Among the Ashes; or, Doomsday (with illustration) (Christmas Supplement) [pp. A001-A032]

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NEW YORK, CHRISTMAS, 1872.
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AL, sir, and so you have con eluded to fix yourself in our
city! I guess you couldn't do better!
elevators, but which is never tired of blowin' and eraekin' itself up. Yes, sir, Chicago is the Queen of the West, you bet."
"Then you think I have done right in
making np my mind to settle here?"
and Washington, but they don't amount
to much. Don't you believe what the realestate brokers tell you about them eities;
it won't wash, it's quite too thin; l,ut
plank down your pile in Chicago, and
was her room He ran hither and Thither, atrieking her name in tones of sngsiah.~Page 3.
This is the place for a live man, this Chic ago, just beginning to feel its feet, not half
played out like your old Manehester and
Yorkshire on the ofl~er side. No, sir,
and not lilce St. Louis, a one-horse plaee,
which we could put into one of our grain "Yes, sir, fl~at is so! I am acquainted
with this continent. I was down to Posting when I was a lad, and was located in
New York at the Grand Central llotel
for two weeks when ~ames T. lleffernan
run for mayor. Likewise Philadelphia
you'll have no need to move stakes never
agen."
The speaker was a man standing two or
fliree inches over six feet in height, leanribbed and wiry in frame, and giving one
the ide ~f great strength. Ilis clear gray
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