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Excerpt from The Commercial Club of Chicago: Its Beginning and Something of Its Work
Northwestern road, the trip each way being made in the record-breaking time of two hours.
When again in Chicago, the travelers were taken to the Stock Yards, where it was then the fashion to take all strangers, and John B. Sherman gave them luncheon at the Transit House. They were shown the Board of Trade, the grain elevators, the city's banks and business houses, and, incidentally, its defective streets, etc., and later there was the great banquet at the Chicago Club, on the evening of December 12th. At the close of that meeting the entire company formed in a circle, hand grasping hand, and sang Auld Lang Syne. And, when at the end of three days Chicago waved her visitors goodby as their special train pulled out of the wretched station of the Pennsylvania road (then the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne Chicago), the mem bers of the committee f elicitated themselves that there had been no accidents, no failures, no untow ard happenings, no hitch or misadventure in the arrangements, and felt that really they had done themselves and the city great credit.
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