HisTORicAi, Sketch. 



633 



Architecture $398,810 19 



Anthropology 317,638 65 



Art 801,444 68 



Agriculture 740,655 55 



Bridging 84,529 19 



Coloring and ducomting. . . 388,384 81 



Concession expenses. . .' 138,209 44 



Ceremonies 333,663 88 



Dredging 615,144 36 



Damages 197,146 82 



Dairy 110,770 16 



Decorations 119,134 81 



Donations and charities 37,996 17 



Electrical 1,911,857 04 



Engineering, surveying, 1 tc. 318,239 03 



Eeucing 95,631 45 



Fire protection 398,254 18 



Foreign agents 168,898 17 



Finance 601,330 85 



Fisheries 357,466 30 



Forestry 110,533 78 



Furniture 135,774 55 



Grounds 465,480 85 



Gate expenses 347,352 48 



General expenses 1,294,565 92 



Horticulture and floricul- 

 ture 456,628 25 



Insurance 182,687 03 



Installation 387,950 81 



Janitors 378,038 42 



Landscape gardening 551,448 45 



Live stock $358,560 87 



Manufactures and liberal 



arts 1,890,198 65 



Marine service 58,151 76 



Music 600,947 59 



Mines and mining 327, 575 56 



Machinery 3,786,684 91 



Medical and surgical 44,983 03 



National agitation 87,807 56 



Police protection 1,301,478 72 



Piers and breakwaters 600,449 11 



Preliminary organization. . , 90,674 97 



Public comfort 150,404 23 



La Rabida Convent 35,009 16 



Roads and sidewalks 394,438 41 



Railway transportation 1,347,101 48 



Sculpture 866,173 13 



Stable expenses 110,307 37 



Superintendence and inspec- 

 tion 392,690 30 



Special attractions 135,760 75 



Shoe and leather 111,063 13 



Transportation exhibits. .. . 587,331 75 



Viaducts 39,637 63 



World's congress auxiliary. 264,061 03 



"Woman's Building 141,032 55 



Water and sewage 1,122,770 44 



Total 125,540,537 85 



Teanspoetation. 



The transportation facilities were unexcelled. The pa:?k was con- 

 nected with the heart of the city, seven and one-half miles distant, by 

 surface cars, cable and electric, elevated railroad, Illinois Central rail- 

 road, which devoted two tracks to exposition traffic alone, steamboat 

 lines to Van Buren street, and was also within easy walking distance 

 of the greater part of South Chicago. The total carrying capacity of 

 the different lines was about 125,000 persons per hour. This system 

 was tested tlioroughly on Chicago Day, and the enormous crowd was 

 handled successfully without serious accident or delay. 



Within the grounds transportation was by means of the Intramural 

 railway, an elevated electric road, and electric launches on the lagoons. 



Midway Plaisance. 



ITo description of the fair, however brief, would be complete with- 

 out an allusion to the famous side show of the exposition, " The Mid- 

 way." This strip of land, seven-eighths of a mile long and 600 feet 

 wide, connects Jackson Park with Washington Park, and along its 

 sides were ranged the various exhibits, attractions and novelties culled 

 from every quarter of the globe, but not strictly admissible into the 

 exposition grounds proper. An admission fee was charged to all 

 exhibits of consequence. The cosmopolitan nature of the crowd which 

 jostled up and down the thoroughfare, the strange intermingling of 



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