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Show SMOKE MAKES CHICAGO ATTRACTIVE TO ARTISTS Chicago. Feb. 10. Chicago's smoka may be disagreeable to its residents, and various organizations, Including women's cIuBb, may agitate againsf the nuisance, but now it appears tha word nuisance is a misnomer. In reality the smoke lends a beautiful beauti-ful artistic canopy to the city and painters like It They even come from Europe to study Its effects In shading. Ralph Atkinson In an address last night in municipal art said: "Chicago will- start a movement which will spread for hundreds of miles. . "The towns of this country are undoubtedly un-doubtedly the ugliest In the world," he declared, "but they will Improve. If only plans for tho building of the cltyhad been mode In the first place, however. Instead of clapping ' the buildings down In the quickest and easiest way, we should havo saved something like $100,000,000. "In spite of the fact that Chicago has more natural attraction ' than al- most any place In this country and abroad, for the artists visiting here 6fty so. It appeals not comfortably habitable. A wealthy woman said to me the other day that if it were not for her husband's business she would never think of . living any-place but abroad. Every year she spends thousands thous-ands of dollars abroad, and one of tho purposes of -municipal art from the, economic standpoint is to make Chicago Chi-cago so attractive fhat the money will be spent here. "This Is what the workers have at heart and toward that end the artists will sacrifice the smoke, which in It-Self It-Self make b one of the attractions of the city. Artists from abroad have spoken of the beautiful effects It makes on the Chicago river. It holds Chicago Chi-cago together artistically, and even brings the sign boards Into tone. "Worklngmen of this country are . more appreciative of art than . the peasants of Europe, legend to the contrary." |