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 BOOK OF THE FAIR 
 
 Giving 
 
 Pre-Exposition 
 
 Information 
 
 1932-1933 
 
 of 
 
 A Century of Progress 
 
 International Exposition 
 Chicago 1933 
 
 CMICACQS 
 
 Issued by 
 
 A Century of Progress, Inc. 
 
 Administrcition Bld^. — Burnliam Park 
 Chicago
 
 This is the only authorized official pre-exposi- 
 tion official guide-book for 1932-1933 of A Cen- 
 tury of Progress, Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. 
 It contains the most recent and accurate 
 information available on what has been accom- 
 plished and what is planned for this modern 
 Exposition of the greatest era of the world's 
 scientific and industrial history. 
 
 Copyright 1932 by 
 The Cuneo Press, Inc.
 
 A Message to the Public 
 
 This is YOUR Book of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. 
 
 It is the only official pre-exposition guide-book for 1932- 
 1933 of A Century of Progress and it has been prepared 
 to answer the questions that have been asked by the tliree- 
 quarters of a million people who have already visited the 
 Fair grounds and more that will be asked by the hundreds 
 of thousands of pre-exposition visitors expected between 
 now and the official oxjening on June 1, 1933. 
 
 AVithin its hundred pages are maps and pictures by 
 which you may easily identify every building, constructed 
 and under construction. The reading matter, written to 
 give you the essential facts in the briefest possible read- 
 ing time, describes not only what is now on the grounds 
 but so far as possible at this time what will be built and 
 exhibited. 
 
 Probably the most thumbed portion of this thoroughly 
 readable and useful book will be the double-page aerial 
 view in which every location of interest will be designated 
 by a number and letter so that visitors may readily locate 
 themselves wherever they may be on the grounds. 
 
 If you are a stranger within Chicago 's welcoming gates 
 it will inform you on transportation facilities to and 
 within the grounds, and it will advise 5'ou of the many 
 rest-rooms, comfort-stations, ''freshening-up" cubicles 
 and similar arrangements that have been made for your 
 comfort and convenience. 
 
 In short, it contains the most accurate, up-to-the-min- 
 ute information available on Chicago's 1933 World's 
 Fair, internationally acclaimed as the Exposition of A 
 Century of Progress. 
 
 Read it and pass it on to your friends. It should 
 inspire them to flock to A Century of Progress, which is 
 indeed a true Exposition and an explanation of our 
 modern times.
 
 The Spirit of 
 
 A Century of Progress 
 
 International Exposition 
 
 CONSIDER the star, Arcturus. 
 It has a direct, indeed a literal, bearing 
 upon Chicago 's Exposition in 1933 of A Cen- 
 tury of Progress. 
 
 This pin-point of light in the constellation 
 Bootes, which only the student of astronomy 
 knows how to locate, is approximately forty 
 light-years distant from our earth. Forty times the dis- 
 tance that light travels in one year ; and in a single second 
 light moves 186,300 miles ! 
 
 When the great Chicago Fair of 1893 opened its gates 
 to the world, Arcturus flashed forth rays which are 
 destined to reach us at the very time the still greater Chi- 
 cago Fair of 1933 gets under way. 
 
 Those who have planned the forthcoming Exposition 
 intend to sound the signal for its official commencement 
 by causing an Arcturus beam to impinge upon a photo- 
 electric ceil that will, in turn, transmit its power to in- 
 struments that will open the doors to the science exhibits. 
 Thus, are the two greatest of world's fairs linked by 
 the path of a star ray — surely a magnificently sentimental 
 depiction of the spirit and purpose of both fairs — cer- 
 tainly a demonstration of the progress attained by science 
 in the interval of forty years. 
 
 The Exposition follows no pattern of former fairs ; the 
 competitive idea of other fairs is not in the modern spirit. 
 Rufus C. Dawes, the president of the Exposition, has sum- 
 marized its basic theme as one which "dramatizes the 
 achievements of mankind, made possible through the 
 application of science to industry." 
 
 Although it chances that Chicago was incorporated as a 
 village in 1833, the Exposition is not solely intended to be 
 a colossal demonstration of exultation on the advance- 
 ment of Chicago within the limits of a century. This is 
 truly and in every sense an Exposition belonging to the 
 world. The one great motif of A Century of Progress is 
 the rise of mankind during the last hundred years — the 
 most outstanding liundred years of scientific discoveries, 
 of miraculous improvements in the living conditions of 
 the people of the earth that ever has been seen. 
 
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 The story of the development of the industries that 
 have contributed so stril^ingly to mankind's comfort and 
 progress is fnll of high adventure and romance. It has 
 been a swift-moving drama recording their service to the 
 public. 
 
 Today, there exists both a better organization of in- 
 dustry and a greater mass of scientific knowledge ready 
 for the use of industry than ever before. That this alliance 
 between men of science and men of industry results in a 
 better organization for co-operation that increases the 
 production of nations has been the world's dominant 
 thought during recent years. Whenever the emergency of 
 war requires an augmentation of production, in every na- 
 tion there is established what amounts to coercion of the 
 use of science by industry. In every nation this effort has 
 resulted in increased production. All over the world it 
 is realized that in the international competition of the 
 future, the prize must go to the nations that mobilize 
 scientific intelligence and provide the most effective or- 
 ganization for its use by industry. The modern Exposi- 
 tion Avill suggest the advantage and necessity of a vol- 
 untary organization for the gathering of scientific knowl- 
 edge for the uses of industry. 
 
 Dramatic, attention-compelling exhibits at A Century 
 of Progress, influencing the public logically and favor- 
 ably, will add enormously to the integrity of our indus- 
 trial and financial structures and bring about a state of 
 affairs where, while we may work earnestly to cure the 
 evils that may exist, we shall not sacrifice the unprece- 
 dented advantages drawn from these institutions. 
 
 This vast Drama of Human Progress — this Play of the 
 Ages — has for its setting 424 acres of lakefront. 
 
 Laid out with the background of the city's great archi- 
 tectural skyline on one side and the blue waters of Lake 
 Michigan on the other, are the exposition buildings. Here 
 are the modern homes of the basic and applied science dis- 
 plays, the social science, transportation, agriculture, the 
 state, the federal and foreign exhibits. 
 
