The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-02
h TYPICAL TOWNS.
,,oNpeRFUL CONVENTION CIT
.',e oe THE NORTHWEST.

r.iiman Is by the Stu
Enterprise of Chicago and
,ued by the Ho'pit"''e Mu"ih-
[. of Minneapolis.
ts,ecial Correspondence
a June 23.-This wonderful
. ,hs west is today contributing
t,au its share to the current his
,he times. What they are doing
ng wigwam you will learn by
.aS. Init while the votes are being
rhile the shouts ring ont after a
If painfnl silence, while the
%;nrlines its ear to catch the
40 Of the refrain, let us walk
,he magic city of Chicago and
.aoo is the amazing, the dunn
inc city of the western hemisphere.
lived here. and then thought !
tbe place pretty well.
leave Chicago for a year or two,
Is like stepping ont of a theater
Ebs end of a u act. While You are
transformation takes place. Five
years ago a v~enturesolxe capital
..ted a tall building here. 1t was
tries high. People said he would
ref interest back on his invest
The capitalist was a little tiinid
that. too, and for fear all his
could not he rented he changed
fans. cut ont several hundred rooms
nj a heater in their place. From
3iay 70 this all the Offices have been
Vi and the building has regularly
70 rr cent. net on its cost and
/ charges. But for the space taken
h III, thta.er Glnd that COMMANDS a
rental. the annual return would
least ID per cent.
N have all heard and read about
lagos wonderful l.igh buildings, and
ably | can tell You nothing new
n them. But the marvellous thing
i is not that such high structures
be built, but that all their floor
I should he SO quickly rented.
Encs do all the Office people come:
lere no limit to their number: 1t
l. not. for they tell me every new
|modern Office building in town is
4 well. Every month II 81 a new
b completed and thrown open h the
be. Perhaps it contains i'll its four
or fifteen stories 800 rooms. In a
nh only a few of them will be found
nj.
ber and over again this process is re-
ID throughout Il year. The old
fings have inst as many tenants as
lever had. A new crop of renters
|rvesied by each new structure. The
(ber and capacity Of Office buildings
ease faster than the city grows.
j the conclusion is inevitable that as
wears on IL larger and still larger
fe Of the business Of this city is done
bfceS, In Chicago probably 70 dozen
u.e the second OF third floors of
L buildings. Manufacturing con-
i have Offices in town and both fac
| and warehouse in the suburbs.
p commercial houses are falling into
and carrying on their business by
\: Of samples III these mammoth
convenient Of ccess to all Gus
fN' and handling their wares in es-
Mlents more remote from the
res center, where transportation
iles are better and rents cheaper.
The huge Office buildings multiply |
gaf osay the women have lad their
ftyfnsers III the pie. To be convinced
tlls is wolnan's era II has but to
p 70 Chicago and look at one of
newest and most magnificent of the
Pc'Oses which + making the city
fous' II was built and is owned by
|WCT. L. Five or six years ago
d LIT women Of that society, Mrs.
Plda B Carse, told me she was going
pat upa million dollar Office build
and showed me the plans which al
tl'ect had prepared. A nice plan
li'ect1rally and a pretty schene-oa
e. ! remarked. $50 you don'c
Ia we'll ever build it, remarked
Cal'e laughingly. You haven,
n confidence in women as builders.
you wait and see" And here is
building III the heart of the city, biz,
lniai' profitable. 1t is not safe TO
leA III this day and generation.
NJ Tue rapidity with which they do
: great things in magic Chicago!
TturlAry mo-. l,rn n,1 , f,,anI