A history of the American nation . ages and towns, some-times by a few tinkers or handy men, began to factories in the large cities made things by machineryand made them cheaply. The flour mills, that had been builthere and there along the inland streams by the side of friendlymill dams, were allowed to sink into ruins; the prairie wheatwas rushed away to the big elevators in Chicago or thus the process of concentration was begun and was wellunder way before 1890. 484 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION Cities, as we have said, took on new dimensions and mul-tiplied thei
A history of the American nation . ages and towns, some-times by a few tinkers or handy men, began to factories in the large cities made things by machineryand made them cheaply. The flour mills, that had been builthere and there along the inland streams by the side of friendlymill dams, were allowed to sink into ruins; the prairie wheatwas rushed away to the big elevators in Chicago or thus the process of concentration was begun and was wellunder way before 1890. 484 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION Cities, as we have said, took on new dimensions and mul-tiplied their people. At the beginning of the nineteenthcentury the American people generally lived in small townsor on the farm; but the development of the factory systemcaused the gradual growth of cities and theGrowth of concentration of population. This change was cities. ^ r _ ^ _ especially marked in the decades after the CivilWar, when the older eastern cities greatly increased theirpopulation and the smaller places of the Middle West,. VVHO STOWETHEptOPtrSMOHkr?-00 IT-WA5 H^M. A Cartoon of the Tweed Ring in New York City, by Thomas Nast like Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit, not to mention Chi-cago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, became ]iopulous, thriv-ing cities. The change brought, in serious problems in citygovernment; for it was necessary to provide for street rail-way transportation, for gas and water, and for many otherthings which had been looked after by the individual alone inthe older and simpler methods of village life. In fact, all ormost of the duties of the city were badly attended to in verymany cases; the city governments were at their worst during this IMODERN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA—1S59-1903 485 period, when the ordinary man was so busy making money hepaid insufficient attention to the way in which he was governed,provided he was left alone, and when the new conditions wereso new, that few men could realize all their meaning. Thethievery of the Tweed ring in
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