Show A GREAT CITY CHICAGO is now the second city of the nation the suburban towns of lake and hyde park having been added to it and making the population near this is about more than philadelphia and more than brooklyn either of which was greatly a ahead of it according to the estimated estima census of 1885 when chicago was set down for philadelphia f for or more and brooklyn for more it is also double the population of its most persistent rival st louis and is only a step or so behind new york itself which at theotime mentioned was set down for besides it is claimed that the rate of increase is itself increasing and if this be true it will be a neck and neck race for supremacy between the eastern ani and western metropolis in the census next year when it is considered dered that new york is five times as old as chicago and has all along had the advantage of a seaboard with the steadily filling up country to the westray west paying constant and increasing tribute to her the figures of today constitute food for reflection just what it is that causes particular villages to expand into towns to tons ans into cities and these to grow at a rate of increase that makes a year old census of but little value would be hard to point out of course location has something to do with it but not all surroundings contribute greatly and enterprising pu pushing settlers have much to do in the matter yet all these do not entirely explain the cause of Chi chicago cagos phenomenal phenomena strides towards the position of metropolis of the united states if ways that are dark and tricks that are vain were a loadstone whose presence attracted tr gold from beyond the borders if absolute wickedness and disregard of everything that is sacred are sufficient clent to draw the people from far and near and hold them after they arrive then perhaps would all the factors in the situation be accounted for otherwise we can only wonder |