■^' ^iS: 
 
 ^ * 
 
 
 
 ,,;» ^ 
 
 oo 
 
 ?% 
 
 ■■» o 
 
 v^-^ ■'^ 
 
 
 
 
 i;\ 
 
 _o-' ^ , 
 
 '^' 
 
 ^, 
 
 ■ \ 
 
 
 " / 
 
 ff 
 
 
 .; ^^< 
 
 ■"^^. 
 
 
 
 o ^ 
 
 .;^«^.*" 
 
 
 
 ^f ^* 
 
 fJS" 
 
 '>- V- 
 
 
 
 
 '^vy X\'- 
 
 
 A' 
 
 /> 
 
 -'^ 
 
 %.'* 
 
 "*!, 
 
 ^^ :i^yf/>>,,\ 
 
 " ■^ c'^ * 
 
 fy^^'r% 
 
 ■^.A 
 
 fei^' - tJ 
 
 >^ V* 
 
 .■*\.^ 
 
 ft aU 
 
 ,0' ..' ' 
 
 OQ 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 "- vyi:^^- 
 
 '•«*'• .\'^ 
 
 ^ ^ ■^. ■*:^:? 
 
 
 ,0 o. 
 
 
 <3 0' 
 
 
 
 cl.' •** 
 
 ■^ ^^' : ^' ; . ^ ^ .^"^ ' ^^ '"^ 
 
 i\V -J' 
 
 » N r. 
 
 
 'J'.^'C 
 
 
 
 
 
 •I -7*. ^ !S^*^SJS® ' \0 P^ • V 
 
 
 
 5ji»-\- 
 
 '^, ^' 
 
 ''s.;;^*" 
 
 c> 
 
 
 \^ "^ 
 
 
 ^/- V* 
 
 
 3 ■-. ^^. .a'^ 
 
 '^, !=■ 
 
 .• « "' » ■-'<o. 
 
 y*\.--:j^*-/ 
 
 ,^^ •% 
 
 ,0 o^ 
 
 ,c o ' .«* ^ *,. 
 
 ■ ', C- ■ V ' ' " 
 
 ■^ c , S-, ' • ^ ^ a\ 
 
 ,-\^ - «•■,!' 
 
 •■5 • .0 o. 
 
 
 *.>*. 
 
 A^^ 
 
 aV 
 
 
 .% 
 
 ''/^&I^W^'^ 
 
 ■i^ ^ . >■ ' » « 
 
 
 >V t-.. 
 
 
 '^^P^x ,/^ ""*'/*;- 
 
 
 
 ■p- 
 
 
 
 <, 
 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 ""■'Si 
 
 ..'■Jf- . ' 
 
 
 ■^ fl 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 .A^^' 
 
 .'A^fV' 
 
 .^"^' - // 
 
 
 

 I: ^^^.Z 
 
 
 
 ^' ." .«'■ 
 
 /s^^' 
 
 yj'iZ^'.r 
 
 3"^; ." 
 
 
 
 "^ -^ :, 
 
 S'"" 
 
 
 %%'^' 
 
 ^i^^-% 
 
 ^'^^^° ^^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 -'<?!'> 
 
 
 v^'. ■H^ ci^ :^^^^ 
 
 
 .^■^ -^e 
 
 
 ^ :^' 
 
 
 '1^ 
 
 ^■*^;^^ 
 
 
 .0 
 
 o • ^R^ 
 
 4: # 
 
 
 
 ^ \ 
 
 
 
 . > ' « , 
 
 
 
 ^iffi^'- 
 
 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 0~ 
 
 o^ 
 
 o^ 
 
 '<* 
 
 A-*- 
 
 
 '^^ S 
 
 A: 
 
 
 
 .^'^ 
 
 '*A v*^ 
 
 
 '" '■■■. 
 
 %J- :X 
 
 
 ^jj 
 
 >- K 
 
 :f( 
 
 
 co^ 
 
 ..->' 
 
 *>J^. ^* A 
 
 -' A 
 
 ', %, >*^ 
 
 
 ^t■■ 't. 
 
 
 ■^^■^^r^o 
 
 ^^ 
 
 •^..^■ 
 
 "j'.^X 
 
 ';^: 
 
 *, 
 
 
 
 . \ O ' o . .. * .o 
 
 
 >J '^ -fi/. y 
 
 *^4:3i*^. 
 
 
I n 1 rk L-» c L^ I 
 
Interior View of Palace Reclining Chiair Car of CHICAGO & ALTON R. R., at least two of which are run in all through trains 
 of that Road, Day and Night, between Chicago and Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis, and St. Louis and Kansas City, free 
 of extra charge. The only line running a sufficient number of Reclining Chair Oars to acppmmodate all its pstrcins. 
 
'""' ♦ ;#,, ^arUo 
 
 ^^•> MA ',<'. II 
 
 St>^ 
 
 OP THE 
 
 * 
 
 ^W^^ 
 
 'Q 
 
 'eDNESD/IY, IePT. 5, TO IaTURDAY. iCT. 20, INCLUSIVE. 
 
 #^— 1883— # 
 
 rj. PJ. DOMNEl/ljEY AHD SONS, LlA^ESIDE Bl^BSS, ISO HO I4S £nOHI{OE STREEIB, (sHIGAGO. 
 
33 
 
 Ialutations. 
 
 H E beautiful in business. To portray this sentiment has been the aim of this produc- 
 tion, in which the pen has been very Uberally supplemented by the graphic pencil of the 
 
 As a publication, descriptive and illustrative, it is quite unique in the history of the 
 publishers' art in Chicago. Indeed, its aim has seldom been attempted anywhere with the prodigal 
 spirit of this wiork. 
 
 Of all our continental trade centers, Chicago is pre-eminent as the abode, not the resting" 
 place but the treadmill, of stern matter-of-fact, business. 
 
 The dominant inspiration that has developed this mighty metropolis, which now stands majestic in 
 its grandeur, the pride of all our great nation, and the wonder of the world, was business. 
 
 Chicago is great, her business interests are vast, her busy citizens liave done their duty well, and 
 have fully earned their right to the desire that is steadily increasing among all, for the beautiful, the adorn- 
 ments, the delights of the higher developments and conditions of life, socially and commercially. This 
 sentiment is rapidly increasing, as exhibited in the liberality in taste and expenditure bestowed upon 
 the homes, parks, churches, schools, places of amusement, art galleries, and business establishments. 
 Everywhere and in everything is seen a desire to beautify and display the accumulations of wealth, 
 resulting from -abundant business. 
 
 Labor is not always picturesque. But there is an element of beauty in business, however com-- 
 monplace, and it is the earnest endeavor of this publication to realize that fact. Of the success of 
 this intended effect, the decision is for the critical judgment of the reader. 
 
 In venturing into a special field of illustrative publication, many were the obstacles to be over- 
 come, to obtain a result worthy of the aim and claim ; the best of art, the best in method, representing 
 the best of our business enterprises. 
 
 Many of the engravings are the productions of the Levytype Photo-Engraving Company, from 
 designs and sketches by Carl Durand, Paul C. Lautraup, George Bentham, Wm. Scheuer, Hjalmer 
 Ellingson, A. A. Fasel, A. DeProsse, A. B. Sterner, Charles Lelewer, H. Barnick and others, all 
 well-known artists and designers, under the immediate supervision of Mr. J. S. Gookins. 
 
 But aside from our co-laborers and patrons, there are others to be specially accredited for the 
 appearance of this book — the officers and managers of the Exposition itself. To their wise foresight, 
 liberality, and energy is due all credit for the success of the great undertaking, that, supplied the in- 
 centive for this and, doubtless, for a multitude of other enterprises. Great exhibits of the arts and 
 labors of mankind are fostering fountains for industrious endeavors. 
 
 With a desire to render homage to those to whom homage is due, this book is respectfully 
 dedicated to the Officers of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago for 1883. 
 
 GEORGE M. BARBOUR, 
 
 Hditor. 
 
iURELY IeRSCNAL. 
 
 HE EXPOSITION ! " exclaimed Grace, " certainly we must go! 
 Why, indeed, it is the positive duty of all Chicagoans to go 
 ' early and often ' as you men say about voting. I think it is 
 an almost unpardonable sin for anybody in Chicago to fail to 
 visit our Exposition, and every one says this is to be the great- 
 est and best display of all." Grace is, you perceive, a true 
 daughter of the Garden City, a perfect little stalwart in her 
 admiration of our glorious, enterprising, and only Chicago. 
 
 Her expressive outburst was so genuine and so unexpected, 
 that for a moment Guy was quite speechless, and he could 
 only stare at the fair enthusiast in mute amazement, mingled 
 with a certain admiration. 
 
 "Well," he rejoined, as he regained his usual admirable com- 
 posure; "Well, then it is all settled that we are to attend there 
 to - morrow and devote the entire day to revelling in the won- 
 ders of genius and triumphs of art gathered in that 
 temple of industry — our pet pride, the great Exposition 
 Building, eh I O! by-the-by, I met Don this afternoon 
 and invited him to come around bright and early in the 
 morning and assist us on one of your tempting break- 
 fasts. You see, I knew that would fetch him right on 
 time and no mistake, for he is such an epicure, and you 
 should just hear him once ! how he does boast to the 
 fellows about your cooking; the 'perfection of artistic feed- 
 ing,' he expresses it. And then, after the alluring breakfast, 
 we will proceed to organize ourselves into a compact 
 excursion party for a day at the ' greatest and only ' Expo- 
 sition. There now! " 
 
 In his method for securing a man right on time, Guy 
 was quite correct. A man may forget the hour agreed for 
 a business engagement, and be provokingly negligent in 
 the matter of keeping appointments, but invite him to a 
 grand banquet, or a dainty breakfast, and he will almost 
 surely be on time. Don appeared just as Guy predicted, 
 and soon they were merrily discussing the appetizing 
 breakfast and their vivid anticipations of a day of pleasure. 
 
 But possibly you have never yet met any of our little party who are so eagerly planning to spend a day with you 
 in rambling amid the countless attractions and wonders displayed in the great Exposition, so I will introduce them 
 as they are enjoying their breakfast. 
 
 Guy and his charming young wife, Grace, are in their own home, a cosy cottage in the environs of the city, a 
 congenial neighborhood, possessing all the advantages and comforts of both city and country, with none of the petty 
 annoyances frequently incidental in each. He is an attache of a great publishing house down town, and the 
 Exposition is to him a recreation and an occupation. 
 
 Don is an artist, a confirmed bachelor in good standing, and the particularly intimate friend of the cosy 
 cottagers, and he is a prime favorite with everybody who knew him, one of the sort referred to by his fellow chums 
 as " a good fellow," and by his lady friends as " ever so nice." Don is quite indispensable on a holiday excursion 
 like this. 
 
 All three are thorough Chicagoans of the most loyal order, and their creed is, " Chicago is Chicago, it is great, 
 yea, verily, and there is none other like unto it, Selah! Marry, go to! " 
 
 Anything having a semblance of being in any degree a Chicago specialty is certain of their unquestioning 
 admiration, hence their enthusiastic interest in our Exposition. 
 
 The indispensable, social bond being thus duly cemented after the unconventional manner quite usual among 
 congenial spirits meeting in unexpected places, where each and all are on pleasure and recreation bent, now we — 
 that is, we mean our little party and the reader — will at once waive all further formalities and become mutually 
 confidential, and share with each other our confidences and opinions about what we shall see and hear in our holiday 
 rambles through the great show, and as we visit among the wonderful business enterprises, and learn how money is 
 made in Chicago. 
 
We See and Iehrn Iomething. 
 
 CHARMING morning ! 
 perfect Chicago sum- 
 mer weather; clear, 
 mild, cool, bracing air, 
 the perfection for a hol- 
 iday, it pervades all 
 with a keen sense of en- 
 joyment and good hu- 
 mor. A short journey 
 on the cable cars (per- 
 fection of rapid and 
 pleasant transit in a 
 city), and here we are 
 at the portals of the 
 greatest and only (well, 
 that is, in Chicago, you know!) Exposition. 
 Seen in the early morning of a pleasant 
 day, the great structure, in its holiday 
 attire, is itself a display quite worth view- 
 ing. "Oh, isn't it grand ! " was the excla- 
 mation of Grace as we paused on the 
 corner of Jackson street and Michigan 
 avenue, where one obtains the best per- 
 spective view of the building, and her ex- 
 pressive ejaculation just exactly described 
 it. Its great rounding, red-hued roof, its 
 three vast towers, the countless windows, 
 the myriads of gay flags, great and small, 
 fluttering in the breeze from every possible 
 salient point, the airy glistening conserva- 
 tory, the pretty green park along the entire 
 front and the glittering waters of Lake 
 Michigan forming the vast background, 
 combine a noble picture. Grace was cor- 
 rect ; it was "grand! " 
 AVe are quite wise. We wish to examine and under- 
 stand the objects of art, science, skill and brain herein so 
 abundantly displayed, and we have chosen exactly the 
 proper hour of all for that purpose — the forenoon. 
 
 In the afternoon is the time when one may see the 
 people " at large," view a great crowd, sit and eat ice 
 cream and dainties, lounge near the fountain, watching its 
 sparkling waters, listen to the orchestra, and kill " old 
 time " generally. 
 
 In the evening is the time to see the " oh, how per- 
 fectly lovely ! " effect of the countless electric lights in 
 colored glass globes, and the glittering machinery, and 
 Cupid holds high carnival here with the happy young 
 people at this hour. 
 
 Passing through the roomy entrance, the full glory of 
 the great show is arrayed before us. It is in truth a superb. 
 
 a brilliant scene that bursts upon the vision and the visitor 
 is quite certain to halt short in an overwhelmed, half dazed 
 condition, from which he is only aroused by the push of 
 the fellow just behind him, and he spasmodically gasps — 
 well everybody has their own patent standard variety of 
 gasp expressly for use on such choice occasions. The 
 Oh's! Ah's! My's! Well's! Wal's! and such are the great 
 majority. Don cautiously remarked : " Ah, yes, indeed 
 quite fine." 
 
 Grace exclaimed, " Have you my fan? here let me take 
 it and you may carry my parasol; isn't the fountain nice? 
 I wonder when the band will play? " It is rather difficult 
 to decide just how much of surprise she really felt. 
 
 But any degree of surprise is pardonable, for the scene 
 is grandeur itself. 
 
 Directly in the center, right before you, is the great 
 fountain, a superb work of art, standing nearly fifty feet 
 high, throwing jets .and sprays, and large streams of water 
 from all its mysterious outlets, fully seventy feet in the air, 
 to tumble back in a foaming torrent in the vast circular 
 basin that is fifty feet in diameter and three feet deep. This 
 basin is fringed with a row of large glass table tanks, each 
 containing living specimens of many varieties of fish, and 
 interspersed amidst these tables are large clusters of ferns 
 and flowers. 
 
 Beyond, and high above, is the orchestra box, daily 
 occupied by a band of forty selected musicians in gay 
 uniforms and constantly rendering beautiful selections of 
 music, " foreign and domestic." Flags, streamers, banners 
 and gay hued and curiously designed signs are everywhere, 
 the air is full of them. And way above all, one hundred 
 and fifty feet high, spreads the vast cavernous ceiling with 
 its hundreds of gigantic trussed arches, that with their 
 bewildering ramifications of long, slender iron braces and 
 girders and ties, suggest to the bedazzled imagination 
 some Titanic spider web, and you half expect to see a 
 Jumbo-sized spider go spinning along through the seem- 
 ingly limitless space. 
 
 Descending from this contemplative mood to subjects 
 more realistic, Don's, optical sense was suddenly enrap- 
 tured by the figure of a gentleman vanishing in the dis- 
 tance, and he exclaimed: 
 
 " Why, there he is now, the very man we're wanting," 
 and off he frantically dashed, vigorously beckoning to Guy 
 and Grace to follow. A moment more and the sought- 
 for personage was surrounded, and captured. He at once 
 surrendered. It was John P. Reynolds, the original, the 
 present and the only Secretary of this great " Inter-State 
 Industrial Exposition of Chicago." Quite naturally, he is 
 a perfectly authentic encyclopedia of all the history and 
 facts of it from its earliest conception to this date. 
 
1\_ 
 
 (?.(Zy^^r^- 
 
 Secretary of the I liter- State Industrial Exposition of Chicago. 
 
tion as one of the finest in that arena where all was 
 elegance. 
 
 Watching a favorable moment to secure the attention 
 of the polite manager in charge of the exhibit, we at once 
 confronted him with a volley of hastily prepared questions, 
 but we didn't disturb his complacent serenity, not a bit. 
 His experience in this sort of attack by ladies innumera- 
 ble, has drilled him to perfection, and he was admirable 
 as the "party of the second part," in an interview. 
 
 Of the special features of this famous machine, he in- 
 formed us " The New Wilson Oscillating Shuttle 
 Sewing Machine is wonderful in its conception, and 
 unequaled in its capacity, for doing a large range of 
 sewing in textile fabrics and in leather. Its motions are 
 continuous, admitting of an extraordinary rate of speed 
 either by steam or foot power. Every motion of the 
 treadle makes six stitches, thus producing about one-third 
 more work in a day than other sewing machines. It has 
 no stop motions, and tightens the stitch with the needle 
 out of the fabric. Pt uses the well-known Wilson Com- 
 pound Feed on both sides of the needle. It has two- 
 thirds less parts than any other first-class sewing machine. 
 Its arm is fully eight inches long and five inches high. 
 
 and the whole machine is very compactly and scientifically 
 constructed. In its proportions, elegance of design and 
 general appearance, it is unsurpassed. Its simple, power- 
 ful and perfect mechanism places it as far in advance of 
 all other sewing machines, as the telephone is superior to 
 the tin speaking-tube. The Wilson Mending Attachment, 
 for repairing all kinds of textile fabrics without patching, 
 is furnished free with all Wilson Sewing Machines, to- 
 gether with a luck-marker, ruffler, set of hemmers, binder, 
 etc." 
 
 As we turned away to other scenes, said Grace to Don, 
 who had all the while been a silent observer, " Now, what 
 did you think of the Wilson Sewing Machine ; wasn't 
 it simply perfect ? " " What was I thinking ? " exclaimed 
 Don, "Adam and Eve! The Song of the Shirt! The Yel- 
 low Chinaman! The Sturdy Sailor! The Zulu! The 
 Sailmaker! The Shoemaker! Uncle Sam! that was what 
 I was thinking of." " Why, what do you mean," was 
 Grace's puzzled rejoinder. "Well," said Don, "I will show 
 you." And on the next page the reader will at a glance 
 understand his contemplative inspiration. He is an artist, 
 and tells his story as you perceive. 
 
THE WILSON SEWING MACHINE. 
 
Jfl,/IR.YEL OF (SeNIUS. 
 
 UR little party very soon decided to visit the 
 gallery, tempted by the apparent opportunity 
 there presented for a broad, sweeping view 
 across the entire exhibition ; besides, they 
 learned that many of the most wonderful objects on 
 display were to be seen in the stalls up there. 
 
 Their anticipations were more than realized ; the 
 scene presented was interesting and exceedingly grand. 
 It is a place where one may secure a reserved nook, or 
 point of observation, and revel in contemplating the mar- 
 velous and wondrous display so replete with brain - work 
 and instructive recreation. It is a fascinating study, and 
 the gallery is a good place to fully appreciate it. 
 
 Don's attention was there captured by a particularly 
 attractive stall, a perfect office of the most elegant order 
 in its appointments, wherein were displayed numerous 
 strange machines, much resembling sewing machines at 
 first sight, but in reality they were Type-Writers. 
 
 It was the exhibit of the wonderful Remington Type- 
 Writing Machines, one of the greatest of the greater 
 inventions and discoveries of this age. A machine that 
 prints much faster than any expert penman can possibly 
 ivritc. 
 
 " Oh," exclaimed Grace, " are these machines type- 
 writers ? Why, they remind me somewhat of an organ 
 and sewing machine combined, without a treadle. Well, 
 I have heard so much about them, but never yet had a 
 good chance to see one ; let's ask them to- show us." It 
 was a good idea, for Guy and Don were also quite desirous 
 to learn how the " thing goes," and Don at once effected 
 an acquaintance with Mr. W. O. Wyckoff, of the firm of 
 Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who was fortunately 
 present. 
 
 He invited Don and his companions into an elegantly 
 furnished, cosy, office - like booth. On all sides were 
 observed a large number of Type - Writers, of various 
 styles of finish, for every class of work. Several young 
 ladies, experts in operating the machines, were in attend- 
 ance to practically illustrate and explain to all enquirers 
 how they work and what they perform. 
 
 The information and explanations learned of Mr. 
 Wyckoff were deeply interesting. 
 
