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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e following day. The writer of these lines saw these men die,being seated just below the scaffold, with a complete • view of the proceeding. The assertion may beventured, that every witness of that awful eventwas impressed by the bravery with which the 200 doomed four met their fate. They had lived mis-guided lives and died ignominious deaths, but therewas not a coward among them. When they per-ished the anarchists of Chicago ceased to exist asa political power. Their party, which suffered astaggering blow by reason of the event of theproceding year, was obliterated, effaced by thetragedy on the scaffold which vindicated the right-eous power of law and order. The anarchists ofEurope no longer look to this country as a pleas-ant or profitable ground for the dissemination oftheir doctrines. When you gaze upon the Haymarket monu-ment you may ponder on these things. That simplefigure typifies the rise and fall of anarchism inChicago—one of the most thrilling periods in allits history.
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CHAPTER XXIV. ** CHEYENNE. THIS is an excellentneighborhood to let alone,however curious you may be.The small section of city towhich the nickname ofCheyenne has been givencomprises the district boundedby Harrison Street on thenorth, Twelfth Street on thesouth, Dearborn Street on theeast and Fifth Avenue on thewest. In this district residemore dangerous charactersthan there are in any other portion of the city. Itmight almost be called a negro colony, so manycolored people reside in it; but there are also largenumbers of foreio-ners—the scum of the laro-ecities of Europe—who are fruit-peddlers and or-gan-grinders by day and by night—heaven onlyknows what! They herd together like animals,twenty families sometimes finding lodging in onetenement. It is a historical fact that the police onceliterally cleaned out a house in which sixty-oneItalians were living. The sixty-one comprised

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