Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
HOW TO SEE CHICAGO.
INTERESTING INFORMATION FOR THE
WORLDS FAIR TOURIST.

Hotel Accommodations and Expenses
Places of Amusement.
What to do and which way to turn first
on landing in Chicago will be the puzzle,
to the majority of visitors.
There are four ways of reaching the OK
position grounds in jackson park from
down town Chicago. The distance is seven
miles from city hall, which is within a few
squares of the depots of the leading rail.
ways. The elevated road gives the quick
est transit, and it's lines circumvent the
park. The fare is S cents. The down town
terminus is ut Congress street, IL to Is min
utes' walk from city hall. Running time
from Congress street, to jackson park, 81
minutes.
The Illinois Central railroad will carry
passengers to the grounds for 2s5 cents the
round trip. The depot is on Michigan ave
nue..
The Lake Michigan boats will carry pas.
the round trip. Their landing in Chicago
joining the Illinois Central depot.
The Cottage Grove avenue cable cars run
to the southern entrance to the park. Fare,
- III ALSs lSNNS VIZ IltitlV vi lIlc Guy
via Wabash avenue and turn on IL loon
through Lake and State streets.
Chicago is divided into three geograph-
zeal divisions known in local parlance as
the West Side" North Side" and South
Side" The South Side, with its Michigan,
Calumet and Prairie avenues given up to
the homes of the millionaire element, har-
hors Chicago's aristocracy Of wealth. The
av,,ccit;Dr * i, Nv. S,,,L S;1n l;.<;,&. re-,
are the Auditorium, the courthouse, postof-
tute. Tn great thoroughfares of the South
Wabash and Michigan venues.
The West Side comprises man fine parks
and avenues, and originally contained one
half of Chicagois population. Madison
street is the central thoroughfare of the
West Side. The North Side includes Lin
coin park, the homes of many millionaires,
a long stretch of the Lake Shore drive, the
archiepiscopal palace, the Fannell obelisk,
the monolith of Long John Wentworth
and the Northwestern university, the high
est seat of learning in the state of Illinois.
The central ~thoroughfare is Clark street.
A system of parks and gardens engirdles
the city. The parks cover 1870 acres; the
u NoIAS CACcLu OU lilies. CLdCn Ol Clle
city divisions above noted has it's own sys-
tenn of street cars. The City Railway COM
pany operates the South Side system, con-
sisting of cable and horse roads. The North
Side is controlled by the North Chicago
company, which runs both cable and horse
cars. The West Chicago company monop-
olizes the West Side with horse and cable
cars.
The hotel accommodations of Chicago
and those suburbs easy of access include
about 1000 houses of all grades. Nearly
800 of these have been built specially for
Worlds fair patrons and are in the vicinity
of the grounds. They have cost nearly
100000 for construction, and with few
exceptions are of brick, stone and iron.
Heretofore the regular prices in the Chicago
hotels have ranged from 50 down to s. a
day. Thousands of private houses in all
parts of the city are advertising lodgings
and meals for exposition patronage.
People who wish to economize will doubt
less prefer to a time and money by lodg-
ing in the district around Fair park. The
accommodations there now foot up 5000
rooms. The rates will luctuate with the
demand, but the competition will he great.
The hotels in the district include the Hotel
Endeavor, with $40 rooms for Christian En-
deavor societies; the Woman's Dormitory,
with 500 single rooms,a and the Hotel Vet
eran, with 700 rooms and barrack halls for
Grand Army veterans and their families.
The exhibition buildings will also each
contain one or more restaurants, with ta-
bles and lunch counters, where visitors
may stay their appetites while taking in
the fair or sit down to hearty meals. Par
ties lodging at a distance from the grounds
will therefore be spared anxiety about
reaching home in time for dinner.
Visitors who lodge in the city proper and
have time on their hands, or who make it a
business to do the town, will not feel a lack
of attractions peculiar to the metropolis of
the west. The year 1893 opened with 30 the
aters giving daily performances, and to
these will be added many temporary palaces
OF amusement. At least u dozen of the Gel
cbrated tall buildings of Chicago will repay
inspection. The first of these is the Audi
forum, which is reported to nave the
largest theater in the world and a sight
seeing tower 20 stories high. The Masonic
temple at State and Randolph streets is a
city in itself, covering u quarter of a block.
1t is II stories high. The Woman's temple.
the chamber of commerce, the Rookery.
ouo uAAiiid1, Cuc A1OIuc, Cue Oermanla, the
Ashland, the Royal Insurance, the Monad-
mock, the Unity, the Rialto and several
other tall structures are worthy of note as
specimens of Chicago's commercial archi-
lecture.
In memorial art there is the new eoues-
trian statue of General Grant and the St.
Gauden's monument to Abraham Lincoln.
both in Lincoln park. The old Douglas
monument on the lake shore ut Thirty
fifth street stands ON high ground overlook
ing the lake and is we'll worth a visit.
Other memorials of minor value are as fol-
lows: Armstrong bust, Clark and Adams
streets; Columbus statue, jackson park;
Drake fountain and Columbus statue, be.
tween the city hall and courthouse; Elec-
trio fountain, Lincoln park; Fort Dearborn
Massacre, Pullman statue, Calumet avenue
and Eighteenth street; Schiller monument.
Lincoln park; Great Fire Inscription, 1877 De
koven street; La Sale monument, Lincoln
park; Linn@us monument, Lincoln park:
ottawa Indian group, Lincoln park; Police
monument, Haymarket square.
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