13. What are the chief manufactured products of New York City, and how can it produce so much without many great factories?
14. Compare the harbor and city of to-day with that of three hundred years ago.
15. From a New York newspaper find out the foreign countries and the cities of this country to which vessels make regular sailings from New York.
16. Name all the railroads entering the city.
[CHICAGO]
“Chicago is wiped out.” “Chicago cannot rise again.” So said the newspapers all over the country, in October, 1871. And well they might think so, for the great fire of Chicago—one of the worst in the world's history—had laid low the city.
The summer had been unusually dry. For months almost no rain had fallen. The ground was hot and parched, the whole city dry as kindling wood. Then about nine o'clock on a windy Sunday night, the fire broke out in a poor section of the West Side. It seemed as if everything a spark touched, blazed up. While the firemen stood by, helpless to check the flames, rows of houses and blocks of factories burned down.