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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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f luxuries, the Riche-lieu, they say, is the place par excellence at whichto stop. Some notable people have honored theRichelieu with their presence, and one is just asliable to run plumb against a real, live EnglishLord or Italian Marquis within its doors as againsta plain, everyday American citizen. Sara Bern-hardt selects the Richelieu when in the city; sodoes Mrs. Langtry when the confines of her privatecar become too narrow for comfort. The Riche-lieu is famous for the rare pictures that adorn itswalls, some of which are worth small fortunes, andalso—whisper this with bated breath. Oh, ye ir-reverent !—for its wine cellars, which are stockedwith some of the rarest and costliest vintages to befound on the entire continent. On state occasions,when the Cardinal is entertaining some choiceparty of notables, he is wont to disappear suddenly,absent himself for about fifteen minutes and then 27 reappear with a quaint-shaped bottle or two ineither hand covered with cobwebs. Those who
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sample the contents of said bottles close their eyes, 28 pat their stomachs softly as the divine liquid glidesdown their throats, and then shed tears of joy andgratitude to the Cardinal for having given themthe happiest moment of their lives. If you are aconnoisseur of wines and wish to test your art injudgment thereof, cultivate the acquaintance of theCardinal, and perhaps he will go down into thecellar for you. Mr. Warren Leland, who recently sold the hotelof that name, alw^ays said he had the prettiesthouse in Chicago, and there are some people whoagree with him. The Leland rates, on the Ameri-can plan, are from $3 to $5 per day up ; the Euro-pean, $1.50 up. The Leland is known as the**home hotel of Chicago, and there is a traditionabroad to the effect that people who once patron-ize it never go elsewhere. The Blooded District—Before proceedingto the consideration of other prominent hotels, itmay be interesting to inform the reader that the dis-trict which we are about to leave,

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