 Said he, "About fourteen years ago, E. N. Sholes, an 
 editor in Milwaukee, a man of an unusually inventive turn 
 of mind, was studying out an idea for a machine to 
 number book pages, when the thought was suggested to 
 him that he might make a machine to print letters with 
 type. But how to do it? He wrestled a long time with 
 the puzzling subject, and at last hit upon a plan that 
 appeared practical, and he set about putting his ideas into 
 tangible form. 
 
 " In due time a machine was constructed and tried, 
 and successfully performed its desired mission. The 
 deed was accomplished ! He had won ! " 
 
 It may interest the enquiring reader to know thai one 
 of the original machines, rude, crude and clumsy, but 
 effective, is now in possession of Mr. Wyckoff, who 
 exhibited it to our party, and it is one of the chief 
 wonders of the Exposition. 
 
 About 1S73, after various incidents and vicissitudes, 
 generally the history of all really great inventions, the 
 wealthy firm of E. Remington & Sons — famous all 
 over the world as the manufacturers of guns, rifles, car- 
 bines, sewing machines, etc, — obtained possession of its 
 patents. 
 
 At once perceiving its great utility and value, and the 
 wide popularity it would attain, and the demand it would 
 surely secure from the public when its purpose was 
 thoroughly understood, they prepared machinery on an 
 extensive scale for the manufacture. The demand at 
 first was slow, but increased with immense strides, until 
 now the sales average upwards of Jive liiiiidred per month, 
 and this ratio is increasing weekly. 
 
 The manufactory is at Ilion, N. Y. Messrs. Wyckoff, 
 Seamans & Benedict recently became the sole agents for 
 the sale of this Type-AVriter, and in view of the pre- 
 ponderance of the demand from the trade being in the 
 West, they selected Chicago as one of their headquarters. 
 Their offices are at No. 38 East Madison street, and 
 have been fitted up in elegant manner for their special 
 convenience. 
 
 This firm appoint, direct, and supply all their numerous 
 army of agents, local and traveling, all over the world. 
 The extent of the business is daily rapidly increasing, 
 and assuming vast proportions. Like the electric light, 
 the telephone, and steam railways, it is becoming indispen- 
 sable to business enterprise, and will soon become a per- 
 manent feature in all offices, particularly in legal and 
 correspondence vocations. 
 
 Of its special intrinsic merits, Mr. Wyckoff further 
 stated; "The Standard Remington Type-Writer is 
 acknowledged to be the only rapid, reliable and perfect 
 writing machine. It practically has no rival. Attempts 
 to put upon the market rival writing machines under high- 
 sounding names, by avoiding the Remington patents and 
 by means of clumsy and impractical devices, have been 
 made; but in each instance they have proved failures. 
 
 " No first-class business house in Chicago having, 
 a large correspondence, can be found trying to do busi- 
 ness without one or more of these machines. They are 
 now used largely for billirig as well as for general corre- 
 spondence. Types and key-boards are provided for that 
 purpose. They are now in use in every part of the globe, 
 doing their work in almost every known language. Any 
 young man or woman of ordinary ability, having a practi- 
 cal knowledge of the use of this machine, may find con- 
 stant and very remunerative employment. This knowl- 
 edge can be acquired in a few weeks. All machines, ink- 
 ing ribbons and supplies, furnished by us, are warranted. 
 Satisfaction is guaranteed or money refunded. All goods 
 in our line can be found at 38 East Madison street, where 
 our customers will always receive prompt and polite at- 
 tention. 
 
 " We have thousands of machines in use by the lead- 
 ing business and professional men, and take great pleas- 
 ure in referring to any of our patrons in substantiation of 
 every claim made for the instrument. 
 
 "The facilities of the Remingtons for the raanufac- 
 
ture of fine machinery' are well known, which, added to ten years of experience 
 in the construction of Writing Machines, with full control of the patents — have 
 enabled them to produce a machine fully adapted to the wants of the public. 
 
 " The Standard Type - Writer is a handsome, compact and practically 
 noiseless machine, simple, accurate and durable in construction, is quickly 
 understood, and can be used at once by any one. 
 
 " By its aid correspondence and composition can be accomplished in at least 
 one-third the time consumed in pen-writing, and with a degree of neatness, com- 
 pactness, and precision not to be obtained in the old-fashioned way. 
 
 "Attention is specially directed to the fact that the Remington has but thirty- 
 eight keys, yet operates seventy-si.x types! This is very important to an operator. 
 It prints capitals and small types with the same keys." Here Mr. Wvckoff 
 requested an assistant to give us a practical demonstration of how they are 
 operated. It was exceedingly interesting. A more easy, graceful, simple, lady- 
 ;: — - like occupation surely could not be imagined. 
 
 To ladies especially the Remington Tvpe- 
 AVriter opens an unlimited field for useful, 
 pleasant and remunerative occupation. 
 W ith manv thanks to 4Ir. Wyckoff for 
 hib courtesies, our little party reluc- 
 tantl) sought for other objects of 
 ~ interest, each meditating a vague 
 
 idea that nothing is impossi- 
 ble. Guy solemnly remarked, 
 " Well now that just beats 
 all, don't it? " Grace and 
 Don were silent, lan- 
 guage utterly failed. 
 The) looked their 
 answer Don's 
 pencil tells its 
 story of his 
 impression. 
 
A Iale of fiLEs ,/i.ND Ierfect Iricks. 
 
 ASSING along, our little party were next at- 
 tracted by a ponderous machine, one of tlie 
 famous Gregg patent, in the process of mak- 
 ing specimens of bricks and tiles. It was a 
 very curious sight to observe the masses of shapeless clay 
 disappear in the jaws of the machine, and quickly reap- 
 pear as beautiful objects of ornamentation. 
 
 It 'Was the exhibit of The Western Brick and 
 TiLF. Manuf.^cturing Company, where, following the 
 example of a large group bf interested observers, our little 
 party halted and watched the operations of the machine, 
 and enjoyed an inspection of the results of its labor in 
 the large collection of bricks and tiles, almost innum- 
 erable in variety of form and ornamental finish. 
 
 " How very different," suddenly remarked Don, " is the 
 style of architecture now so prevalent, especially in our 
 cities, from that of about ten years ago. Then, it was all 
 given to a display of marble fronts, or cheap imitations of 
 marble, mansard roofs, circle top windows, broad, clumsy 
 cornices, with hideous galvanized iron brackets, or absurd 
 cast iron fronts, etc. 
 
 " But now observe the perfect elegance of the ornate 
 business structures here in Chicago, and especially of the 
 surburban residences. Those of recent design are all 
 beautiful; in fact, as a rule, they may be described as works 
 of art. Their picturesque effect is really quite fascinating; 
 .such charming doorways, beautiful windows, surprising 
 gables and grand chimneys ! And then the wealth of 
 colors; warm, dark reds, with black or dark red mortar 
 joints, and soft browns. I think a ramble along any one 
 of our recently 'built-up' avenues, especially 'the park- 
 like boulevards, is much like a stroll through a picture 
 gallery," finally concluded Don. 
 
 It is a subject in which our artist is quite " at home," 
 which accounts for his unusually long speech. 
 
 "Yes," replied Guy, "you are right; but do you 
 perceive the true cause of the present good sense and 
 taste in architecture? It is brick I I was about to say 
 common, simple brick, but the bricks of the present age 
 are iwl all the common things of the past, but rather are 
 objects of study and meritorious art. Thus, after many long 
 decades of experimenting with every possible material in 
 the construction of buildings, our architects have wisely 
 returned to the correct principles of constructive art of 
 the earliest cizilization — Bricks ! Bricks without straw. 
 Bricks by steam. Brickmaking has become an art, a 
 scientific manufacturing enterprise, of which this Company, 
 The Western Brick and Tile Manufacturing 
 Company, is one of the largest and most flourishing rep- 
 resentatives — an enterprise that ranks to-day as one of the 
 leading industrial concerns of Chicago." 
 
 In a short chat with the polite gentleman in charge of 
 the exhibit, we learned; 
 
 " In brick making, as in all other industries where the 
 demand is great and rapidly growing, machinery is re- 
 placing hand labor, and as a result it is not only possible 
 to bring the rate of production up to the demands of the 
 market, but the quality of the product is vastly superior 
 to that of the best hand-made article ; and with the system 
 here shown, the quality of brick manufactured is far in 
 advance of the product of other machines. Bricks made 
 by machinery have been commonly deficient in strength, 
 unequal in size and density. The Gregg Triple Pressure 
 Brick Machine possesses new and valuable features, which 
 insure a yield of bricks excelling the best hand-made, 
 and at a comparatively small cost. These bricks are 
 superior in appearance, and in the matter of homogeneity 
 and strength they are, beyond all doubt, far ahead of any 
 other brick made. 
 
 " Complete tests have been made, and officially deter- 
 mined and reported, by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore, 
 Lt.-Col. Engineers, U. S. A., and by the Supervising 
 Architect of the United States at the Treasury Depart- 
 ment, at Washington, D. C, with the most satisfactory 
 results, and these bricks were ordered to be used in the 
 Government work. 
 
 " The mechanical construction of these machines is 
 such that the heavy developing pressure takes place while 
 the mould table is at rest, thus requiring but a nominal 
 amount of power to operate them. 
 
 " The Gregg Machine is the invention of Col. Wm. L. 
 Gregg, Room i6. No. 53 Dearborn street, Chicago. It 
 has already obtained a world-wide reputation, and has 
 been exhibited, and invariably received the highest 
 awards, at various great Expositions in this country and in 
 Europe. 
 
 " Bricks, through all ages to the present day, have and 
 must ever be, during the continuance of time, the favorite 
 building material. 
 
 " The bricks of Thothmes III. are impressed with his 
 cartouch, as Roman brick - makers had their special 
 marks. In this way the Twenty-second Legion has been 
 traced through Germany. Roman bricks are found in 
 England inscribed Legion II., Aug., and other bricks 
 attest the presence there of the Si.'cth and Ninth Legions. 
 Enamelled bricks are found in the Mound of the Mujelli- 
 beh, in Mesopotamia. These facts prove the durability of 
 bricks, and all kinds of stone work is rapidly giving 
 place to ceramics in the form of ornamental and shapely 
 bricks. 
 
 " It is a conceded fact, then, that brick, in all countries 
 and for allclimates, is the best building material, not only 
 
resisting the action of the elements and the ravages 
 of time, but withstanding the action of fire and water in 
 great conflagrations, better than stone." 
 
 The Western Brick and Tile Manufacturing 
 Company, is organized under the general laws of the 
 State of Illinois, with an authorized capital of $500,000, 
 for the purpose of manufacturing brick, paving tile and 
 other ceramic products, under the Gregg system, the ex- 
 clusive rights for the State of Illinois being owned by the 
 Company. The officers are, Homer Pennock, President; 
 A. W. Penny, Secretary, and Edward Koch, Treasurer. 
 
 The general offices are at Room 16, No. 53 Dearborn 
 street, Chicago. The yard and kilns of the company are 
 
 in the suburbs of the city, and rapidly supplying the de- 
 mand for their superior work. Mr. Grepg's shops for 
 the manufacture of the brick-machine is just outside the 
 city. 
 
 On the preceding page the reader will see a beautiful 
 illustration, which graphically represents samples of very 
 many varieties of their artistic work. There is, of course, 
 no limit to the various designs of bricks and tiles they 
 can produce. 
 
 Every desired product in constructive and decorative 
 work is possible in clay, when shaped by the Gregg 
 Machine and made by the Western Brick and Tile 
 Company. 
 
 I SlEA^I iOMFORT. 
 
 I HERE," said Guy, pointing to a neatly ar- 
 ranged exhibit that seemed to be a constant 
 source of interest to observing visitors, 
 " right there is an invention that strikes me as 
 one of the most useful and comforting for service in every 
 home, of anything in all this show. It is so handy, and 
 useful, and cheap for the good it can do, that every 
 family, certainly those with children, should be compelled 
 to own one, especially all occupants of tenements. You 
 see, neat, clean children very seldom grow up disorderly, 
 unworthy citizens. It's the dirty ragamuffins that 
 furnish business for the police, so that invention there 
 
 ought to be regarded as a sort of patent sanitary police 
 force." 
 
 Don and Grace calmly stood and stared at Guy as he 
 delivered his argument. They knew his hobby, and that 
 he would conclude in entire safety. 
 
 It was the exhibit of " The Chicago Folding Bath 
 Tub " that caused Guy's discoursive lecture. It is, in 
 fact, a remarkably useful and convenient invention, fully 
 deserving the praise and admiration it obtains from 
 all. The cartoon illustrations on the opposite page fully 
 realizes to the reader the good reasons for Guy's ad- 
 miration. 
 
 
THE COMFORTS OF A CONVENIENT BATH TUB. 
 
 CABINET IN USE. 
 
 THE CHICSGO FOLDING BITH TUB 
 
 Office No. 119 Twenty-Second Street, Chicago. 
 
 It is endorsed by every one who has used it ; It is an elegant 
 piece of furniture ; It may be had in cabinet form or flush with the 
 wall ; All tubs have a mirror in front ; It is cheaper than a bath 
 room ; It saves room, occupying when closed a space of only 2 feet. 
 6 inches x 2 feet, 7 inches ; All tubs have secured to them waterproof 
 floor cloths which /o/d in ivith the tubs and can be used if desired ; It 
 enables one to bathe in his bed chamber, thus avoiding dangerous 
 changes of temperature ; It presents a pleasing appearance when 
 open or closed ; The best bath tub for Hotels, Cottages, Flats, Hos- 
 pitals, or any place where a bath tub is needed ; It saves the trouble 
 of dressing before the morning bath or re -dressing after the evening 
 bath ; It can be prepared for removal by simply unscrewing the pipe 
 couplings, thus making it portable ; Its mechanism is simple and can 
 not get out of order ; It can be opened or closed by the most delicate 
 person ; Each part adjusts itself automatically ; The interior closet 
 is a convenient receptacle for towels and other toilet articles ; Each 
 tub is provided with a lock ; When closed, the tub is protected from 
 injuries to which the stationary tub is exposed. 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 John M. Van Osdel, architect, 41 Clark St. 
 Burnham and Root, architects, 115 Dearborn St, 
 W. W. Boyington, architect, 157 La Salle St. 
 L. E. Dixon, architect, 102 Washington St. 
 S. M. Randolph, architect. Room 51, Lakeside Building. 
 Edbrooke and Eurnbara, architects, 184 Dearborn St. 
 Frederick Bauman, architect, Metropolitao Block. 
 George H, Edbrooke, architect, no Dearborn St. 
 Wheelock and Clay, architects, 77 and 70 Dearborn St, 
 John C. Cochrdin, architect. Room 78. Ashland Eiock. 
 J. V. Wadskier, architect, 126 Dearborn St. 
 \\. L. Beers, architect, Room 46, Major Block. 
 Treat and Foltz, architects, 80 Dearborn St, 
 E, S. Tennison, architect, 151 Alonroe St, 
 Wm. Longhurst. architect, 113 Madison St. 
 J. Ir^'ing Pearce, proprietor Sherman House. 
 E, A. Batchelder, proprietor Southern Hotel. 
 A H. Andrews and Co., 195 Wabash Ave. 
 Jennie E. Smith, M. D., Central Music Hall. 
 E, M. Hale, XL D., 65. 22nd St. 
 Dr, Joshua Smith, cor. Michigan Ave. and 22nd St, 
 H. B. Bryant, 77, 79 and 81 State St. 
 W, T. Lewis, 103 State St. 
 E. Baggot, plumber, 132, 5th Ave. 
 J. L. Pattison, plumber, 81 Randolph St. 
 Eassctt and Beaver, plumbers, 215 Slate St. 
 Chappell and Wilber, plumbers, 26 and 28 State St. 
 Martin Moylan, plumber, 103, 22nd St. 
 Powers and Clark, plumbers, no, 22nd St. 
 Thos. Kelly Eros., plumbers, 186 Dearborn St. 
 
 i. H. Roache, plumber, 208, 31st St. 
 . Wolff M'f'g. Co., plumbers' supplies, 103 to m W. Lake St. 
 
 CLOSED CABINET. 
 
Record of Industry. 
 
 BEAUTIFUL cabinet, richly decorated, the 
 
 furnishings arranged in the utmost good 
 
 taste, with a number of pianos, all superb 
 
 instruments, therein displayed, was the 
 
 next scene that caught the keen attention of Grace. 
 
 With a quick, rapturous e.Kclamation, she was hasten- 
 ing, via a bee-line route, to that special scene, her two 
 somewhat perturbed escorts following in her wake to the 
 best of their ability. 
 
 " Why can't you drop some sort of a hint, you know, 
 just to let a fellow get a bit of an idea where you intend 
 to fly to, when you ' light out ' so mysteriously? You dart 
 away like a flash, and somehow nobody seems to get in 
 your way, while apparently everybody has a special case 
 of urgent business right exactly in front of Don and 
 I," said Guy, when they succeeded in overtaking the 
 impulsive Grace, who had already reached the objective 
 point she sought, and was -intently studying the elegant 
 display 
 
 " What splendid pianos! Isn't it a lovely display? " 
 was her only e.xplanation. It certainly was, and on a 
 second sight of it, our escorts both again pardoned the 
 fair fugitive for giving them such a chase. 
 
 It was the exhibit of the famous B.^uer Pianos, and 
 fully justified the admiration so liberally bestowed by all 
 observers, especially the ladies. 
 
 Everybody in Chicago, surely, knows of Mr. Bauer. 
 Bauer's Piano, and Bauer's Music House, are house- 
 hold expressions, understood in every home, in every city 
 or hamlet, in all the great Northwest. Wherever the 
 gladdening notes of music may enter, there will the name 
 of Bauer be at once recognized. 
 
 His display of Pianos, Organs and all manner of Musi- 
 cal Instruments at our Exposition is one of the most inter- 
 esting among the many attractive exhibits. Attention is 
 especially directed to the Pianos, they being of his own 
 manufacture, and to the justly famous, superb Bauer 
 Cabinet Grand Pianoforte, the marvel of musical 
 perfection, that has borne off so many honors in com- 
 petitive contests. 
 
 But all who read know of his piano and musical 
 wares, so we will present a record of Mr. Bauer himself. 
 
 Mr. Julius Bauer is one ofthe most successful men 
 in the Piano and Organ Business in America. He was 
 born in Berlin, Germany, in 1S31, and at the early age of 
 fourteen entered, as an apprentice, the factory of Mr. 
 Riechel, where he remained several years. He also 
 worked in a number of the most prominent piano fac- 
 
 tories in Europe, making the science of acoustics a spe- 
 cialty, in which he showed remarkable adaptability and 
 genius. When only sixteen, Mr. Bauer made and per- 
 fected a violin, which, in construction and tone, surprised 
 professionals. 
 
 In 1849, Mr. Bauer opened a general music store in 
 New York city, and.it was here that he laid the founda- 
 tion of his present extensive business. 
 
 His first store in Chicago was established in 1857, at 
 the corner of Clark and Washington streets. In 1864 
 he was obliged to enlarge his facilities, and removed to 
 the famous Crosby Opera House building, having at that 
 time the finest music store in the United States. The 
 business, from the start, was extremely prosperous, the 
 firm of Julius Bauer & Co., besides manufacturing and 
 dealing extensively in Pianos and Organs, ranking among 
 the largest importers and jobbers of general Musical Mer- 
 chandise in the country. The first great blow which 
 came to the firm was in 187 1, when the disastrous Chi- 
 cago fire swept away all the earnings of years, and left Mr. 
 Bauer almost penniless. But he was not discouraged, 
 and with pluck and energy, in a few weeks, fitted up 
 warerooms in a church, where he pushed his business as 
 hard as ever. In 1872 he removed to the Palmer House 
 corner, where he remained until 1879, when he found it 
 necessary to have more room, and removed to 182 and 
 184 Wabash avenue, a five-story marble-front building. 
 The business of Julius Bauer & Co. increased so 
 rapidly that even this large store proved too small to 
 meet the demands, and on the ist of last May they again 
 moved to an immense building, at 156 and 158 Wabash 
 avenue, near the corner of Monroe street, which they 
 have leased for a number of years, and they now have 
 one of the finest Piano and Organ Establishments in Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 The new store has six floors and a basement. The 
 three upper floors are devoted to the work of finishing 
 pianos, the case-making being done in another building. 
 The first floor is occupied as a sales-room for Pianos and 
 Organs ; the basement is used for storage purposes, and 
 the two remaining floors are given up to Band and Miscel- 
 laneous Musical Instruments, which are for sale either at 
 wholesale or retail. , 
 
 On another page the reader will see how our artist, 
 Don, was impressed by Mr. Bauer, whose portrait is 
 there presented, and his great business success. Surely 
 the career of Mr. Bauer and his successful labor is " A 
 Record of Industry." 
 
