Chicago is noted for the number

size and height of ‘its pubic and busine buildings, and for their handsome and complete interior finishings. Among them are: the Auditorium, ten stories high, contains the largest theater and opera house in the world, capable of seating 7,000 persons, a great me with 400 guest rooms, and also 136 offices and store rooms. cost $2,000,000; the Art Institute, which ranks among the first art museums in the country; Board of Trade Building; Chicago Stock Exchange, 13 stories high; the Monadnock building. 16 stories high, got a in ing 1,600 offices and costing $2,500,; the Masonic Temple, 21 stories = and costing $3,500,000; the Public Library, @ magnificent structure costing $2,- 000,000 and containing a library of 250,000 books; the Woman’s a 12 stories high, containing 300 offices and costing $1,500,000; the City Hall and County Court and Criminal Court buildings; the New berry Library, and numbers of handsome club buildings, stores and theaters, besides many elegant and costly private residences. According to the Federal census of 1900 there were reported 19,202 manufacturing establishments, employing ~ $534,000,689 cgpital and 262,621 per- SOns; Paying $131,065,337 for wages and $538,401,562 for materials; and yielding products of an aggregate value of $888,786,311. The principal industries were wholesale slaughtering and meat packing, foundry and machine shop products, men’s clothing, in factories; iron and steel, agricultural implements, railroad cars, printing and publishing, masonry, and malt liquors; bakery products, coffee and spices, furniture, electrical supplies, women’s clothing, soap and candles, wholesale slaughtering (without meat packing), linseed oil, planing mill products and confectionery. Chicago is the greatest live stock and grain market in the world, as well as the greatest railroad center. At the close of the school year 1899-" 1900, the children of school census age aggregated 656,516; the enrollment in public day schools was 213,134 and in private and parochial schools (largely estimated) 86,614, and the average daily attendance in public day schools was 199,821. For higher education there were 15 public high schools, one public normal school, one endowed normal school, 15 private secondary schools, St. Ignatius opened 1869), and the University of, Chicago (1892}. The principal private secondary schools are Lewis Institute, Chicago Institute, Seminary, of the Sacred Heart, De La Salle Institute, University School, Harvard School, Kirk land School, St. Xavier's.