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place. 1t ia aaid to be verv succoasfu1. Az It Is
muoA cheaper to manufacture It than coal-gas,
1t will, feqra1 to what It is represented, drive the
lattor out Of tho market ontiroly.
CHICAGO'8 pROSpER1TY>

elRoorhte foVloW or Ch1chg0'a material intbroBta.
Tho article has boon sugRestod by tho ourrcnt
oomments OF tho newspapers Of other cItlou,
which aoom inclined TO tako tho gloomiest pos-
able Wow Of our situation. Tho Immediate toxt
Is lotter writton, or purporting to have boon
"rittcn, from Chicago to an Eastern Journal. II
is merely used, however, ~ = sample Of tho
newspaper literature devoted to THU city. A
fallaoloua application Of reasoning by analogy
may have mtsled Bomo Of the Journals that l,ayo
printed similarly foolish things; wo suspect that
the spirit Of envy has influenced otllers. Tho
statements made elsewhere have been collected
carefully and iupartially "a they show for them
solves; and our purpose In collecting them i,as
boon chiefly to relieve our neighbors Of their
concern on our account.
There Ia nothing now In this general hue-and-
cry against ohicago'a business. Tho memory Of
tho o1doRt inhabitant extendeth not to the
timc when like comments were not mado
both at homo and abroad, It Is
about twenty yoars since re began to hear that
ohicsgo was Of mushroom growth, and We have
heard 1t cvor since. Meanwhile Chicago has
continued to grow oil tho ttmo Days, aud
,wooks and months, and years have como and
gone, and tho mushroom ia as freBh and bloom.
Ing aa ovor. Our mushroom seoms to have tho
secret powor Of removing itsef porennially, and
we begin to think, has como Of tho charsotoris.
tics Of the century plant. Tho youngest city Of
importance In America, whose earliest village
rAn1infnrArnan In h..
aro not yet old, Chicago ID to-day
the third city in size and altogether the most
beautiful city on tho Continent. It passed
through an ordeal Of fire such a. no other city
over experienced, and came out OF It chastenod
and improved, Ton years wero given us % the
Rhorteht timo within which ne could ro-ostab-
lieh ourselves; within two years no we're far in
advance Of whoro we stood before. 4 Iittlo
more than two years aftor tho fro tho panic
came, md it found Chicago better ablo to With
stand its Tavages than older cities. Our business
men pursued the even tenor Of their way; our
banks did not resort to certificates Of depoBit;
our Board of Trado kept up ita aesaions; our
busipeas was only temporarily affected by out
Atde Influences; our roal estate held It's yaluos;
~ F"o eonol@hS eon'eooo 'nat 1nls CITY
stood tho trial botter than any other commercial
metropolis in tho country. The railroad centre.
tho like centre, tho grain centre. tho lumber
centre, the pork oontre.-wo rested our hopea Of
pAoepoi''y on sno proo9eo OF sno North"est
90" no "7se no' oeceiSeo' our speculation
na' "'"ns' nAu more aoha oaais than
sAo 'Peou'"s'on !" o'ner clt'es' capital haa
no"oo into obic"Ro because 1t could DO more
p'ou'"D's useo neso 1aan elsewhere. 1t haa
''uA. "" 1aA6oaos' o1eonaeo our oa6inees con-
,'e1''D'' auo uAa peoa e'es feaoy TO enlarge and
1e'o "u1 wy Al 3o7ponse 70 'ne moss e1traV-
A6A.' u0'Daa"a VI 4oea1 P9'oe' Inc IRE was
-, 'n' p.0'eAS u eniafeln8 lnsseao OF con-
'"s''"s ou4 'a9'4e97 o'ssf''9' Ahsseaa OF dslV-
'1s pe'p'' away ~ 1aa a'1fao'xa from oo.ooo to
'o'''o ~" @no eaos8e1lo lnnt'oisaata' Instead
~ Aooa"a'us ''"p''atny ano oheapl5, there has
Deon sp'1as ol e"o1st'on among our capital
l''s ~ ou'fua eAon o1nef Ii the lavish
A'as ~ sae No" improvements. 6y tho very
po"o5 "n4'A ou'5'oe peop'o nave calico "over-
l'sen'oe' NO a@Se CONSTANTLY attracted ne"
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