Show jj MIRRORED IN CHICAGO j i I i y r By the Associated Press There Thele is a quotation in the Bible about the insecurity of a house built on the sand Through the wonders of modern engineering however the twentieth century world has seen not a house but an entire city built on the sand and securely The city is Chicago Virtually the entire shore shore of Lake Michigan Mich Mich- igan is an expanse of sand Down Downin in Indiana the sand is blown into those weird mountains known as the dunes In northern Illinois Is there thele Is no surface sand to be blown about An expanding metropolis has covered it with brick and steel and stone But dig down a few inches for a foundation o and below the shallow surface soil soli is sand sand and and nothing but sand In New York York a a city built tuilt on lava rock rock huge huge blasting I operations are ale necessary to sink a foundation In Chicago a steam shovel produces a hole in a few hours Then the trouble begins A few feet down and water begins to appear appear ap- ap ap ap- pear The pumps are set to work and they are In action almost continuously continuously continuously con con- while the foundation Is going in For 1001 the great skyscrapers skyscrapers' ers ers' it is necessary to keep going down until something solid Is reached This sometimes is more than a a. hundred feet below the sur sur- face For structures of moderate hel height ht 9 however it is not always necessary to sink caissons to bedrock The sand structure Is given rigidity bythe bythe by bythe the driving down of a huge number of wooden piles plies For buildings or three or four stories a good concrete concrete concrete con con- crete base is sufficient Darkness closes in on the great city roar and rush diminish lights flash lash and into the tall tali chairs behind be behind behind be- be hind the cash registers of ot the all- all night restaurants climb gray- gray haired dignified bespectacled old men Patrons wonder where the they come from and who they are for suggestive sug sug- of better days are the manners manners manners man man- ners the shapely heads the clothes the ensemble of ot these quiet change- change makers Often Otten it is asked what kind of or employment they once had that in to their twilight years they must work while others sleep The answer is that the great majority are forced to 10 It ft through straitened stances Having suffered reverses dissipated fortunes or displacement displacement displacement dis dis- placement by younger young r men they thus continue in the producing class small small at their age rather age rather than De be dependent They work twelve-hour twelve shifts shuffling sorting changing money Sheridan road probably is Chicago's Chicago's Chicago's Chi Chi- cagos cago's most colorful street It is eighty miles long wending a leisurely leisurely leisurely leis leis- course through the city proper prop- prop er a long string string- of north shore sub sub- J d nor north north- northernmost l orbs and finally lY 1 r reaching Pd a 0 ern most haven in Milwaukee l I Sheridan road Is a It holds its head high The lifo life that f overflows o its long stretch i is as varied as it is Interesting for the street passes passel through palatial hotel hotel and apartment districts bustling uptown business centers magnificent magnificent cent residential areas and finally through the coun country ry estates of ot millionaires millionaires' mil mil- A poet hymning the appeal of oG this thoroughfare once wrote The whistling the honking the the riding the walking The crowds overcrowding our q quiet abode I babies the laughIng laughing laugh- laugh The bathers the Ing the talking Make Male life a ti queer mixture on SherIdan SherIdan Sheridan Sher- Sher Idan road t The street noses out of Lincoln park pant at Diversey Parkway and fronts on the park and lake front through the first couple of miles This stretch is of double width Itis It Itis Itis is faced b by a line of towering apartments similar to those on on Riverside drive In New York The road then twists and turns to follow tollow fol tol- follow fol- fol low the lake shore passes through miles of business and hotel areas bends around a cemetery into Evanston Evanston Ev- Ev anston and then shoots on through a dozen shore III lire suburbs A dozen miles north it leaves the table level lands of Chicago and slopes and curves around hills and onto wooded valleys galleys flanked either side by vast estates and e- e e excusive ex- ex I country clu clubs s There are OOOO autos in th the world Dont Don't read by a dim light It ruins runs your eyes eyes Every mothers mother's son has a chance to become president of the United States if he can A glacier would make a CIne fine pet I for a warm wann spell Santa Claus Is la coming coining Better be good and save your our credit if It you oU I want to get anything |