ASESlfctTjREls 
 
UJ 
 
 Q 
 
 O 
 
 H 
 O 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 (/) 
 
 UJ 
 
 o 
 
 Li. 
 
 u, 
 O 
 
THE WOOTOfJ DESK AT HOME. 
 
ardently enjoyed an inspection of the beauties of the 
 various designs, and the ready pencil of our artist, 
 Don, was quiclcly busy delineating, in the picturesque 
 sketch herewith presented to the reader, an ideal study 
 of the Decorative Tiles. The beauty of these ornamen- 
 tations in a home room never tires nor diminishes, but 
 ever creates and promotes a steady appreciation of the 
 art beautiful. They civilize and refine. Good is the 
 home brightened with Tiles. 
 
 The Wooton Desk is a unique specialty of its 
 kind, simply perfect for its purpose — a remarkable 
 success. A Desk, a Cabinet, a Counting-House and a 
 Record Depository, all combined, there is nothing else 
 that equals it for convenience in the transaction of 
 business. It leaves nothing to suggest. It is the desk 
 of the age. It is constructed and elaborated in various 
 styles, two of which are perfectly portrayed to the reader 
 by our artist. 
 
 I f AL/iTiAL Emporium. 
 
 ' ACH department of the Exposition having been 
 visited, and the wares and objects carefully 
 and conscientiously inspected, and duly dis- 
 cussed in all their special merits, and the in- 
 creasing throng of afternoon visitors being more intent on 
 enjoying the music, the fountain, the elevator, the restau- 
 rant, watching Cupid's pranks, and revelling in a mildly 
 good time generally, our little party, including three or 
 four additions of equally merry friends, held an impromptu 
 council and resolved: Whereas, we have spent several 
 hours here and completed a general review of the E.\po- 
 sition, therefore it is resolved, that we do now go outside 
 and enjoy a ramble about town, visiting divers of our 
 notable business houses, to the end that we may see, and 
 learn, where all these strange and beautiful wares come 
 from, how they are made, and how they are turned into 
 wealth ; and be it further resolved, that we go at once, 
 and return here again to-day, or some other day. 
 
 Guy put the motion, and it was carried unanimously, 
 although Grace intimated her opinion that " it would be 
 awfully nice to get a good seat and lazily listen to the 
 music and watch the crowds come and go." 
 
 However, we started on our sight-seeing tour. Turn- 
 ing the corner of Adams street, on Wabash avenue, the 
 attention of all, particularly the ladies, was attracted to 
 the immense Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & 
 Company, with its walls of iron, ornamental brick, carved 
 stone, and broad expanse of plate glass, through which 
 could be seen the rich display within. It could not be 
 resisted, the ladies insisted we must stop right there, the 
 gentlemen willingly assented ; it may be added, they were 
 as thoroughly interested and gratified as were their fair 
 companions with what they saw and learned. 
 
 The Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & Com- 
 pany, now upwards of a quarter of a century in existence, 
 is one of the principal commercial enterprises of Chicago, 
 and is undoubtedly one of the largest, in its line of busi- 
 ness, in the world. 
 
 Its high reputation is world-wide. Their great edifice, 
 (where we visit,) is a veritable palace, perfect in its ele- 
 gance, magnificent in its proportions, and faultless in its 
 appointments. It is quite impossible for the visitor to 
 
 fully realize the completeness of everything in this estab- 
 lishment except by an extended inspection. The elegant 
 vestibule entrance, the beautiful marble-work, frescoed 
 panels, massive carved cherry and plate-glass doors ; the 
 wood work, all of costly kinds, with elaborate carvings and 
 mouldings everywhere employed throughout the great 
 structure ; the handsome office partitions, desks, chairs, 
 etc., all of richest designs; the marquetry flooring ; the or- 
 nate chandeliers for gas and electricity; the perfected 
 steam heating apparatus; the great roomy stairways, that 
 ascend by easy stages, their posts and railings being spec- 
 imens of art; the abundance of glittering brass ornamen- 
 tations ; the rich hued roller shades to each of the multi- 
 tude of immense plate- plass windows, that admit floods of 
 bright light over the vast areas of the several floors ; the 
 array of tables ranged in long lines, all laden with beauti- 
 ful Millinery dainties, always bright and attractive ; abso- 
 lute neatness everywhere conspicuous, and a pervading 
 atmosphere of refined good taste ; all these accessories 
 combine to produce a very impressive effect upon the ob- 
 servant visitor. There is positively nothing to displease, 
 nothing gaudy, loud, or noisy, all is perfect refinement. 
 
 The building is 120 by 180 feet, ground dimensions, 
 is six stories high, constructed of dark red pressed brick, 
 elaborately trimmed with carved stone-work, and the style 
 of architecture is unique in its perfect repose and grandeur. 
 Massive strength and security are self-evident features. 
 Superior taste and lavish expenditure is everywhere ap- 
 parent. The several vast floors combine an area of over 
 three and a half acres ! Three roomy elevators, two for 
 freight and one for passengers, are required. The perfect 
 light, thorough ventilation, exquisite neatness, and liberal- 
 ity of equipment apd furnishing, everywhere observable, 
 is quite remarkable. 
 
 The vast business is sub-divided, for proper conveni- 
 ence, into Departments, each under the management of a 
 gentleman whose special fitness has been proven by time 
 and experience. The first floor contains the Silk Depart- 
 ment and Ribbons Department; the second floor, the vast 
 Notions Department, buttons, yarns, parasols, bustles, 
 skirts, perfumery, neckwear, rubber goods, etc., etc., in 
 countless variety. The White Goods and Hosiery Depart- 
 
ment occupies the third floor. The fourth floor contains the 
 Straw Goods. Flower and Feather Stocks. The fifth floor 
 is the Corset Factory and Department, a very important 
 branch of the business, employing upwards of fifty skilled 
 lady employes. The sixth floor is required by the Straw 
 Goods Factor_v, and the roof is occupied by the Dye House 
 and Bleachery. It may be asserted that every floor and 
 every Department, from the great basement, with its pow- 
 erful engines, packing rooms, etc., upward to the broad 
 roof, are all scenes of deep interest to the curious visitor. 
 It is an impressive exhibition of enterprise, thorough or- 
 der, and prosperous business, a very creditable type of a 
 representative Chicago commercial house. 
 
 The head of this great house is Mr. A. S. Gage. The 
 other members of the firm are four gentlemen whose value, 
 and ability, have each been long tried and were proven 
 worthy of their responsibility. Mr. Charles Brewer, of 
 over twenty years service, and now in charge of the Rib- 
 bons Department; Mr. FR.-iNK N. G.4GE, who has charge of 
 the Silks; Mr. C. S. Burkholder, a thoroughly courteous 
 and popular gentleman, and Mr. G. H. HovEV, the effi- 
 cient financial manager. These gentlemen compose the 
 firm. The assistant general manager, Mr. John W. 
 POLLEY, has served . in this establishment upwards of 
 twenty long years, his well known business abilit)' ren- 
 dering him eminently qualified for that responsible posi- 
 tion. Mr. C. S. LoNGENECKER has charge of the Dry 
 Goods Department ; Mr. H. A. Morse, of the Notions; 
 Mr. G. B. Halliday has the White Goods and Hosiery; 
 Mr. H. E. Taft has the Straw Goods; Mr. J. H. Slater, 
 
 the Flower and Feather Department ; Mrs. McCormick 
 superintends the Pattern-Bonnet Making Rooms ; Mr. L. 
 A. Downs is Superintendent of the Corset Factory ; and 
 Mr. J. E. Brewster is Manager of the Straw-Goods 
 Factory, that in itself requires upwards of 150 employes, 
 mostly women. 
 
 The establishment has Branch Houses for purchasing 
 materials in the leading cities of Europe, and their trade 
 extends to all nations of the world, exceeded by none. 
 
 It is in fact a wonderful and vast industry, a pride 
 and credit to Chicago. 
 
 Bidding adieu to the courteous official who had 
 escorted us over the establishment, explaining all its 
 details, our party resumed their tour in search of other 
 scenes of interesting industrj'. Each confessed a feel- 
 ing of pleasant astonishment, quite indescribable in 
 mere words. It was a commingling of the four seasons 
 of the year, all compressed into one hour. Words fail to 
 express it, and nothing but the graphic pencil of our artist 
 friend, Don, could reveal our kaleidoscopic condition of 
 mind, and we refer the attention of our reader to the scene 
 portrayed on the back cover of this book. It ideally real- 
 izes, so to express it, the possibilities suggested to a vis- 
 itor to the establishment of A. S. Gage & Company. 
 
 Grace, and her lady friends in our party, all enthusiast- 
 ically declared, — well, lots of things. Our fair readers 
 know just what was said, and ought to be said, on such a 
 subject, and the gentlemen readers wouldn't comprehend 
 it if we told them all, so we will not attempt the impossible 
 task. Visit there. 
 
ardent!)' enjoyed an inspection of the beauties of the 
 various designs, and the ready pencil of our artist, 
 Don, was quiclily busy delineating, in the picturesque 
 sketch herewith presented to the reader, an ideal study 
 of the Decorative Tiles. The beauty of these ornamen- 
 tations in a home room never tires nor diminishes, but 
 ever creates and promotes a steady appreciation of the 
 art beautiful. They civilize and refine. Good is the 
 home brightened with Tiles. 
 
 The Wooton Desk is a unique specialty of its 
 kind, simply perfect for its purpose — a remarkable 
 success. A Desk, a Cabinet, a Counting-House and a 
 Record Depository, all combined, there is nothing else 
 that equals it for convenience in the transaction of 
 business. It leaves nothing to suggest. It is the desk 
 of the age. It is constructed and elaborated in various 
 styles, two of which are perfectly portrayed to the reader 
 by our artist. 
 
 I WALJiTlAL ImPORIUM. 
 
 ^^^M ACH department of the Exposition having been 
 "° visited, and the wares and objects carefully 
 and conscientiously inspected, and duly dis- 
 cussed in all their special merits, and the in- 
 creasing throng of afternoon visitors being more intent on 
 enjoying the music, the fountain, the elevator, the restau- 
 rant, watching Cupid's pranks, and revelling in a mildly 
 good time generally, our little party, including three or 
 four additions of equally merry friends, held an impromptu 
 council and resolved: Whereas, we have spent several 
 hours here and completed a general review of the Expo- 
 sition, therefore it is resolved, that we do now go outside 
 and enjoy a ramble about town, visiting divers of our 
 notable business houses, to the end that we may see, and 
 learn, where all these strange and beautiful wares come 
 from, how they are made, and how they are turned into 
 wealth ; and be it further resolved, that we go at once, 
 and return here again to-day, or some other day. 
 
 Guy put the motion, and it was carried unanimously, 
 although Grace intimated her opinion that " it would be 
 awfully nice to get a good seat and lazily listen to the 
 music and watch the crowds come and go." 
 
 However, we started on our sight-seeing tour. Turn- 
 ing the corner of Adams street, on Wabash avenue, the 
 attention of all, particularly the ladies, was attracted to 
 the immense Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & 
 Company, with its walls of iron, ornamental brick, carved 
 ■Stone, and broad expanse of plate glass, through which 
 could be seen the rich display within. It could not be 
 resisted, the ladies insisted we must stop right there, the 
 gentlemen willingly assented ; it may be added, they were 
 as thoroughly interested and gratified as were their fair 
 companions with what they saw and learned. 
 
 The Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & Com- 
 pany, now upwards of a quarter of a century in existence, 
 is one of the principal commercial enterprises of Chicago, 
 and is undoubtedly one of the largest, in its line of busi- 
 ness, in the world. 
 
 Its high reputation is world-wide. Their great edifice, 
 (where we visit,) is a veritable palace, perfect in its ele- 
 gance, magnificent in its proportions, and faultless in its 
 appointments. It is quite impossible for the visitor to 
 
 fully realize the completeness of everything in this estab- 
 lishment except by an extended inspection. The elegant 
 vestibule entrance, the beautiful marble-work, frescoed 
 panels, massive carved cherry and plate-glass doors ; the 
 wood work, all of costly kinds, with elaborate carvings and 
 mouldings everywhere employed throughout the great 
 structure ; the handsome office partitions, desks, chairs, 
 etc., all of richest designs; the marquetry flooring ; the or- 
 nate chandeliers for gas and electricity; the perfected 
 steam heating apparatus; the great roomy stairways, that 
 ascend by easy stages, their posts and railings being spec- 
 imens of art; the abundance of glittering brass ornamen- 
 tations ; the rich hued roller shades to each of the multi- 
 tude of immense plate- plass windows, that admit floods of 
 bright light over the vast areas of the several floors ; the 
 array of tables ranged in long lines, all laden with beauti- 
 ful Millinery dainties, always bright and attractive ; abso- 
 lute neatness everywhere conspicuous, and a pervading 
 atmosphere of refined good taste ; all these accessories 
 combine to produce a very impressive effect upon the ob- 
 servant visitor. There is positively nothing to displease, 
 nothing gaudy, loud, or noisy, all is perfect refinement. 
 
 The building is 120 by 180 feet, ground dimensions, 
 is six stories high, constructed of dark red pressed brick, 
 elaborately trimmed with carved stone-work, and the style 
 of architecture is unique in its perfect repose and grandeur. 
 Massive strength and security are self-evident features. 
 Superior taste and lavish expenditure is everywhere ap- 
 parent. The several vast floors combine an area of over 
 three and a half acres ! Three roomy elevators, two for 
 freight and one for passengers, are required. The perfect 
 light, thorough ventilation, exquisite neatness, and liberal- 
 ity of equipment and furnishing, everywhere observable, 
 is quite remarkable. 
 
 The vast business is sub-divided, for proper conveni- 
 ence, into Departments, each under the management of a 
 gentleman whose special fitness has been proven by time 
 and experience. The first floor contains the Silk Depart- 
 ment and Ribbons Department; the second floor, the vast 
 Notions Department, buttons, yarns, parasols, bustles, 
 skirts, perfumery, neckwear, rubber goods, etc., etc., in 
 countless variety. The White Goods and Hosiery Depart- 
 
ment occupies the third floor. The fourth floor contains the 
 Straw Goods. Flower and Feather Stocks. The fifth floor 
 is the Corset Factory and Department, a very important 
 branch of the business, employing upwards of fifty skilled 
 lady employes. The sixth floor is required by the Straw 
 Goods Factory, and the roof is occupied by the Dye House 
 and Bleachery. It may be asserted that every floor and 
 every Department, from the great basement, with its pow- 
 erful engines, packing rooms, etc., upward to the broad 
 roof, are all scenes of deep interest to the curious visitor. 
 It is an impressive exhibition of enterprise, thorough or- 
 der, and prosperous business, a very creditable t3'pe of a 
 representative Chicago commercial house. 
 
 The head of this great house is Mr. A. S. Gage. The 
 other members of the firm are four gentlemen whose value, 
 and ability, have each been long tried and were proven 
 worthy of their responsibility. Mr. Charles Brewer, of 
 over twenty years service, and now in charge of the Rib- 
 bons Department; Mr. Fr.\nk N. Gage, who has charge of 
 the Silks; Mr. C. S. Burkholder, a thoroughly courteous 
 and popular gentleman, and Mr. G. H. Hovey, the effi- 
 cient financial manager. These gentlemen compose the 
 firm. The assistant general manager, Mr. John W. 
 PoLLEY, has ser\'ed . in this establishment upwards of 
 twenty long years, his well known business ability ren- 
 dering him eminently qualified for that responsible posi- 
 tion. Mr. C. S. LoNGENECKER has charge of the Dry 
 Goods Department ; Mr. H. A. Morse, of the Notions; 
 Mr. G. B. Halliday has the White Goods and Hosiery; 
 Mr. H. E. Taft has the Straw Goods; Mr. J. H. Slater, 
 
 the Flower and Feather Department ; Mrs. MgCormick 
 superintends the Pattern-Bonnet Making Rooms ; Mr. L. 
 A. Downs is Superintendent of the Corset Factory ; and 
 Mr, J. E. Brewster is Manager of the Straw-Goods 
 Factory, that in itself requires upwards of 150 employes, 
 mostly women. 
 
 The establishment has Branch Houses for purchasing 
 materials in the leading cities of Europe, and their trade 
 extends to all nations of the world, exceeded bj' none. 
 
 It is in fact a wonderful and vast industry, a pride 
 and credit to Chicago. 
 
 Bidding adieu to the courteous official who had 
 escorted us over the establishment, explaining all its 
 details, our party resumed their tour in search of other 
 scenes of interesting industr>-. Each confessed a feel- 
 ing of pleasant astonishment, quite indescribable in 
 mere words. It was a commingling of the four seasons 
 of the year, all compressed into one hour. Words fail to 
 express it, and nothing but the graphic pencil of our artist 
 friend, Don, could reveal our kaleidoscopic condition of 
 mind, and we refer the attention of our reader to the scene 
 portrayed on the back cover of this book. It ideally real- 
 izes, so to express it, the possibilities suggested to a vis- 
 itor to the establishment of A. S. Gage & Comp.any. 
 
 Grace, and her lady friends in our party, all enthusiast- 
 ically declared, — ^well, lots of things. Our fair readers 
 know just what was said, and ought to be said, on such a 
 subject, and the gentlemen readers wouldn't comprehend 
 it if we told them all, so we will not attempt the impossible 
 task. Visit there. 
 

 Something Safe. 
 
 ERE" exclaimed Guy, as he suddenly halted our party 
 of curiosity seekers in front of No. 57 State street, 
 "here is. one of the most interesting and important 
 industries in oyr city." It was the saleshouse of the 
 DiEEOLD Safe and Lock Company. "You see," continued Guy, 
 " the people of Chicago have a very vivid appreciation of the use- 
 fulness and value of good safes, and, where there is anything worth 
 saving, you will find a fire and burglar proof safe in the shop, 
 factory, office, store, even in many dwellings, ranging in size from 
 the little jewel safe, (a sort of a pocket or parlor edition,) up to 
 the great massive bank vaults with their array of ponderous doors, 
 bolts, grates, time locks, combination locks, and such securities. 
 Let us step in and see them." They did so, and were soon grouped 
 around the desk of Mr. John W. Norris, Vice President and 
 Western Manager, this being his general office, and were eagerly 
 interested in his descriptions of the details of his vast business. 
 
 The manufactory of the Dieeold Safe and Lock Company 
 is located in Canton, Ohio, and the whole country is divided into 
 districts, in charge of managers, and their agents and salesmen are 
 found in all the larger cities and towns throughout the country. This 
 
 
 
 (1>/ >„ 
 DIEBOLD SAFES. — JOHN W. NORRIS, WESTERN MANAGER. 
 
is an organized stock company, with a very large capital, 
 improved tools and machinery, and, being the largest safe 
 manufacturers in the world, are always prepared to fill 
 orders to any extent. The shops cover about eight acres, 
 and employ upwards of eight hundred workmen, turning 
 out sixty complete safes daily. Chicago is the principal 
 distributing point, about three-fifths of the entire product 
 passing through Mr. Norris' hands. 
 
 Mr. Norris, with a pride quite pardonable, exhibits a 
 volume of testimonials giving an unbroken record of 
 success, wherever these safes have been tested by fire or 
 burglars, cxtcm/iiig over a period of twenty years; during 
 this time over One hundred thousand safes have been 
 made, and are now in use by all classes, from the great 
 Safe Deposit Vaults, worth $100,000, to the retail dealer, 
 or chamber jewel safe, and are scattered over the entire 
 commercial world. 
 
 It would require quite a volume to enumerate the 
 banks and business houses of this city, alone, that are 
 supplied with the Diebold Safes and Vaults. 
 
 " We furnished The First National Bank of Chi- 
 cago," said Mr. NoRRiS, " with all its Fire and Burglar 
 Proof protection, making the most expensive and most 
 impregnable Banking outfit in the world, consisting of one 
 immense Steel-lined Vault for Bank Reserve; one large 
 Steel-lined Vault for use of Bank Tellers; two mammoth 
 Steel-lined Safe Deposit Vaults; one large Burglar Proof 
 
 Safe for Reserve Vault; twelve Burglar Proof Safes for 
 the use of Tellers ; five sets of massive Burglar Proof 
 Doors, each consisting of a ponderous outside and heavy 
 folding inside doors, connected with steel vestibules, into 
 which the folding doors open. Each set of these doors 
 weigh from five fo ten tons. Also, seven sets of lighter 
 Burglar Proof Doors, and forty-nine elegant Fire-Proof 
 Doors. The contract cost was f roo,ooo. 
 
