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Updated: June 25, 2025
Here, indeed, was a Chicagoan who but yesterday was almost certain to be President of the United States. "Now his beloved body, my dear brethren and fellow-citizens, lies buried in the sands of an unfrequented sea." There is suppressed emotion. "And as for man," chants the harmonious choir, "his days are as grass." "As a flower of the field," sounds the bass.
After which he continued with his original narrative: "It was like this," he said. "I made up my mind that I would take in a few of the points of interest in the city I ain't ever got around to. Being a Chicagoan, like most Chicagoans I ain't ever seen any of our natural wonders at all.
"But he was on the train and when the horrid little thing stopped on the side of a hill for two hours, he came along and explained what was the matter." "He talks English like a Bostonese," said Scott. "Doesn't he? And anything that sounds like Boston just naturally puts confidence in a Chicagoan, don't you know?
There was one striking lesson in telephone efficiency which Paris received in 1908, when its main exchange was totally destroyed by fire. "To build a new switchboard," said European manufacturers, "will require four or five months." A hustling young Chicagoan appeared on the scene. "We 'll put in a new switchboard in sixty days," he said; "and agree to forfeit six hundred dollars a day for delay."
A Chicagoan, who withheld his name, told of the scenes at Omaha when the train stopped there. He said: "I was just recovering from what I had seen on the train when we pulled into Omaha with the injured. It was night then, but such a night. The sky was lighted with a red glare, and the streets were filled with people who acted as though they were mad.
It was not all homesickness, either. Among the men of all nationalities serving in the Foreign Legion, are many adventurous Americans, and a young Chicagoan, remarking my name, apprised me of the fact that perhaps I was heir to a fortune in Chicago.
Luckily, he is a kindly disposed arbiter and the Street basks under his smile." The Chicagoan turned and looked at the lady curiously, and the reporter went on: "The fair-haired lady with the wild-rose face is old Gordon Kimball's daughter; born with a diamond teething ring in her mouth, but has never succeeded in getting anything else of value inside her pretty head."
Give me the iron!" His words are spoken with authority, and the brawny smith surrenders the rod of glowing iron. Without an instant's hesitation, only compressing his lips firmly together, the Chicagoan presses the red-hot iron upon his arm.
The younger man, looking back from his place beside him, turned to listen, confronted by the sudden excited comments of a middle-aged woman, obviously Parisian, on the arm of a lean and solemn man with dyed and waxed mustachios. "You're quite wrong," cried the young Chicagoan, excitedly. "It's young Lady Boxspur the new English beauty. See, they're crowding out to get a glimpse of her!"
James Randolph was a native Chicagoan, but his father, an intelligent and prosperous physician, with a general practise in one of the northern suburbs, afterward annexed to the city, did not belong to the old before-the-fire aristocracy that Rodney and Frederica, and Martin Whitney, the Crawfords and Violet Williamson were born into.
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