People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — DIRECT PROOF. [ARTICLE]

DIRECT PROOF.

Chicago Must Be the El Dorado of Doparted Americans. Any one who has doubts about reinoarnation should take a look at the Chicago city directory. It may surprise the general' public to learn that Richard Wagner, who died several years ago in Baireuth, is still doing business in this city as a lawyer, a painter, a clerk and a laborer. Sir Francis Bacon, who is said to have written Mr. Shakespeare’s plays, is. now employed by the Illinois Central road as an architect, while Shakespeare himself is running a restaurant on South Halsted street. Ulysses S. Grant is now engaged in ringing up railway nickels here, while Garfield .is making harnesses for a living. Tennyson is now managing a feed store on the West Side. On the South Side he is a olerk, a cabinet maker, a laborer, » lather and a finisher. Dante, the infefno man, is now in the plastering business on North Rockwell street. William Cullen Bryant is working at the carpenter’s trade on Carroll avenue. George Washington is doing business here at nine different locations. Thomas Jefferson, who fathered the Democratic party, which seems to have got lost this year, is a house painter on the North Side. Andrew Jackson has taken to preaching, to bookkeeping and to driving a cab, while Robert E. Lee is a porter in a hotel and also attends the Chicago university. It may be a matter of contemporary interest also to note that William J. Bryan is running a grocery on Cottage Grove avenue, while William McKinley is clerking in the Rookery building, runs an engine at 44 Crosby street and lives at 19 Scott street.—Frank S. Pixley in Chicago Times-Herald.