Chicago’s White City: A Reminiscence. 
By Thomas Watt, Member of the Institute of fournalists. 
a) HIS paper does not purport to be a description 
a} of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893— 
that unparalleled enterprise conceived and 
arranged by the United States of America in commemo- 
ration of the quadri-centennial of COLUMBUS'S discovery 
of the New World, and in the carrying out of which, toa 
successful issue, “all nations that on earth do dwell” 
may without the slightest shade of exaggeration be said 
to have co-operated and aided. A full number of 
Timehri would scarce suffice for a complete ana detailed 
account of the aggregation of wondrously beautiful build- 
ings, architeGtural gems singly and colleétively, to which 
the poetic appellation of “ The White City” was given, 
and their contents. No; that which I have been solicited 
by the worthy Editor of our Journal to contribute for 
insertion in this issue—pressed, | might say, at the 
eleventh hour—can at best be merely by way of a personal 
reminiscence, discursive and devoid of plan or method, 
of this unique and memorable Exposition, which it was 
my privilege and good fortune to attend ina professional — 
capacity, as special correspondent for the colonial press, 
during well nigh a third of the World’s Fair season, — 
There was a British Guiana Court at this, the most 
notable international Show ever held, but at no time — 
while it lasted was there ever a “ Guianese colony” in 
Chicago. Perhaps a dozen people all told went at differ- 
ent times from British Guiana to the World’s Fair, and 
