THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS--THE PILGRIM A DREAM Whatever a man like Hurstwood could be in Chicago, it is very evident that he would be but an inconspicuous drop in an ocean like New York.

In Chicago, whose population still ranged about 500,000, millionaires were not numerous.

The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown all moderate incomes in obscurity.

The attention of the inhabitants was not so distracted by local celebrities in the dramatic, artistic, social, and religious fields as to shut the well-positioned man from view.

In Chicago the two roads to distinction were politics and trade.
In New York the roads were any one of a half-hundred, and each had been diligently pursued by hundreds, so that celebrities were numerous.