Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — CHICAGO’S GREATEST SHOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO’S GREATEST SHOW.

EUverrlew Bxpoottloa liuiemi AM World’s Beoords la Attendance. Chicago’s latest and the world’s great* •*t «how up_ to date, RIVER VIEW EXPOSITION, la daily breaking all crowd ■eoords In this city of multitudes. The attendance of the femoua World** Petr la eclipsed. A million persons vleltsd the exposition the first few days o t Its opening. By daylight, opening day, a mutUtuda gathered at the massive main gateau They came out of the city on street cars; from the country by trains i from all points of the compass afoot, on horseback. In automobiles, carriages, electric, elevated and steam railways and by boat.

State street sent thousands of rlohly attired beautiful women In ploture hats and gowns, the factory sattlenMßta young girls In modest garb but with equally light hearts, the busy marts* portly business men in sutos, slender clerks, their wives and children, carrying picnic equipment, the resident dlatrlcts* children in merry troops, shout* lng and laughing, arlatocrats from the boulevards, ana workingmen In holiday attire, a light-hearted, expectant throng that swarmed through gates, driveways, turnstiles and even over the white walla eager «to view the marvels Of the great exposition. Thousands arrived on a fleet of trie 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 conoourse of shouting men. women and children passed Into the grounds. They were confronted with an endlesa revelation of architectural, acenlo and natural splendor In theaters, pavllllons, courts, midways, esplanades, exhibition buildings, art and industrial halls, caslnoe, concert stadiums for great military bands and orchestras, causeways, boulevards, waterways and gleaming white tessellated buildings. Turreted and dueling la their beauty the buildings form snow white evenuee end 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 plate. Chicago la ever surpassing Its own achievements but It will neve; build such another epectacular spl.endor SO SUvervlew Exposition. * *