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Identifier: dedicatoryopenin00worl (find matches)
Title: Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Stone, Kastler & Painter
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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THE F=ERRIS lA^HEEL-. JUDGED by comparison, relatively or otherwise, the importance of the FerrisWheel as an attraction at the Worlds Fair is equaled only by the greataggregate of the Fair itself. Certainly there is no other single enterpriseor place of resort in Midway Plaisance or on the grounds proper that approaches,either in joatronage extended or in wonderment excited, this novel and unusualachievement in modern engineering skill. Its superior excellence as a conceptionof the human brain has been acknowledged by the greatest thinkers of all theworlds continents, and Mr. Ferris has been placed ujjon such a pinnacle, thatwhen the future historian comes to survey the character of his work, he will findit rising above the undulating plains of humanity like a huge mountain in thedesert, and like the orbs of those who walk in the Midway,-he will have to lift hiseyes high toward heaven to catch its summit. It is sv.ch a masterful stroke ofgenius, so carefully conceived, and so successf

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