84 ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO 



came thronging from the Mississippi and Ohio to 

 try their fortunes in the new commercial village of 

 Chicago; show him the prophetic new Drainage 

 canal, soon to assure us pure water and later to 

 make a triumphant waterway to the Gulf. Let 

 him look across the miles of smiling bottom-lands 



to the purple bluffs beyond. Let him walk over 

 the rolling uplands and down the sweet cool 

 ravines. Show him the flower-grown church- 

 yard and the shrine and the long, narrow, shaded 

 stairway by which the worshipers descend to 

 the road. Show him the Feeder, splattering over 

 its rocky bed, and the cottages, half-hidden by 

 willow clumps, half-lost in their own shadows, 

 touched with the glory of the sunset clouds. 

 Long ago one from my child-garden stood with 