 " The Safe Deposit Vaults will hold about 10,000 Safety 
 Depositories. 
 
 "And we have recently closed the contract to furnish 
 and place the vaults, and all the safes, locks and such 
 like fire and burglar proof fixtures for the Commercial 
 National Bank, in the great building now being erected 
 corner of Monroe and Dearborn streets." 
 
 These were but a few of the more interesting points 
 of information learned from Mr. Norris, but they 
 serve to convey to our reader some idea of the vast 
 transactions of this immense establishment, and of the 
 confident regard entertained for their Safes and Supplies 
 by the public. 
 
 Our party enjoyed their stroll through the sales-room, 
 and were greatly impressed with the display of won- 
 derful locks and various devices for rendering vaults and 
 safes secure from fire and burglars. Such mysterious in- 
 tricacies and powerful combinations are exceedingly won- 
 derful. As Guy predicted, it was a most interesting visit. 
 
 SCENE IN STORE OF JOHN W. NORRIS, 5? STATE STREET, 
 
S«i3»- 
 
 Ifter MnnY Tears. 
 
 
 ll'"PV years in tlie business; forty of 'em right 
 lierc in Cliicago," was tlie terse, sententious 
 ii'sponse — a tale of a long, busy life told in 
 one dozen words. It was the history of Mr. 
 Bishop, the respected head of the ever reliable old firm of 
 A. Bishop & Co., importers and manufacturers of iMne 
 Furs, and dealers in Hats and Caps, at their well known 
 store, No. 164 State street, the business heart of Chicago. 
 
 As our strolling party, all intent on sight-seeing, were 
 passing by this store, an " Oh, do just see those beautiful 
 furs ! " exclamation from the ladies drew the entire parly 
 to the great show window, and the display therein was so 
 rich, and altogether attractive, that it was at once unani- 
 mously voted, "Let's go in." And we did so. The 
 familiar figure of Mr. Bishop was spied in the distance, 
 and he was at once surrounded, and the object of our 
 breezy visit was detailed to him. Said Grace, " You have 
 been in business here a long time, haven't you, Mr. 
 Bishop?" Ho replied in the twelve words that open this 
 chapter. 
 
 " Want to see lots of my nice things, and hear about 
 the trade, etc., do vou? "said he. " Well, you all seem to 
 have good, bright eyes; " just then the eyes of the ladies 
 all suddenly dropped to the floorl (not literally, oh, no, 
 merely figuratively you know,) " and yon can enjoy your- 
 selves all you desire, looking at the goods. About the 
 state of our trade," said he to Guy and Hon, " Well, the 
 attention of our friends and |iatrons is specially called to 
 the unusual inducements we are enabled to offer tliis 
 season in all kinds of Furs, and more particularly in the 
 line of fine Seal Goods. 
 
 " In anticipation of the largely increased demand, we 
 have .secured a full supply of the finest London dyed Seal 
 skins, selected by our special agents and imported direct, 
 so that we are enabled to offer finer goods at lower prices 
 than ever. The skins comprise the very best grades of 
 South Sea, Shetland Island and Alaska Seal, such as are 
 always selected for the best trade in the leading European 
 cities ;^the culls and inferior stock being usually shipped to 
 America), and they are conceded to be the finest skins 
 ever brought to this country. \\'e are taking orders for 
 Cloaks and Dolmans from this superb stock at less than 
 other houses are obliged to charge for the common and 
 inferior skins imported by New \'ork houses and sold to 
 Western dealers in a regular wav. 
 
 "In other lines of Furs we can olTer similar induce- 
 ments. A practical experience of over forty years in the 
 fur trade gives us unequaled facilities for buving and 
 handling all kinds of Furs and Skins. We have special 
 arrangements for purchasing and importing direct from 
 the great fur markets at London and Leipzic, and our 
 
 domestic Furs are consigned to us direct from the trappers 
 in large quantities. From these consignments we select 
 only the best skins for our own use, and these are care- 
 fully finished under our own supervision. We can feliere- 
 fore guarantee the very best quality of stock at the lowest 
 possible prices. 
 
 ".\s so much depends on making up the l''ur Garments 
 properly, we use only the best materials for lining, trim- 
 ming, etc., and employ only the most skilled workmen, 
 aiming at perfection in every detail. 
 
 " We give particular attention to orders or inquiries by 
 mail, and always exercise the greatest care in filling such 
 orders, and in promptly furnishing the fullest information 
 concerning styles and prices. 
 
 " \\'e are prepared to dress all kinds of Fur Skins, and 
 make up the same in any style or shape the owners may 
 desire, at reasonable prices. 
 
 " Seal Skin Sacques and Dolmans will continue, as in 
 former seasons, to be our leading speciality. The beauty 
 and elegance of our IjOndon dyed Seal, and the perfect 
 fitting secured by our French patterns, are beyond all 
 comparison, and give us an unquestioned superiority in 
 this line. We are better prepared than ever this season to 
 maintain our supremacy, and defy all competition, either 
 in quality, style or prices. Our Sacques, Dolmans, Ulsters 
 and Circulars are cut from whole skins (never pieced). 
 
 " AVe also make a specialty of refitting Sacques and 
 Dolmans of other makes, and of enlarging and lengthen- 
 ing, without showing seams, and of trimming, reliningand 
 repairing of all descriptions. 
 
 "The Seal Circular is an entire novelty introduced by 
 us last season. The superb elegance and comfort of this 
 style was so marked that it created a decided sensation, 
 and was extensively copied in the Eastern cities and in 
 London. It forms a magnificent wrap for walking or 
 riding, and is acknowledged to be the most convenient 
 and comfortable of fur garments. 
 
 " The favor which these Circulars Have met with since 
 they were introduced, is the best possible jiroof that they 
 will be one of the most popular styles during the coming 
 season. 
 
 " Our Seal Ulster, another decided novelty brought 
 out by us toward the close of last season, also caused a 
 very marketl sensation amongst the manufacturers and 
 wearers of fur. The lining, ornaments and other details 
 are varied to suit the fancy and taste of the wearer. AVe 
 have already taken a number of orders for the coming 
 season, and the Seal Ulster promises to be one of the 
 prime favorites in the line of fur goods. 
 
 ".Attention is also called to our superior Mink Sacques 
 and Dolmans of all styles anil qualities. A\'e use the 
 
i>^; I 
 
 
 
 i^S;*^ 
 
 A SUGGESTION AT A^ BISHOP & GO'S, FUR AND HAT STORE. 
 
Maine, Nova Scotia, Northern and Western Mink, all of 
 the best grades. The Sacques are cut so that the stripes 
 run to the shoulder or to the collar, and are finished .with 
 a deep .tail border, with raised or plain cuffs and rolling 
 collar, plain or pointed. 
 
 " The Muff is made to match the Sacque or Dolman, 
 and the buttons and ornaments, as well as the linings and 
 trimmings of both Sacque and Muff, are varied to suit the 
 fancy of the wearer. 
 
 " In the ordinary Fur Sets, consisting of Collar or 
 Boa, with Muff and Cuffs to match, we have an unusually 
 large and fine stock. These sets are made of nearly every 
 description of fur. Among the leading and most popular 
 styles are the Otter, the Mink of Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
 Maine and Nova Scotia varieties, the Seal and imitation 
 Seal, the Astrachan, the dyed and natural Beaver, Siberian 
 Squirrel, Fisher, Silver Fox, Hudson Bay and Russian 
 Sable, Ermine, Grebe and Chinchilla. These goods are 
 .all finished and trimmed in the best style and are offered 
 at very low prices. 
 
 " We are showing some new and attractive styles in 
 Silk Dolmans and Circulars, fur lined and trimmed, and 
 we notice a growing demand for these elegant garments. 
 We use all the different grades of silk, such as Armour, 
 Sicilian, and Satin de Lyon. The linings are of the best 
 quality of Siberian Squirrel, Ermine, or other suitable fur. 
 The Circulars are finished with hood and tassels and 
 fastened with oxidized or burnished silver clasps. The 
 Dolmans are made from our own patterns, and are war- 
 ranted to fit perfectly. They are finished either plain or 
 with a border of any style of trimming fur desired. In 
 addition to our own designs, which have always found so 
 much favor, we have secured the agency for the celebrated 
 house of Revillon Freres, 79 and 81 Rue de Rivoli, 
 Paris, who are acknowledged to be the leading manufac- 
 turers in this particular line in Europe. 
 
 " Especial attention is directed to our Robe Depart- 
 ment, in which we are showing the largest and finest 
 
 selection of rich Sleigh and Carriage Robes in the West. 
 Our stock includes Otter, Beaver, Bear, Wolverine, White 
 and Red Fox, natural Seal, Badger, Coon, Wild Cat, Sheep 
 and Buffalo, and we are prepared to furnish any style or 
 quality of Robe to order on short notice. The Robes are 
 all lined with plush and handsomely finished. 
 
 "We are making a special feature, this season, of Ladies' 
 and Gentlemen's Caps and Driving Gloves. Our new 
 styles in Ladies' Hats are trimmed with fancy colored 
 plumes and are very stylish. The Gentlemen's Caps are 
 all satin lined and handsomely finished. The Mittens and 
 Driving Gloves are lined with lambskin and faced with 
 buck or French kid. Prices of these goods are very 
 reasonable. 
 
 " Of our stock of Hats, Caps, etc., for gentlemen's 
 wear, which is very laige, we can assert the well known 
 fact, proven by forty years experience, that it is always 
 stocked with the latest styles of the season. The prices 
 are the cheapest, and the variety is the greatest to select 
 from, of any in Chicago. 
 
 "And now remember, in buying Furs, that by calling 
 early you can secure a first choice from the splendid stock 
 of Seal and other fine Furs which we are offering ; and 
 that by ordering garments in advance of the busy Fall and 
 Winter season, you can secure a discount from regular 
 prices, and be sure of extra care in the making up, be- 
 cause the workmen have more time during the dull 
 Summer months, and are willing to work at reduced 
 wages." 
 
 " Good-by! much obliged; " and we were again in 
 seach of something nice. 
 
 Urn! how the ladies did chatter about those Furs, "so 
 soft," " so sweet," " so nice ! " They quite exhausted the 
 entire vocabulary of exclamations adapted to feminine 
 use. Their warm compliments of the courteous Mr. 
 Bishop were merited, and were endorsed by all. Don 
 didn't express in words, but his pencil displayed, his 
 thoughts. See those sketches ? 
 
ANOTHER SUGGESTION. — A. BISHOP & COMPANY. 
 
J^RTISTIC AND WSEFUL. 
 
 ASSING along Wabash avenue, the display of 
 mantels, tiles, and brass goods, arranged in 
 the great show windows of Albert A. Riley's 
 establishment, at No. 178, is certain to attract 
 attention, and cause one to pause and enjoy the beautiful 
 array. 
 
 It was thus with our little party of curious sight-seers. 
 The keen eye of Grace instinctively caught the scene and 
 led her, first to the windows and then, as a matter of 
 course, inside, and we could only quietly follow. And 
 we were glad we did. It was a revelation of practical 
 art. Riley's mantel and tile house is really worthy of a 
 visit as a museum, or gallery of art. Why, in the dis- 
 play of Tiles in their hundreds of shapes, styles, kinds, 
 designs and colors, are many, wonderful as specimens 
 of mechanical and artistic skill, a combination of the 
 potter's, the sculptor's, and the painter's genius. It is 
 really surprising the e.\tent of artistic perfection attained 
 in the decoration and arrangement of Mantels, Fire-places 
 and Tile work. 
 
 It is only within the past ten years that our people 
 have begun to realize how much true art there is in 
 a fire-place, and how much comfort and beauty they add 
 to a home. But it was merely rediscovering an olden-time 
 specialty, "one of the good old kind " in fact, as well as 
 in sentiment. 
 
 The display of Brass Fire-place Furniture, the lovely 
 Coal Hods, (actually it is possible for a coal hod to be real- 
 ly beautiful, just visit Riley's and see for yourself!) the 
 picturesque Andirons, the sets of Tongs, Shovel, Poker, 
 
 and Hearth brush, arranged in their frames, the Fire 
 Guards, and Screens, the Fenders, all so clean, neat, 
 beautiful and bright, are curious and pleasing. 
 
 An inspection and study of the Tiles, that one may 
 appreciate their use and intention for dining room, library, 
 parlor, hall, billiard room, bath, nursery, chamber, or any 
 room designed for a special use, is very interesting. 
 
 The visitor to Riley's very quickly realizes that the 
 effect possible in a fire-place, which by many has perhaps 
 been thought so commonplace, is in reality very beautiful. 
 And, as one slowly moves about the store, carefully 
 inspecting each of the large variety of Mantels and Fire- 
 places, and thinks of the deep study and real art they 
 combine, the admiration of our forefathers for their 
 hearthsides, as exhibited in their dwellings, their pictures 
 and their poetry, and always so tender in reference to 
 the yule log, the swinging crane, the bright flame, the 
 hearthstone, all, is better understood and appreciated by 
 the contemplative visitor. 
 
 To describe in detail the special beauties, or values, 
 of the Fire-place Fixtures and Furniture at Mr. Riley's 
 establishment, is quite impossible, and will not be at- 
 tempted here; but the reader's cittention is invited to the 
 illustration on the opposite page of two of the artistic 
 mantels, and various other specimens of his elegant wares. 
 
 Well pleased with our inspection of the interesting 
 display, and with our ideas refreshened, and our minds 
 busy with a new train of thought on an old, old, subject 
 — the fireside — we turned from Riley's in search of 
 other scenes, curious and beautiful. 
 
 loTES OF Motes. 
 
 T was suggested that we next visit The Root 
 & Sons Music Company establishment, 
 Messrs. Church & Lee, Managers, corner 
 of Wabash avenue and Adams street, where 
 visitors to the Exposition turn when they wish to reach 
 the main entrance. This proposition was at once favored 
 by all, especially the ladies of our party, and it being 
 near by we stepped in, finding Mr. E. V. Church, senior 
 member of the managing firm, and treasurer of the 
 Company, present, and were very quickly obtaining from 
 him an insight into the interesting details of the extent 
 and peculiarities of the trade of our musical world. 
 
 "The Root & Sons Music Company," by which 
 name this popular establishment is so well known to the 
 people of the great Northwest, especially in musical cir- 
 cles, is a corporate designation, under which a charter was 
 obtained. It is a stock company, of which Mr. John 
 Church is president, Mr. E. V. Church, treasurer, and 
 Mr. E. R. Lee, secretary. The latter two gentlemen are 
 
 the Resident Managers, and are so well known, from 
 their constant presence, that the house is quite frequently 
 referred to as Church & Lee's. 
 
 It is undoubtedly the largest and leading music house 
 west of the Atlantic cities, dealing in all manner of musi- 
 cal instruments and wares; in fact, they are known to the 
 trade as "General Music Dealers," and are agents for 
 numerous well-known favorite musical instruments. Of 
 Pianos, their stock includes the Hazelton, Decker & Son, 
 Ivers & Pond, New England, Root & Sons, and Everett. 
 Special attention is called to the Hazelton pianos, of 
 which the firm have a magnificent stock and regard it as 
 their leading instrument. Of Organs, they exhibit the 
 Clough & Warren, Root & Sons, and various others, 
 all well-known favorite instruments, and all of superior 
 qualities. 
 
 They are importers and jobbers of every kind of 
 Musical Merchandise, Band Instruments, etc., and carry 
 a stock of Music Books and Sheet Music, the equal of 
 
any in the world. They are also publishers of Music in 
 Sheet and Book form. 
 
 By the way, the charming melody " Only a Pansy 
 Blossom," at present, and for some time past, such a pop- 
 ular favorite, is one of their publications. It is worthy 
 of note that considerably over fifty thousand copies 
 have been sold, and the demand is yet steady and large. 
 This sale is something quite unusual for any of the 
 popular light melodies, and has been exceeded only in a 
 very few cases. 
 
 Strolling about in the vast establishment, the visitor 
 observes that its roomy first floor is arranged as a general 
 retail salesroom for all varieties of Musical Goods. The 
 building is unusually broad, one of the largest fronts of 
 an)' establishment on Wabash avenue. 
 
 The second floor is entirely devoted to the Piano and 
 Organ Department, and here the visitor finds these beau- 
 tiful instruments displayed under the management of an 
 efficient salesman, and a proficient musician, who practi- 
 cally exhibits their qualities in the sweetest manner. 
 
 The two entire upper floors ar» devoted to their Brass 
 Band, Orchestra and Specialty Instruments Department. 
 They are the special agents for the celebrated Brass 
 Instruments manufactured by A. Le Comte & Co., Paris ; 
 
 also, they are the sole agents for the entire United States 
 for the J. B. Schall Patent Banjo, which is now recog- 
 nized by the profession as the most perfect instrument 
 of the kind, superior to any ever made. The house 
 always carries a great stock of this class of instruments, 
 and Mr. Church stated that trade in these wares is 
 always good' and steadily increasing every year and every 
 month. Brass bands are one of the essentials of all 
 our Western towns, especially the new, rapid, booming 
 sort that mostly prevail in the far West. Church & Lee 
 have several excellent representatives always on the road, 
 and have such a wide reputation that they supply a vast 
 trade in those goods. 
 
 While Guy and Don had been learning these interest- 
 ing facts from our entertaining informant, Mr. Church, 
 the ladies had also been taking notes in several octaves, 
 having somehow secured the key, many keys, of the situ- 
 ation from the polite and accommodating attendants, and 
 they were merrily making the most of the opportunity. In 
 short, our party overheard more sweet things and took 
 more notes, one way and another, at Church & Lee's 
 than anywhere else in all that jolly day's journey about 
 town. Don didn't say much, or ask many questions, but 
 the reader will see on another page how he was impressed. 
 
 f^E JLYSTERY of iOAP-SUDS. 
 
 OAP indeed! Visit a soap factory?" exclaimed 
 (M^^Sp Grace. " To be sure we will! " replied Guy. 
 sII^MJS " Why, your surprise at the idea is itself an 
 evident reason for such a visit. The fact is, 
 a mammoth soap factory, like that of James S. Kirk & 
 Company, is always neat and clean, and one of the most 
 interesting places imaginable. Kirk's is really neatness 
 itself, and the odor of rich perfumes that pervades all 
 parts of the vast building is like unto a balmy breeze 
 wafted from the gardens of Ispahan. 
 
 "Very few people have any idea how soap is made, or 
 of the vast proportions of the business. Soap is of such 
 common use that we seldom, if ever, give a thought to 
 its manufacture. Why, the establishment of James S. 
 Kirk & Company, on the North side, just across Rush 
 street bridge, is an immense structure, all fitted up with 
 massive machinery, of strange design, for curious labor; 
 where nothing but the purest and sweetest of oils, the 
 most fragrant of perfumes, and the most refined of chem- 
 ical compounds are combined and formed into Soap — 
 common, plain, but always useful Soap. But come, let 
 us visit there, and you will be surprised when you see for 
 yourselves." 
 
 Guy's descriptive eloquence was convincing, and 
 settled the question, and our little party were soon as- 
 sembled in the handsome office of James S. Kirk & 
 Company, whence, under the guidance of the superin- 
 
 tendent, they were shown through all the departments of 
 the great establishment, and given a superficial insight 
 into the mysteries of soap-making. 
 
 It was interesting, even wonderful, to see and learn 
 what Soap is, and how it is made. From our guide we 
 learn that, of Toilet Soaps alone, upwards of one hundred 
 and fifty varieties, brands, and qualities are here made; 
 also, about the same number of Laundry and the common 
 brands of Soap. 
 
 The firm of James S: Kirk & Company, father and 
 sons, was founded in 1839, and is to-day one of the 
 oldest and best known firms, and transacts the largest and 
 most successful business of the kind in the world! 
 
 They manufacture here, in their immense building, all 
 their soaps; also, all the paper and wooden boxes required 
 for packing, thus saving the paying of profits to others. 
 This saving in itself enables them to successfully com- 
 pete with any othei' soap-makers in the country. 
 
 In their extensive laboratory and chemical department 
 all varieties of Perfumeries are made, and a large force of 
 young ladies are herein employed labeling, capping, 
 wrapping, and putting up bottled goods, including Ex- 
 tracts, ripe Colognes, AVaters, and many other articles and 
 compounds, grateful in the toilet. 
 
 Between five and six hundred men, women, and chil- 
 dren (few of the latter) are employed in the establishment, 
 and are well paid. 
 
The Root &. Sons Music Company, 
 
 CHURCH & LEE, Managers, 
 
 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS IN 
 
 Musical Mer chandisG 
 
 PIANOS, ORGANS. 
 
