In the Driftway.

The Arabian Nights contain no tale as dazzling, as breath-taking, as rainbow colored as the story of Fifth Avenue's rise in a century from a plan set on paper and derided by all sensible citizens--the reality being a wandering country lane leading vaguely from one small village to another--to the richest and proudest street in the world. In 1824 Fifth Avenue was planned on paper; at that time a collection of log huts housing fewer than one hundred persons had managed to grow up on the bleak shore of Lake Michigan, under the protection of Fort Dearborn, rebuilt after its destruction by the Indians in 1812.