Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Ice Railway was one of the speculative odd features of the Fair and achieved a degree ofpopularity toward the Expositions close. Sleighs assisted up an incline by machinery made a dizzycircuit at a tremendous pace along a roadway coated with ice, created by artilicial means. It wascurious even from a scientific point of view.

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