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Show Chicago Growing to Be Like New Tork. In many things does Chicago day by day grow more like New York. In past years one of the most noticeable dilTer-ences dilTer-ences between the dwellers by the la'-e and the dwellers by the sea was the difference dif-ference in their style of dress. New Vork business men have long been punctilious punc-tilious in regard to their dress. It was a common thing to see not only the young men but the older men going to business in the morning with a flower in the buttonhole and dressed aa a "westerner" "west-erner" would have dressed for some social event. In Chicago it was entirely different. dif-ferent. Uur best and wealthiest citizens dressed in a manner that would have caused them to have been noticeable upon Broadway. They were too busy to care about or even think about their clothes. Between the fire and the panic and the big interest inter-est they had to pay it took all thoir energies, en-ergies, both physical aud mental, to contrive con-trive means to pay their eastern creditors. credit-ors. But times huve changed since then. Then were the days of hustle and anticipation. antici-pation. Now, while it is still the day of hustle, anticipation has graduated into p joyment. Then nothing was too good for our creditors, now nothing is too good for ourselves. Then the business man wore clothing simply for protection from the weather. Now he haa time for the amenities and pleasures of life and the money to gratify his tastes. Chicago Chi-cago Herald. |