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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Kaufmann & Fabry Co. 



A VIEW OF SOUTH WATER STREET IN THE EARLY MORNING: CHICAGO 



South Water Street is perhaps the busiest and at the same time the most antiquated 

 public produce market in the world. The foodstuffs of the entire city pass through this 

 market. Nearly three million cases of eggs, twenty million pounds of butter, seven million 

 boxes of oranges, seven million bushels of potatoes, and one million barrels of apples change 

 hands annually. The place has been called the city's vermiform appendix and is slated for 

 elimination in the execution of the Chicago Plan. 



weighing nine tons each. Each of these 

 will form the keel of some new Pullman. 

 To it nine sills are riveted, with floor 

 beams, etc., making a complete under- 

 form weighing seventeen tons. On this 

 the superstructure is built, and then the 

 roof deck is swung into position by a 

 crane. 



One of the major items in the con- 



struction of an all-steel Pullman is the 

 insulation of the car. This insulation 

 consists of a combination of cement, 

 hair, and asbestos, packed into every 

 cubic inch of space between the inner and 

 outer walls of the car and between the 

 upper and lower coverings of the floor. 

 One man with a wheelbarrow could trun- 

 dle at a single load all of the wood that 



