Art: Dynamic Dutchmen

Throughout the Midwest there are carloads of viands, thousands of dirty dishes swiftly and mechanically cleaned, which testify to the energy and foresight of a single man.* In various parts of the U. S. are flaring furnaces, silent turbines, which symbolize the driving force of several famed & rich U. S. citizens.† There are concert halls all over the country in which people mass whenever a certain Gaelic songster appears.** There is a Manhattan banker whose crown of fortune is studded with many a jewel of enterprise (railroads, insurance, real...

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