| New York City | Denver |
| Boston | Seattle |
| Washington, D.C. | San Francisco |
| New Orleans | St. Louis |
14. In what respects does Chicago stand first of American cities, and in what two things does she lead the world?
15. Compare Chicago and New York as to exports and value of commerce.
16. What is the benefit of parks to a city? What has Chicago done to make her parks among the best in this country?
[PHILADELPHIA]
In early days, when there was no United States and our big America was a vast wilderness inhabited mostly by Indians, people who came here were thought very adventuresome and brave.
At that time there lived in England a distinguished admiral who was a great friend of the royal family. The king owed him about $64,000, and at his death this claim was inherited by his son, William Penn. Now William Penn was an ardent Quaker, and because of the persecution of the Quakers in England he decided to found a Quaker colony in another country. King Charles II, who seldom had money to pay his debts, was only too glad to settle Penn's claim by a grant of land in America. To this grant, consisting of 40,000 square miles lying west of the Delaware River, the king gave the name Pennsylvania, meaning “Penn's Woods.” The next year, 1682, William Penn and his Quaker followers entered the Delaware River in the ship Welcome.