The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . STREiHT AND BOARD OF TRADE. CHICAGO- 62 THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. the whole in a state available for use. This was the northern por-tion of the park proper, where the park commissioners had culti-vated lawns and constructed driveways, a lake, and a pavilion forrecreation. This was known as the improved portion of the park,In contradistinction to the other or unimproved portion. Thelatter was in a state of nature. Sand hills and vales and marshgrass and swamps were the only features of the land and water-. —before: obewsk. {IVa
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . STREiHT AND BOARD OF TRADE. CHICAGO- 62 THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. the whole in a state available for use. This was the northern por-tion of the park proper, where the park commissioners had culti-vated lawns and constructed driveways, a lake, and a pavilion forrecreation. This was known as the improved portion of the park,In contradistinction to the other or unimproved portion. Thelatter was in a state of nature. Sand hills and vales and marshgrass and swamps were the only features of the land and water-. —before: obewsk. {IVaagen.) scapes. For centuries powerful Lake Michigan had met no ob-stacle in the attack, and had cast up drift-wood with the sand, untilthere was no semblance of the black soil of the Illinois prairies toindicate fertility. Among the sand dunes were sink-holes of quick-sand and of swamp, and the careless pedestrian might find himselfin actual daneer in the course of a walk across the tract. How different is all this now ! Where once was rank grass ofthe marshes is to be seen the most luxuriant of green turf Wherethe path was rough with the rise and fall of the shifting sand THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. 63 are level parkways, vistas of sylvan beauty, terraces of most artis-tic conception. Where was then a rough and wave-beaten shore,
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