Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . *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
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . *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 * beautiful grille work, ^.^=^.- fronts a great organ, ^^^ Proposed Odd Fe:lows Building. whose pipes are picked out in gold and red and blue. There is an assembly-room, a club-room, parlors, smoking andcoat rooms, kitchens and corridors, armories, store-rooms, property-rooms, all to be finished and furnished in the most artistic and CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 139 sumptuous manner. There are over 28,000 feet of flooring spacedevoted to the exclusive use of the Masons, forming- the mostmagnificent suite of lodge rooms in the world. The seventeenth,eighteenth, and part of the nineteenth and twentieth stories com-prise the suite; and the twenty-first story is a huge observatory,roofed with glass, from the windows of which can be seen the entirecity and the tumbling waters of the lake, touching the misty sanddunes of Michigan away out against the verge of the horizon. The streets look like pathways amo
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