The Nome nugget., 1926-12-04
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MIRRORED IN CHICAGO ,By The Associated Press)


 life, however, q night life of honest toil and endeavor by hundreds of persons who pursue occupations nn- der artifificial light while most of the world is sleeping.
 | To one familier with the tremen- dous hustle and hustle Of Chicago's g loop in the daylight hours. the same area al three o'clock in the morn 1 ing seems strangely still and de- es become accustomed to this stran gencss he becomes aware that con siderable activity is in progress and that the streets are not so de serted as he imansined from first Impression.
 Look into he Owl drugstore on "a prominent corner. The fountain attendant is mixing drinks for two or three later customers. The drug clerk is selling face powder to a woman. probably in actress on her way to a hotel from the Randolph street rialto. The cigar clerk is |fumbling for cigarettes. Outside a newsboy is taking newspapers from a wagon which has just clatt cred up to the curb.
 Across the street an attendant at an all night cab stand is calling q vehicle for patron. Six or sev- en all night restaurants in the white light district have scattering of and actresses. news papermen and other late workers. Motor cars line the curb. Motor trucks with bread and rolls and pies and other supplies are moving in and out of the restaurant dist rict. Other cars are carting away the refuse of the previous day.
 On a street corner large force |of workmen is busy putting new ballast under street car tracks. Night watchmen at nearby theat
 
 walk chairs A half dozen men move |along the street With lanterns. They engage in some mystedious measure ments and make chalk marks on the pavement What they are doing, however. nobody knows.
 Charwomen. their tasks in the huge office buildings completed wait at the corners for street cars,
 Move down into the all night Patrons actually are entering these cinemas; they are in operation twenty four hours. For thirty cents you can go in and look at a picture Tor sleep. Many find il cheap lodging for the night,
 Presently the ice wagons appear and hardy workers deposit huge slabs in loop doorways. Then the milkmen.
 Threats of fstic encounter that wasn't on the cards came thunder ing into Chicago via wire and then the radio during the hectic scenes enacted shortly before the close of the broadcast of the Tunney-Demp- sey scrap. Sharp and clear could be heard this protest of one ring side occupant: If you don't get or my neck, I'll bust you in the eye" Some surprising evidence of par iality for accurate Byzantine archi- lecture is showing itself in Chicago, Apparently. though, anything By zantine here must be four-square, pure to the core, and also Chicago esque.
 | How this unusual result is achiev ed is illustrated by the new church of St. Basil, Garfield Boulevard and donore street, a structure with q broad Byzantine dome and especial ly an aspiring, graceful minaret Lesser domes and half and quarter domes, together with many mono llith pillars in granite and marble. still further accentuate the style. Exquisite polychrOme mosaic and mosaic windows contribute likewise to make St. Basils one of the most unique churches in the country, but particularly so regarding the nina ret.
 Thej great original and classic lexample of Byzantine architecture is the world-famous church of St. Sophia in Constantinople, ancient Byzantine. With the exception of St. Basil's church. Chicago. however no church in America built on By zantine lines has minaret such as appears in all present day paintings and engravings Of St. Sophia.s.
 The Chicago minaret Is in reality the church smokestack. Neverthe- less, the architectural effect as seen from an advantageous point, Is stri- kingly similar to the best current representations of St. Sophia g church in Constantinople. Private shaving booths have been opened in Chicago's Loop district. lThey are offered for use for fee