Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD LIST OF THE BOOKS OF VACHEL LINDSAY Prose:— A Handy Guide for Beggars. Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. The Art of the Moving Picture. The Golden Book of Springfield. Verse:— General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems. The Congo and Other Poems. The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems. The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language. THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD BY VACHEL LINDSAY A CITIZEN OF THAT TOWN Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1920 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1920. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Campbellite, the Florist and the Hostess 3 II. The Prognosticator’s Club 10 III. How People of 1920 Think the Book Will Come, in 2018 19 IV. History of the Michaels 49 V. I Myself Enter into the Springfield of 2018 66 VI. Kopensky Versus Boone 90 VII. The Drug Stores, Coffee Houses and Dance Halls 103 VIII. The Springfield Flag 117 IX. The Beginning of the Flying Machine Riots 137 X. The End of the Flying Machine Riots 154 XI. St. Friend, and His Two Religious Orders 171 XII. The Yellow Dance Halls Are Abolished 192 XIII. Surto Hurdenburg is Lynched 209 XIV. In the House of the Man From Singapore 226 XV. Further Experiences in That Strange Mansion 243 XVI. The Return of Joseph Bartholdi Michael 266 XVII. The Lynching of Boone. An interregnum of the Diary. How The Golden Book Appears 287 XVIII. St. Friend and Avanel Read From The Golden Book 305