 Colorful foreign villages and their population from 
 every continent are here, as are Indian settlements, 
 gigantic athletic and recreational fields, many rows of 
 exhibition buildings, gaily-colored booths by the hun- 
 dreds, the anthropological exhibits, the railroad, aviation, 
 steamship and electrical displays, the Maya Temple, the 
 replica of Old Fort Dearborn, the Adler Planetarium and 
 the places for plav and relaxation. 
 
 And upon every one of the 150 days of the Exposition's 
 duration there will be available a myriad of entertain- 
 ment forms, pageants, boating, swimming, popular 
 games, stirring music, the greatest sculptured and painted 
 art, gathered from all over the w^orld.
 
 Organization 
 
 A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois 
 corporation not for pecuniary profit on the fifth day 
 of January, 1928, having for its charter purpose "The 
 holding of a World's Fair in Chicago in the year 1933." 
 The corporation, being organized not for profit, has no 
 capital stock. Two classes of memberships are provided 
 for, namely, Founder Memberships and Sustaining Mem- 
 berships. Any citizen of the United States of America 
 of lawful age, or any person who has been a resident of 
 the United States for a continuous period of five years, 
 and any co-partnership or corporation, doing business in 
 the United States, is eligible to either class of member- 
 ship. The membership fee for Founder Members is 
 $1,000 and for Sustaining Members is $50. 
 
 The management of the corporation is vested in a 
 Board of Trustees and an Executive Committee. 
 
 In 1929, an Act was passed by the General Assembly of 
 Illinois entitled "An Act in Relation to the Chicago 
 "World's Fair Centennial Celebration." This Act granted 
 to the authorities having charge and management of the 
 Chicago World's Fair Centennial Celebration the right 
 to use and occupy state lands, whether submerged or 
 otherwise, either within the limits of Chicago or adjacent 
 thereto which might be selected as a site for the holding 
 of the contemplated World's Fair, and provided further 
 that in case the site selected should include lands, whether 
 submerged or otherwise, the title or control of which was 
 in any park commission for public park purposes, then 
 the use of such lands for purposes of the World's Fair 
 should be conditioned upon the consent and approval of 
 the park commissioners, upon terms and conditions to be 
 prescribed by them. 
 
 After careful consideration, A Century of Progress 
 selected as a site for the World's Fair, the land and water 
 areas under the jurisdiction of South Park Commission- 
 ers lying along and adjacent to the shore of Lake Mich- 
 igan and east of the grounds and right-of-way occupied 
 by the Illinois Central Railroad in the City of Chicago 
 between Roosevelt Road extended on the north and Thir- 
 ty-Ninth Street extended on the south. On the 16th day 
 of April, 1930, pursuant to the Act of the legislature 
 above mentioned, South Park Commissioners passed an 
 ordinance entitled "Century of Progress Ordinance" 
 
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 which granted to A Century of Progress the right to use 
 the land and water areas described for the purpose of 
 constructing, bringing into being and operating a World's 
 Fair, the ordinance prescribing the terms and conditions 
 upon which the area described might be used. This Ordi- 
 nance was accepted by A Century of Progress on the 12th. 
 day of May, 1930, and by such acceptance became a con- 
 tra^et between A Century of Progress and South Park 
 Commissioners, and, as amended in certain minor par- 
 ticulars, is the authority under which A Century of Prog- 
 ress is operating. Subsequent legislation enacted by the 
 General Assembly of Illinois has declared that the hold- 
 ing of a World's Fair is a public and park purpose. 
 
 The securing of the site selected for the purpose of the 
 Fair was accomplished with a minimum of difficulty and 
 delay through the generous cooperation of South Park 
 Commissioners. South Park Commissioners is a munic- 
 ipal Corporation organized by Special Act of Illinois 
 legislature approved February 24, 1869. This Act vested 
 the Commissioners with full and exclusive power to gov- 
 ern, manage and direct the park, lay out and regulate the 
 same, and to pass ordinances for the regulation and gov- 
 ernment thereof. A Century of Progress has at all times 
 enjoyed the fullest measure of assistance and cooperation 
 froni South Park Commissioners. The members of the 
 Commission are : 
 
 Edward J. Kelly, chairman ; Benjamin F. Lindheimer, 
 Michael L. Igoe, and Philip S. Graver. 
 
 The staff is headed by the General Manager who is 
 responsible for the operating features. Eesponsible to 
 the General Manager are the Departments of Exhibits, 
 Concessions, Works, Secretary, Comptroller, Promotion, 
 and Operations and Maintenance. Other departments 
 may be formed. 
 
 The Board and the staff are ably assisted by a group of 
 advisory committees of outstanding Chicago citizens. 
 
 Financial Plan 
 
 AN international exposition in which the participation 
 -^^ of all nations is anticipated is an enterprise in which 
 the Nation itself accepts sponsorship by inviting foreign 
 nations, and the cit}^ in which it is held assumes the 
 responsibility of acting as host to guests from all over the 
 world. It has therefore been the custom both here and 
 abroad to support such enterprises by subsidies from 
 the public treasury.
 
 In tlio throo pjoat oxpositions hold in the United States 
 preeedini;' A Century of Pr<)j;ress, the greater part of the 
 funds has heen proviiled by such subsidies. 
 
 The Cohimbian Exposition, hekl in Chieaj'o in 1893, 
 received from the City of Chicaj>() tlie sum of $r),()00,( )()(); 
 and from tlie Federal (Jovernniriit the sum of $l,9'Jl>,ll!0 
 in the form of souvenir coins, from the sale of which an 
 additional amount ot $517,560.43 was realized, making;- 
 a total of H^L>,44(;,(;80.43. In addition to this the Federal 
 Govennnent ai)i)ropriated for its own participation 
 $1,349,000. 
 
 To the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in St. Ijouis 
 in 1904, the City of St. Louis furnished the sum of $5,000,- 
 000; the Federal Government a similar amount, $250,000 
 of which was a special minting* of g:old coins, the sale of 
 which netted an additional $53,437.94. The Federal Gov- 
 ernment also loaned to this exposition the sum of $4,(300,- 
 000, and a further federal api)roi)riation of $1,579,000 
 was made to provide for the g'overnment exhibit. 
 
