Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition (1893) (14782019905)

Identifier: authenticguideto01merc (find matches)
Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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pot at Congress Street, be-tween Wabash Avenue and State Street, and then take thecars direct for the Worlds Fair Grounds. This line which islocated in the alley between Wabash Avenue and State Streetserves as on of the principal routes to the Worlds Fairgrounds. It has twenty locomotive?, sixty cars, thirty-sevenmiles of track, and cost $3,730,000. Opened for traffic onJune 6, 1892, it reaches Jackson Park in thirty-two minutes.The stations are: Congress Street (down town terminus),Twelfth, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fiifth, Thirty-ninth,Indiana Avenue, (here the line crosses to the alley betweenPrairie and Calumet Avenues), Forty-third, Forty-seventh,Fifty-first, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-eighth, Sixty-first, South Park,Cottage Grove, Lexington, Madison, Stony Island and Jack-son Park. Fare, 5 cents single journey. The views on theroute are not particularly interesting, consisting mainly of id 9° AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 91 back yards and clothes lines, but as the train reaches 40thStreet it crosses fine Boulevards, and later runs in view ofWashington Park. At the Fair grounds the train lands thevisitor right in the grounds; in a specially constructed depot.Paying the entrance fee of 50 cents he receives a ticket andenters the Fair grounds: in close proximity to the principalbuildings which will be the prime objects of his inspection. On entering the grounds the visitor will find himself atonce confronted by the Transportation Building. This, inthe form of three large train sheds, is 256 by 960 feet and hasa floor area of nearly 9^ acres. An annex is 425 by 900 feetand contains 9)£ acres of floor area. Cost of both, $370,000.Architects, Adler & Sullivan of Chicago. The cupola is 166feet high; is exactly in the center of the building, and isreached by eight elevators, which will form an exhibit. Themain entrance is on the opposite side and consists of a greatsingle arc