an otherwisewet town, Hyde Park was, until somethirty years ago, an outlying village withtrees in its quiet streets and lawns sur-rounding its decorous houses. But the
. Chicago. uildings, orrouged denizens of the underworld be-came his neighbors. Only Hyde Park, a quondam suburb,has been able to withstand the incursions 69 Chicago of both industry and infamy. Being themost American portion of the city, it hasfought, back to the wall, with New Eng-land weapons, protective associations andlaw and order leagues having thus far pre-served its upright character. Containingthe only dry district in an otherwisewet town, Hyde Park was, until somethirty years ago, an outlying village withtrees in its quiet streets and lawns sur-rounding its decorous houses. But the South Side itself did not be-come a favorite place of residence untilthe digging of the canal had increasedour population twenty-fold in as manyyears, and the strap rails of our firstrailway had been laid across the westernplains. When other tracks had been put uponpiles in the lake to deface for all timeour beautiful water front, and Chicagohad been linked by rail with the East, the 70 In the Stockyards ,M. The South Side driving of cattle and hogs through thestreets became such a nuisance that theBulls Head stockyards on the WestSide were abandoned, the Myrick Yardsnear the new railway tracks along the lakeshore becoming the seat of our mostnoted industry, until it moved westwardto its present site. Transformed during these boomyears from a frontier town into a cityof an hundred thousand souls, Chicagobecame, in the characteristically modestwords of a local guide-book, the greatcommercial entrepot of the lakes and Up-per Mississippi, surpassing as a grain andlumber market any in the world. As ahog emporium, however, it was still ex-celled by Cincinnati, the title of Pork-opolis not being wrested from this rivaluntil army contracts had enriched ourpackers. Chicago bore at the time the name 71 Chicago of « Garden City, its streets being linedwith shade trees, and its lawns adornedwith flower-beds. A profusion of wildflowers, moreov^er, mingled with the wav-ing grasses of the p
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