The Electric Building. 



Memories of the World's Fair. 



This grand exposition was wondrously beautiful under 

 all conditions, but when the Magician of Night steps forth and 

 waves his wand over the "Fair City," then the illusion is com- 

 plete. 



The outlines and masses, fine architecture, vistas, plazas 

 and lagoons are always grand and inspiring, but it needs the 

 softening shadows of night and illumination of thousands of 

 electric lights to bring them out in all their glory. 



The weary multitude that, during the day, wander from 

 place to place without any object, the debris from lunch baskets 

 and odor from restaurants, seem incompatible with the beau- 

 tiful palaces, terraces, plazas and lagoons. When evening 

 comes and the darkness becomes mysteriously luminous, the 

 reign of enchantment begins. 



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