. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . ar. The Marlowes, under the influence of the officers of the WorldsAuxiliary, who invited them to a literary reception soon after theirarrival, arranged to spend their home-life in Chicago with Mr. andMrs. Edmand, who led a Folk-Lore Society which met at their homeon Michigan Avenue. The Edmands family were from New England,and had known the Marlowes by reputation, and received them astheir guests. It was agreed between the Edmands and their gueststhat the Folk-Lore Society should meet every Saturday evening, andt
. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . ar. The Marlowes, under the influence of the officers of the WorldsAuxiliary, who invited them to a literary reception soon after theirarrival, arranged to spend their home-life in Chicago with Mr. andMrs. Edmand, who led a Folk-Lore Society which met at their homeon Michigan Avenue. The Edmands family were from New England,and had known the Marlowes by reputation, and received them astheir guests. It was agreed between the Edmands and their gueststhat the Folk-Lore Society should meet every Saturday evening, andthat, on these occasions, the Marlowes should relate as a part of theexercises Folk-Lore stories. The first of these stories that was told at the Saturday evening-meetings was Miraculous Susan of Quaker Hill. It was told byGrandfather Marlowe, and we shall give it in its place. Anotherof these stories was Hannah, Who Sang Countre. It was told byMr. Marlowe, who illustrated it by singing old-time tunes. This weshall also give in an interval between the sight-seeing at the CHICAGO IN 1830. CHAPTER V. CHICAGO AND ITS MAKERS — THE CITY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. IftSy -jfai W^m jssfijl wmft 191 -^^°^S HE first purpose of our tourists was to see Chicagp,the wonder of the West. They began at the Art Palace, where the statue ofLa Salle met their view on the boulevard, bringingto mind those December days of 1681, when the boldexplorer coasted along the southern shore of LakeMichigan, and ascended the Chicago River, on his way to the Missis-sippi. Did he dream on that day that he entered the Chicago thatthe live city of the West would be there ? There were great arches of bridges between the statue and theArt Palace, and all the world seemed passing to the railroad and theboats. The Lake rolled in splendor before the towering buildings,but everything, the Art Palace included, seemed discolored withsmoke. The doors of the great Art Palace stood open, as it were, to
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