CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



life in a vast marshy wilderness. The children 

 born there have never seen a railway; but 1,400 

 ships leave the stone docks of Sulina every year 

 laden with enough wheat to feed London, Paris, 

 and Berlin. To find the exact reverse of Su- 

 lina, we must go to Buenos Ay res the premier 

 wheat-city of South America and the gayest of 

 them all. Built up at first by the cattle trade, 

 and now depending mainly upon wheat, this 

 superb city has become the topmost pinnacle 

 of South American luxury and refinement. It 

 has several new elevators, erected by the rail- 

 way companies. 



After the Reaper, the Railway, the Steam- 

 ship, and the Elevator, came the Exchange. 

 This, too, came first in Chicago, in its modern 

 form. There was one little grain Exchange in 

 the Italian city of Genoa, several centuries ago, 

 and England points back to 1747 as the year 

 when her first Corn Exchange was born. But 

 it was the Exchange in Chicago, started by 

 thirteen men in 1848, that first came into 

 its full growth and became an arena of inter- 

 national forces. 



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