. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . theold Chicago would know the new Chicago ; do you, Uncle Tom ? I imagine they would need to be presented to each other, just as muchas old Fort Dearborn and John Kinzies log-house would need an introduc-tion to Lincoln Park and the Auditorium. At last the too brief visit was over; grips and dressing-cases once morewere locked and strapped ; the good-bys were said, and, all aboard onceagain, the tourists were speeding southeasterly across five States, en routeto Washington, the national capita
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . theold Chicago would know the new Chicago ; do you, Uncle Tom ? I imagine they would need to be presented to each other, just as muchas old Fort Dearborn and John Kinzies log-house would need an introduc-tion to Lincoln Park and the Auditorium. At last the too brief visit was over; grips and dressing-cases once morewere locked and strapped ; the good-bys were said, and, all aboard onceagain, the tourists were speeding southeasterly across five States, en routeto Washington, the national capital. All day the train rolled on across the wide-spreading fields of Indiana andOhio, while Uncle Tom, in the intervals of fun, chatter, and quiet, told themthe story of George Rogers Clark, the brave borderer, who had won Indianafor the republic, and of the second Mayflower in which New England pil-grims had sailed to the colonization of the Ohio wilderness. That same Ohio country, he told them, was in Washingtons mind when,in the dark hours of the Revolution, in the shadow of possible defeat, he. VIEW ON STATE STREET, CHICAGO, LOOKING NORTHWARD, FROM MADISON STREET. 14* 214 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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