Better days or, A Millionaire of To-morrow

Better days; or, A Millionaire of To-morrow

Chicago, said Professor John Thornton, Chicago, my dear doctor, is the typical American city. New York and San Francisco may be classed as metropolitan. Philadelphia, St. Louis, and New Orleans are local to their surroundings; Boston isBoston, but Chicago is sui generis. Notwithstanding its large permanent foreign population, and the presence of the throngs of strangers attracted by the Columbian Exposition, Chicago remains intensely and distinctively an American city. I quite believe you, professor, said Dr. Eustace. Certainly in all the world elsewhere there is no race track for locomotives, no place where iron horses are speeded, and purses of gold and diamond badges awarded to the winners. It is an innovation certainly, doctor, but just such a one as might have been expected in Chicago. The people of this city have not yet passed the noblesse oblige period. You know that in all large cities there is liable to come a time when the citizens divide into separate communities, usually with separate interests, and without any general public spirit. In New York, for instance, Madison Square takes no pride in the East River bridge, Avenue A does not care whether 6the Grant monument shall ever be completed, and the Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island is as strange to many a resident of Harlem as if she were planted on the banks of the Neva. But the people of Chicago, though locally divided into Northsiders, and Southsiders, and Westsiders, are joined in interest for Chicago against the world. Any project that promises glory or profit for the Lake City will cause her citizens to open their pocket books. These Illinois Don Quixotes never tire of sounding the praises of their Dulcinea, and are ever ready to break a lance in her honor. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67835
Author: Fitch, Anna M. (Anna Mariska)
Release Date: Apr 15, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1891
Publisher Country: United States

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Contributor (Author): Fitch, Thomas, 1838-1923