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BETTER DAYS: OR, A Millionaire of To-morrow.
BY
THOMAS FITCH AND ANNA M. FITCH.
“Philosophy consists not
In airy schemes, or idle speculations;
The rule and conduct of all social life
Is her great province. Not in lonely cells
Obscure she lurks, but holds her heavenly light
To Senates and to Kings, to guide their counsels,
And teach them to reform and bless mankind.”
San Francisco, Cal.:
BETTER DAYS PUBLISHING CO.
1891.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891,
By THOMAS FITCH,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Pacific Press Publishing Company,
Oakland, Cal.
Printers, Electrotypers, Binders.
TO THE
Eight Thousand Millionaires of America
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.
IF, THROUGH A PERUSAL OF ITS CONTENTS, ONE AMONG THEM ALL SHALL BE LED TO SO DISPOSE OF A PORTION OF HIS FORTUNE AS TO HELP THE WAGE-WORKERS OF OUR LAND TO HELP THEMSELVES, THEN THESE PAGES WILL NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN VAIN.
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CHAPTER I. “The earth trembled underneath their feet.”
“Chicago,” said Professor John Thornton, “Chicago,my dear doctor, is the typical American city.New York and San Francisco may be classed as metropolitan.Philadelphia, St. Louis, and New Orleansare local to their surroundings; Boston is—Boston, butChicago is sui generis. Notwithstanding its largepermanent foreign population, and the presence of thethrongs of strangers attracted by the Columbian Exposition,Chicago remains intensely and distinctivelyan American city.”
“I quite believe you, professor,” said Dr. Eustace.“Certainly in all the world elsewhere there is no racetrack for locomotives, no place where iron horse
