Arizona republican., 1892-07-17

c,,rmcd by the Hospitable Munii-
 ..oce of Minneapolis.
 ,.,..,an. July 9.-This wonderful
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 If inc times. What they are doing
 % ;be big wigwam you will learn by
 'logrlph; but while the votes are being
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 .asor of painful silence, while the
 r,r,I rclines its ear to catch the
 ,,rrotr of the refrain, let us walk
 'h,rt tho magic city of Chicago and
 study it.
 Chicago is the amazing, the dum-
 ,,nr3ug city of the western hemisphere. Grre lived here, and then thought l Irew the place pretty well.
 But lrlye Chicago for year or two, .rl i, like stepping out of theater r.er thr end of an act. While you are .ope transformation takes place. Five ,r six years ago a venturesome capital ;.t erected tall building here. It was nine stories high. People said he would rsrpr get interest back on his invest nept. The capitalist was little timid ,bout that, too, and for fear all his ofFces could not be rented he changed hi, p,ans, cut out several hundred rooms oni nut a theater in their place. From ,bat dav to this all the offices have been rented. and the building has regularly raid l2 per cent. net on its cost and fyqd charges. But for the space taken m by the theater (and that commands a hirh rautal), the annual return would he eat least l5 per cent.
 You have all heard and read about Cbicagos wonderful high buildings, and nrobaby | can tell you nothing new about rhrm But the marvellous thing p me is not that such high structures can be built, but that all their floor space should be so quickly rented. Whence do all the office people come? |, there no limit to their number? It seems not, for they tell me every new and modern office building in town is doing we'll Every month or so new one is completed and thrown open to the public. Perhaps it contains ill its four teen or fifteen stories 800 rooms. In a month only few of them will be found vacant
 Over and over again this process is re- peatei throughout year. The old buildings have just as many tenants as they ever had. A new crop of renters is harvested by each new structure. The number and capacity of office buildings Increase faster than the city grows. Thus the conclusion is inevitable that as time wears on a larger and still larger share of the business of this city is done m offices. In Chicago probably dozen banks use the second or third floors of office buildings. Manufacturing con cerns have offices in town and both fac tory and warehouse in the suburbs. Even commercial houses are falling into line and carrying on their business by means of samples in these mammoth hives, convenient of access to all GUS toners, and handling their wares in es- attachments more remote from tho
 
 facilities are better and rents cheaper.
 As the huge office buildings multiply am glad to say the women have had their dainty fingers in the pie. To be convinced that this is woman's era one has but to come to Chicago and look at one of the newest and most magnificent of the structures which are making the city famous. It was built and is owned by the W. C, T. U. Five or six years ago one of the women of that society, Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, told me she was going put up a million dollar office build ing, and showed me the plans which an architect had prepared. "A nice plan mchitecturally and pretty scheme-on paper 1 remarked. "So you don't think we'll ever build itg" remarked Mrs. Carse laughingly. You haven't much confidence in women as builders. Well, you wait and see." And here is the building in the heart of the city, big, beautiful, profitable. It is not safe to doubt the capacity and the energy of women in this day and generation.
 And the rapidity with which they do these great things in magic Chicago! Last February l was here, and friend pointed to a vacant lot in which work men we're making excavations. "We are putting up a big building there" he said, My friend being financially in- terested in the structure. thought would step up there today and see if the foundation had been finished. Imagine my amazement when l saw, instead of cellar or the mere foundation which l had expected, a structure eighteen stories high in its tallest part and nearly ready for the tenants. Next week they'll be renting ont the offices, and in a month 2.OOO human beings will recognize that building as their business home. A Juvenile city within four walls, of which not brick or stone had been laid four months ago!
 The big wigwam in which they are today nominating candidate for presi- dent IS another example of the rapidity with which they carry on great con structions here. A huge colosseum, built in a month; storm which sweeps lls roof away; q change of plan and a new roof, more substantial than the first, put on in six days-all very Chi cagOcsque. More notable still is that wilderness of palaces, the Worlds fair, which grows precisely as the beanstalk of Jack the Giant Killer is reported to have grown in tradition. All these big men who are here to name a candidate for the presidency have been to see the Worlds fair. And when asked what they think of it they lift their hands in indication of the futility of expression.