. Book of the Royal blue . %im ^mk %m \ The Triennial Conclave, Knights Templar Chicago, August 8th to 13th. NCE every three yearsthe Knights Templarhold a grand conclaveamid splendor and gaytrappings. The Yearof the Comet bringsthem to Chicago. Butby the time the Knights reach the greatinland city, the comet will have gone toparts unknown. Chicago, with its population of 1,698,-575, the second in size of the commercialcities of the new world, is only sixtyyears old. True, old Fort Dearbornis much older than that, but in thesedays of commercial supremacy his-torical traditions do not amount to
. Book of the Royal blue . %im ^mk %m \ The Triennial Conclave, Knights Templar Chicago, August 8th to 13th. NCE every three yearsthe Knights Templarhold a grand conclaveamid splendor and gaytrappings. The Yearof the Comet bringsthem to Chicago. Butby the time the Knights reach the greatinland city, the comet will have gone toparts unknown. Chicago, with its population of 1,698,-575, the second in size of the commercialcities of the new world, is only sixtyyears old. True, old Fort Dearbornis much older than that, but in thesedays of commercial supremacy his-torical traditions do not amount to muchand the importance of any city is basedupon how it delivers the goods. Chicago commenced competition whenit established its first wholesale housein 1844. The commodity was hardware,because of the demand for this particu-lar article on the great prairies of theMiddle West. The next year there wasestablished a wholesale dry goods house,and the population at that time was12,000. In 1847 another wholesale drygoods house was established and thetown had increased in population tonearly 17,000; and in the
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