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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
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mes 96 feet high, and abovethese tower groups of statuary. The design for these domesis that of female figures, of herculean proportions supportinga mammoth globe. To the southward of the Agricultural Building is a spac-ious structure devoted chiefly to Live Stork and AgriculturalAssembly Hall. This building is conveniently near one ofthe stations of the elevated railway. On the first floor, nearthe main entrance of the building, is located a Bureau of In-formation. This floor also contains suitable committee andother rooms for the different live stock associations. On thefirst floor there are also large and handsomely equippedwaiting-rooms. Broad stairways lead from the first floor intothe Assembly room, which has a seating capacity of about1.500 This Assembly room furnishes facilities for lecturesdelivered by gentlemen eminent in their special fields of work,embracing every interest eonneete 1 with live stock, agricul-ture and allied industries. 60 i38 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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H Q 3 PQ PH P WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 139 Landing at the pier opposite the main basin from one ofboats belonging to the Henry Syndicate the visitor encountersthe Casino covering a space of 148 by 246 feet. Leavingthe Casino the visitor passes under the vast Peristyle,the connecting structure between Music Hall and the Casino.It is 600 feet long, 60 feet wide and 60 feet high. At the centeris a grand archway forming a portal from Lake Michigan tothe Grand Central Court. This portal is dedicated to Colum-bus and is inscribed with the names of the words greatest ex-plorers, crowning it is a group of statuary emblematic of theprogress of the world. It bears 48 columns representing thestates and territories. The cost of the peristyle with the Casinoand Music Hall was $300,000. At the north end of the peris-tyle is the Music Hall covering a space of 140 by 260 feet. Theaudience hall has a capacity of 2,500 and provision is madefor an orchestra chorus of 500. Having inspected the MusicH

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