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Title: Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d of actorsout of engagements, several railroad ticket offices, more bar-rooms, and a little farther south, in the old days, there was tobe found the dominion of King Faro and his subjects. 8i Approaching MadisonStreet the crowd increases,and you find the jam at thiscorner even worse than atthe corner of State andMadison. Now you pass aDime Museum with its gar-ish pictures, and in the sameblock you discover a notedrestaurant of the economyand plenty order—a res-taurant patronized princi-pally by country visitors,and at which about seventhousand meals are said tobe served daily ; while stillfarther to the south youmay inspect an excellentexample of the Americancoffee-house, where break-fast customers are eachpresented with a morningnewspaper that they arepermitted to take withthem when they depart. Now you have passedthe Government Buildingand are in the neighbor-hood of your hotel oncemore, where you drop infor luncheon, and order acarriage for an afternoondrive along the boulevards
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82 and through the principal residence portion of the city, whichHes to the south and in the neighborhood of the Lake front. It is needless for you to attempt to see the entire Park systemin one afternoon, or even one day, for the city is encircled by sixlarge parks which are connected with one another by thirty-sevenand one-half miles of boulevards ; and there are in addition tothese several smaller parks in different parts of the city. W^hen you engage your carriage you tell the driver that youwant to see where the prominent men of Chicago live, and hestarts his horses off at a rattling pace down Michigan Avenueto Sixteenth Street. Then he wheels sharply to the left, and aftertraversing two blocks turns into Prairie Avenue. The probabili-ties are that you will be disappointed with the street and thedwelling-houses upon it. You have heard, perhaps, that thewealthy men of Chicago live in palaces, and so a great many ofthem do, but the residents of Prairie Avenue, for the most part,hav

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