The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-04-23

"E1E lOCdIlOIl VI I16 II dlF Is upon
1 the southwestern shore of
n Lake Michigan, in the south
ern part Of Chicago, and about
six miles from the center of the
city. Ample transportation SER
vices lead down. to the site, by the
steam lines of the Illinois Central
Railroad, the cable tramcar lines of
the South Side" Railway on State
Street and Wabash Avenue, and
other railway accommodation al
ready constructed on q liberal scale
to carry an enormous suburban
traffic. These are to be supple
mented by additional railway routes
now being arranged, and also by
an ample steamboat service on the
lake. There will be no trouble in
transporting hundreds of thousands
of people daily to and from the
Fair The chief buildings are
located in Jackson Park, covering
$50 acres, and they will front for a
mile and half on the lake shore.
To get more room other buildings
will be put on the Midway Plat
sance, going westward to Washing
ton Park, which will also be availed
of. The display is to be divided
into Is departments, which are
again subdivided into 172 groups
and 917 classes.
Jackson Park has a coast line
fronting on Lake Michigan. which
trends from northwest down to-
ward the southeast. To the west
the Park is bounded by Stony
Island Avenue, laid north and
south, beyond which, at short
distance, is the line of the Illinois
Central Railroad. The Park is
thus shaped like a rather tall
right-angIed triangle. It's northern
boundary, at Fifty-sixth Street, is
about 1000 feet long, while the
southern boundary, at Sixty
seventh Street, stretches for mile
westward from the Lake. Having
nearly a square mile of surface,
there is ample room for the colossal
buildings, and at the same time
sufficient space exists for some
admirable arrangements of the fiat
land of the Park, whereby a series
of lagoons are excavated, around
which the buildings are grouped,
thus adding to the picturesqueness
of the plain. The grading for the
building sites, and dredging for
these Iagoons and the connecting
canals, were completed some time
since at cost of about 100000,
and the Park is now busy in the
construction of the great buildings,
there being at present contracts for
about 100000 of work, either
completed or in progress of exc
cution.
The plan of the grounds is adj
mirable. Out in the front of the
Park pier with a broad end is
being constructed 1900 feet into
the Lake, with an inclosed harbor,
to make landing-place for water
craft, which will greatly facilitate
the transportation of visitors. An
extensive casino is to be put on the
end of the pier. Behind this en-
closed harbor, q long basin has
been dredged inland at right
angles with the shore, which
opens into series of lagoons
stretching northward through the
center of the Park. On either side
of the basin, and fronting the Lake,
will be, on the one hand, the ex-
tensive Agricultural Building, and
on the other the vast structure for
manufactures and the liberal arts,
the largest building of the Fair.
Beyond the western extremity of
the basin, tho Administration
Building will rise in stately gran
deur, the finest structure of the
Fair. TO the northward the other
structures are grouped around the
lagoons, the largest lake being
partly filled by forest-clad island,
this already-existing condition of
the surface having been very
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