Identifier: pennsylvaniara00penn (find matches)
Title: Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ts, the supreme idea of socialism, thoughno community probably is more unsatisfactory to the sociaUsticdreamer. Primarily it is the home of the extensive car-w^orksof the Pullman Palace Car Company, which have a capacity ofabout $10,000,000 worth of cars per annum, about fifty pas-senger, freight, and street cars being completed daily ; but thereare in the town, you wall find, many other objects w^orth seeing.So, too, in Chicago itself there are other points that amonths visit would fail to exhaust—the manufactories, the li-braries, the Art Institute, the charitable institutions, the Houseof Correction, the Fire Department, the schools and colleges,the museums, the cycloramas, the railroad depots, the bridges,the tunnels, the viaducts, the wharves, the street-car system, theelevated railroads, the banks and clearing-houses, the relics ofold Chicago when it was but a swamp between prairie and lake,the fire relics, and a host of other matters and things that thecity can alone suggest.
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AUen, Lane & Scott, Engr CHICAGO (Business Portion ( THE WORLD^SCOLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893.

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