effort without so many great dreams to stir us departing from not stopping to the falls or those immense or indeed any other thing we encountered some men who knew speed and who were starting a new factory they wanted him to come and work for them so well known was he as a test man and expert driver then we came to a section of on a canal or pond so black and stale that it interested us factory sections have this in common with other purely individual and things � they can be interesting beyond any intention of those who plan them this canal or pond was so or or both that it constantly of gas which gave the neighborhood an the chimneys and roofs of these rose in such an unusual way and composed so well that decided he should like to sketch them so here we sat he on the walking beam of a great lowered to near the ground behind two boats on the shore while i made myself comfortable on a pile of white gravel some of which i threw into the water i spent my time as to what sort of people occupied the small houses which faced this picturesque prospect i imagined a poet as great as being able to live and take an interest in this beauty with thieves and and of a low order for neighbors a few blocks farther on there came into view an enormous grain standing up like a huge temple in a flat plain this was composed egypt at along the shore of a bundle of or stand pipes capable of being separately filled or emptied thus the and of cars and allowing the separate of different lots of grain before it as before the great bridge at we paused by its size and design something colossal and ancient suggested by its lines then we sped out among small yellow or s cottages their yards for the most part their walls smoky lone women were hanging over gates and heavily about with pipes in their mouths and shoes and clothes too loose covering their bodies every now and then a church appeared � one of those noble institutions which represent to these poor heaven gates and streets great iron bridges came into view or some small river or crowded with great ships then came the lake shore lit by a sinking and glorious afternoon sun and a long stretch of that wonderful brick road with enormous steel plants on either hand thousands of and lines of foreign looking going in and out of cottages straggling in conventional order across distant fields out over the water was an occasional white sail or a or many oh i thought take me into your free wild world when i die just outside on a spit of land between this wonderful brick road and the lake we came to the steel company its scores of tall black clouds of smoke and its immense steel pillar supported sheds showing the fires of the below the great war had evidently brought prosperity to this concern as to others thousands of men were evidently working here sunday though it was for the several gates were crowded by foreign types of women carrying baskets and and the road and the one line which ran along here for a distance were crowded with workers mostly of fine physical build i a holiday thought of all the shells and machine guns and cannon they might be making and somehow it brought the great war a little nearer personally i felt at the time that the war was likely to in favor of the because they were better prepared be that as it may my mood was not and not pro moral or pro anything i am too doubtful of life and its tendencies to over theories with nations as with individuals the strongest or most desired win and in the crisis which was then the seemed to me the strongest i merely hoped that america might keep out of it in order that she might attain sufficient strength and judgment to battle for her own in the future for battle she must never doubt it and that from city to city and state to state if she the ultimate with her romantic of faith and love and truth it will be a miracle this matter of manufacture and enormous is always a fascinating thing to me and along this lake shore at speed i could not help at it it seems to point so clearly to a in life a of powers against which the common man is always struggling but which he never quite anywhere the world is always about the brotherhood of man and the freedom and independence of the individual yet when you go through a city like or and see all its energy practically devoted to great and and their interests and when you see the common man of whom there is so much talk as to his interests and superiority living in cottages or long streets of without a of charm or beauty his labor fixed in price and his ideas in part else he would never be content with so and a world you can scarcely believe in the equality or even the brotherhood of man however much you may believe in the sympathy or good intentions of some people these regions around were most suggestive of the great division that has arisen between the common t along the shore i r � � a � man and the man of ability and ideas here in i s america � a division as old and as deep as life itself have no least complaint against the common man toiling p for anybody with ideas and superior brains � who could have � if it were not for the fact that the superior inevitably seeks to arrange a of his blood 