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Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ators standing in a semicircle atthe rear and flanked with marble pillars in a row. As you step in,you notice the flights of marble stairs climbing over your headdizzily, and as you go up, with the ease and buoyancy of a bird,you wonder at the deliciously fresh air you are breathing, andnotice that the system of ventilation is as unique as it is perfect. From the first to the seventeenth floor the building is devotedto business purposes, from there up to part of the nineteenth andtwentieth Masonry will revel in all its gorgeous and mystic splen-dor. Looking upon the beautiful color designs, but recently com-pleted, and listening to the discourse of the artists, who are sobusily engaged on the decorations and furnishings of these won-drous halls, you imbibe some of their enthusiasm. Just a slightdemand on the imagination, and the Orient dawns on you in all itsfabled magnificence; rare marbles, paintings, and tapestries peepfrom every nook. Mosaic floors, and floors lavishly strewn with
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*mm MASONIC TEMPLE, CORNER OF RANDOLPH AND STATE STREETS.(137) 138 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. costly rugs, lie beneath your feet. India, Persia, and Japan haveyielded their choicest art treasures to deck these sumptuous apart-ments, the result being a dream of almost more than earthlybeauty. Egypt has lent her somber inspiration, tuned to the lotus-eaters reveries, while ancient Greece keeps her company, with allits classic grace and purity. Here a hall opens out like the transept of a cathedral, its ceil-ings arched and pan-eled with heraldicdesigns. A dimreligious light per-vades the vast room,and perfume of cen-ser swung seems tofloat through thesilence. Was that the minster bells chiming,sweet and low, anddo the knights, inclanking armor clad,bend low theirplumed heads, battle-scarred and toil-wornfrom the long cru-sades? One does notneed to close the eyesto summon them backfrom the long dead rrage of chivalry andromance. A raised N^dais, canopied with *fj_53J3.

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