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itol, the government buildings, the museums,
built In the midst of handsome gardens, all
arrest the eye OF the visitor.
The Capitol, 75l feet long, built Of white
marble, with a superb dome and majestic
flights Of steps, is one of the grandest, most
imposing looking edifces In tho world The
souvenirs attached to It and tho treasures
which It contains render It dear to tho Ameri-
cans; It Is a monument which recalls TO their
minds the g%lories of the past, and keeps alight
the hamo of patriotism.
A general, who served through tho great
civil war, told me hs had seen strong men,
soldiers brought up in remote states, sit down
and weep with strong emotion at seeing the
Capitol for the FIRST TINA
Washington Is wholly given over to poll
tics When congress is not sitting, It Is dead;
when congress is sitting. It Is delirious
Little or no is done
Philadelphia, formerly tho capital OF the
United States, is n city OF eight or nine hun
dred thousand inhabitants, and is built, like
New York, in paralelogramS Its town hall
Is, next to the Capitol at Washington, tho
finest edifcs IN America l do not know
anything to compare to its splendid park,
unless it be the Bots de Boulogne In Paris.
Tho alleys of this park, II put together, would
cover about sixty miles In length Seen after
New York or the busy western cities, Phila-
dolphin strikes one as slow, even monotonous
except on the Clover club annual banquet
evening.
This Quaker city of quiet streets and sober
people is, however, full OF all kinds Of manu-
factories,
On the shores OF Lake Michigan there stood
a town, built Of wood, and pcopled by some
hundred thousand inhabitants This WINS
called Chicago.
On tho evening of Oct. 8, 1871, a COW that
an old woman was milking in a barn kicked
over n lamp and SGT Ere to tho structure Tho
flames spread, and on the morrow Of that ter
riblo night the whole city was level with the
ground The Chicago people of today show,
rs n curiosity to tho visitor, the only wooden
house which escaped the flames.
AT the present TING this city, tho living and
gigantic emblem Of the phoenix, stands re-
built in hown stone, and holding soo,0 900 In
habitants.
Such Is America
In less than twenty years Omaha, Denver,
Kansas City, Minneapolis will be 30 many
ChicagoS Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville
will rival her In five.
Chicago is, in my eyes, tho very type of tho
American city, tho most striking example OF
what Jonathan calls "go-aheadism."
Tho streets are twice as wide as tho Partisan
boulevards; the houses of business are eight.
ten and twelve stories high. Michigan ave-
nue. is seven miles long; the numbers of the
houses run up to 5000 and something. Tho
city has parks, lovely drives by the lake shore,
statues, including a splendid ono Of Abraham
Lincoln, public buildings imposing in their
mhssiveness, fine theatres and churches, luxu-
rious clubs, hotels inside which four good
sized Partisan ones could dance q quadrille,
etc, etc.
Michigan avenue and Prairie avenue arc
extremely handsome. Picture to yourself the
avenue of tho Bots dc Bouiogno, prolonged
for seven miles In n straight line, and Imagine
tho effect, the beautiful vista, when this is lit
up at night, or when the trees, with which
both these grand roads are planted, arc In all
their fresh spring beauty.
In these avenues, American eccentricity
has been allowed free play. Tho houses are
built in all imaginable styles Of architecture:
some Of them arc Forentine, some English,
others Moorish, others u mixture of all three;
others again look like Greek temples, whilst
here and there you como across what looks
like a little Gothic church, and close along
sid MEDIEVAL castles In miniature, or imita-
ton mosques; some have tho look of villas In
the Paris suburbs, some have been modelled
frNnp Sxvfua rbo1ato othoru ,,Nn tho ,a.tlozoo
of some pasha on the borders of the Bos-
phorus There arc styles for all tastes.
Tho American may be eccentric, or whnt
you will, but he is never m~onotonous.
Enter ono Of these houses, and you will SEQ
handsome furniture, not only rich, but In
good taste
1 was not astonished to find Chicago society
genial, polished and well Eead- Riches beget
tho taste for literature and arts; perhaps one
day 1t will beget the taste for simplicity.
You find here stil more warmth and much
less constraint than in tho east. You feel
that you have quit tho realms OF New Eng
land Puritanism. No frigidity here; people
give FREQ play to their sentiments. II l had
to nnmc the most sympathetic of my Ameri-
can audiences, tho warmest and promptest to
HclIe Iue slBnluCanCe OF n look or gesture, i
should name the ono which | had the honor
Of addressing In Chicago.
At in tho morning every man is astir and
at work, whether no DO millionaire or poor
clerk. Only the idle are outside the pale Of ro-
~spectability in Chicago.
do not think it is possible for a European
to imagine the activity which reigns In
Chicago without seeing II.
You will soon be inventing,n I said to a
resident, "a machine that will take n live
rabbit at one end and turn out q chimney pot
hat at the other.n
1--WE have done something very like it
already" he replied.
And next morning he took me to SEQ the
famous pig killing and pork packing premises
OF Philip Armour & Co.
Picture to yourself a series Of rooms con
Meeting. In the first, 5000 pigs a day are
killed; in the second, they are scraped as
they come out Of a caldron of boiling water
In tho third, the heads arc cut off; and so on,
and so Tho process is somewhat sickenine,
and | will not enter into any more details AT
the end OF the establishment the poor pigs are
presented to Won under tho fnrnS ~ hooo.