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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by International Film Service, Inc. 



A LINE) WAITING TO PLAY GOLP IN JACKSON PARK : CHICAGO 



Chicago plays as earnestly as it works, and the public golf links in Jackson Park are 

 reputed to be the busiest in the world. More balls are teed off there than at the historic 

 links of St. Andrew. Many a golfer has sat up all night, so as to be sure to get into the 

 game on the morrow. 



the packed orders to loading platforms — 

 parcel-post shipments to one platform, 

 express to another, etc. Here they are 

 again separated, each railroad and each 

 express company having a special section 

 where the packages intended for them 

 are assembled. In the case of parcel-post 

 packages, belt conveyors carry them to 

 an assorting room, where they are prop- 

 erly bagged and labeled, so that the pos- 

 tal service can handle them in bag lots 

 until they reach the point nearest their 

 destination where mail-bag lots are 

 broken up. 



In the rush season this institution han- 

 dles as many as 20,000 orders an hour. 

 The number of employees is greatly aug- 

 mented at these times, and the cream of 

 each enlargement is added to the perma- 

 nent list, with the result that the force is 

 always kept efficient. 



The annual turnover of an institution 



like this is almost past belief. Even in 

 peace times, before the costs of produc- 

 tion had been lifted to unparalleled 

 heights by the competition of Mars, the 

 ledger of one mail-order house at the end 

 of the year is said to have shown total 

 sales reaching to nearly $200,000,000. 



A DEPARTMENT STORE WITH 46 ACRES OF 

 FXOOR SPACE 



There may be one or two other depart- 

 ment stores in the world outside of Chi- 

 cago that have outgrown a full city block, 

 but certainly no other such store has out- 

 grown as large a block nor occupied more 

 floor area than Chicago's leading estab- 

 lishment. The square bounded by Wa- 

 bash, Washington, State, and Randolph 

 streets is a big one — how big may be 

 gathered from the statement that the 

 basement sales-room of this institution 

 covers four acres of ground, while the 



