Show OF A GREAT CITY it ip if elti estimated mated mat bat the city ot of chicago now cu cuni alna a population 01 being a gain in one year of eum auto ot of enough of f iubelt to constitute a large city arbre are BUY lumber of people living whose early antedates we tee corporate existence of that aou darful place and another great num ber who first saw the light of day when all the vestern shore ebore of lake was a hawling wilderness what abat a study this to IB for them it to Is equaled by nothing in ancient or modern history and excluding all the side aids to the judgment which have grown with toe the city a growth to IB ao an example exam pie of magic power rivaling in wonder the cabled creation crea tlona of the genii of old at the time when chicago began to lay its plans and beala lie its work look log to its probst proportions and con sequence when it decided to cut loose from all ail forms of provincialism and become the great and only metropolis of the wi is west it was visited with a misfortune so BO widespread and ana crushing that bat it seemed at the time impossible fur for it to recover from the blow la in wis tuis generation the greedy and devouring alamea destroyed nearly all of the busi business oless part of the city and a good deal more this when it had probably a quarter of a million people the fhe blow instead of stu aning as ex decked proved a stimulant misfortune was transformed ino an incentive otiva to renewed slid and more vigorous action and the growth from that lay day to this has been one of the phenomena wrought by human hands compared with ohton all others pale into iulg ance at the present rate of increase chicag agi will go well beyond the two million mark by the close ol of 1899 and enter the new century as ne be bird city of the globe frum from an in POA to 90 snob a distinction inside side th ih time all med to osan man lor for his mundane career now a staryl story I 1 |