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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tand contributing their quota of charm to ascene as picturesque and brilliant as any to befound in the West. The stop at Fischers, however, is merely fora brief rest and change of scene; with the teamfreshly rubbed down we may start on the driveto Sunnyside. A quarter of a mile north ofFischers we turn west to Evanston avenue andspeed through the pretty suburb of LakeView. The branches of the trees at the sideof the road will brush our hats off as we go byif we dont look out. But the horses spin on-ward, past neat villas, with their snow-whitebarns in the rear—pictures of comfort; pastsmoothly shaven lawns, upon which young peo-ple of both sexes are engaged in rattling games 171 of tennis; past lissome beauties who look coylyup from the hammocks in which they are indo-lently reclining; past all manner of interestingobjects, each of which lend their separate and special charm to thejourney. We areskimming throughEdgewater presently—nicknamed by theirreverent the dudetown, by reason
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of its being so very spick and span. Thena sharp turn to the left and a long stretch 172 of highway, lined on one side by pretty trees.It begins to look like the country at last, forhere are some fields in which thrifty husband-men and their wives are at work. A rattle anda thud as we cross the railroad tracks, the dustflying from the hoofs of our nimble steeds. Onemore sharp turn, a start into a private drive-way, and here we are at our destination—Sun-nyside. One reason, perhaps, why the summer hotel—roadhouse, some people call it—named Sun-ny side is so popular is that it is just withincomfortable driving distance of the city. Anhour and a half, or two hours (counting for thecustomary stop at Fischers) is the time allowedfor the journey. The hotel itself, kept by theDowling family for years, is a great ramblingold wooden building standing in the midst ofspacious grounds. A peculiarity of the place isthe beautiful independence of the proprietors,an independence that manifests

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