 The Panama Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco 
 in 1915, received $4,900,000 from the State of California, 
 from the City of San Francisco the sum of $5,000,000, and 
 from various counties of the State a total amount of 
 $556,341.21. The Federal Government, which in this case 
 appropriated no funds in the way of subsid}^ expended 
 on its own exhibit and other governmental functions the 
 sum of $884,000, an additional $450,000 which had been 
 appropriated for a federal building- not being needed 
 since, as a result of the Great War, space was available 
 in other existing Exposition buildings. 
 
 In the three expositions cited there was raised by public 
 subscriptions; for the Columbian Exposition $5,617,- 
 154.33; for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition $4,924,- 
 313.11 ; and for the Panama Pacific Exposition $5,716,320. 
 
 The Trustees of A Century of Progress announced at 
 the beginning of its efforts that no subsidy would be asked 
 of any government ; that no part of the burden of holding 
 an exposition should be laid upon the tax-payer; that in 
 so far as an exposition of tliis kind was an expression of 
 the i)ride of the city the citizens ought to pay for it, and 
 in so far as it served the interests of industry, industry 
 ought to pay for it. 
 
 The first step connected Avith the financing was the invi- 
 tation extended to the pul)lic in April, 1928 to join a legion 
 of AVorld's Fair sui)porters and receive in consideration 
 of the payment of $5.00 a certificate which would be 
 exchangeable for ten admissions to the Fair when o]iened. 
 In this mann(»r the sum of about $593,358.25 (since aug- 
 mented by interest to the sum of $634,042.84) was secured. 
 
 At the same time an opportunity was offered to the 
 public to become members of the association. Two classes 
 
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 were established— one of Founder Members, the fee for 
 which was $1,000, and one of Sustaining Members, the fee 
 for w^hich was $50. $270,000 was raised from Founder 
 Members and $2,200 from Sustaining Members. 
 
 There was then created an issue of $10,000,000 of gold 
 notes. These notes are doubly secure — first by the require- 
 ment that 40% of all gate receipts shall be deposited with 
 the Trustee, and second, by the guarantee of a group of 
 wealthy individuals and corporations, each guarantor 
 obligating himself to the amount of his guaranty. The 
 total amount thus guaranteed was $12,176,000 as against 
 the gold note issue of $10,000,000. 
 
 It is the announced intention of the association to create 
 no obligations prior to the opening of the Exposition 
 except these gold notes. The remaining 60% of the gate 
 receipts will be available for the pa>anent of expenses of 
 operation during the Exposition period, the balance to 
 be devoted, to the extent that it may be needed, to the 
 repayment of the gold notes. 
 
 Furthermore, the guarantors at the outset agreed to 
 purchase, on calls to be made from time to time, about six 
 and a half million dollars of the notes, which obligations 
 have been promptly met. 
 
 On the 1st of June, 1932 the association had sold or 
 received subscriptions for $7,741,950 of its gold notes, 
 $6,109,156.07 of which had been taken up and paid for, 
 calls for the entire amount not having been issued at 
 that date. 
 
 The total revenue received as of that date from the 
 sources mentioned above were : 
 
 From Chicago World's Fair Legion 
 
 Memberships $ 634,000.00 
 
 From Sale of Memberships 272,000.00 
 
 From Sale of Gold Notes 6,109,156.07 
 
 $7,015,156.07 
 
 This support measured the response up to that time of the 
 citizens of Chicago in expressing their pride in the 
 achievement of the city during the centennial to be 
 celebrated. The funds were used in part for the erection 
 of certain large exhibit buildings, the Hall of Science, the 
 Travel & Transport Building, and the Electrical Group, 
 and the space contained therein Avas offered to industry. 
 At the same time there was given the opportunity for 
 corporations to acquire space within the Grounds and 
 erect their owm buildings. On this date, June 1, 1932, the 
 total of all contracts for the rental of space in exhibit 
 buildings was $1,821,856.28, of which $1,363,978.06 had 
 been paid in advance in cash, and the obligations assumed 
 
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 by special corporations for the erection of buildings called 
 for an exjK'nditiire in building construction of about 
 $1,650,000. 
 
 Kesults acc(»mi)lislied in the rental of space to exhibit(»rs 
 during the montlis jtrreeding June, 19."32 leave little doubt 
 that all available space in exhibit buildings will be con- 
 tracted for by industry in ample time to provide for instal- 
 lation of exhibits before the opening day. 
 
 The requirements of (nir visitors for food, transporta- 
 tion, entertainment and amusement have not been over- 
 looked. Contracts have been made for about fifteen 
 different types of concessions which obligate the expen- 
 diture on the part of concessionaires of about $3,000,000. 
 The general conditions of these contracts are such that 
 A Century of Progress shares in the profits made by the 
 concessionaire after the recovery of his invested capital. 
 
 An ajipropriation of $1,000,000 has been made to pro- 
 vide for the exhibit of the United States Govermnent, part 
 of which will be devoted to the erection of a Federal 
 Building. Forty-four states have indicated an intention 
 to participate in the Exposition, eighteen of which have 
 actually made appropriations aggregating more than 
 $1,000,000 and twenty-six of which are awaiting the 
 reports of Commissioners appointed to submit recom 
 mendations or in some cases to make contracts for par- 
 ticipation to be paid for out of existing funds. 
 
 The amount (in cash or goverimient securities) in hand 
 on June 1, 1932 was $1,605,757.41. 
 
 The total amount of cash expended bv the association 
 as of the first of June 1932 was $6,859',603.99, of which 
 $4,214,337.43 had been invested in the building of roads, 
 supply of water, electricity, of sewerage and the erection 
 of buildings, and the remaining sum, about 38' v , had been 
 absorbed in overhead during the four years of the activ- 
 ities of the association. In general, the methods adopted 
 by the association are to secure the participation of 
 industry in some particular line of human activity, such 
 as transportation, agriculture, etc., and having secured 
 the support, to create the obligation for the erection of a 
 building to house the activities of the industry involved. 
 The size of this building is always determined by the 
 support extended by the industry. In this manner the 
 association keeps its expenditures within its income. 
 
