Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . o the Worlds Fair are in course of con-struction, including a viaduct over that eyesore of the city, therailroad track. A statue of Columbus is also to be erected inthe park. Proceeding southward, the south parks are approached by themost beautiful boulevard in the city, Michigan Avenue. Startingfrom the Leland Hotel, the visitor passes the Auditorium Buildingand the Chicago Club on the right, the latter at the corner of VanBuren Street. On his left, the green expanse of Lake Parkst
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . o the Worlds Fair are in course of con-struction, including a viaduct over that eyesore of the city, therailroad track. A statue of Columbus is also to be erected inthe park. Proceeding southward, the south parks are approached by themost beautiful boulevard in the city, Michigan Avenue. Startingfrom the Leland Hotel, the visitor passes the Auditorium Buildingand the Chicago Club on the right, the latter at the corner of VanBuren Street. On his left, the green expanse of Lake Parkstretches out almost to the edge of the lake, from which it is sepa-rated only by the track of the Illinois Central Railroad. Awayout are the lighthouse, the breakwaters, and crib, and the surfaceof the lake is dotted with the white sails of innumerable castellated Armory of the First Regiment is seen at the cornerof Sixteenth Street; and on Michigan and Prairie avenues, thelatter two blocks east, south of Sixteenth Street, the domesticarchitecture of Chicago is observed at its best. Every available. (75) 76 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. material, from wood, brick, sandstone, and limestone, to granite,marble, terra cotta, has been employed, and wrought up intoforms of beauty hardly less creditable to the merchant princewho could appreciate than to the architect who could designthem. On the northeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Twen-tieth Street has been erected a magnificent house for the Calu-met Club. It is in the Queen Anne style, and cost, with theground and furniture, about a quarter of a million dollars Onthe northwest corner stands the handsome edifice of the Second Presbyterian Society. Oneblock east and south are theFirst Presbyterian Churchand the Synagogue of theSinai Congregation. Twoblocks west, at 2020 StateStreet, are the headquartersof the City (Cable) RailwayCompany, where is exertedthe force which propels,through many miles ofstreets, the hundreds ofcable
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