 BRASS AND ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS, 
 
 Wabash Avenue aho Adams Street. 
 
An idea of the mammoth proportions their business 
 has attained may be learned from the fact that, in 1882 
 upwards of 1,100 car-loads were shipped south over the 
 Ilhnois Central Railroad alone; and over 2,000 car-loads 
 to other points, via other railroads. They make upwards 
 of sixty million pounds of soap annually, and sell it all. 
 At times they have fully three million' pounds of soap 
 in process of manufacture. 
 
 They make soap, stamped per order, for hotels, palace 
 cars, offices, railroads, steamers, and public institutions. 
 They sell to dealers in England, France, Germany, 
 Russia, Spain, and all the nations on the globe. 
 
 In their engine-room stands one of the largest and 
 most powerful engines in Chicago, with its battery of great 
 boilers, a total of 1,200 horse-power, to supply the power 
 and heat throughout the establishment. 
 
 They are prepared to manufacture and supply glycer- 
 ine for high grade explosives. 
 
 An interesting and curious feature is the department 
 where their wooden boxes are made. The flat, thin boards 
 used come from their own saw - mills, in Muskegon, 
 Michigan. They are prepared to proper size at the mill, 
 and brought here by the ship-load. Then the)' are run 
 through a regular printing press, neatly printed with one 
 or more colors, and are ready for boxing. The pieces 
 are set up together, the nails on each side and on the 
 bottom being all driven in at once, by machinery. Sixteen 
 boxes per minute are made and delivered ready for 
 their contents. 
 
 These were but 'a few of the many strange facts our 
 inquisitive visitors learned, and of the curious sights they 
 were shown, and they departed much wiser and filled with 
 surprise. 
 
 Said Grace, after a solemn silence of fully two blocks 
 length: "Well, did you ever?" and her two silently medi- 
 tating escorts, in one voice, replied: " No, I never did." 
 
 
 %p_35[TOf^= 
 
 imW- 
 
 ^^r~^ 
 
 -ASTTTrrilt^ 
 
 Wc 
 
SI 
 
 
 
 w 
 
 -i\>'*'^ 
 
im Realm of Jlusic. 
 
 ^HERE shall we visit next ? was the momentous 
 question that now occurred to our merry 
 party of wonder seekers. 
 
 " Well," said Guy, pointing to a splendid 
 business block on the southwest corner of Wabash avenue 
 and Jackson street, " there is an establishment where a 
 visit will both please and repay us. An inspection of the 
 great stock of Pianos, and an explanation of the perfect 
 manner in which the whole establishment is arranged for 
 a musical emporium, exhibition salesroom, ofifices, superb 
 music hall, warerooms, etc., makes it really a delightful 
 place to visit." 
 
 "Oh, that will^be excellent!" said Grace. " I know the 
 place; it is Weber's, the elegant Weber Piano Estab- 
 lishment; yes, indeed, let us go there." 
 
 'Twas enough ; no further inducement was necessary. 
 Our party were soon gathered in that superb salesroom, 
 a vast apartment, richly decorated, and filled to its entire 
 capacity with Pianos — The Weber — of every variety of 
 style and ornamental finish. It was an exceedingly grand 
 scene, quite impressive in its wealth of luxurious realit)'. 
 Our visitors were enraptured with the display. It is a 
 scene of grandeur in musical art. 
 
 The Weber Pianos are manufactured in New York 
 City by IMr. Albert Weber, whose fame is world wide. 
 This establishment is a Branch House, Messrs. Charles 
 C. CuRTiss and Ferdinand Mayer, Managers, and is, in 
 every detail, one of the rtjost perfect structures for the 
 Piano trade in all America. Nothing is left to be desired. 
 The building is six stories high, of dark-red pressed brick 
 and free-stone trimmings. The frontage on both streets is 
 one hundred and fifty feet, with large plate-glass windows 
 in front and side. The entire building is heated by steam, 
 and contains all modern improvements. 
 
 The basement is used for packing and unpacking 
 Pianos, and contains the boilers, for heating all the rooms, 
 and running the passenger and piano elevators. The first 
 and second floors are finished throughout in hard wood. 
 On the first floor are the offices and principal show- 
 room, — one of the handsomest imaginable. 
 
 The second floor contains Weber Hall, and four small 
 rooms, fitted up as reception rooms, handsomely fur- 
 nished, wherein parties can hear the effect of Pianos as 
 they will sound in their own parlor or boudoir. The 
 Weeer HaIjL seats four hundred people, and is one of 
 the finest in the country. The third, fourth and fifth 
 floors are arranged in small suites, for the use of teachers. 
 In each suite there is a waiting-room for scholars and the 
 room for lessons. A Weber Boudoir Upright is placed 
 in each of the teaching rooms. In all there are about 
 thirty of these suites, the greater part of them being occu- 
 pied by our leading musicians and teachers. The hall is 
 furnished to such teachers as make their headquarters at 
 
 the Weber warerooms, free of charge, for the use. of 
 concerts with their pupils ; thus giving them the .chance 
 of presenting such pupils as desire an opportunity of 
 playing in public. Weber was the first to open a Branch 
 House in Chicago, and his is the first hall of moderate 
 size for such purposes, all others being either too large 
 for comfort, or from other causes not desirable. 
 
 After a tour all over the building, from the roomy 
 basement to the sixth floor, inspecting the handsome 
 Music Suites for study and practice; the charming Recep-- 
 tion Boudoirs, cosy and neat as a maiden's parlor ; the 
 beautiful Music Hall, arranged with a platform and seats 
 for concert recitals; our party returned to the first floor 
 to see and hear the Pianos themselves. 
 
 These superb instruments are really wonderful in 
 their beauty of design, perfect taste, exquisite proportions 
 and decorations, and marvelous mechanical skill. They 
 are constructed of numerous kinds of wood — oak, ebony, 
 maple, F.rench burl, ash, cherry, black walnut, rosewood, 
 mahogany, etc., of all colors and styles of finish, so to 
 harmonize with the fittings of the home room which it 
 may be destined to occupy, as the crowning effect of its 
 surroundings. 
 
 Of every form and design, the Square, the Upright, 
 the Grand, the Parlor Grand, the Baby Grand, 
 American and English styles, the Boudoir Upright, the 
 Concert Grand, the Grand Upright, in variety in- 
 numerable, impossible of detailed description, but all 
 beautiful to see and hear. Perfection itself! 
 
 The popularity of the Weber Piano is great. This is 
 a fact self-evident and indubitable. Probably more of 
 the Webers are owned and used by members of the 
 musical world, particularly the leading artists, than of any 
 other make. In fact, it may be asserted that there is no 
 musician of prominence but owns a Weber, or has un- 
 qualifiedly testified to Mr. Weber their regard of its supe- 
 riority over all others. From Messrs. Curtiss & Mayer, 
 our party learned many things in relation thereto, curious 
 and interesting, and they exhibited, with a pride quite 
 pardonable, letters of praise from the following well known 
 artists of high repute, all of whom use a Weeer : Christine 
 Nilsson-Rouzand, Emma C. Thursby, Italo Campanini, 
 F. Faccio, Mme. P. Lucca, S. Liebling, Emma Abbott, 
 Maria Geistinger, Teresa Carreno, S. B. Mills, Mme. Etel- 
 ka Gerster-Gardini, Carmen Pisani, Anto I. Galassi, Del 
 Puente, Luigi Arditi, G. Thierry, Emilia Parodi, Marie 
 Roze-Mapleson, F. Lablache, Mile. Theo, Signor Capoul, 
 Signor Angelo, Charles Mapleson, Signor Mierzwinski, 
 Signor Tomaso Costa, Mile. Paolina Rossini, Mile. Filo- 
 mena Savio, Mme. Harris Zagury, Henry Piatt ; and 
 hundreds of others. These are artists of world wide re- 
 putation, but among local musicians the Weber Instru- 
 ments are equally appreciated, as is shown by the 
 
 I 
 
?OPIC ON 
 
 1 104 State street, corner of Washington 
 street," was the response to an inquiry for 
 direction to the ofifices of Messrs. Roebins 
 & Appleton, General Agents of the Ameri- 
 can Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. 
 
 The question of "Pime was one that suddenly interested 
 our holiday tourists, and it was resolved to proceed, as a 
 " committee of the whole," to the fountain head of a 
 Watch Company, and learn how Time is made, and bought, 
 and sold, in Chicago. 
 
 In the Holy Writ, St. John the Revelator wrote: 
 " Time is. Time was, but Time shall be no more." But 
 things have changed since the days of St. John, indeed 
 they have. Chicago wasn't then in existence, nor for 
 quite a deal of time afterward, but Chicago'is now one of 
 the centers of the world, and there is more need of Time 
 than in those slow-going ages. Time, regulation, accurate 
 Time, is needed every day. The people must and will 
 have it, and the American Watch Company is one of 
 the great factories of the world where Time is made daily, 
 in quantities to suit anything or anybody, in any place or 
 climate. All done up in gold, silver, and various baser 
 metals, regular first-class cases too, and under the name 
 of " Watches," — probably so called because Time will bear 
 very close watching, ot he slips away from us unaware, — 
 it is sold to everybody. St. John was mistaken in his final 
 assertion, there is lots of Time in these days. Messrs. 
 RoBBiNS & Appleton supply the trade with many 
 thousands of dollars of it daily, which is sent to all parts 
 of the country. 
 
 We called on Messrs. Roebins & Appleton, much 
 like a cyclone of inquisitiveness, for " we all want to know, 
 you know," was our sole object. We were shown Time in 
 great variety of forms and richness of material, Time entire 
 or Time-pieces; one Time or several Times; big Time, 
 little Time; pretty Time, odd Time, wonderful Time, plain 
 Time, rich Time and common Time, all sorts, but all alike 
 
 in two essentials, all were good and accurate, for they were 
 made at the famous, reliable, old established Waltham 
 Watch Factory, and their pride and unequaled repu- 
 tation is founded on these two principles, " excellence of 
 material and accuracy of service." 
 
 Volumes would be needed to fully describe the details 
 of the great variety of Watches shown us as samples of 
 what Waltham work is ; the beauty of ornament ; mar- 
 velous accuracy of mechanical finish, where space is con- 
 fined to limits of the thousandth part of an inch; the latest 
 special improvements to measure time, even to the one 
 hundreth part of a second. These matters are too fine, 
 too delicate, for discursive description, and the reader 
 is spared the task. Surely all must know quite well what 
 a Waltham Watch is ! if not, then stand on a street 
 corner and ask a number of passers-by, gentleman, and 
 ladies too, " What is a Waltham Watch ? " and you will 
 learn, for seven of every ten will be found possessing a 
 Waltham. 
 
 From the genial Manager present, who showed to us 
 the beautiful wonders of Watch-making, and calmly an- 
 swered our torrent of questions, we learned that the 
 present specialty of the Watches is the celebrated Patent 
 Dust Proof, Screw Bezel Case, a wonderful mechanism 
 that hermetically precludes dust or moisture. It excels 
 anything ever conceived for the purpose. 
 
 Our merry party all regulated themselves — their Time, 
 of course, — and we took notes of interest in Time which, • 
 being of Waltham standard, were at par value — ^no dis- 
 count, not a second. Our ideas being considerably 
 enlightened about the value and transactions of Time in 
 Chicago, and where it is mostly supplied, we again resumed 
 our tour, enjoying a good time. 
 
 Don declared his belief that the Waltham Watch 
 would bear a close inspection all around the world, from 
 the arctics to the tropics, and his sketch explains his 
 graphic impression. 
 
\J>\\.--.ivL''-------~~l! '■ '/ //'/ 
 
 ^cvy^ ^cC^^ tv ^ 
 
 AN IDEA OF THE AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY, WALTHAM, MASS. 
 
LlJ 
 
 LlJ 
 
 o 
 
 C3 
 
 X 
 
 < 
 
 LlI 
 
 H 
 < 
 
 cc 
 
 LU 
 
 z 
 a: 
 o 
 o 
 
 
 < 
 
 Q 
 O 
 O 
 
 a 
 
 > 
 cc 
 
 Q 
 
 < 
 
 >- 
 
 z 
 <t 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 Q 
 UJ 
 
 < 
 X . 
 
 CO 
 
 en 
 
M fREAT InTEKPRISE, 
 
 lARSHALL FIELD AND COMPANY ! It is 
 presumable these words at once suggest to 
 the reader, the business of which this name 
 is an accepted synonym — Drj- Goods. 
 
 A description of this vast industry, Marshall Field 
 AND Company's Dry Goods Buslvess, is a review of one 
 of the greatest commercial enterprises of the age. 
 
 Its history is a tale of one constant unbroken career 
 of success, from its incipiency until the present day, when 
 it now stands as the greatest industry of all in our city, 
 with annual transactions reaching far into the millions. 
 The Retail establishment is a palace of beauty and com- 
 pleteness, and the Wholesale building a realization of 
 massive strength, absolute security and perfect arrange- 
 ment for business requirements. Both are architectural 
 ornaments to our city. It would require a goodly volume 
 to recite in detail the entire history of the Marshall 
 Field- and Company Dry Goods enterprise, a task 
 that will not be attempted in this work, the object herein 
 being merely to present to the reader a general review 
 of its most interesting features. 
 
 The story of a great enterprise, or of a success 
 proudly won in any honorable undertaking, or of the 
 worthy career of a man or firm in any field of industry 
 or science, is always one of interest. There is an element 
 of fascination in such a subject, entrancing to the emula- 
 tive reader. It benefits and encourages others to renewed 
 efforts, and arouses that healthy ambition which developes 
 nations. 
 
 The beginning properly dates from early in 1852. 
 
 It was in October, 1868, that the firm first occupied its 
 present well-known location, on the northeast corner of 
 State and Washington streets, with which the business is 
 now so thoroughly identified. The great fire of October 
 9, 1871, swept its destructive wave over the heart of 
 Chicago's industrial palaces, and in a few brief hours the 
 great structure of Field, Leiter and Company, with its 
 wealth of beautiful goods, had vanished, with thousands 
 of other buildings. Ashes and weak tottering walls alone 
 were left to mark the spot where had stood a great estab- 
 lishment — the accumulation of years of patient care and 
 industry. 
 
 But it was Chicago, and Field, Leiter and Co.mpany 
 were typical Chicago men, and soon was their House re- 
 built and their trade resumed. 
 
 In Januar)', 1881, changes occurred in the proprietor- 
 ship, Mr. L. Z. Leiter retiring, and the name became 
 Marsh.\ll Field .and Comp.anv, its present owners and 
 managers. Such, in brief, is an outline of its proprietary 
 career, and incidental changes and disasters ; but, it is to 
 be noted that under each and all, it has constantly grown 
 and expanded to its present vast proportions. 
 
 Marshall Field, the present head of the great house, 
 is yet in the prime of life, being in his forty- eighth year. 
 A native of Conway, Mass., he has been a citizen of 
 Chicago since 1858. Of few words, quiet demeanor, un- 
 blemished moral character and habits, pleasant manner, 
 liberal, thoroughly public spirited, sympathetic in nature, 
 — these are the conspicuous personal traits of M-arshall 
 Field. His success in his vast undertaking is an evi- 
 dence of his business capacity that requires no demon- 
 stration. 
 
 Tne enterprise is dual in its operations ; a Wholesale 
 trade, with its own establishment, management, and 
 commercial ramifications, and a Retail trade, with its 
 management and special features, each absolutely dis- 
 tinct in every detail. The Managers and Superintendents 
 of the various departments and sub-departments of the 
 stocks in the Retail house, daily, or as frequently as 
 their special line of goods need replenishing, go to 
 the Wholesale house, examine, select and purchase their 
 needed goods. 
 
 The fair visitor to Marshall Field's elegant Retail em- 
 porium, or the merchant from other cities and villages who 
 visits the Wholesale house, each to inspect and select 
 from the dainty wares or abundant lines of seasonable 
 goods so lavishly displayed in either house, can scarcely 
 presume to, in any degree, realize the intricate appoint- 
 ments required for the perfect transactions of this great 
 enterprise. Its methods and details are simply wonderful 
 in their completeness. It is only by a visit so/f/y for 
 observation, that one can at all comprehend the require- 
 ments of such a vast business. 
 
 Electricity, steam engines, elevators, heating and ven- 
 tilating apparatus, etc., etc., to sell a paper of pins or 
 stock an entire store, for a thousand of them,) in a city 
 or mining camp, whether for a lady's boudoir on Michigan 
 avenue or a cabin store in the heart of the Rocky Moun- 
 tains. It is quite the same to M.arsh.all Field's houses, 
 whichever it may be; the goods can be at once obtained, 
 packed, shipped and delivered. 
 
 Let us visit, and see, and learn. 
 
 First we will inspect the Retail house. Entering 
 one of the roomy vestibules on State street, or Wash- 
 ington street, we pass into the main sales floor, hun- 
 dreds of feet in depth and breadti.; high, clean, bright, 
 and lighted by rows of great windows, each a single 
 sheet of glass, immense in size, which line the walls 
 on three sides of the building. Counters and shelved 
 cases innumerable, arranged with mathematical precis- 
 ion all over the acres of flooring. Novelties and wares 
 of every sort, quality and make, possible in the line 
 of Dry Goods, for use by men, women, children, or for 
 home furnishing and decoration. Goods — rich, costly, 
 
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY'S RETAIL DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT.— VIEW OF THE GRAND ROTUNDA. 
 
plain, cheap, useful or ornamental; for use in the infant's 
 cradle, for the bride, for the ball, the camp, the cottage, 
 the palace or the grave. A lace handkerchief, a fan, or 
 bottle of perfume for the belle; or the carpeting, uphol- 
 stery and chamber supplies for the greatest hotel in Amer- 
 ica. Here they are, select to your taste. 
 
 The attendants are an army — upwards of fifteen 
 hundred people — men, women, boys and girls; about 
 seven hundred men, six hundred women and two hundred 
 boys. The customers present at the same moment 
 are, perhaps, five hundred, and perhaps five //wiisand, 
 — for the latter great number is not uncommon during 
 the great rush that attends the early season displays, and 
 holiday openings. Yet all is quiet, subdued, orderly. 
 
 The scene is dazzling, and to the visitor from less 
 metropolitan localities, it is, at first glance and impression, 
 even bewildering, yet pleasing and interesting in a high 
 degree. 
 
 The secret of this order out of chaos, is good manage- 
 ment by long-trained, practical minds. 
 
 The building has six great floors and a basement. 
 The vast trade of the establishment is, for obvious rea- 
 sons, divided into departments, three in number: (r) Gene- 
 ral Dry Goods, (2) Carpet, (3) Upholstery. Beside these 
 are two Manufacturing Departments, and the Basement 
 Departments. 
 
 The General Dry Goods Department is a vast trade 
 in itself, occupying the entire first, second and fifth 
 floors; it is sub-divided into thirtj'-nine divisions, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 I, Laces. — 2, Embroideries. — 3, Sets and Ruffling. — 
 4, Handkerchiefs. — 5, Ribbons, Fans and Jewelry. — 6, 
 Dress Goods. — 7, Silks. — 8, Kid Gloves. — 9, Gents' Un- 
 derwear. — 10, Ladies' Hosiery. — 11, Linens. — 12, Quilts. 
 — 13, White Goods. — 14, Flannels. — 15, Prints. — 16, 
 Linings. — 17, Notions, Thread, etc — 18, Velvets. — 19, 
 Cloaks. — 20, Shawls. — 21, Ladies' Furnishing. — 22, Berlin 
 Patterns. — 23, Butterick Patterns. — 24, Black Dress 
 Goods. — 25, Cloths. — 26, Corsets, Hoop Skirts, etc. — 
 27, Cottons. — 28, Dress-iVfaking Rooms; this division 
 occupies the fifth floor entire. — 29, Fabric Gloves. — 
 30, Furs. — 31, Gents' Neckwear, etc. — 32, Fringes. — 
 33, Children's Suits, etc. — 34, Skirts. — 35, Gents' Hosiery, 
 etc. — 36, Buttons. — 37, Suits. — 38, Children's Hosiery. — 
 39, Ladies' and Children's Underwear. 
 
 Each of these sub-divisions is under the management 
 of a skillful Head of Stock, who selects and purchases 
 his special line of goods, looks after his sales, etc. Each 
 of these sub-divisions has an Assistant, expert and profi- 
 cient, to aid his chief. 
 
 The entire third floor is occupied by the Carpet 
 Department, and the Upholstery Department occupies the 
 entire fourth floor. 
 
