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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ar from means of communication as to be out of the reach of quickand easy travel. It is consequently interesting to note the meansof communication furnished the public to come to the Fain Thetransportation facilities are better In every way than have ever beenprovided at any previous exposition. From the Lake Front Park, THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. 73 which may be termed the down-town entrance of the Fair, thereare a number of ways to reach the grounds, all safe, speedy andpleasant. First comes the express service of the Illinois Centralrailway. 1 rains start from the down-town station at Van Burenstreet every few minutes, and reach the grounds without any stop,after a run of some fifteen minutes. Once at Jackson Park thepassenger may leave the train at Sixtieth or Sixty-third street, orride directly into the grounds, to be nearest to the AdministrationBuilding and the centre of the Fair. This last stop is at the en-trance to the Terminal station, a grand depot within the Exposition
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INTERIOR OF TERMINAL STATION. grounds. This structure lies due west of the Administration Build-mg, and forms the western boundary of the Court of Honor. It wasdesigned in the mixed Roman-Corinthian style, by Mr. C. B. Atwood.The station is divided into three sections, the central portion being200 feet long. This forms the great vestibule through which trains 74 THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. are emptied. The eastern and western sections are three storieshigh, and contain the waiting-rooms, check-rooms, lunch counters,and general railway and custom house offices. On the second floor,the full circuit of the central section, is an immense gallery, 25 feetwide, and 600 feet long. Above it, a frieze of clock faces, twenty-four in number, shows the time in the principal cities of the world.Three grand loggia open to the east. There are ladies parlors inthis building, and all sorts of comforts for the travelling public. The passenger from the city may find within a few hundred yardsfrom the

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