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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ch congresses beingconducted by their own special officers. Therewill also be popular congresses, open to all whomay desire to attend, and at which will be pres-ented for discussion all questions governing theresults of human progress in all the channels ofcivilized life. The discussion will be carried onunder the direction of the ablest exponent of that 26o particular branch of knowedge whose servicescan be procured for the occasion. These con-gresses, besides providing the various organiz-ations with the opportunity to discuss their in-terests, will secure to the people the opportun-ity to hear words of wisdom from the wisest ofmankind. Suppose Mr. Gladstone, the mosteminent Englishman of his time, should visitthe fair, as is not improbable? Should he doso he will unquestionably be invited to deliveran oration. Mr. Gladstone is only one of manyEuropean notables who are expected to attend*and they will of course be conspicuous at theseworlds congresses in the Permanent Art build-ing.
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PART VI. THE FAIR ITSELF. WHEN Mr. Edwin Lee Brown, a pioneer,citizen of Chicago,died in the summerof 1891, there passedaway the man who issaid to have been thefirst to suggest theidea of holding aworlds fair in com-memoration of the400th anniversary ofthe discovery . ofAmerica. The mind,therefore, which con-ceived this mightyproject, over which all the nations are agog, isnow stilled in everlasting sleep, but to those ofus who have memories the fair will remain alasting monument to the greatness of that mas-ter mind. Mr. Brown first proposed his scheme to ameeting of citizens in 1885. His words tookroot immediately. Like a flash the idea rushed

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  • booksubject:World_s_Columbian_Exposition__1893___Chicago__Ill__
  • booksubject:Amusements
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Thomson_and_Zimmerman
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  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:268
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