Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — The Chicago Fire. [ARTICLE]

The Chicago Fire.

It is quite remarkable how of late years the public fancy has turned toward pictures; within the last decade, newspaper after newspaper has been compelled to illustrate their publications daily. There is a wide-spread desire to see. A book without illustrations is like roast turkey without the “fixings”—rather uninviting and not altogether palatable. -For years back the great artists hafe turned their attention to the illustrating of history, and they have done more to give people an idea of how great battles were fought than any description of them could have ever done. The last great effort to pictorially represent any historical event is the Cyclorama of the burnirg of Chicago. This is said to be by far the most difficult subject ever attempted, and it was thought bv many to be impossible to faithfully portray. If one may judge from the glowing accounts given of this great scene by the Chicago Prms, it must be the most remarkable production in the realm of art. The effects produced are startlingly realistic and faithfully show the situation in Chicago when the great fire was ?t its height. This unique and remarkable exhibition is attracting a great deal of attention in the World’s Fair Citv. It is housed in elegant quarters on Michigan Ave., tetween Madison and Monroe, and will remain in Chicago until after the World’s Fair.