 The credit established for its gold notes is such as to 
 enable it to dispose of them at their par value. The sup- 
 port heretofore given by industry affords a sound basis 
 for the expectation that the work of enlarging the Exposi- 
 tion as it now exists will continue. There are several 
 sources of revenue which have been available to predeces- 
 sors in this form of activity that still remain open for 
 A Century of Progress. 
 
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 Administration Building 
 
 I tggSjf gM npITE Administration building, official head- 
 ■--"P- In quai-tors for the Ex])()sition staff, is actu- 
 
 r — T" ■ ally the experimental laboratory for A Cen- 
 ILU-iJJBi tiiry of Progress. 
 
 In this building, which strikes the kejaiote 
 for all the Fair ])nildings in its modern con- 
 struction, experiments in the newest resources of color 
 and lighting are being successfully evolved. 
 
 Not only that, the building itself is an experiment indi- 
 cating the possible future trend in office and factory con- 
 struction. Its low cost per cubic foot, high salvage value 
 of its materials, and its easy adajjtation to everyday use 
 set a guide for such future construction. 
 
 Here miniature models used in the preparation of 
 exhibits for the other Exposition buildings were orig- 
 inally made. Several rooms on the lower level are 
 temporary storerooms for interesting groups of exhibits 
 that are destined for the Hall of Science. 
 
 The Administration unit, which will be the permanent 
 headquarters for the South Park Board following the 
 Exposition, is in the shape of an E with the open side 
 facing the lagoon. 
 
 Science and Industry, two Herculean figures in alumi- 
 num, dominate the entrance to the Administration build- 
 ing. Sciences, symbolized by the wheel of the zodiac at 
 its base, and Industrj^ by machine wheels and gears, were 
 modelled in plaster l)y Alvin Meyer and covered with 
 aluminum leaf. This west facade is a striking example 
 of simple design. It is done in white and gray, with 
 stripes of cobalt lilue on the window sashes and triangles 
 of red under the cornice and above each pylon. 
 
 The main entrance hall of the Administration building 
 is a vast room, housing miniature models of Exhibition 
 buildings and a model of tlie comy)lete World's Pair plan. 
 On entering this liall, one's attention is instantly caught 
 by an immense "plioto mural" of tlie Fair grounds, 
 stretching across tlie east wall and reaching to the lofty 
 ceiling. Smaller photographs and drawings of the differ- 
 ent buildings in various stages of construction are ranged 
 about the warm gray walls. The great height of the room 
 is emphasized by the high windows and four tall alumi- 
 num covered corner piers which are reflected in the 
 polished black rubber floor. 
 
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 A broad door opposite the entrance gives access to a 
 corridor connecting with the working wings of the build- 
 ing and a wide stair-case which leads up half a story to 
 the foyer of the trustees' room. 
 
 It is in the trustees' room, a room of magnificent pro- 
 portions, that plans are constantly being advanced for 
 making the 1933 World's Fair the crystallization of our 
 modern creative spirit. Not bigger and better carbon 
 copies of architecture already familiar to us, but the use 
 of new materials and new ideas of design is the aim. 
 
 The trustees' room is rarely beautiful in its modern 
 simplicity, particularly at night when its snuff-brown 
 walls take on a dull gold sheen under the warm red-orange 
 lights. A high window at one end of the room commands 
 a view of the Lagoon, Northerly Island and Lake Mich- 
 igan. Three low doors open out on terraces surrounding 
 the room on three sides. 
 
 On either side of the wide purple ceiling band, the walls 
 and ceiling are covered with Flexwood, a veneer made 
 from Australian Lacewood moimted on cloth and applied 
 like wallpaper. The mural decorations are of imported 
 inlaid veneers of the same thickness in the original colors 
 of the various woods used, which adapts itself particu- 
 larly well to the geometric forms of the skyscrapers, 
 drawbridges and elevators which depict Chicago 's leader- 
 ship in commerce and industry. 
 
 A long wedge-shaped table surrounded by round, pur- 
 ple leather chairs occupies the center of the room. The 
 tapering shape of this table enables each guest to see 
 easily the host and the speaker. Groupings of chairs at 
 half-round window tables complete the furnishings. 
 
 The business part of the building is' arranged for good 
 office light and ventilation. In most of the rooms, one 
 entire wall is of glass two and a half feet up from the 
 floor and the same distance from the ceiling. Rooms in 
 the corners of the building have two glass walls. These 
 window casements are stock factory sash with interior 
 projecting ventilating units. 
 
 Homeowners and industrialists will be specially inter- 
 ested in the striking effects and practicability achieved 
 in this and other Fair buildings at such low cost. The 
 roof is made of cornstalks, hj a manufacturing process. 
 Asbestos cement board composes the outside walls while 
 the inner sheathing is of plaster board. Into the 2''^-inch 
 space between the outer and inner walls, an insulating 
 material of asphalt and wood fibres is shot by guns. The 
 insulation provided by these materials is equal to a thir- 
 teen-inch brick wall, while the ease of construction and 
 economy of materials cut usual building costs to less than 
 half. 
 
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 Old Fort Dearborn 
 
 THE little lo^ fortress modestly silhouetted 
 _, ai!:aiiist the hhie-i^reeu waters of Lake 
 h£^ Mielii«i:aii is at once the first completed unit 
 of A Century of Progress and the symbol of 
 man's — and woman's — vision, patience, inge- 
 nuity and almost supei'human courage. 
 
 Old Fort Dearborn, small but mighty forerunner of the 
 cloud-touching structures that have made Chicago's sky- 
 line a synonym for beauty, took eight long months to 
 build. There were no horses or oxen at hand, so that the 
 soldiers who were ordered from Detroit to build and 
 occupy it were compelled to perform the work of drag- 
 ging the timbers to their required positions. Begun in 
 the late summer of 1803, the work was still far from com- 
 plete when winter came. 
 
 The materials used to construct the original fort were 
 easily obtained. But to duplicate them for the replica 
 on the 1933 "World's Fair grounds necessitated much 
 research and effort. Norway pines w^ere brought from 
 "Wisconsin to furnish logs for the stockades and buildings. 
 Stone that had lain in the open many years and so had a 
 weathered appearance was used for the fireplaces. (J lass, 
 discarded because it was so full of flaws, ^vas chosen to 
 reproduce the crude little windows. 
 
