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TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES IN MIDWINTER, WEIGHT, 12,000 POUNDS.

trade of South American and Oriental countries. The city, too, has not one but two ports within its limits; one at the mouth of the Chicago River, the other-the better of the two-at South Chicago. It has also several business centers, notably, down-town, at the Stock-Yards, at the McCormick Reaper Works, and at South Chicago. Its development during the past fifty years has been phenomenal, but has not as yet, according to those best able to judge, reached the highest point.

In Gale's "Reminiscences of Chicago," there is a prophecy, contained in a letter

the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi. The boundless regions of the West must send their products to the East through this point. This will be the gate of empire, this the seat of commerce. Everything invites to action. The typical man who will grow up here must be an enterprising man. Each day as he rises he will exclaim, 'I act, I move, I push,' and there will be spread before him a boundless horizon, an illimitable field of activity; a limitless expanse of plain is here -to the east, water and all other points of land. If I were to give this place a name, I would derive it from the nature of the place and the nature of the man who will occupy this place'ago,' I act; 'circum,' all around; 'Cirago.'"

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GARFIELD PARK IN 1872.

written by Robert Cavalier de La Salle in 1682 to a friend in France, which seems to us to-day little short of inspired. The great discoverer therein pictures Chicago's future greatness. He says: "After many toils I came to the head of the great lake and rested for some days on the bank of the river of feeble current now, flowing into the lake but which occupies the course that formerly the waters of these great lakes took as they flowed southward to the Mississippi River. This is the lowest point on the divide between the two great valleys of

Those wh prophesied in the past spoke truly; why should we not listen to the prophets of our time, since they give their predictions a math

ematical and scientific basis? We know how truly La Salle spoke. Mr. Arnold now says:

"The rate of increase of population in Chicago in 1902 was 7.7 per cent. At seven per cent compounded, the population in 1952 would be over 13,000,000. Calculating at the very low rate of three per cent, which has been shown to be the average rate of . many American and European cities, would give Chicago in 1952 over 5,000,000 inhabitants. But these cities had more nearly reached a point in their growth in conformity with the demands made upon them than, Chi

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