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Show WOXDEKFIL CHICAGO. In a recent conversation with Clinton Clin-ton E. Page, Esq., of Page Brothers, Chicago, now in this city on business, we gleaned some interesting facts relative rela-tive to the growth of ".New Chicago," as that portion of the Garden City being rebuilt is often oalled. The work of building is going on with a rapidity that many other cities hear of but can scarcely credit, while the Chicago springing from the ashes of the great conflagration will be one of the handsomest cities in the United States, if indeed it will have any rival. On State street large marble front structures are going up like magic. To those who knew the imposing and elegant building occupied by Field, Leiter & Co., before the fire.it may give an idea to state that the Singer sewing machine company is rebuilding the structuro for the same company, in much handsomer style, with a front on State street of two hundred feet and one on Washington street of a hundred and fifty feet. Up and down State street elegant marble front buildings build-ings are beiDg reared, as far aloDg as Congress street. Lake 6treet is solid from the Michigan avenue depot to Clark street, with tho exception excep-tion of two lots. Wabash avenue is nearly solid, rebuilt, from South Water street to Monroe. La Salle and Dearborn streets are the same. Wells street is now called Fifth avenue and is vastly improved, fine business structures taking the place of the sec ond-hand shops that formerly occupied it; and the new avenue is to have a line of horse cars. The old City Hotel corner is to be occupied as a business block with threo splendid stores. The chamber of oommerce is about completed, comple-ted, and is a finer building than before. One marked feature of the new city is that the stores aro wider, more capacious capa-cious and mere imposing in appearance. appear-ance. All of this, to one acquainted with the Chicago of the past, shows that the indomitable energy of the people peo-ple was but stimulated to increased activity ac-tivity and the accomplishment of still greater works by a disaster that would have almost crushed out tho inhabitants inhabi-tants of most cities. The fact that seventeen first and second clasa hotels will be opened in tho South division of i the c;ty before next spring tells, of it- self, what has been doing and is being done to rebuild "new Chicago." |