Show spirit of the west the great thing in chicago is the spirit of the citizens and the same pint is found in the other western towns each of which is firmly convince ed that it has a great future and that it would be a shameful thing to allow a rival to get ahead of it in any par nicular the earnest citizen who urged connoisseur boi nd for europe it he saw anything over there that chicago needed to ship it er and send in the bill illustrates the true american pride in having the best the dismal western city of a few years ago with its ban en desolation its treeless wastes its flimsy frame structures its frank disregard for the decencies of life Is becoming a thing of the past the traveler is everywhere struck by the fine quality of the new that strikes through the disappearing remains of the old springfield mass can |