 Across one entire side, on the main floor, is constructed 
 a parti-balcony gallery, filled with desks to its utmost 
 capacity, occupied by a large force of accountants. These 
 are in addition to the numerous accountants, with their neat 
 desks, scattered in all convenient parts of the several great 
 
 floors, and of the chief accountants, cashiers, etc., in the 
 principal offices. The trade of the establishment is up- 
 wards of Five Millions of dollars annually, and ten thou- 
 sand names of patrons are frequently borne on their 
 books of one date. Such is the vast responsibility of the 
 accountants. 
 
 Three very large elevators are constantly in use for con- 
 venient communication between all floors. One is a 
 powerful machine used only for freight, the other two 
 are unusually large and commodious, constructed in the 
 most elaborate manner, of costly woods and glass, and rich- 
 ly upholstered, solely for passengers' uses. Also broad 
 stairways, of elegant design and construction, lead to all 
 the floors. 
 
 The center of the building is occupied by a grand 
 rotunda, of immense size, opening through all the floors. 
 Imposing columns of ornate design, beautiful railings, and 
 bracketed cornices, support each floor surrounding this 
 rotunda, and it is roofed with a superb skylight that 
 admits a flood of light. 
 
 On each floor, one views a forest of massive iron col- 
 umns of elegant design, supporting the iron girders, joists 
 and arched tiled ceiling, and the floor above. All is iron, 
 tile and stone. It is evident the present building is made 
 absolutely fire-proof, or as near so as human ingenuity 
 can devise. 
 
 The sixth floor is occupied by the Fur Department, 
 Lace Factory, and Carpet work-room, and there is always 
 a large force of men and women engaged there for these 
 purposes. 
 
 But it is in the vast cavernous basement that the 
 inspecting visitor may best discover and comprehend the 
 magnitude of this great emporium. 
 
 Here are the roomy packing, package-storage, bundle 
 delivery, and boxing rooms; each alive with an army of 
 men and boys, assorting and preparing goods just received 
 or to be delivered. 
 
 Also here are the toilet, cloak, and lunch rooms for the 
 female employes; and the same, in separate suites, for the 
 men. In each case the rooms are very large, commodious, 
 neat, light, and well fitted and furnished for their needs. 
 Stalls are numbered for each person, and all are in 
 charge of watchful attendants; they are kept scupulously 
 clean and orderly. 
 
 Under the wide sidewalk, along the entire Washington 
 street front, is constructed a long roomy gallery, fitted 
 with bench seats and clothing stalls for the use of the boy 
 employes. Under the entire State street pavement are the 
 large, neat and commodious private closets and waiting 
 rooms, for the sole use of patrons of the establishment. 
 
 Here also are the great boilers, engines, electric ma- 
 chines, hoisting machines, steam pumps, etc., for heating, 
 lighting and furnishing power to the entire establish- 
 ment. 
 
 Perfect order, system, and neatness are at once evident 
 in this mechanical laboratory. The absolute purity of the 
 atmosphere here, and in fact over the entire building, 
 is quite noticeable, and this vital essential is entirely 
 
s. 
 
 > 
 
 30 
 
 X 
 
 m 
 r- 
 O 
 
 O 
 
 o 
 
 -< 
 
 c/i 
 
 m 
 
 H 
 
 3> 
 
 O 
 
 -< 
 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 
 m 
 en 
 
 > 
 
 CD 
 
 m 
 
 H 
 
 1 
 < 
 
 n: 
 O 
 
 m 
 
 -< 
 
 o 
 m 
 
 > 
 
 33 
 
due to the perfect system of drainage and sewerage, 
 which is kept in a constant state of purity by a flow of 
 artesian water and steam-scouring. 
 
 Here is an artesian well that was sunk in 1874, strik- 
 ing, at a depth of about fourteen hundred feet, a vein 
 that steadily supplies a stream of water of wonderful min- 
 eral qualities, at once pure, pleasant, and healthful. The 
 employes eagerly imbibe it. 
 
 The building is heated by steam, supplied by five 
 great boilers, aggregating a capacity of three hundred 
 and fifty horse-power. These boilers are in batteries, in 
 a large vaulted structure built under the alley in the rear. 
 They are perfect in efficiency and safety. 
 
 Recently the electric light has been introduced, to 
 supersede the myriads of gas lights. The new system is 
 the Edison patent, and numbers three hundred" and sixty 
 of those powerful lights, supplied by two great dynamos, 
 which are operated by a splendid engine of seventy-five 
 horse-power. It is a matter of interest that the total of 
 piping in the building for water, steam, gas, etc., aggre- 
 gates very nearly forty miles length. 
 
 In the packing room is a scene of intensely busy an- 
 imation, and we halt a brief while to observe the opera- 
 tions, A constant torrent of floor-boys keeps passing in, 
 bringing goods of all imaginable kinds, each assortment 
 accompanied with the directions for delivery as given by 
 the salesman upstairs. 
 
 These are quickly seized and neatly arrangea, securely 
 wrapped, tied, labelled with the address, handed on to a 
 recording clerk, and at last passed out to the delivering 
 agent, who accompanies the driver in each of the hand- 
 some Marshall Field and Company's delivery wagons, 
 SIX of which, all neat stylish turnouts, are in constant daily 
 use. Our escorting informant stated that the usual daily 
 delivery averages upwards of one thousand packages, and 
 very many more in the busy seasons. These are in 
 addition to the innumerable oackages the customers 
 themselves carry away. 
 
 Such . are the curious sights we are shown, and the 
 interesting history we are told, in and of the beautiful, 
 busy, palatial, Retail Dry Goods Emporium of Marshall 
 Field and Companv. 
 
> 
 
 3) 
 
 X 
 > 
 
 m 
 o 
 
 O 
 O 
 
 > 
 
 Z 
 -< 
 
 o 
 
 C/3 
 
 o 
 
 3] 
 
 -< 
 
 £D 
 O 
 
 O 
 O 
 c/i 
 
 m 
 
 > 
 
 DO 
 
 X 
 
 m 
 
 o 
 c/i 
 
 o 
 
 > 
 o 
 
 m 
 
 3) 
 
 m 
 

 Ul 
 

 'ilE JlYSTERY Revealed. 
 
 is'^^^ID you ever visit a picture foundry? You are no doubt surprised 
 Bl ft ^' '^^ question, as you may never liave heard of sucli a place. But 
 ^SlM: it 's ^ ^6'^y §°°'^ appellative of the place we mean ; it is not a 
 picture gallery, or where pictures are sold, but where they are made. 
 Well, we visited one, and it was very interesting. Of all the mysterious pro- 
 cesses in the publisher's art this is indeed one of the most interesting. 
 
 It was Blomgren Brothers and Company's Electrotype and Stereotype 
 Foundry and Printers' Warehouse, 162 and 164 South Clark street, and there 
 
 we learned many strange things 
 in a very brief space of time. 
 
 Here steam, electricity, heat, 
 of the white sort, and machin- 
 ery in great variety and of 
 novel design, are all brought 
 into practical use, and made 
 commonplace and tame, like a 
 gigantic but docile elephant. 
 
 In this industry one sees 
 electricity in its most 'wonder- 
 ful form, as the assistant and 
 skilled servant of a great busi- 
 ness enterprise. 
 
 It is an industry where every 
 branch is made possible only 
 by the most marvelous scien- 
 tific research and invention. 
 Every part, in fact, is a science, 
 or the result of deep study. 
 Absolute accuracy in every 
 detail is necessar)', because 
 perfection is required. Al- 
 though the process involved is 
 seemingly very mysterious, yet 
 it is e.vceedingly simple when 
 fully e\plamed by an e\pert. 
 This IS the largest establish- 
 
 VIEWS IN BLOMGREN BROTHERS AND COMPANY'S ELECTROTYPE ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
ment of the kind in Chicago, and one of the best in the 
 entire country, as all the latest and most approved inven- 
 tions are here employed. 
 
 It is nine years since the Blomgren Brothers began 
 this enterprise, and they have established a most enviable 
 reputation, and one justly merited. They transact a vast 
 business, filling orders from all parts of the United States ; 
 indeed we may say from every part of the Western Conti- 
 nent. Good , careful, and accurate work, together with 
 moderate prices, are the evident reasons of their success. 
 Upwards of fifty employes, all being skilled artisans, are 
 engaged in the establishment. 
 
 The different parts of the process, required to com- 
 
 plete a plate, are many, and each one a science, that 
 would require very considerable space for a compre- 
 hensive description. To fully explain them would be to 
 give a history of the electrotyping art, and require the 
 investigation of many of the highest results of science. 
 
 The best way to understand the whole matter is to 
 follow the example of our party — go there; find Messrs. 
 O. N. or C. G. Blomgren; hear how it is done, and be 
 shown the many interesting processes. 
 
 Look at the beautiful pictures in this book. Such 
 is the neat work made by Blomgren Brothers, and 
 "By their works shall ye know them." 
 
 lUSEUM OF IrT. 
 
 EDITATING on "whereto next?" the per- 
 plexity was suddenly solved by the ladies 
 catching a glimpse of the display of goods, 
 innumerable in variety and wonderful in 
 beauty, in the great show-windows that spread their 
 attractive width fifty feet on Wabash avenue, and doubly 
 as many on Madison street. 
 
 It was the immense emporium of Messrs. Vergho, 
 RuHLiNG AND COMPANY, " The Art Bazaar of America," 
 corner of Wabash avenue and Madison street. Certainly we 
 would visit there. And, by the way, any one who neglects 
 making the visit misses one of the most interesting sights 
 and displays of beautiful and artistic wares in Chicago, 
 or anywhere else. . Such another stock of rich and rare 
 articles is very seldom collected, and never excelled. 
 
 We spent solid hours slowly sauntering throughout the 
 great, roomy, museum-like store rooms — six floors of them. 
 A veritable palace of art in its most beautiful form. 
 
 Weeks might be spent there constantly discovering and 
 enjoying new and rare sights. The sway of art is un- 
 limited. It is where one feels a keen regret of brief time, 
 and only one pair of eyes ! 
 
 We looked, and looked, and wondered, and admired, 
 and wished, and utterly exhausted the entire vocabulary 
 of our redundant vernacular in exclamations ! interroga- 
 tions ? and parenthetical hyperboles ! ! ! 
 
 Language failed, and eyesight tired, and for relief we 
 sought Mr. Archie C. Cracr.^ft, Manager of the Retail 
 Department of this great establishment, to give us "points " 
 
 One of the busiest of men, he is also unusually genial 
 and entertaining; for, in addition to his marked business 
 capacity and information, he has traveled extensively, and 
 enjoyed observations in most of the leading cities all over 
 the world. The ladies of our party at once besieged him 
 with questions of " where from ? how much ?" etc., etc., for 
 this is a store wherein ladies and children are specially 
 delighted, and where inquisitive gentlemen can best see, 
 and hear, and admire. 
 
 " Yes," said Mr. Cracraft, " we are determined to 
 lead all competitors in our special class of goods, and a 
 glance over our stock will certainly convince the vis- 
 
 itor of our success in that effort. I believe I can assert, 
 without contradiction, we carry the largest, best selected, 
 and richest stock of our class of wares to be found in any 
 city in America cr Europe; New York, London, Paris 
 or Vienna, have nothing to equal us. 
 
 " All our foreign wares are purchased on personal 
 inspection and selection. On February first I left here 
 on my annual trip to Europe, and there spent five entire 
 months in traveling and buying; visiting every city, vil- 
 lage, and section, where any of our novelties are produced, 
 and personally selected all our goods, returning here the 
 first of last July. We have been twenty-seven years in 
 this trade right here in Chicago, and know what our pat- 
 rons desire — genuine wares, and no mere imitation. 
 
 " In metals, we have the largest line of the most ele- 
 gant goods ever exhibited in America. Cuivre Poli, 
 Bronze, Nickel, Brass, Iron, Copper, comprising pitchers, 
 vases, urns, figures, trays, receivers, jardinierres, busts, 
 columns, lamps, staj;ues, placques, liquor, wine and tobac- 
 co services, individual coffee services, tables and stands, 
 mirrors, ink stands, umbrella stands, frames, heraldic and 
 symbolic wall and hall decorations, odor stands, cigar 
 lamps, etc., etc. Also, in bent cane furniture, in plush 
 and leather goods, steam toys, electric toys, magic lan- 
 terns, mechanical toys, French dolls, imported special- 
 ty toys, German favors, cotillion favors, cupid outfits, 
 cornucopias, amber jewelry — the largest and finest line of 
 amber goods in the world — albums, music boxes, games, 
 ebony and terra-cotta goods, olive wood-ware, easels, 
 cabinets, and so on." But we cannot possibly enumerate 
 the variety. It wpuld require more space than we can 
 spare, for the list is many thousands, all beautiful, artistic, 
 elegant, whether for personal or household ornament, for 
 use or decoration, for pleasure or serious use. It is the 
 trade museum, the Art Bazaar of Chicago, where the visitor 
 may linger and revel in admiration, "Free from the sway- 
 ing throng, apart from the maddening crowd." You will 
 surely enjoy a visit to the emporium of Vergho, Ruh- 
 LING AND Company. We did. See the beautiful sketch 
 that expresses Don's artistic opinion, or ask Grace. It 
 was ! ! ! — ! Go see. 
 
AN EXHIBIT AT VERGHO, RUHLING &. GO'S ART PALACE. 
 
H jtATTER OF ilGHT. 
 
 HE immense show windows of Nos. 1S4 and 
 186 Wabash avenue contain a display that 
 repays a thorough inspection. It is the ex- 
 tensive establishment of the W. C. Voseurgh 
 Manufacturing Company, Manufacturers and Dealers 
 in Gas Fixtures, and probably one of the largest and oldest 
 enterprises of its kind in the entire country. 
 
 The business was established upwards 01 twenty-five 
 years ago by Mr. W. C. Vosburgh, the president of the 
 company, and from whom the company obtains its name. 
 
 The excellence of the wares, the superior workman- 
 ship, and the artistic designs, all very speedily won a liberal 
 patronage, and the business prospered and steadily grew 
 until, at this date, it is a vast industry. At the home 
 office and manufactory, Nos. 273 to 281 State street, 
 Brooklyn, New York, upwards of four hundred skilled 
 workmen are employed. Their Western trade rapidly in- 
 creased to such an extent that it was found necessary to 
 niaintain a branch establishment in Chicago to supply the 
 demands. Their store on Wabash avenue is one of the 
 largest and most elegant in the city; and its location is 
 admirable, being in the very heart of the best lines of 
 trade. Mr. C. A. Vosburgh is the resident manager of 
 this house. 
 
 An interior inspection displays to the visitor a scene of 
 dazzHng brilliancy quite bewildering. The windows, 
 the high side walls, the vast ceiling and the broad floors, 
 are all glistening with the beautiful wares, arranged so as 
 to fully exhibit their special merits of quality and value. 
 The variety of design and material is something marvel- 
 ous. This is explained by the fact that the company have 
 in constant service a professional designer who prepares 
 new ideas for all the various requirements of the trade. 
 
 The goods are finished in the prevailing popular colors, 
 with gilt and dark relief trimmings. Here, too, are French 
 bronze in relief, walnut and gilt, ebony and gold, polished 
 brass, and pure gold bronze (particular attention being 
 directed to the last mentioned style of finish), etc., all 
 very beautiful; also, all manner and styles of glass and 
 pottery in infinite variety of design and color. The 
 pottery decorations are particularly numerous and attract- 
 ive. The company especially recommend and guaran- 
 tee the general excellence of their work, as it is all 
 prepared and completed under the personal supervision of 
 a member of the firm. 
 
 The bronze on all their staple brackets, pendants, etc., 
 is applied by a process known only to themselves. It 
 gives the remarkably brilliant gloss and superior finish 
 to all that class of their wares for which the " Vosburgh 
 Goods" are so famous ; and it is warranted not to flake, 
 break off, or scratch. 
 
 On the main floor the visitor is shown into a commo- 
 dious darkened chamber, fitted and furnished after the 
 manner of a parlor, with a superb mantel and decorated 
 ceilings, everything neat and elegant, wherein the visiting 
 patron may be shown the full effect, by gas light, of the 
 style and design of chandelier or wall bracket .light. This 
 is a very satisfactory method of exhibiting these wares. 
 
 As a representative of one of the most important 
 industries of our city, it is a very interesting place to visit. 
 And our little party were greatly pleased with the beauti- 
 ful wares displayed. We recommend our readers to call 
 and view W. C. Vosburgh and Company's elegant 
 salesrooms Nos. 184 and 186 Wabash avenue. Our artist 
 gives to the reader, on the opposite page, an idea of the 
 beautiful effect of a modern gas chandelier. 
 
, \-§\^s^i;tty;s?&Mv\-^'^t»&^ \ Njij^y^x^Nts^-^'^x'^st,'^ \%stSi^-:\ s-\'^^;^^'^ 
 
 Fl^ES60PF\INTlriq 
 
 ■^ 
 
 iiii 
 
 * 
 
 <y 
 
 lODERN 
 
 DECORAtPIONS. 
 
 c> 
 
 J.B.SELIVAS1BR0., 
 
 2661268 N.CLARK ST 
 • CHICAGO • 
 
 SKILLFUL ARJISTS SENT TO ANY PARJ OF THECOUNTRy 
 DESIGNS aESTIM/^ESFUf^NISHEDONAPPLICATION 
 
 Mm 
 
 jitiiiia^ fcAyiMr 
 
 >^ 
 
 •^^^ 
 
 ^\ 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 SPECIMENS OF WORK. 
 
 Grand Opera House, Chicago. Opera House, Marengo, Ills. 
 
 Tabor's Grand Opera House, Denver, Cotton Exchange, New Orleans, La, 
 
 Grand Opera House, Colorado Springs. Episcopal Cathedral, Omaha, NeD. 
 
 And several Churches and Public buildings throughout the West and South. 
 
"^^^^ '^ 
 
 THE EXPOSITION. — VIEW FROM SOUTH END OF GALLERY 
 
iEREJ^IE (SOJ^ITEMPLATICN. 
 
 ' NTO the hurly-burly. Again in the Exposi- 
 tion. Tired with our long rarrible about 
 town, and our minds filled to repletion with 
 views of the many things rare, rich, strange, 
 wonderful, mysterious, grand, beautiful, surprising, fasci- 
 nating, delightful, and all instructive. 
 
 Such is the effect to be realized by one who goes on a 
 rambling tour, like that our little party enjoyed, among 
 the busy industries and ^enterprises of our great, throb- 
 bing, energetic Chicago. It never fades from the memory, 
 and is only possible in Chicago. Nowhere else, in so 
 short a time, can one visit so many scenes of varied indus- 
 try. Everyone, during a lifetime, should take the trip we 
 did, or one similar. 
 
 We returned to the Exposition, and after a stroll 
 through the art rooms, a slow circuit of the main floor, 
 interviewing the pop-corn man, and the sweet cider 
 stand, and a lunch in the elegant dining room, we 
 
 ascended to the great gallery. Quickly spying some 
 vacant seats- at the south end of the gallery, which Grace 
 declared were "just perfect," we ensconced ourselves for 
 a spell of serene thought, listening to Prof. Adolph Leise- 
 gang's excellent orchestra of thirty-two musicians, who, 
 throughout the day and evening, discourse enchanting 
 music, adding much to the recreative enjoyment of the 
 Exposition. Our popular and famous Prof. Frederick 
 Austin also aids with frequent cornet solos. 
 
 We watched the great " maddening crowd " that 
 surged to and fro, a constant torrent of happy, orderly, 
 and admiring humanity, the awmanity being largely in the 
 majority. It was an interesting scene. Did you enjoy 
 a study of it ? Wasn't it curious ? We three — Grace, 
 Guy, and Don were quite unanimous that " it beat all," 
 and the latter sketched his inspiration, as you see on the 
 preceding page. 
 
 JIecha?^ic/il Art. 
 
 [ T the south end of the Exposition stands a 
 booth which attracts much notice and receives 
 liberal admiration — well bestowed. It is the 
 exhibit by the celebrated Goss and Phillips 
 Manufacturing Company, first established in 1848, 
 Manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Stairs, 
 Railings, Balusters, Newels, and all manner of mill work. 
 They are also dealers in Lumber, Lath, and Shingles, on 
 West Twenty-second street, corner of Fisk street. 
 
 The booth is an artistic structure divided into two 
 apartments, one representing a hall entrance with stair- 
 way, mantel, etc., finished in red oak; the other a parlor, 
 finished in mahogany; each so arranged as to display 
 a large variety of mechanical decoration of superior 
 workmanship, exceedingly creditable to the artistic taste 
 of the designer, and the skill of the artisan. 
 
 The stairway, the wainscoting, the two mantels, the 
 doors, the door and window casings, and particularly 
 the furniture pieces, are all very beautiful. 
 