 The past becomes the present as one enters the massive 
 log gate leading into the stockaded inclosure of the 1933 
 Fort Dearborn. Double rows of log palisades, ten and 
 five feet in height are so arranged that the l)lockhouses 
 command not only the spaces without the four walls but 
 also that ])etween the two palisades. Blockhouses occupy 
 the northeast and southwest corners. Narrow slits are in 
 the walls through which to train the soldiers' guns. To 
 the left of the soldiers' barracks and at right angles and 
 on opposite sides of the parade ground are the officers' 
 quarters, two stories high with sliingled roofs. The com- 
 manding officers' quarters are on the east side, just south 
 of the building housing the supplies. Between this l)uild- 
 ing and the northeast blockhouse is the powder magazine. 
 Towering over this modest domain is the seventy-foot 
 flagpole, originally a slim, lofty spruce discovered, after a 
 farflung search, near Shawano, "Wisconsin. 
 
 The interior of the fort also faithfully re])roduces its 
 historied predecessor. Photostatic copies of the map of 
 
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 AIRPLANE VIEW OV Fi>KT DEAKBUKN 
 
 the old fort and other historical documents and records, 
 as well as books of the period, decorate its walls. The old 
 four-poster bed was made in England and shipped to this 
 country a hundred and fifteen years ago. The old corner 
 cupboard was brought up from Indiana and is over a 
 hundred years old. The chairs, tables and stools are faith- 
 ful reproductions of the furniture of that bygone day. 
 The pewter dishes were shipped from England a hundred 
 and twenty-four years ago. Ranged around the walls are 
 the tools and firearms of the time, a sword, a regulation 
 American uniform and a saddle used at a neighboring 
 fort. Outside the contractor's store is an old oxen yoke 
 made in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1800. 
 
 The quaint-looking meat-grinder with its wooden top 
 and underpiece encasing the two rows of knives and four 
 rows of pegs is a hundred and twenty-five years old. 
 Equally ancient are the cooking utensils on display. On 
 the table is a sample ration of a soldier for one day, so 
 allowed by an Act of Congress, April 30, 1791 — one pound 
 of flour, one pound of meat, vinegar, one-half gill of 
 whiskey, a piece of soap and salt. 
 
 »It was against this background that Chicago's *'I "Will" 
 spirit developed, spurred on by endless trials and de- 
 privations. Records indicate that Chicago, the third larg- 
 est city of the world, was early destined for greatness. 
 Sooner or later, missionaries, Indians, trappers, explor- 
 ers, all trekked to this marshy tract by the lake, acknowl- 
 edging its strategic importance both for war and com- 
 merce. 
 
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 Chicago's recop:nition as a trado-contor, tlio contest 
 between Spain, Fiance, (xreat I^ritain and Anu'iica lor 
 possession of the northwest, the struf::^d(» between the 
 white man and tlie Indian for control of the fur trade — 
 eacli and all of these factors made war inevitable. 
 
 Following: a series of defeats at tlie hands of the 
 Indians, (ieneral "Mad Anthony" AVayne was called 
 upon to reorpmize General St. Clair's shattered army 
 and straightway worsted the northwestern tribes. The 
 results of his victory are rej^istered in the treaty of 
 Greenville, a specific item providint,^ for a reservation as 
 follows: "One piece of Land, six miles at the mouth of 
 the Chicago River, emptying into the Southwest end of 
 Lake Michigan wliere a Vov\ formerly stood." 
 
 The ti'caty of (Jreenville was concluded on August 10, 
 171)."), but it was uot until 1803 that Fort Dearborn, named 
 in houor of General Henry Dearborn, Revolutionary 
 soldier, then Secretary of War, was established. 
 
 In command of the troops sent out to l)uild and occupy 
 the fort was Captain John Whistler, who brought with 
 him his family. 
 
 The summer after the fort was finished, more than half 
 the inhabitants of the little community were stricken with 
 fever, malaria and the attendant ills of impure water, 
 mosquito-ridden lands and inadequate drainage. Not only 
 in Chicago, but in all other frontier posts the fever raged.
 
 Balancing the hardships were the friendly Indians who 
 practically surrounded the fort, the abundance of food 
 and firewood and the excellent fishing and hunting that 
 the menfolk enjoyed to the fullest. 
 
 The period of Whistler's command at Fort Dearborn 
 lasted from the summer of 1803 until April, 1810, and his 
 long and successful regime has inspired one historian to 
 refer to him as the ' ' father of Chicago. ' ' Captain Nathan 
 Heald succeeded Capt. Whistler and was in command 
 when a band of formerly friendly Winnebago s came upon 
 Chicago and massacred two persons causing great 
 anxiety among the settlers over their future safety. When 
 war was declared against Great Britain, and the Indians, 
 friendly to the British, turned against the white inhabi- 
 tants, great was the alarm felt for the little fort. It was 
 then that General Hull, Governor of Michigan Territory, 
 ordered Captain Heald to evacuate the post. 
 
 Upon hearing the rumor that the garrison at Fort Dear- 
 born had been ordered to march to Fort Wayne and know- 
 ing that the Indians were ready to take the war-path and 
 that the life of his niece, the wife of Captain Heald, was 
 in danger. Captain Wells hurriedly gathered together 
 thirty warriors from the Miami tribe, by whom he had 
 been reared, and rode to Fort Dearborn. Then on the 
 sunny morning of August 15th, soldiers and civilians, 
 men, women and children, Americans and half-breeds 
 were ready to march away from the fort and the cabins 
 that had been their home for eight years. 
 
 John Kinzie, neighbor, friend and councilor to the fort 
 since its establishment, accompanied them. Solemnly and 
 carefully, they made their way along the shore of the lake, 
 their line of march paralleling Michigan Avenue of today. 
 
 Captain William Wells, dressed as an Indian, with his 
 thirty Miami warriors formed the advance guard of the 
 party and discovered the ambuscade. Waving his war 
 bonnet, he wheeled his horse about and urged the troops 
 to advance to a more favorable position for defense. 
 
