Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — CHICAGO’S GREATEST SHOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO’S GREATEST SHOW.

Bzpoeltloa Surpasses All World’s Beoords la Attendance. ..Chicago’s latest and the world's great** l ° d “ u ’ RIVERVIEV? J2Xbreaking all crowd leoords In this city of multitudes. The attendance of the famous World’s Fair is eclipsed. A million persons via* Ited the exposition the first few days of Its opening. By daylight, opening day, a muttitude fathered at the massive main gates. hey came out of the city on Street cars; from the country by trains) from all points of the compass afo&t, on horseback. In automobiles, carriages, electric, elevated and steam railways and by boat.

State street sent thousands of richly attired beautiful women In picture hats and gowns, the factory settlements young girls In modest garb but with equally light hearts, the busy marts' portly business men in autos, slender clerks, their wives and children, carrying picnic equipment, the resident districts’ children in merry troops, shouting and laughing, aristocrats from the boulevards, and workingmen in holiday attire, a light-hearted, expectant throng that swarmed through gates, driveways, turnstiles and even over the white walls eager ato view the marvels Of the great exposition. Thousands arrived on a fleet of electric launches, steamers, big excursion • boats, sailing craft and rowboats, all gaily flying bunting and flags, laden with Joyous crowds, whose noises of merriment mingled with the music of many bands.

All day the vast concourse of shouting men, women and children passed Into the grounds. They were confronted with an endless revelation of architectural, scenic arid natural splendor In theaters, pavllllons, courts, midways, esplanades, exhibition buildings, art and Industrial halls, casinos, concert stadiums for great military bands and orchestras, causeways, boulevards, waterways and gleaming white tassellated buildings. Turreted and dazzling In their beauty the buildings form snow white avenues and fringe the shores of diamond lakes from whose prismatic depths spout and spray fountains of crystal waters by day and opalescent mists of green, purple, orange and heliotrope by night. The mile square center of marvelously beautiful structures sets like a city of Carrara marble In the emerald heart of groves, forestry and flower plats. Chlcagtr is ever surpassing Its own achievements but it will never build such another spectacular splendor as Biverview Exposition- “