 The proprietors of the Goss and Phillips Manufac- 
 turing Company make a specialty of modern architec- 
 ture and decorations; and desire to call the attention of 
 the public to the fact that they have on inspection at 
 their manufactory on Twenty-second street a great variety 
 of new, unique, and original designs of Modern Interior 
 Finish, such as Doors, Pilasters, Mantels, Book- 
 cases, Cabinets, Hall Furniture, Sideboards, Wain- 
 scoTiNGs, etc., in Mahogany, Cherry, Butternut, 
 Oak, Walnut, Maple, Yellow and White Pine, and 
 all varieties of hard and soft wood. They are always 
 pleased to display and explain their specimens of work- 
 manship to visitors. 
 
 A visit to the manufactory is very interesting, and will 
 well repay you for the time spent, especially if one con- 
 templates building a neat new home, or remodeling an 
 old-fashioned dwelling. 
 
 Their beautiful display at the Exposition tells its own 
 excellence, as shown in the sketch on the following page. 
 
m 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 rn 
 
 D 
 O 
 
 
 > 
 o 
 
 33 
 
 £D 
 
 O 
 
 o 
 
 3> 
 
 3> 
 
 o 
 
 O 
 
 > 
 
 O 
 m 
 
 X 
 
 o 
 
 O 
 
 2: 
 
 \ 
 
 ^^ i 
 
 V. 
 
 
 ^ rn^xM 
 
 m 
 
 
 ? 
 
 53) 
 
 
 
f HE Exhibit of ©tikota Iroducts 
 
 ROM the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and 
 St. Paul Railway reminds us of the "Land 
 of the Dakotas." However eloquent might 
 be the story of Dakota's appearance before 
 the world — her wonderful development — her unparalleled 
 growth — her present prosperity — her promising future — 
 her grand possibilities — her leading counties, their area, 
 soil, climate, location, facilities — her cities, their attractions, 
 resources, industrial interests, and features, the fame of 
 which has already struck the tympanum of the civilized 
 universe, can only be epitomized in these paragraphs. 
 
 Not so far in the past as to be beyond recall, are the 
 years when the broad prairies of the young giant territory 
 that is — the mighty State to be — lay unproductive and 
 idly waiting the development of their undisturbed com- 
 ponent wealth. 
 
 On the map of the world Dakota appears as a terri- 
 torial dependency of the Supreme Republic — the United 
 States of America — and so it is ; but it is outlined as the 
 glorious Empire of the Golden Northwest, and amongthe 
 " Lands of Promise." Its primitive position has vanished, 
 and to-day it conspicuously appears as an object of atten- 
 tion, wjiose grand agricultural domain magnifies most 
 beautifully, most royally, as nearer it is approached, and 
 splendidly indeed does it develop to the stranger who 
 enters its portals ; for no sooner does he pass their 
 threshold than he sees the sure promise of abundant 
 wealth, notes with astonished eyes the wonderful advance- 
 ment, hears the melody of harmonious music — the happy 
 theme inspired by the realm of fields, broad, long and rich 
 with wealth of fertility of wheat, corn, oats, aye, all the 
 gems and jewels from the cereal and vegetable kingdoms 
 — and, as thousand others have had, and reached, he has 
 a bonanza before him, and is wise if he marches on to its 
 possession. 
 
 There lies, awaiting the proper claimant, a countless 
 number of acres of the finest farming land in the world, 
 in the southern, or that portion of Dakota famously known 
 as " The Jim River Valley," nine-tenths of which is fertile 
 prairie, that is, beyond all doubt, the best wheat-growing 
 country on the globe. The soil is a rich, dark, vegetable 
 loam, containing lime, potash, soda, magnesia, sulphur 
 and phosphorus, with from ten to fifteen per cent, of finely- 
 pulverized organic matter. The soil is underlaid by a 
 subsoil of marly clay, and is from two to three feet deep. 
 The subsoil contains from twenty to forty per cent, of 
 phosphate of lime, and is a great reserve fund from which 
 crops can draw sustenance whenever the soil has been 
 exhausted. The whole valley is well watered by Nature ; 
 there being a large number of small streams tributary to 
 the Jim, or, more properly, the Dakota River, which not 
 only drain the land well, but supply an abundance of 
 water, and they are all, to some extent, skirted with a fine 
 growth of timber. Water, clear and pure to the taste, is 
 found in abundance by digging from twenty to fifty feet 
 down. The climate is not severe. The winters are 
 
 probably three weeks longer than in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois 
 or Michigan. The air is clear and bracing, and malarial 
 diseases are almost unknown. The inhabitants are thrifty 
 and generally well-to-do, and have come from all parts of 
 the globe — not to live in idleness, but at ease. 
 * * * *,-)<* 
 
 The Passenger Department of the Chicago, Milwau- 
 kee AND St. Paul Railway has published a comprehen- 
 sive description of Southern, Central and Northern Dakota, 
 together with carefully prepared statistics of the crop re- 
 sults for 1883, and other valuable information, which can 
 be obtained free of cost, by addressing A. V. H. Car- 
 penter, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 As a specimen of the productiveness of this famous 
 valley, we present the evidence contained in the following 
 letter, written in answer to a friendly letter of inquiry, 
 which facts and figures possess a logic worth more than 
 a whole volume of rheteric : 
 
 Groten, Dakota, September 24, 1882. 
 I have only threshed forty acres of my wheat ; I got 1,325 
 bushels of nice wheat, or over thirty - three bushels to the acre. 
 Seventeen acres of oats went fifty bushels to the acre, and weighed 
 forty pounds to the bushel, making about sixty bushels to the acre. 
 Corn is sound and good in the " breaking," and will run forty to fifty 
 bushels to the acre. Potatoes are immense — as nice as I ever saw. 
 Onions fine — some measure thirteen to fourteen inches round. Peas 
 and barley are an e.\cellent crop. This (Brown) County, is equal to 
 any in the Territory. The Red River Valley, in its best year, never 
 equalled the crops of Brown County this year. Much of our break- 
 ing was done very late last year. One-half of my forty acres of wheat 
 was broken in June, the balance the last of August, iSSi, and the 
 yield, as stated, 1,325 bushels. Late breaking went about eighteen 
 to twenty bushels, the early, on mine, about forty bushels per acre. I 
 have nearly ready 500 acres for next year's crop, having the breaking 
 all done in June, and the back-setting now done ; .to complete the 
 fitting of the 500 acres is only to finish plowing the stubble, which 
 we are now doing. I have lots of faith in this country, and the crops 
 this season strenhthen that faith very much. Land is going up here 
 every day, and the tide of immigration is immense. 
 
 Yours truly, F. D. Adams. 
 
 " O I Dakota is a splendid, magnificent, hunkidorious 
 domain — a land of majestic dimensions, a land of gold 
 and silver mountains, of fruit-trees and vineyards, of low- 
 ing kine and golden grain ; under the feet a carpet of 
 flowers bespangled with gold-dust, and the most crystalline 
 of heavens bending above and resting its arch on the walls 
 of the forest. She is a regal member of the Union sister- 
 hood. She has a mighty interest in the destiny of the 
 Republic, and in the achievement of that destiny she 
 should bear no ignoble share. In the grand orchestra of 
 national glorification she should play no second fiddle or 
 discordant trombone. In the swift, resistless march of 
 American progress and development she should be found 
 with the ' color-guards ' in the van, and not lagging among 
 the shirks and sutlers' wagons in the rear. In new-world 
 advancement, in the upbuilding of earth's greatest and 
 grandest nationality, hers is, and should be, a glorious 
 mission, a sublime work. 
 
(^S^J - 
 
 THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY'S EXHIBIT OF DAKOTA PRODUCTS, 
 
 AT THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. 
 
Ihe Ieality of Mkt. 
 
 O learn how wonderful are many things of com- 
 mon use, and how simple are many supposed 
 wonders, and to comprehend how liberal is 
 art in our household, and every-day surround- 
 ings,- one should visit the extensive establishment of 
 A. H. Andrews and Company, 195 and 197 Wabash 
 avenue, corner of Adams street. 
 
 A thorough inspection of' the busy industry that 
 prevails throughout all that ' edifice — at once a museum 
 and a bee-hive — is certainly very interesting and instruc- 
 tive. Be sure and visit there, it will repay you. We 
 know it, for we have done so ourselves. Being still on 
 our tour of sight-seeing, our little party was attracted 
 by the display of rich furniture, desks and like wares 
 exhibited in the grand show windows, and — in we 
 went. 
 
 We passed along the great main floor, filled to its 
 utmost with rich furniture, fixtures and furnishings for all 
 manner of home rooms, and all sorts of uses, for 
 offices, libraries, banks, churches, and, in short, every 
 conceivable place where such things could possibly be 
 needed. From this department we next passed to the 
 second floor, an equally interesting place, where the 
 offices of the establishment are situated. Here, in a cosy 
 boudoir- like little private office, one that enraptured 
 the ladies with its quiet elegance, we found Mr. A. H. 
 Andrews, the head of this widely known and popular 
 firm, and a most genial entertainer he certainly is. 
 
 The building is of stone, five stories, and a roomy 
 basement, of handsome architecture — substantial, impos- 
 ing, and fire-proof. 
 
 The main and second floors are entirely occupied as 
 salesrooms and general offices, and are unusually neat, 
 clean and attractive in arrangement and furnishings. 
 All laden with a great variety of goods, consisting largely 
 of elegant furniture, they present a most impressive 
 appearance. The second floor is specially devoted to the 
 display of desks, seats, and fixtures for opera houses,' 
 schools, etc. 
 
 The basement and three upper floors are occupied as 
 workshops, principally for the " setting up " and " putting 
 together " processes, the oiling, varnishing and polishing 
 goods made at their extensive factories elsewhere. Also, 
 for incidental repairing, and for manufacturing some 
 of the finest and most delicate lines, their gold, silver, 
 brass, and Jjronze decorative work, globes, maps, school 
 supplies, etc., etc., a class of intricate work requiring 
 much skill, and absolute accuracy. 
 
 A stroll through these floors, beginning with the upper 
 one, and slowly passing along their entire lengths, with 
 frequent halts to see the many novelties being con- 
 structed, or that have just been completed, and pro- 
 ceeding down into the vast basement — the realm of 
 the engineer, his monster engine, and the great boilers 
 that furnish the power and warmth for the entire 
 establishment — is indeed exceedingly interesting. It is 
 stated that everything made here is unique, novel and 
 artistic, and quite unlike anything of the usual order 
 
 of manufactures. Take for instance globes. How very 
 few people have ever seen globes made, or have the 
 least idea how they are constructed. There are but three 
 factories of those goods in all America, and this one is 
 much larger than its two competitors combined. 
 
 Upwards of ninety employes are engaged m the 
 various departments of this establishment, including a 
 liberal number of bright appearing young women and 
 youths; but the great majority are artisans of exceptional 
 skill, and the chief accountants of the company, as 
 this is the main office. They have also several other 
 establishments, factories and storage houses. The large 
 structure on Van Buren street, formerly the Armory, of 
 the First Regiment Cavalry, is now devoted to more civil 
 purposes, as the finishing shop and warehouse of A. H. 
 Andrews and Company. 
 
 They have two large manufactories on the West 
 side of Chicago, and one in Mishawaka, Ind., all three 
 being fine massive buildings, containing powerful engines 
 and elaborate machinery. Their entire force of employes 
 aggregate upward of five hundred persons. At Misha- 
 waka they have a very large warehouse adjoining the rail- 
 way track. 
 
 Of their specialties, almost innumerable in number, 
 the attention of our little party was particularly directed 
 to their recently perfected Opera and Assembly Chairs, 
 having a folding seat, tilting-back, foot-rest, hat-rack, 
 cane and umbrella-rack, libretto-pocket, etc.; also their 
 superb Office Desk, their own patent, which won the First 
 Premium at the recent exhibition of railway appliances as 
 "the best desk for office use;" their Triumph Study- 
 Desk for school use, which is simply perfect for comfort, 
 beauty and convenience ; their Assembly Settees ; their 
 Bank and Counting-house Counters and Fittings ; 
 their Church and Sabbath-school Furniture; their 
 Kindergarten Supplies and High School Appara- 
 tus ; their Chairs, Secretaries, and Book-Cases for 
 banks and libraries ; the celebrated Andrews' Parlor 
 Folding Beds, the most convenient and elegant article 
 of combination furniture ever invented. 
 
 Their furniture, school supplies, and other wares would 
 require many days to fully inspect, and too much space to 
 properly describe. One thing is- strikingly apparent, 
 that it is exceedingly interesting, and school teachers and 
 persons engaged in educational affairs should make it a 
 visit. It would certainly benefit all professional people, 
 for it is not only a laboratory, but a museum filled with 
 every possible article, device and method, theoretical and 
 practical, from the merest toy for the infant in the Kinder- 
 garten to the apparatus for demonstrating the evolutions 
 of astronomy, or the deepest problem in philosophy. Here 
 such things are found in every style. And their array 
 of school furniture for the scholar, the teacher and the 
 professor, all of their own design and manufacture, is 
 really endless. But surely everybody is familiar with the 
 celebrated Andrews' School Furniture; its popularity 
 fs world wide, and its superiority in convenience, neatness, 
 strength and general excellence is unrivalled. 
 
-'>V 
 
 
 
 THE ANDREWS' OFFICE DESK. 
 
 PARLOR AND OFFICE FURNITURE FROM A. H. ANDREWS & COMPANY, 195 AND 197 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO. 
 
Im inicAGO Am Sorti-i- Western Railw/iy. 
 
 Latest Reliable Information pertaining to its Lines 
 
 HE Dining Car Line between Chicago and St. 
 Paul, and Chicago and Council Bluffs. The 
 Short Line to Colorado and California. 
 Two Grand Routes to the celebrated Yel- 
 lowstone National Park, and all points 
 in Montana. One route is via St. Paul and the Northern 
 Pacific Railway, the other is via Council Bluffs and the 
 Union Pacific Railway. This latter named Company 
 will take you to the Southern entrance of the Park in 
 their own stages over their own road. 
 
 The Chicago and North-Western Railway is the 
 celebrated Dining, Sleeping and Parlor Car Route to the 
 West and Northwest. 
 
 Dining Cars, — These are the most modern, complete 
 and magnificent productions of human skill and ingenuity 
 in e-xistence, and are managed entirely in the interest of 
 the patrons of this ro&d. The meals provided include all 
 the delicacies of the season, and equal those furnished by 
 any first-class hotel. These cars are run on all trains be- 
 tween Chicago and Council Bluffs, and Chicago and St. 
 Paul and Minneapolis. Dinner, Breakfast and Supper, 75 
 cents each. 
 
 Sleeping Cars, combining elegance and beauty, with 
 a ma.ximum of comfort and safety, are run on all through 
 night trains. 
 
 Parlor Cars. — On the Lake Shore Line between 
 Chicago, Milwaukee and Waukesha, are run the superb 
 Parlor Chair Cars, in which passengers can ride, at only 
 a slight additional expense, with as much comfort and ease 
 as can be had in the best furnished parlors. These cars are 
 run on trains leaving Chicago at 8,00 a. m., 8.30 a. m., 11. 30 
 a. m., and 3.00 p. m. for Milwaukee and Waukesha, and on 
 5.00 p. m train for Milwaukee ; also on trains leaving 
 Waukesha at 7.00 a. m., 12.30 p. m, 3.27 p. m., and Mil- 
 waukee at IT. 20 a. m., for Chicago. 
 
 For information and tickets, apply to Joseph 
 Couthoui, 47 Monroe street ; D. D. Drew, Grand 
 Pacific Hotel ; E. Vliet, 62 Clark street ; Thomas 
 Morley, Wells street Passenger Station. 
 
 TO DENVER AND THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO. 
 
 The Direct Route, and no more changes of cars than 
 by any other route. 
 
 By the Denver Junction Short Line Route you have 
 Palace Sleeping Cars from Chicago to Denver, with only 
 one transfer, and that in the Union Depot at Council 
 Bluffs. 
 
 Between Chicago and Council Bluffs this Line gives 
 second-class accommodations to holders of third-class or 
 emigrant tickets, and they make same time as first-class 
 passengers. 
 
 Emigrant tickets to Leadville secure first-class passage 
 from Denver. 
 
 150 pounds of baggage is checked through free to all 
 Colorado points on each full ticket. 
 
 Tickets to Denver and points beyond are good over 
 the Colorado or Cheyenne Divisions, via Cheyenne, or via 
 the Denver Junction Short Line. Through Sleepers run 
 only via the Denver Junction Route, 
 
 TO DEADWOOD AND THE BLACK HILLS, 
 
 From Pierre the Northwestern Express, Stage and 
 Transportation Company run a line of Concord Coaches 
 to Black Hills' points, leaving every morning. This is the 
 shortest line between Chicago and Dead wood by 150 
 
 miles, it has less staging by 100 miles, and two days 
 quicker time. The time between Pierre and Deadwood is 
 about thirty-six hours. 
 
 The new " Diagonal " Line between Hawarden, Iowa, 
 and Iroquois, Dak., is nearly completed and ready for 
 business. 
 
 IMPORTANT TO WESTERN AND OVERLAND PASSENGERS. 
 
 Second Class. — Passengers holding second - class 
 tickets over this road are carried on the same train as first- 
 class passengers, in comfortable, clean, warm cars, with 
 upholstered seats and backs ; in fact, in nearly as good as 
 first-class cars. 
 
 Neither second-class passengers nor emigrants can 
 have Palace Sleeping Car accommodations, and in this lies 
 about all the restrictions that are placed on them. 
 
 Emigrants. — The Chicago and North -Western 
 Railway runs no emigrant trains or cars. Emigrants 
 via this road are carried on regular express trains, in 
 clean, light coaches, with cushioned seats and backs, and 
 which are as good as the coaches furnished by many 
 roads to first-class passengers 
 
 A FEW good hints TO KEEP IN MIND. 
 
 Passengers should always purchase tickets of the 
 Company's Agents, and not from unauthorized parties. 
 We give this caution that the Company shall not be cen- 
 sured for enforcing its rules to protect its interests against 
 lost, stolen, fraudulent, or expired tickets. 
 
 Coupon Tickets. — To accommodate the public, 
 coupon tickets to all important points East, .West, North 
 and South are placed on sale at the important stations, 
 and through baggage checks are supplied these stations to 
 allow the checking of baggage through to the destination 
 of the ticket. 
 
 Parties Desiring Coupon Tickets at stations where 
 they are not regularly on sale, can get them by asking the 
 Station Agent to send for them. 
 
 Baggage, — Locally, 150 pounds of baggage is carried 
 free on each full ticket ; 75 pounds on each half fare 
 ticket. All in excess of this is charged for. 
 
 Stop Over Checks are issued, good for 15 days on 
 regular first-class unlimited single, summer tourist and 
 round trip land tickets, within certain limits only, 
 
 1,000 Mile Tickets, at 2^ cents per mile, can be 
 procured through any of the Company's Agents, 
 
 Excess Baggage Tickets are on sale in the General 
 Baggage Agent's Office, in Wells Street Depot, Chicago, 
 and can also be procured through the Ticket Agents of 
 the Company, 
 
 Dogs and Guns belonging to hunters are carried free 
 in baggage cars. Baggagemen are not permitted to ask 
 any compensation for caring for them. 
 
 Children between five and twelve years require a half 
 ticket, those under five years are carried free, those over 
 twelve require a full ticket. Conductors are not allowed 
 to vary from this rule. 
 
 Standard Time. — All trains on the Chicago and 
 North - Western Railway run on Chicago time, except 
 those north of Elroy, Wis., north of Elmore, Minn., and 
 west of Winona, Minn., which run on St. Paul time, 
 which is twenty-one minutes slower than Chicago time ; 
 Chicago time is thirty minutes faster than Omaha time. 
 
 J. D. Layng, General Superintendent. 
 
 W. H. Stennett, General Passenger Agent. 
 

 rgO.J>«oC6 
 
 1 
 
 ^^^fc^f'C/OJ-' 
 
 LYON &. HEALYS BAND AND ORCHESTRA 
 INSTRUMENT DEPARTMENT. 
 