 The white men, outnumbered ten to one, battled bravely 
 but futilely against the Indians in the front, while in the 
 rear, where the women and children had been separated 
 from the troops by other Indians, the real massacre was 
 taking place. Women, armed with swords, fought like 
 fiends. Two of them were killed and most of the children 
 were massacred. Kinzie was the only white man at the 
 wagons who survived. Captain Wells was killed. Captain 
 Heald and his troops were forced to surrender. All the 
 survivors were taken prisoners except Kinzie, who was 
 not considered a prisoner of war but was merely brought 
 back to Chicago. ]\Iost of the survivors were escorted to 
 Detroit and there treated well. 
 
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 ILLLMINATIUN, SUUTU .STAIUWAY — HALL UF SCIENCK COLllT 
 
 Illumination and Color 
 
 UNLIKE most expositions of tlie past, both in this 
 country and abroad, where the buildin<;s have been 
 of stuccoed surfaces, with little color and faint illumina- 
 tion, the World's Fair of 1933 promises to be a symi)hony 
 of brilliant light and color. It will not only adapt and 
 augment the most recent advances that have been made 
 in both of these fields, but reveal for the first time remark- 
 able inventions discovered onl}^ lately through intensive 
 research while construction of the P^air has ])roceede<l. 
 
 Every great Exi^osition marks an advance, in tliat it 
 experiments boldly and freely, attacks extraordinary 
 problems with an enthusiasm and vigor that organized 
 business cannot afford to assume; and although it may 
 fail in some attempts, (»n the whole succeeds iji revealing 
 many new ideas and theories which are ])erfected and 
 accepted in later years. This has been true of the past. 
 It will be doubly true of the Century of Progress, which 
 already represents an age far advanced in scientific 
 development. 
 
 At the World's Fair of 1893 the incandescent bulb was 
 still a novelty, faint in glow, restricted in use, but it was 
 used in such numbers and in such relatively new ways and 
 
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 the impressions created influenced its later development 
 so decidedly that history now records that 1893 marked 
 the beginning of the great advance we have achieved in 
 illuminating science during the past forty years. The 
 brightness of light in those days was as nothing compared 
 to the brilliance we can derive today. 
 
 Besides, no longer as of old, is it necessary to leave 
 the bulbs exposed, a glare to the eyes ; we can hide our 
 source of light, receive it indirectly and make it as intense 
 or subdued as desired. Nor do these lights need to remain 
 stationary, hung in festoons or used as static decoration. 
 With modern devices we can arrange and move them in 
 interesting patterns, contrive purely decorative composi- 
 tions, simulate cascades or fountains of water, imitate 
 fireworks, give the water of deep pools irridescent quali- 
 ties and light the heavens. 
 
 Added to this tremendous development in the use of 
 incandescent light, the range of which seems unlimited, 
 is a new kind of light, so important that it may revolu- 
 tionize our whole future system of lighting. Still in its 
 infancy, but wdth vast potentialities is the gaseous tube, 
 commonly called neon tube, and frequently seen on signs 
 and billboards where it is used to outline letters or designs 
 in green, blue, red or yellow. Ranging in diameter from 
 a little more than a third of an inch to an inch and a 
 quarter, and in length from approximately three feet to 
 twenty-five, it is a sealed tube in which a vacuum has been 
 created, a rare gas introduced, electricity applied at both 
 ends which bombards the elements introduced in these 
 tubes causing the gas to become luminous. The color 
 radiated is determined by these rare elements taken from 
 the air, the red by neon, in a red tube or shell; the blue 
 by kripton in a clear shell, yellow hj helium in a yellow 
 shell and green by kripton in a yellow shell. 
 
 These tubes have been used exposed in recent years 
 but never in as large a quantity or with such ingenuity in 
 startling and unusual architectural effects as in the Cen- 
 tury of Progress. When President Rufus C. Dawes threw 
 the switch on June 12, 1932, he caused illumination by 
 the largest amount of gaseous tubes ever employed on 
 any one surface in the annals of architectural lighting. 
 
 The Century of Progress believes thoroughly in the 
 significance of the application of these gaseous tubes in 
 the future. We venture to say history will repeat itself 
 and just as the incandescent bulb of the Exposition of 
 1893 marked the beginning of the past era of electrical 
 lighting, so the gaseous tubes of the Exposition of 1933 
 will be a starting point for the new era in illumination. 
 
 Incandescent bulbs, and neon tubes, the former by the 
 millions, the latter by the mile, will be used alone and 
 combined to make three and one-half miles of the most 
 
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 gala and extraordinary shower of light ever displayed. 
 There will he concealed lights hriiiging out mysteriously 
 shai)ed silhouettes in the background and yet giving 
 plenty of illumination on the pat lis, and festive decora- 
 tions in brilliant color during the day will become banners 
 of light at night. The two towers of the Skyride, each 
 six hundred feet high and two thousand feet distant, will 
 rise at opposite i)oints on the mainland and island, and 
 appear as phantoms in the clouds, while swinging across 
 from one tower to the other at a height of two hundred 
 and fifty feet will be the observation cars, flashing like 
 meteors in the sky. A multicolored cascade of water, 
 stretching around the entire shores of the two lagoons, 
 two miles in perimeter, will give the effect, when seen 
 from the water or the opposite shore, of an enchanted city 
 floating like a cloud on a bed of light. The buildings 
 themselves will be jewels set in this necklace of brilliance, 
 and offer scintillating and spectacular com])ositions 
 wherever the eye may rest. Finally, sweeping the skies 
 and stretching out over the wide expanse of Lake Mich- 
 igan will move the ever restless searchlights, piercing the 
 heavens and proclaiming to the whole world that here one 
 truly sees the apotheosis of light. 
 
 Inseparably connected with the lighting displays are 
 the daylight colors of the broad surfaces of the buildings 
 and the decorations throughout the grounds. The exte- 
 rior colors of the buildings, the colored effects of the 
 lighting and the general decorations, from the brilliant 
 banners to the myriads of gondolas on the lagoons, are 
 under the direction of Mr. Joseph Urban of New York, 
 renowned as a master of color and design. His treatment 
 of the spacious wall surfaces will be both splendid and 
 bold. He has eliminated the sombre color pallettes used 
 with such restraint in the i)ast and will ])aint his picture 
 with great splashes of vivid reds, blues and j'ellows. 
 A building will rise with its individual dignity and 
 color, but each will be related to the harmony of the whole, 
 and be but a unit of the grand kalei(l()scoi)ic panorama. 
 Connecting various buildings, weaving in and out among 
 them and becoming important elements in themselves, will 
 be the thousands of brilliantly colored flags and festoons, 
 with their standards, broad stretches of green lawns, shel- 
 tered benches and arbors, luxurious landscaping, flowers 
 in unusual gardens, lagoons decked with gay boats and 
 gondolas, beaches with bright bath houses, yellow sands 
 and bright uml)rellas. 
 
