Chicago by day and night . where else under any inducement. There isalso a large sprinkling of outsiders. The man-ner in which Prof. Swings followers appreciate his ministrations in their behalf is evidencedby their paying him a salary ample enough toenable him to build a palatial summer home at 76 Lake Geneva, a near-by hot weather resortwhose grassy banks are lined with the villas ofChicago millionaires. Dr. Thomas is a Httlemore orthodox in his tenets, perhaps, but hisservices are no less popular than At both of these temples of worship,operated, as they are, in places devoted
Chicago by day and night . where else under any inducement. There isalso a large sprinkling of outsiders. The man-ner in which Prof. Swings followers appreciate his ministrations in their behalf is evidencedby their paying him a salary ample enough toenable him to build a palatial summer home at 76 Lake Geneva, a near-by hot weather resortwhose grassy banks are lined with the villas ofChicago millionaires. Dr. Thomas is a Httlemore orthodox in his tenets, perhaps, but hisservices are no less popular than At both of these temples of worship,operated, as they are, in places devoted through-out the week to public amusement, chance visi-tors are made heartily welcome and manystrangers who would not inconvenience them-selves to ride out to one of the orthodoxchurches take advantage of the nearness ofthese two to their hotels and drop in on Sun-day morning for an hour or so of spiritualenlightenment. CHAPTER VII. PANORAMAS AND LIBBY THE panoramas ofChicago have becomejustly celebrated. Theyare patterned after thefamous panoramas ofEurope, being contain-ed in huge circularbuildings. There areat present three pano-ramas—the Battle ofGettysburg and theFalls of Niagara, onPanorama Place, a mile south of Madison streeton Wabash avenue, and Chicago on Fire—thelatter being a splendid representation of Chicagoas it looked at the time of the awful conflagra-tion that drew the eyes of the civilized worldupon the suffering city. The Battle of Gettys-burg is the oldest of the three. The portrayalof the greatest battle of the war of the rebellionis realistic beyond description. It is impossiblefor the spectator to detect where the canvasblends with the natural presentation beneaththe feet. Hundreds of thousands of people have 7S visited this attraction. The Wabash avenuecable cars take the visitor direct to Gettys-burg and to Niagara, which is just across thestreet. Niagara is a faithful delineation ofthe world-famous fal
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