Show chicagoans not worried I 1 chanced to be in chicago said a gentleman at a dinner to a company of fellow new englanders two or three days after the great fire of 1871 As I 1 walked among the smoking ruins if I 1 saw a man with a cheerful air I 1 knew that he was a resident of achl cago if I 1 saw a man with a long face I 1 knew that he represented a hartford insurance company really the cheer ful resignation with which the chica go people endured the losses of new england did honor to human nature |