 A feast of color by day when bathed in the sun, an 
 orgy of color at night when Hooded with artificial light. 
 Color and light — light and color — no where will both have 
 been displayed in such novel and interesting ways, yet so 
 harmoniously and beautifully. 
 
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 Hall of Science 
 
 T; 
 
 ilH very spirit — the essence — of the sci- 
 eiitilic advancement and achievement 
 attained since 1833, and, therefore, the fuinhi- 
 mental occasion for A Century of l*rogress, 
 finds concrete expression in the Hall of 
 Science Ijuildinf^:. 
 
 Tliis masj:nilifent example of modern architecture ex- 
 tends southward from Sixteenth Street, in form a ^i^antic 
 letter U wliich si)rawls across Leif Eriksen Drive, Chi- 
 cago's lakefront boulevard. At the southwest corner rises 
 the carillon tower, its pinnacle risiui^ 17G feet. 
 
 Designed to contain and display the wonders of science 
 and the industries related to it, and to disseminate 
 through lectures and exhibitions knowledge of the mar- 
 vels accomplished by the scientific professions, this 
 Tem])le of Science is itself something of a marvel in con- 
 struction and design. 
 
 The two massive arms of the U reach down to the 
 lagoon and embrace a series of terraces. The general 
 effect is one of massiveness, orderly and symmetrical in 
 geometric planes. 
 
 The building is in two stories with a mezzanine. Its 
 main entrance is at the north, the approach by way of a 
 great ramp. The millions of World's Fair visitors who 
 will pass along this massive slope next year will find 
 themselves upon a huge circular terrace on the second 
 floor. They will scarcely be aware that they have mounted 
 to a higher than gi-ouncl level, for tlie ramp will ])e fringed 
 with exhibits and disi)lays, depicting man's upward move- 
 ment in accjuisition of scientific knowledge. 
 
 In the center of the upper terrace is a circular well, its 
 base forming the ground-floor court. Centering in this 
 court is a fountain amid a margin of pools and flower 
 gardens. 
 
 Bounding the southern side of the terrace are a row of 
 mighty pylons, extending 59 feet above the terrace with 
 the eurved main walls set })aek between the ])yl()ns and 
 extending 52 feet high. On these walls heroie sculptured 
 figures will be placed, representing the various sciences 
 and symlK)lizing the Kx])osition's theme of science's con- 
 trilnition to industry in man's advancement. 
 
 The great hall that will house the basic science displays, 
 forms the curving juncture line for the arms of the U. 
 
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 It is the western side of the building, 260 feet in length 
 and 60 feet wide, with a ceiling that arches 60 feet over- 
 head. 
 
 On its walls will be murals depicting milestones in 
 scientific development in the past century and inscriptions 
 paying tribute to the sciences. In addition, there will be 
 dramatic, animated exhibits portraying the development 
 of the basic sciences of chemistry, physics, mathematics, 
 biology and geology. 
 
 On the west wall will be nine inscriptions in raised 
 letters symbolizing the progress and meaning of the 
 sciences. The eight wall surfaces of the octagonal halls 
 which occur at both the north and south sides of the build- 
 ing will be decorated with an illuminated mural design. 
 
 On the south arm of the U is a lobby similar to another 
 one on the north. These two lobbies, together with the 
 great hall, form the three main features of the main, or 
 second floor. 
 
 Many thousands of visitors can be accommodated in the 
 magnificently proportioned quadrangular court formed 
 inside the U space. It is there they will gather for festival 
 ceremonies and other special events. Speakers on these 
 occasions will address them from a uniquely constructed 
 rostrum extending into the center of the court from the 
 terrace adjoining the main floor, and appropriately deco- 
 rated in bas relief. Within the huge steel frame behind 
 the rostrum will hang a beautifully decorated banner. 
 
 The use of ramps throughout the interior of the Hall of 
 Science — and all the Exposition buildings — greatly sim- 
 plifies the problem of going from floor to floor. There are 
 four such ramps in this building. 
 
 Still another feature that should please visitors is the 
 opportunity afforded them to observe at frequent inter- 
 vals the many changing aspects of the Fair grounds 
 around them from terraces and promenades and outdoor 
 lounges, where people may sit while watching the activi- 
 ties around them or listening to the carillon music from 
 the tower. 
 
 At date of publication, the exhibitors in this building 
 are: 
 
 Abbott Laboratories Hanovia Cliemieal and Manufactur- 
 
 American Optical Company ing Company 
 
 August E. Drueker Company Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. 
 
 Bauseh and Lomb Optical Company Todent Chemical Company, Inc. 
 
 Borden Sales Company, Inc., The Kendall Company, The (Bauer & 
 
 Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (U.S.A.), Black) 
 
 Inc. Mallinckrodt Chemical Company 
 
 Chicago Pharmacal Company Merck & Company, Inc. 
 
 Deagan, Inc., J. C. Squibb & Sons, E. R. 
 
 Dentists' Supply Company of New Union Carbide and Carbon Corpora- 
 York, The " " tion 
 
 Eastman Kodak Company Victor Chemical Works 
 
 Gaertner Scientific Company Vitamin Food Co., Inc. 
 
 General Electric X-Ray Corporation 
 
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 At date ot" piiljlication, the rollowint^ institutions are 
 cooperating in the exliihits of basic science and medicine: 
 
 American College of Surgeons Cliarles L 'Honiniedieu & Sons 
 
 American Medical Association Mallinckrodt Chemical Company 
 
 American Society for the Control of Mayo Clinic 
 
 Cancer McGill University 
 
 Bakelite Corporation Merck & Company 
 
 Baker & Company Metal & Thermit Company 
 
 Bausch & Lomb Optical Company Milwaukee County Hospital 
 
 William Becbe Milwaukee Public Museum 
 
 Boyce-Thompson Institute Museum of Science and Industry 
 
 Callite Products Co. National Academy 
 
 Cliicago Centennial Dental Congress Pasteur Institute of Paris 
 
 Clay-Adams Company The Perscr Corporation 
 
 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Simoniz Company 
 
 Copeland Products Company Spencer Lens Company 
 
 Corning Glass Works Standard Brands, Inc. 
 
