The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . BUFFAivO—ON BRIDGES. [^Edward Kemeys.^j and Sixty-seventh street the base, the apex being at Fifty-sixthstreet. The park does not, however, come to a point, but at thisnarrowest place is about a quarter of a mile in width. At the baseline it measures just one mile, on the perpendicular a mile and athird, and on the hypothenuse more than a mile and a half Withinthese limits are contained 526 acres, every inch of which is nowutilized most perfectly for the purposes of the Exposition. MidwayPlaisance, a part of the Exposition grounds, conta
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . BUFFAivO—ON BRIDGES. [^Edward Kemeys.^j and Sixty-seventh street the base, the apex being at Fifty-sixthstreet. The park does not, however, come to a point, but at thisnarrowest place is about a quarter of a mile in width. At the baseline it measures just one mile, on the perpendicular a mile and athird, and on the hypothenuse more than a mile and a half Withinthese limits are contained 526 acres, every inch of which is nowutilized most perfectly for the purposes of the Exposition. MidwayPlaisance, a part of the Exposition grounds, contains 80 acres control of this area was assumed by the officers of theWorlds Columbian Exposition they found less than one-fourth of. 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-
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