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Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tract was entered into for the construction of anew tunnel from the foot of Peck Court, to be eight feet indiameter, and to extend 21,441 feet (four miles) out into the lake,connecting there in forty-five feet of water with a new crib.Work was begun June 11, 1888. The crib is in position, beingtwo miles beyond a disused crib, and the tunnel completed. It GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 29 bids fair to be in active use well before the commencement of 1893.The boring was completed June 22, 1892. The capacity of the newtunnel is 130,000,000 gallons daily. Steamers and sailing yachts ply to the crib and breakwater, inthe summer months (round trip 25 cents), from the Lake Front atthe foot of Van Buren Street. Illumination.—The city now lights 2,235 miles of streets,mainly with gas, for which there are over 37,000 lamps; but alsoby 1,092 electric arc lamps, the wires for which are principallycarried in the subways, a system of iron tubes laid underneath thepavements of the principal streets.
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II. THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. Advice to Inexperienced Travelers. An arrival in Chicago, or any other large city, alone and forthe first time, is an ordeal to which many persons look forwardwith justifiable dread. What shall they do first—whither shallthey go—what arrangements are to be made regarding baggage—-how shall they find the proper way—how escape mischievous mis-leading of some sort and unnecessary expenses? These ques-tions occur to many inexperienced travelers; and it is the purposeof this chapter to answer them, as to Chicago, as explicitly aspossible. The vast city has many entrances. Indeed, as has beenremarked, a passenger may enter at Chicago a luxuriously fur-nished sleeping car, and, without leaving it, reach one of the prin-cipal seaboard cities of the United States, as well as railway linesleading into Canada on the north and Mexico on the south. Itis estimated that fully 175,000 people arrive and depart each day. Several regular lines of steamships serve to c

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