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THE MICROSCOPE. 



New Series, 1893. 



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CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 



EDITORIAL. 



The Libby Prison War Museum. — Of the many attractions 

 outside of the World's Fair in Chicago, there are but few in 

 which there is so much interest centered as there is in the Libby 

 Prison War Museum. In 1S89 this celebrated prison was re- 

 moved from Richmond to Chicago and converted into a War 

 Museum. The project was undertaken by a syndicate of the 

 best-known business men of the city whose enterprise was con- 

 ceived in a commercial spirit, but has attained a national rep- 

 utation. A project such as this was never before heard of. To 

 move a brick and stone building the size of Libby more than a 

 thousand miles, across rivers and mountains, was an enterprise 

 that many of the best known contractors in the West refused 

 to undertake at any price. But the move was made with suc- 

 cess. Then the famous old structure was filled with war ma- 

 terial that represents the work of a lifetime and the expendi- 

 ture of half a million dollars. The great collection is conceded 

 to be second to none in the country and includes much of the 

 most valuable material that the greatest civil war the world has 

 ever known has left to posterity. The collection includes thou- 

 sands and thousands of relics of every description, many of 

 which form important links in the history of the Nation. The 

 old building itself is fraught with interesting memories and 



