. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. for two and a half miles over thirteencity streets, built 300 special cars, anderected man\ new stations. These improve-ments cost over $2,000,000. The Fairincreased Illinois Central traffic over 200per cent. Save the Art Building, the structures atthe Fair were designed to be temporary,and they were superfluous when the occa-sion which called them into being hadpassed. The question of disposing of themwas summarily solved. One day some boysplaying near the Terminal Station saw asinister leer of flame in
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. for two and a half miles over thirteencity streets, built 300 special cars, anderected man\ new stations. These improve-ments cost over $2,000,000. The Fairincreased Illinois Central traffic over 200per cent. Save the Art Building, the structures atthe Fair were designed to be temporary,and they were superfluous when the occa-sion which called them into being hadpassed. The question of disposing of themwas summarily solved. One day some boysplaying near the Terminal Station saw asinister leer of flame inside. A high windsoon blew a conflagration, which envelopedthe structures, leaving next day naught butashes, tortured iron work, and here andthere an arch, to tell of the regal WhiteCity that had been. The financial backers of the Fair showed iS93] WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION 105 no mercenary temper. The architects, too,worked with public spirit and zeal whichmoney never could have elicited. Notwith-standing the Worlds Fair was not financiallya success, this was rather to the credit of. Electricity Building. Mines and Mining Build The Burning of the White City. its unstinted magnificence than to the wantof public appreciation. The paid admis-sions were over 21,000,000, a daily averageof 120,000. The gross attendance exceededby nearly a million the number at the ParisExposition of 1889 for the correspondingperiod, though rather more than half a mil- 106 EXPANSION [1893 lion below the total at the French monthly average at Chicago increasedfrom 1,000,000 at first to 7,000,000 in Octo-ber. The crowd was typical of the best sideof American life; orderly, good-natured, in-telligent, sober. The grounds were clean,and there was no ruffianism. Of the $32,988worth of property reported stolen, $31,875was recovered and restored. CHAPTER VI. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT The century from 1790 to 1890 saw ourpeople multiplied sixteen times, from 3,929,-214 at its beginning, to 62
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