Excerpt from The Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago: For the Year Ended December 31, 1901The only interruption to a steady and uniformly profitable mercantile and industrial activity occurred at the time of the universally lamented and tragic death of the beloved President of the United States. The business and industries of the country, eon dueted as they were along the lines of that policy and upon those principles inaugurated and unfolded by himself and expounded in his matchless address delivered in the city of Buffalo to his admiring countrymen, soon recovered from the terrible shock.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.