Chicago

is a city of barbarous gridironed streets with a multitude of mutilated people whom he meets on crutches.

ff a stranger's first im pression of Chicago is that of the barbarous gridironed streets, his second is that of the multitude of mutila ted peop le whom he meets on crutches . Except ing immediately after a great war, I have never seen so many mutilated fragments of humanity as one finds in Chi cago. Dealers in art ifi c ia l limbs and crutches ought to be able to do a better business in Chicago than in any other city I ha ve ever visited ... . The railroads which cross the city at the level in every d irect ion, although limited by statute and ordi nance as to speed , constantly mow down uno!Tending c itizens at the crossings, and those legless, armless men and women whom you meet on the streets are merely the mangled remnant of the massacre tha t is constantly going on year in and year out. If Christ Came to Chicago

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