Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-11
HOW Is THIS
FOR IMMUNITY?

The great firm OF Marshall Field 4
Company, which pays taxes on only
$6.000,000 worth Of personal property
and insurance premiums on $l6,000,-
900 worth Of personal property In
Chicago;
Which claims the finest retail store
in the world and ornaments State
street with out.of.date omnibuses,
drawn by horse, to take customers to
depots;
Which pretends to stand for up-to-
date methods in everything,
Is getting in worse all Of the time.
The public and the taxpayers want
to see the laws and ordinances en-
forced against rich and poor alike.
The laws and ordinances are en-
forced against all of the poor and some
Of the rich.
But Marshall Field q Company, rep:
resenting the very rich, would seem
to have a special privilege.
/ Take its big wholesale house for an
example.
Marshall Field Z Co.'s wholesale
house is an enormous granite building
occupying the whole block between
Fifth avenue, Franklin street, Adams
and Quincy streets.
There are no doors whatever on
either Fifth avenue or Franklin street.
giving entrance to or egress from this
mammoth building. y
There is one door on Adams street,
located in the center Of the block.
This door Is probably placed where
II IL to save time clocks.
For through this single entrance
over five thousand people pass In q
day.
To see them coming out in the late
afternoon is to invite feeling Of hor-
ror to ones bosom.
Adams street looks like the scene
OF q riot at such times 40 the seeth.
ing mass Of humanity crushes through
this single door and overcrowds the
public thoroughfare.
People on their way to take trains
at the Union Depot. just across the
bridge, are showed into the gutter.
Trafic IL interrupted.
i Pandemonium reigns for Q while.
6upposing this building should catch
fire, how would the five thousand peo.
ple in Il get out alivef
The city building department doesn't
care. evidently.
For. according to accounts. there 10
not q fire escape on the structure.
II there 10. we have not been able
to find Il.
why does Marshall Field 4 Co. es-
cape on this matter % easily a. on
the matter Of taxationf
10 the arm exempt from the opera
tion Of the laws and ordinances?
Marshall Field Z Co.'S Wholesale
store holds over 5000 people In day.
This 10 more than all Of the thea
ters in Chicago hold every night.
; Yet the theaters are obliged to have
doors every ten feet, IRE escapes "a.
lore and O special fireman on duty
besides.
How. then. does this one door store
manage to defy the building ordi.
nance?
We pause. temporarily. for reply.
i
These days small appetite Is bet.
ter than great riches.
The newly published FIRST volume Of
Herr Erich Marck's biography Of Bis
marck, for which the late Countess
Herbert Bismarck supplied much ma
terial, contains some new facts as to
I the great statesman's early life.
] among other things giving details Of
his early romances. q Philadelphia
Records Berlin dispatch says.
Hitherto It has usually been held
' that before his marriage to Fraulein
! Won Puttkamer. Bismarck had no %.
, rious love affairs. but the new biogra.
4 ply shows him In quite another light.
. According to Herr Marcks. Bismarck
+ In the summer Of 1887. he then being
{ % and holding the rank OF govern.
. ment referendar'' fell In love ut Wies-
baden with the niece Of the English
!. Duke and Duchess Of c."
The fair.haired English girl, whose
q surname IL given tentatively az Rus
I SELL" 30 fascinated Bismarck that he
!. forgot his duties. and. without oficial
Q leave. followed the English travellers
Z to Switzerland. SO that two months
k after he ought to have been back at
+ his work he Is found writing to his
chief. Count Boitzenburg. apologizing
" for his conduct. Apparently the love
AFFAIR went as far as formed engage
T ment. and why 1t ended In nothing
t does not appear. The incident Is Gu.
J. rious In view OF Bismarck's attitude
I half century later to Germans of
n high position who had married En-.
Q glish wives.
!. Bismarck's second love affair. which
!. occurred at the beginning Of the '40s.
was still more serious, Bismarck had
. then abandoned the service Of the
Q state and was hard at work ON his. pa.
. ternal estate. He fell deeply In love
o with Otillie Won Pnttkamer. daughter
}. OF well.tGdo country gentleman OF
!. Pausin. who IL not to be confused
,. with Johanna Won Puttkamer. his fu-
. ture wife. The proposed match was
% opposed by the lady's mother. but the
a attachment lasted. and two yeara later