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Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e same strongholdthat it did in days of yore. It is possible that thebuilding of railroads and the shifting of commercialcentres has done much to relieve the Board of Tradeof its ancient splendor and prestige, while the shift-ing of the logical scene of its best usefulness to othercities in the land, and the changed conditions effectingagriculture and commerce, have put their shadowsupon the Board of Trade. The arteries of tradewhich at one time found their most natural waythrough the pit of that Exchange, now take shortercuts—avoiding the middlemen, and thus eliminating CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE 151 or reducing commissions, and go past it to other centres..Is it altogether this that has happened, or is it thatthe men of old are not there now to uphold its dignityand its old time power ? And if such be the case, is itthat changing conditions—the product of which ismen—have ceased to produce in the same manner andquality as when the Board of Trade was in the meri-dian of its career?
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Chapter VIWORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION1890-1893 AS the ending of the period of four hundredyears following the discovery of America byChristopher Columbus in 1492 began to cometo its close, there developed in the minds of our coun-trys leaders the thought that special significance at-tached to the coming event, and that it should be dulycelebrated accordingly in a manner characteristic ofAmerican spirit and enterprise. As the idea crystal-ized into more definite form it was determined as theclimax of the four centuries of development in Amer-ica to hold a worlds exposition of the progress, notonly of America, but of all nations, in the arts, indus-tries and science down to the time of holding it.Finally in 1889 a bill was introduced in Congress forthe purpose of inaugurating the exposition and con-ducting it in a befitting manner. Then there arosegreat rivalry between the several principal cities ofthe United States that were contending with eachother for the honor of holding it, the c

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