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Title: Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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RST DAY AT THE FAIR. THE MOST USEFUL THING AT THE FAIR. A KING a Cottage Grove car, the Mario wes enteredthe Fair Grounds on one beautiful summer morning,by the long way of the Midway Plaisance, in searchof the Funniest Thing, the Most Useful Thing, andthe Grandest Thing. The sky was as blue as the Lake, and the Lake asblue as the sky on this morning, and the sun filled the sky with livinglight, and under it shone the White City, the most beautiful city onwhich the sun ever shone, — the city of all the ideals of the past andthe hopes of the future, the first city of the new order of the world.They passed the turn-style, and looking round, saw the word exit. I will tell you a funny story which I heard at the boarding-house in regard to that word, said young Ephraim. There was anIllinois boy who had earned money enough to go to the Fair, and fiftycents to go in, and he planned to enter early and stay late, and so seeall of the Fair in one day. He paid his fifty cents for a ticket, and
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THE MAR LOWES1 FIRST DAY AT THE FAIR. 12 I passed through the turn-style, and looked up and read E-x-i-t. Doesit cost anything to go in there ? he asked of an officer. Of coursenot, answered the officer. Then I must see it, he said; I want tosee everything. And he saw it I do not regard that as a funny story, said Mr. Marlowe. Icould hardly think of anything more pathetic. How that poor boymust have felt when he found himself on the outside. It would belike entering a gate of Paradise, and going back by some by-way intothe world again. I shall not put that among the funny stories in mynote-book. The long Plaisance, which was an avenue where lived nearly all ofthe nations of the world in harmony, swept before them, and over itgleamed the towers and domes of the White City. If young Ephraims story was pathetic rather than funny, anincident occurred at their first journey up the Plaisance which wascomical. A street performer was taking gold crowns or sovereigns out ofhis nose. The trio s

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