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upon me in the evening and was with me on the plat- 

 form. The lecture closed before ten o'clock, and I 

 hurried over to McVicker's Theatre, to see the last acts 

 of "Mulberry Sellers," in which John T. Raymond 

 was playing his favorite role. Tlie play was having 

 quite a run, and one heard at every turn the expres- 

 sion that had caught the popular fancy — Mulberry's 

 inimitable assurance, " There's millions in it ! " 



On the niorning of the twelfth, I settled with George 

 and Babcock. The former went forward to Ottawa, 

 and the latter to Joliet. It was my intention at the 

 time to push on to Omaha and Cheyenne as rapidly 

 as possible in the hope of passing Sherman, at the 

 summit of the mountains, before the snow was too 

 deep to interrupt my journey. Eight general halts 

 had been decided upon between Boston and San Fran- 

 cisco, and these were Albany, Buffalo, Toledo, Chi- 

 cago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Ogden, and Sacramento. I 

 had now reached my fourth objective and felt the 

 importance of more haste and less leisure and sight- 

 seeing. My time, therefore, in this great city was nec- 

 essarily cut short. 



The Exposition had just opened at the time I 

 reached Chicago, and this enabled me to see more in a 

 few hours than I could have possibly seen in any other 

 way, and gave me quite an idea of the industries 

 carried on in Cook County. 



I had never seen a finer local affair of the kind 

 and was confident that its object — the encouragement 

 of agriculture and industry — w^ould be successfully ac- 

 complished. Anyone who sees the way in which 

 Chicagoans throw themselves into an undertaking of 

 this sort, and in fact into everything that has to do 



