Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . -tral column supporting a statue of Neptune, a column fretted with the prows ofRoman galleys—a column such as some victorious Emperor raised in Rome tocommemorate his triumph. Where the vast Manufactures Building once reposed its mammoth length notone of its great columns and arches remains. Not one of those walls which mighthave sheltered armies was left standing. The huge iron framework has shriveledinto something which looks like the backbone of a leviathan retaining the contor-tions of its death agony. SEVENTEEN YEARS A
Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . -tral column supporting a statue of Neptune, a column fretted with the prows ofRoman galleys—a column such as some victorious Emperor raised in Rome tocommemorate his triumph. Where the vast Manufactures Building once reposed its mammoth length notone of its great columns and arches remains. Not one of those walls which mighthave sheltered armies was left standing. The huge iron framework has shriveledinto something which looks like the backbone of a leviathan retaining the contor-tions of its death agony. SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER An echo of the Exposition is found in an address made by Thomas Nelson Pagein December, 1910, before the convention of the American Civic Association inWashington, D. C. He characterized the White City of the Worlds ColumbianExposition as the real beginning and the inspiration for a new era of art andarchitecture in this country. The speaker looked back to the state of architec-ture as it existed in the time previous to the Exposition. Out of the worst period. RESIDENCE OF X. ITIIAM
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