 
 N exposition in itself is this great feature of 
 Messrs. Lyon & Healy's mammoth music 
 house, corner State and Monroe streets. Here 
 every necessity and accessory to a complete 
 band or orchestra may be found, of the best quality and 
 most reliable manufacture. Realizing that gold does not 
 lie in every hand the same, Lyon & Healy' have 
 endeavored, with the successful result which generally fol- 
 lows their efforts, to place upon the market a carefully 
 graded assortment of instruments which will satisfactorily 
 meet alike the demands of the poor, the moderate and the 
 wealthy purchaser. To this end they have secured the 
 sole agencies of the moderate priced but practically made 
 horns of F. J. Jaueert & Co., Paris, the higher graded 
 and justly celebrated Henry Gunckel Light Action 
 Horns, and the unexcelled and world-renowned English 
 instruments manufactured by that King of Mechanics, 
 Joseph Higham, Manchester, England, Mr. Frederick 
 Austin, the celebrated cornet virtuoso, who has been de- 
 lighting the Exposition visitors with his wonderful play- 
 ing, says of tlie Higham Cornet : " I know of no instru- 
 ment of European or American manufacture which can 
 compare with this simply incomparable production of 
 mechanical art." Lyon & Healy's illustrated and de- 
 scriptive catalogues of their Band Supplies are the most 
 complete and artistic in the world, and as a medium of 
 information to the band men of America, over forty thous- 
 and are sent out annually. In Violins, Violas, Violoncel- 
 los, Double Basses, Flutes, Piccolos and all other Orches- 
 tra Instruments, Lvon & Healy's stock is unequalled; 
 and making-a specialty as they do of this class of supplies, 
 their prices have been reduced to the lowest possible figures, 
 consistent with the quality of the goods offered. As Messrs. 
 Lyon & Healy are the largest importers and dealers 
 in Musical Instruments in the United States, it is not to 
 be wondered that, with their enormous stock on hand and 
 their wide experience, they have superior facilities for an- 
 ticipating and filling the requirements of trade. Their 
 reputation is national, and well they have earned it. 
 
Interior View of Palace Reclining Chair Car of CHICAGO & ALTON R. R., at least two of whicli are run in all through trains 
 of that Road, Day and Night, between Chicago and Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis, and St. Louis and Kansas City, free 
 of extra charge. The only line running a sufficient number of Reclining Chair Oars to aooommodate all its patrons. 
 
DESIGN OF A CEILING DECORATED BY CHAPMAN Sl CLERICUS. 
 
INTERIOR VIEWS IN ROSEHILL, LOOKING EAST TOWARD THE ENTRANCE. 
 
 THE CITY OF THE DESD, 
 
 " When the hours of day are numbered, 
 And the voices of the night 
 Wake the better soul that slumbered 
 To a holy, calm delight. 
 
 " Then the forms of the departed 
 Enter at the open door — 
 The beloved ones, the true-hearted, 
 Come to visit us once more." 
 
 i N placing before the public this choice and special 
 collection of " picture stories " of the wonders in 
 nature and art, for the aesthetical culture and 
 pleasure of the living, we cannot refrain from 
 saying a few words to the citizens of Chicago and vicinity in 
 regard to the dead — those who have gone before, and left to us 
 this magnificent city as a heritage, and as a monument of their 
 wonderful energy and indomitable perseverance through life. 
 
 Chicago has a population of more than six hundred thou- 
 sand people, and by including the suburbs we have at least one 
 hundred thousand more. The census of a few years will 
 undoubtedly increase these figures to one million, and even 
 then the city will steadily and rapidly continue to increase in 
 numbers. Hence the question naturally arose in our mind, as 
 it must in the minds of all, Is there a spot near this great city 
 of sufficient natural advantages of elevation — over the low wet 
 prairie which we find on every hand — upon which to build and 
 maintain for all time a beautiful rural cemetery, worthy of the 
 city and her prospective future ? 
 
 We made a tour of inspection and investigation, for the 
 purpose of enabling ourselves to definitely answer this question, 
 and while we found ground used for cemetery purposes that 
 we consider totally unfit, on account of location and the low, 
 wet condition of the soil, we also found a tract of about five 
 hundred acres possessing the following advantages for cemetery 
 purposes, which we shall enumerate, but briefly: 
 
 ist. An altitude of froin thirty to forty feet above Lake 
 Michigan — thus giving sufficient elevation above the surround- 
 ing prairie to insure that at all times it will be entirely free 
 from water. 
 
 LOOKING WEST OVER THE LAKE AND PAST RECEIVING VAULT. 
 
2d. A location away from the line of growth of the cit) 
 and its improvements. 
 
 3d. Suitable proximit_v to, and accessibility from, the cit^ 
 the distance being only six and one-half miles from the central 
 part of the city, accessible by railway and good carriage dri\es 
 
 4th. Elevation and undulation of surface, giving a hue 
 landscape effect to the grounds. 
 
 Sth. Capability of extension of the grounds to meet the 
 wants and requirements of the public for cemetery purposes 
 for hundreds of years. 
 
 In short, a spot described by a special committee composed 
 from the Common Council, and a large number of the most 
 prominent and intelligent citizens of Chicago, appointed for 
 the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a new cemetery as 
 follows : 
 
 "After a careful survey and topographical reconnoissance 
 of the vicinity of Chicago, this committee selected the grounds 
 on which Rosehill Cemetery is located ; the lands being from 
 thirty to forty feet above Lake Michigan, covered with timber 
 commanding a view of the lake, and being sufficiently high 
 above the surrounding prairie to ensure that at all times the\ 
 shall be perfectly free from water, and possessing all other 
 
 VIEWS LOOKING WEST FROM THE ENTRANCE. 
 
 needed qualities to make a first-class rural cemetery ; they 
 were unanimously pronounced by the committee to be not only 
 the best, but the only spot in all respects suitable for such 
 purposes within the same distance from Chicago." 
 
 On the strength of this report we iind that Rosehill Ceme- 
 tery was incorporated February 11, rSsg, and dedicated for 
 cemetery purposes on the twenty-eighth day of July, in the 
 same year. A visit to this beautiful spot will well repay the 
 reader. 
 
 The natural advantages of the grounds, together with the 
 artificial adornments that have been lavished upon them, has 
 nlade Rosehill in reality the Greenwood of the West, where it 
 can be truly said : 
 
 " The cool groves rising round. 
 
 The slopes beneatli them spread, 
 We consecrate with awe profound 
 Forever to the dead." 
 
 INTERIOR VIEWS IN ROSEHILL. 
 
IN QUEEN'S CANON. 
 
 THE SWITZERLAND OF flMERICK. 
 
 s^SisSaa^ 
 
 '/JT^B HROUGH the courtesy of Mr. F. C. 
 Nims, the genial passenger agent of 
 the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, 
 we are permitted to present our 
 readers with a few of the beautiful engravings 
 which adorn the pages of his forthcoming book. 
 The Crest of the Continent. 
 
 While the book is the creation of Mr. Nims' 
 fertile brain he has employed the brush and pen 
 of some of the ablest artists and writers of 
 America to carry out his plan in detail. And 
 wisely, too, for the busy life of a general pas- 
 senger agent gives little time to devote to the 
 pleasures of literature, no matter how strong his 
 tastes may be that way bent. Yet so closely has 
 the author watched the growth of his favoreil 
 child, that every drawing of the artist passes 
 under his eye before the graver's tool touches 
 the block, and not a single line of type is put into 
 electro-plates until scanned by Mr. Nims. 
 
 Nowhere does intelligent labor bear fruit more abun- 
 dantly than in book-making, and those who delight in 
 
 CURRECANTI NEEDLE. 
 
 reading about the wonders of our own land will be well 
 repaid in perusing this little volume, which, we are in- 
 formed, will be out for the Christmas holida)'S. It will be 
 
 ASSEMBLY HALL. TABERNACLt AI>1U ILMKLE. bAL 1 LAKE. 
 
an exhaustive description of the scenery, mineral re- 
 sources, agricultural lands and manufacturing" interests of 
 this wonderful and enchanting country. 
 
 The iUustrations will be numerous, and from the few 
 specimens we give, all lovers of art will readily see their 
 high character. One of our artists, in examining a set of 
 proofs that lay on the writer's desk, exclaimed: "Beauti- 
 ful! every one a gem and worthy of a frame of gold." 
 
 It seems like a dream when we think of this country, 
 which, a few years ago, was almost as little known to us 
 as the mid-lands of Africa, being traversed to-day in the 
 comfortable palace Pullman, and the realities of this new 
 book read to us as marvelous as did the fiction of Gul- 
 liver, in our youthful days. We are informed that 
 
 "The Denver and Rio Grande Railway has now become a trans- 
 continental route, connecting the trunk lines at Denver and Pneblo 
 with the Central Pacific at Ogden. While its bi^anches still form a vast 
 network over all Colorado — reaching" every mining camp and pro- 
 ductive section of the State, penetrating deep canons, and climbing 
 the highest mountains — the main line has been e.xtended westward 
 over snowy heights, through shadowy gorges, across plains and up 
 fertile valleys, to and beyond the City of the Saints. A profusion of 
 grand and beautiful scenery exists along its entire length. There 
 are mountains of every conceivable shape and size; secluded parks 
 containing long stretches of the fairest farm-land; foaming torrents 
 and broad rivers; wild, dark canons; dense thickets and mirror-Iikc 
 lakes nestling beneath green mountain slopes. The topography con- 
 stantly changes; now the eye rests on the wildest grandeur, and 
 where the elements hold uncontested swav; then the scene is mlkl 
 
 MANITOU AND PlKE'S PEAK, 
 
 and beautiful, with rich simplicity. At one time confusion, at an- 
 other perfect order. Arctic heights this hour, summer lowlands the 
 next. Farms are lost only to reappear beyond the forests which 
 intervene; tiny streams become ^\ide rivers, and changes are wrought 
 as quick as thought while moving swiftly on from town to city. '1 he 
 road opens to civilization some of the richest districts of both the 
 state and the territory. The western limits of Colorado and the 
 eastern confines of Utah, the wealth of the Wasatch Range and the 
 prolific Utah and Salt Lake valleys, are brought into direct commu- 
 nication with the East and placed within reach of the capitalist and 
 the settler." 
 
 Those in quest of the beautiful and grand, pleasure, 
 
 or health, have here before them a field well worthy their 
 
 attention, and any information desired respecting it will 
 
 be promptly given by Mr. Nims, at Denver, Colorado, or 
 
 his gentlemanly representative, Mr. W. B. Cobb, Sherman 
 
 House Block, 135 Randolph Street, Chicago. 
 
 THE ROYAL GORGE. 
 
 MANITOU MINERAL SPRINGS. 
 
o 
 5 
 
 o 
 
IHE Jl/IKIKG OF THE iOOK. 
 
 N placing our Sketch Book before the public, 
 we would be derelict did we not inform tliem 
 of the aids our skilled workmen had to enable 
 them to give the best effects of the Artist and 
 Engraver. Printers and publishers, who are constantly 
 striving" to render these results, know how largely their 
 success depends upon the Paper-maker, Ink-maker, and 
 Press-builder. 
 
 Paper may be good, yet too highly sized, making it 
 stiff and harsh; often too much calendered, being 
 " crushed," and giving the surface a greasy look — as hard 
 to print on, almost, as steel. It may be glossy and showy, 
 and not have the stock needed for good printing qualities, 
 being over-charged with clay. It may contain the best 
 of stock, and not sufficiently calendered, giving it a 
 spongy nature, and even showing the felt marks, defy- 
 ing all efforts to make work look well. 
 
 It is of little consequence, however, what paper we 
 use, unless our Ink is of the right make. A poor or un- 
 certain ink-maker is responsible for a great deal of the 
 profanity of the Press-room. Unfortunately the incentive 
 is not needed. No good press-work can be executed 
 without suitable ink. It may be of the best quality, yet 
 too string)' and stiff for our climate, or it may be too short 
 and " buttery." It may be so surcharged with color that 
 it works almost like shoe-blacking, or so full of varnish 
 that it looks greasy on the sheet. May have density of 
 color and not good working qualities. Has good work- 
 ing qualities, but too light. Will work cuts, but not letter- 
 press. Will work letter-press clean and sharp, but too 
 weak for cuts. Now, if the reader will look over the leaf, 
 he will see an illustration of the factory where our friend 
 Wilson compounds and makes the inks we use so largely 
 on fine work. This new factor)' gives The W. D. Wilson 
 Printing Ink Company facilities not surpassed in the 
 country. Being recently constructed, they have adopted 
 all the known improvements in the art. To this is added 
 the superintendence of a practical printer, Mr. James 
 Macnamara, and the long experience of the President, 
 Mr. W. D. Wilson, in the Ink trade. They manufacture 
 their own blacks, cook their own varnishes, compound and 
 grind inks of all grades and prices. Thus having the 
 whole thing under their own control, we can always 
 depend upon utiiformity, so much to be desired by 
 all large consumers of fine goods. This is greatly 
 aided by their system of recording all "batches" of 
 special makes. 
 
 But all this would avail us little, were it not for the 
 machines on which we use this superior ink. In our 
 press-room we are running five Campbell Presses, but 
 the queen of all is the latest we have added this spring. 
 It is known in press-room parlance as the " Double- 
 ender," and the inventor claims it does its work doubly 
 as well as those of other makers. Be that as it may, we 
 know it suits us on our class of fine work, and we submit 
 the " Sketch Book " as a sample of its capabilities. 
 
 Our fine illustrated trade was increasing beyond our 
 facilities, and in looking over the points of excellence in 
 the various machines, with a view of getting the best for 
 the purpose, Messrs. Shniedewend & Lee, the general 
 agents of the Campbell Company, induced us to try the 
 " latest." We did so, and do not regret it. The machine 
 was built with especial care, and no pains spared in giving 
 us the best. One very commendable feature of the 
 Campbell is the sensitiveness of the cylinder to the 
 "overlay; " every ply of paper, be it ever so thin, shows 
 immediately the spot on which it is placed. 
 
 If the reader will look at any of the fine illustrations 
 in this work, where there are solid blacks and light shad- 
 ings in same cut, they will easily see how strong the heavy 
 parts are brought out, and how delicate and vapory the 
 semi-tones appear. Add to this the rapidity with which 
 we " make ready" on the Campbell, compared with presses 
 of some other makes, and we pay a deserved compliment 
 to the " Double-ender," when we say it has vastly lightened 
 our labors, and increased our bank account. What more 
 need we say to the intelligent Printer ? 
 
 The attention of the reader, visiting the Exposition, 
 will be attracted to two printing establishments. Both are 
 daily newspaper and jobbing offices for the Exposition 
 world, and employ Campbell Presses, thus giving the 
 visitor an ample opportunity to study the working capacity 
 of those famous presses. 
 
 One of the establishments is The Exposition Daily 
 Revitiu, Messrs. Cushing, Thomas & Co., Managers and 
 Editors, which is printed on a Campbell Two-revolution 
 Four-roller Job and Book Press, and no further descrip- 
 tion is needed — the press and its work fully tells its 
 own stor)'. 
 
 The other Exposition printing establishment is The 
 Exposition Daily Telegram, Messrs. W. L. Allen & Co., 
 Managers and Editors. This is the official organ of the 
 Exposition officers, and is also printed on a Campbell, 
 known as a Two-revolution Intermediate Press. 
 
CO 
 
 CO 
 
 LlI 
 CC. 
 
 Q.' 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 QQ 
 
 I- 
 3 
 
 o 
 > 
 
 Q. -> 
 
-THE- 
 
 TjTottt(iBte 
 
 AND ALL 
 
 Experienced ^ Travelers' 
 Favorite Rout^ 
 
 
 -^ i f il^S^^*^<fP "■'' '^^ k^. 
 
 
 Between the East and the Famous Resorts of tnt ..^_ 
 
 Montana, and Wyoming, is the GREAT 
 
 jRoek-f Jsl 
 
 and 
 
 R? 
 
 ute 
 
 It has for sale at all principal ticket offices in the United States and Canada, 
 
 tickets for all the Points of Interest 
 
 ->>• 
 
 m*TH^*GR^AT*WEST 
 
 •<<' 
 
 and affords the Easiest and Speediest Route to the YOSEMITE and the NATIONAL 
 YELLOWSTONE PARKS, and by its 
 
 "Famous Albert Lea Route" 
 
 ij^l MINNEAPOLIS 
 
 Carries passengers in THROUGH Fast 
 Express Trains to Minneapolis, con- 
 necting in Union Depot for ail Points in 
 
 flortliei^n * If|inne^oiia, 
 
 DAKOTA AND MANITOBA. 
 
 Examine our maps and folders, and 
 then purchase your tickets by this great 
 line, and enjoy luxurious ease while you 
 are journeying; 
 
 R. R. CABLE, 
 
 Pres't and Gen. Manager. 
 
 E. ST. JOHN, 
 
 Gen. Ticket and Passenger fta*. 
 

 
■yliLif - .^■. 
 
 .< % 
 
 
 
 
 ^V '>. 
 
 
 <.^^ 
 
 ^*1M&. ^ - ,4 V V ^ (Si * -IS "4 
 
 .^■^ ^miH: .^^. 
 
 
 
 
 ,#' ^#v:: 
 
 
 
 
 -*.^/'^ ^w: 
 
 
 •• ^0 , , . <• ',!,,,■» 
 
 . - ■■ ^ ■ ^ 
 
 ' ' " 'Cf- ^ 
 
 
 ^ i:"" 
 
 W^"' 
 
 - ■'^y- >^' 
 
 
 If' 
 
 
 <^.. * » » » ' 
 
 •v. <; 
 
 <■„ 
 
 
 ft: %^4 
 
 
 , \ ■11 ■ 
 
 .- ,\'^ 
 
 :^if^J^ 
 
 ^i^ 't... 
 
 
 ./. "'^^ v^^ 
 
 v/.T^"^:/ 
 
 
 ■e- ♦ , 
 
 
 ts' - 
 
 A"i^' <■' 
 
 ^^^-y-^m^: 
 
 .-t"^' 
 
 >>^y ^^w^ 
 
 \m 
 
 
 .,/^.-" 
 
 '■*.-% 
 
 f: .6 -^6- 
 
 m 
 
 
 ^^^ t^""'^^ 
 
 
 -^; -^ -^ 
 
 ■^.-. ,<x^- 
 
 x<!-^ '*.. ', 
 
 
 
 
 .A"^" 
 
 .^'^. 
 
 
 
 
 "% " •". . > ■• ''''\«'^^ , - - "*--■*■...■> 
 
 
 > 
 
 N C ■ 
 
 O- 
 
 ' » I 1 ■> \'*' 
 
 
 
 >^ '■t,. 
 
 ^ * 
 
 
 
 ,^^^ 
 
 \. 
 
 
 
 
 ^,\y -r-,.. 
 
 ^ .0^^ 
 
 
 ^- .aV-. 
 
 
■>-, '.7*5i*^v 
 
 
 
 
 ,0 s * -.^^liL: 
 
 •>'oo'< 
 
 ^^^<(i>' o 
 
 .•>^% 
 
 
 * 'P 
 - •f' 
 
 
 .0^ .- 
 
 
 ■^ <: 
 
 
 OO 
 
 . V /,..>^% -^^^-^ ^-^^ssw^ - 
 
 ^< "^> 
 
 
 ' -«-->!. ■ 
 
 'o 0' 
 
 
 ..,- ^ ,<■' 
 
 
 
 ^v^ 
 
 
 ' * 
 
 °o 
 
 
 
 
 ; -oo^ 
 
 M 
 
 
 
 -' v^-^ ■'*, 
 
 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 
 \' ^^ 
 
 
 
 .^^' 
 
 * <' 
 
 
 ./ 
 
 %■ 
 
 
 
 .■,\^' ^r. 
 
 »^ '«^. 
 
 v->' 
 
 
 /N^ .V 
 
 =:-"/:--';i'.'^' 
 
 
 
 ^ A' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 .-^ 
 
 .1 '-f-^ _v'* ' ,.r5<>- 
 
 -P. C» 
 
 
 -=^ A^ ' 
 
 .-- x-i- 
 
 ,-^ -U 
 
 
 -R.^.V <^ 
 
 t^ v^^ 
 
 
 «,■=> 
 
 ^^' 'V->- 
 
 ' .^-^ -'■^^^ •. 
 
 
 ..'^'■'- 
 
 "■(.,_ ^^ 
 
 A 
 
 ;v^At 
 
 ^ .S- 
 
 
 ,. J-^ ^'^3%. 
 
 » ■■ • » A 'i: 
 
 », o. 0- .■ 
 
 
 ^.-^ 
 
 * '' ■■■ ' ^-1 - "^(P cO'' 
 
 'X'^^' % 
 
 
 
 '0 ;f; 
 
 
 ■ V 
 
 L^.^'v ■ 
 
 *>. ' ■) N O 
 
 A-i- 
 
 ''^^'^ 
 
 
 ■'*^&0i' C .^ 
 
 
 "-0; ^^ ''^. •,\:' 
 
 % .A<^ 
 
 -X<1>' %