Volume Iv Part 4 (2/2)

CHAPTER VIII. THE MARCH OF INDUSTRY.

Progress in Cotton Manufacturing.

In Woollen, Iron, and Other.

In Travel.

New Submarine Cables.

First Pacific Railway.

Others.

Consolidation of Railways.

Electric Lighting.

Brooklyn Bridge.

Elevated Railways and New Modes of Surface Traction.

Telephone.

Black Friday.

Chicago Fire.

Boston Fire.

Hard Times of 1873.

Material Betterment for Last Two Decades.

CHAPTER IX. END OF THE PERIOD.

Contrast of New Things with Old.

Postal Arrangements.

Art.

Extension of Suffrage.

Woman's Rights.

Higher Education for Women.

Socialism and State Socialism.

Widened Scope of Governmental Action.

Restriction of Immigration.

Catholics.

Their Att.i.tude to Public Schools.

Peril to Family.

Mormonism.

Divorce.

Danger from a Secular Spirit.

New Sense of Nationality.

Benign Results.

Greely Expedition to Polar Regions.

Lesson of our National Success to Other Nations.

Our Nation's Duty in World Affairs.

LIST OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS

THE WORLD'S FAIR AT CHICAGO. CENTRAL PORTION OF MACMONNIES FOUNTAIN--EFFECT OF ELECTRIC LIGHT.

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