CHICAGO’S WHITE City: A REMINISCENCE. 361 
Glory” was relu€tantly hauled down from the towering 
flagstaff, atop of which it had floated for half a year 
over a site and a scene unparalleled in ancient or modern 
history. For a while after my dedut at the Fair over- 
coats for men and furs for ladies continued not only 
en regle but absolutely indispensable. Towards the 
close of my sojourn, the heat became sweltering, and hun- 
dreds of visitors were observable roaming daily about in 
their shirt-sleeves with their summer outer apparel thrown 
over their arms. 
Our British Guiana Court was located in the Agricul- 
tural Building. The Ethnological Exhibit under the 
roof of the Ethnological Building I had no chance of 
seeing, inasmuch as that part of the Show was not ready 
for opening up to June 3oth. I will here quote the des- 
criptions of our main and principal exhibit as published 
in two of the Fair guide books. The “ Official Guide” 
had the following :— 
British Gutana-—Among its many exhibits are wood, minerals 
(especially gold), white and crystal sugar, and a number of boats used 
by different tribes of India (sic.) Also two huts built by an Arrawak 
Indian. Much space is taken in the Ethnological Section. There is 
a very creditable showing of manufactured articles illustrative of the 
suitability of some of the woods of British Guiana for fine furniture. 
“ CONKEY’s Complete Guide,” before mentioned as a 
semi-official work and issued by the “ Official Printers” 
to the Exposition, the firm whose monopoly—orin World’s 
Fair phraseology “concessionary’—rights efte€tually 
stopped the sale of our admirable Hand-book, was more 
corre&t and detailed, thus -— 
British Guiana.—The British Guiana exhibit stands in the north- 
west corner of Agricultural Hall, and forms one of the wildest but most 
picturesque scenes in the building. Huge, square cut logs, from trees 
that shot upward 250 feet in the air of British Guiana, form pillars of 
