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away in the suburbs, a distance of some seven miles in a 
south-easterly dire€tion from the City Hall. From the 
Union Depot the readiest method whereby a stranger 
could reach the Fair was by street car. It was the 
easiest because the nearest to the railway station ; but it 
was anything but the most direét and speedy. It wasa 
horse car, and the stoppages must have been about one 
in every three or four minutes. At last, however, the 
wearisome ride ended, and a short walk brought one to 
the “ outer walls” of the Fair. I ascertained afterwards 
that there were seven points of entrance, including the 
two steamer landings on the Lake side, with, in all, 326 
turnstiles, 97 ticket booths, 182 ticket windows, and 172 
exit gates—facilities considered capable of admitting 
half a million every hour if the attendance were equally 
distributed at all the gates. 
The site of the World’s Fair proper was Jackson Park, 
situated on the shore of Lake Michigan, and embracing 
533 acres of ground. Several minor buildings and 
special exhibits, however, were located in the ‘‘ Midway 
Plaisance,” a wide strip of land containing 80 acres con- 
neéting Jackson Park with Washington Park, the latter 
described as ‘‘a beautiful gateway to the Exposition,” 
covering 371 acres, and ranking as the largest of the 
“lungs” of Chicago. In the two years’ interval after the 
Lake City won in the competition for the honour of holding 
the Exposition, against New York, St. Louis, and 
Washington, the whole appearance of Jackson Park 
underwent a complete transformation, the extent and 
nature of which probably only a very fraétional part of 
the multitudes who visited the Fair understood or 
comprehended. This is how ‘“CONKEY’s Complete 
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