Industrial and Picturesque Rockford, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Industrial and Picturesque Rockford, Vol. 4Now Rockford is a city of thirty thousand progressive people, brimful of busi ness and bustle, and toiling tirelessly. Her citizens are pleased with her past, proud of her present, and fulsome for her future. The ¿eeting years have made much of her and she stands today a queen amid queens and destined for great ends. Men come and go, clouds form and burst, stars rise and fade, but fair Rockford came to stay. Her pulse beats with enduring vigor and the chill of decreptitude can never reach her heart.It is not the intention of this little book, however, to give an unnatural gloss to her present or future. We deal only in facts, cold, hard realities. The city was settled by sturdy men from New York and New England, and their descendants are here to day. They are not rainbow Chasers, fiction fanciers or snake charmers, they are citizens with a world of faith in the prowess of their own right arms. Unaided they have established a wonderful manufacturing municipality. Without soliciting outside capital they have started hundreds of industries whose product foots up many millions every year. They have created a city with broad paved streets, luxuriant homes, unequalled water and sewer systems and perfect fire and police protection, a city where good government and enterprise march hand in hand. The men who have made this rose to blossom are in a position to talk facts. Facts are what they speak today. They are talking to you.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.