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>respondent the lake shore. . g ashes, up ket# of mud Greater Chicago Rises But Chicago's spirit wss admir ips of ruins, ably expressed In a newspaper rice's finest printed two days later in a job plant. It said; rrlcane have "Looking on the ashes of 30 years' accumulations, the people of lean urge to this once beautiful city have re than ever solved that Chicago shall rise seeing that again." ' eghsny and It did. Before the ashes were -> nvsrs, as cool, the wagons rumbled through (he streets with building supplies, : awsy the and new walls rose while other tot-1 King pumps terlng and blackened ones werri lings, Swish still being pulled down. | \ of shovsl A waters as Within a week, bahks had raked j their eafes from the' ashes and re-: had passed, fumed payment. Chicago even used and Spring* Its debris for Improvement, by it river, are dumping It Into the lagoon that all the other separated the railroad tracks from towns, x city 'atrich ias emerged did than be- Lake Front Park, thus paving the way for the magntficlent lake front development of today. Within two years, Chicago had rebuilt and recovered to the point hat the CMm from the where It wae holding the Interstate Industrial Exposition. ' 71, when. 1 unchecked >ss the old Galveston Blotted Out Perhaps the most sweeping of all g ruins lay municipal disasters was the Galves ton Good and hurricane of 1000. In ns to ashes > thousands lose of life this disaster wae the moat terrible America has suffered. BIx thousand people were swept fo death when the Gulf of Mexico | literally piled up over Galveston and rushed 100 miles inland in a tidal wave. It was accompnnled by a terrific hurricane which lev eled almost all the buildings that withstood the tidal rush. | Galveston stood on a sand spit ; connected with the mainland by > bridges. The eea well wae low, and ; there wse no reristitnc* and no In clination to heed warnings when ' disaster struck. >i The city was practically blotted 1 ut of existence by the mountain water which suddenly engulfed The first task was to bury the dead. But Galveston started imme diately to rebuild on a larger, finer scale, and with facilities aimed at preventing any such disaster In the future. A new tea wall was raised, 1 *4 or feet higher than the high water mark of the storm of 1900, or 7H feet above previous high water mark. A massive causeway replaced the flimsy bridges to the maintand, of which had been swept away. This was In turn rebuilt In 1918, when Its approaches were washed out In a storm. The whole grade of the city was raised from one to 18 \j feet. Benefit Oot Of Disaster - o_,Galveston also got permanent benefits from the form of city gov ernment devised to handle the situa < tion--* commission form known as the Galveston Plan, which has had great Influence on municipal govl eminent throughout the United I States. Tbe modem city of Galveston 1* a clean, splendid one, believed safe from any future catastrophe of this kind. Baltimore dates her well-known dvio Consciousness from the great Are of 1904 which swept the entire bustaeee district for SO hours. The Joae of tm/XJQflQQ was terrific for that arm. But rebuilding waa com plete within three years, and there after Baltimore led In development of hlgb pressure water and other fire-fighting facilities. Greater diversification of Indus try and better city government were fire's legacy to Baltimore. taTmcbee Ravaged Only two years later, another great disaster came, An aartbguak* ` In the Ban Franeiseo ares dsowoyod water o o o bs c Uo m, when Are beaks out It raged to* throe days, driving before it a help- loos fifditlm Eves dynamite used to bolt the flaaaaa gave out. aad artillery wee brought in t tear paths that would stop th -- asi Pre-Easter Presentation l f New Spring Styles ON Living Models FRIDAY and SATURDAY ,3 P.M. to 5 P.M.