. Book of the Royal blue . YARDS AT FonT OF RANDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. Lnited States, and most cities in foreign ities for exploitation. The city is honey-countries, have brancli offices of at least combed by an underground , forone of the great slaughtering and pack- freight purposes, which is one of the mosting firms of Chicago. The transactions remarkable things in the world. Thisin this line alone last jear amounted to railway was built and in operation before§690,000,000. even a small proportion of its populationHaving mentioned these figures on the knew wliat was going on
. Book of the Royal blue . YARDS AT FonT OF RANDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. Lnited States, and most cities in foreign ities for exploitation. The city is honey-countries, have brancli offices of at least combed by an underground , forone of the great slaughtering and pack- freight purposes, which is one of the mosting firms of Chicago. The transactions remarkable things in the world. Thisin this line alone last jear amounted to railway was built and in operation before§690,000,000. even a small proportion of its populationHaving mentioned these figures on the knew wliat was going on. 8 CHICAGO. The city not being liennned in with able buildings. Chicago presented to the hills, but entirely Hat, was afforded an world liie first modern steel buildings, and opportunity to spread out and now covers its architects and builders are still looked to an area of 1!U square miles: the distances as the expert builders of modern Ar)AMS STKEKT, WKST FHOM FIFTH AVENUE-WHOLESALE DISTRICT. are therefore great from the north to thesouth, but facilities for rapid transit areamply provided for by the railroads,elevated lines and electric surface lines. It will be remembered that in matters ofarchitecture, Chicago took the first step ingoing beyond conventional lines in the build-ing of sky-scrapers, and while it is now out-classed in this particular feature by New-York City, it has a number of these remark- But Chicago is not all business ; it seekspleasure as earnestly as any other big the people get together and proposeto do a certain thing they have always re-tained their reputation of making instance, take the Worlds Fair inlSi>3, which was unquestionably the great-est exhibition of its kind ever held—thebeautiful White City remains a dream toall who saw it. The ex(iuisite homes are CHICAGO. not confined to one grand s|)read out far to the nortli and farto the south and hun
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