Show CHICAGO AND NEW NEV YORK Strife Between Americas be Tw r Great Commercial Centers V Arthur CArthur J 1 Steak I Ii h i ie i g Magazine t For fifteen i ar nore the Windy V City has hu been vi o V not only upon New Y bu In V upon all alt the big i cities of the east ecat Building up from the c wealth of its porK and beef packing and grain business to the point of holding a score of large railroad systems cen centered centered n In ip Its thoroughfares and of b lie be g distributing emporium for the extensive country of which it is the geographical pivot it has accumulated all the elements necessary necE to municipal strength and andas has as made itself talked of any typical throughout the world as an American eity r Pioneer in the matter of tall taU build buildings buildIngs buildings ings always publishing in the most broadcast manner possible po ible anything that could advertise its name including alike aUke the inventions of uniqueness and bearding the older culture of or New York by making a 8 place for the despised Theodore Thomas challenging chal n ing the traditions of education by planting a 8 handsomely endowed mould university on the level plans of or orIts its uninteresting suburbs and then after absorbing a hundred miles more or Ieee less of surrounding territory and population astonishing its Atlantic competitor by securing the Worlds Co Columbian ColUmbi o exposition On the ground that it was the most central and most nat flat natural natural ural place for the American people to exhibit themselves and athi to invite the nations to participate with them Chi Chicag cag cage won on recognition as the second city In the United States With the era of or strife for recognition V passed the rivalry widened out into the broad contest for the control of the na national national V and international lines of trade V Vand and commerce and for the manipulation tion of or the very delicate machinery of finance which governs and regulates all the balance of the civic activities V New York as the chief seaboard city of the country is interested in compell compelling compelling ing all aU trade and finance to become trib tributary tributary tributary to the main stream of interns international traffic that flows between the Atlantic and aM the Pacific Chicago 01 on the other hand as the t inland city is Interested in the development of all alI al possible lines and outlets of traffic Her citizens per perforce perforce pr force support the propositions lending leading to the improvement of the interlake navigation and the clearing of the waterway from the tile lakes to the ocean via via the St Lawrence river They unite unie which In the pressure upon congress has bas resulted after years of urging in fn inthe Inthe the t e completion tion of the h drainage n canal whereby the Great Lakes Lake y V will wU be directly connected conn ted with wih the Mis Mississippi Mississippi ls and the gulf And Am now when the cities cite of the mid middle middle middie dle die west Wet generally are reaching the state state of prosperity and stability that has ha long tong marked marke the condition of the th larger l cities cites on the eastern ide side of the and are looking for the most convenient points In which to toc concentrate c their surplus and to finance Chicago their future undertakings Chiago bankers banker and money men exert their power and enterprise to prevent the theold gold old which accumulates from the huge volume of business of the Interior from York and traveling ng to faraway New being redistributed from there Within the past three thre years Chicago pst has been the center of an extensive movement ben whereby the west has ha been furnishing f the money to move its own crops crepe and to float foat its it own industries Competent crop authorities estimate that during and 1893 more than 25 was thus withdrawn or with withheld wih withheld OO and held from the New York banks that within the last six months of 1 lS over was 0 loaned loane to railroad and industrial corporations that under former conditions would have bave been par pr parceled pr c l out from New York Yok The financial is by all al odds the most mot serious aspect of the municipal between the two typical cities of the Atlantic and the interior The mom mone monetary tary center is always alays likely ly to be b th national center and Chicos marvel mare manEI marvelous an ous energy coupled with its Ing lag territorial location certainly m ml give the metropolis of the th country ground for at least leat a a little uneasiness un nEs has hasto hasto hasto How flow R w much of a 8 handicap handicap Chicago Chiago to overcome however is shown in the total clearings of the two cities eWEs for lS iS New York Yerk City e |