 Cutler-ILammer Company Texas Gulf Sulphur Company 
 
 Thomas J. Dee «S: Company The Thermal Syndicate 
 
 Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation 
 
 General Biological Supply House University of Cliieago 
 
 GM Laboratories, Inc. University of Illinois 
 
 Grigsby-Grunow Company W. M. Welch Mfg. Company 
 
 Illinois State Department of Health Wellcome Institutions of Medical 
 International Filter Company Science 
 
 Johns Manville Company Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co. 
 
 The Basic Sciences 
 
 The method adopted for displaying the basic sciences 
 will differ consideral^ly from the ordinary. The guid- 
 ing principle is that displays must not only be truthful, 
 but also attractive and entertaining to the superficial ob- 
 server. The problem is to present a clear picture of what 
 is meant by the basic sciences and to demonstrate the 
 indebtedness of industrial progress thereto, with a view 
 of awakening a wider interest in and a more intelligent 
 appreciation of the fundamental sciences. 
 
 To make this picture and to furnish an illustration of 
 *' scientific method" — which is the most characteristic 
 feature of modern science — is a problem which is, at 
 once, scientific and educational. Merely to display pieces 
 of apparatus, instruments, inanimate ol),jccts and collec- 
 tions of specimens would be easy, but not very interest- 
 ing. The exhibits must be striking, yet not allowed to 
 degenerate into mere fireworks. They must be true, but 
 not too complex to be readily grasped. They must be 
 fundamental in character, yet sufficiently numerous to 
 cover fairly the entire range of science. They must 
 demonstrate the utility of science in industry and in other 
 fields so that the visitor may acquire a ])ermanent interest 
 in the link connecting basic science with progress. In this 
 way it is expected that life, definiteness and intelligibility 
 will be given to ])rincipl('s which are commonly supposed 
 to be too abstract for comprehension. 
 
 To show a phenomenon in science on the lecture table 
 for a few minutes is one thing; but to show it continuously 
 
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 to thousands during a period of one hundred and fifty 
 days is quite another. Yet this is the goal. 
 
 As far as possible, each display will be large enough 
 and placed high enough to be observed by many people at 
 the same time. Appropriate signs will make clear the 
 principle of each exhibit without any other interpreter. 
 
 Strange as it may seem, Mathematics — ' ' Queen of the 
 Sciences" as Gauss called her— is one of the most rapidly 
 growing of the entire basic group. 
 
 Exhibits, chosen from each of the four major sub-divi- 
 sions, arithmetic, algebra, geometry and analysis, will 
 therefore consist mainly in mechanical demonstrations. 
 
 Mathematics appears in various roles, sometimes as 
 a language, sometimes as a norm for careful reasoning, 
 sometimes as a handmaiden for the other sciences, and 
 frequently as a recreation for active minds. The attempt 
 is to present it to the visitor in its true light as a body 
 of living and useful truth. 
 
 In the section devoted to physics the visitor may ob- 
 serve how gases can exert high pressure, how gas and 
 steam engines and refrigerating systems operate, how 
 drops of liquid come to be round. The section on acoustics 
 will show how sounds are produced, transmitted and 
 recorded; while on the same floor the fundamental elec- 
 trical phenomena w^ill be demonstrated. The vacuum tube, 
 the prism, and important spectra will be portrayed in the 
 optical section. 
 
 In the field of chemistry will be illustrated the various 
 methods of producing changes in chemical composition, 
 followed by an exhibit on atomic structure to show how 
 the chemist interprets these changes in terms of his build- 
 ing stones. A striking contrast will be offered between 
 the uses of raw materials before and after the advent of 
 the chemist. 
 
 The exhibits in biology are to illustrate the various 
 processes of life and the unity of all life. This demon- 
 stration will be made partly by means of preserved plants 
 and animals, but wherever possible by use of models, 
 living specimens, transparencies, and moving pictures 
 illustrating the great principles which control the daily 
 activities of all plants and animals. 
 
 In the exhibits of the geological section the visitor will 
 see illustrated the processes involved in the origin, and in 
 the slow growth and development of his own planet. 
 
 Already many of the exhibits in science are completed. 
 For example, the growing tree may now be seen in the 
 Hall of Science. Here is shown the cross-section of a 
 twig from the basswood tree which, within one minute, 
 develops its four years' secondary growth of wood and 
 bast. The pith stands out plainly surrounded by its con- 
 centric rings and the radiating medullary rays. 
 
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 The twi.ii: has boon onlar^i-od '^C}0 times and is, thorcfore, 
 so jifreatly iiiat^nilicd tliat llic cellular stnu'turc is flcarly 
 evident throuiiliout, niakin.i;' i)lain how the annual ring's 
 are formed, what makes bark and wliat makes i)itii, how 
 the new wood is dejjosited from year to year and how, 
 after many years of <;rowtli, tlie true bark sloughs off, 
 leaving only the cracked bast. 
 
 Just what the nature of electricity is no one knows; 
 and the same is nearly true of magnetism and electro- 
 magnetism; but how electromagnetism Ix'haves is clearly 
 demonstrated l)y the live exliibits already pi-epared. One 
 (d' tliese illustrates the industrial uses in which such fun- 
 damental princi])les are constantly employed. A few 
 turns of wire are wrapi^ed on a soft iron core one inch 
 thick. The current from a small six-volt battery magne- 
 tizes this iron core so strongly that its armature — also 
 made of soft iron — will support a man Aveighing as much 
 as 150 pounds. . 
 
 Medical Displays 
 
 A large section of the Hall of Science will be devoted 
 to dis])lays in medicine. These \vill visualize the strides 
 made in the causes, detection, treatment and prevention 
 of human and animal diseases. The displays are so 
 planned as to be interesting and educational, not only to 
 the physician, bnt to the layman. 
 
 Tlie Pasteur Institute of Paris and the Koch Institute 
 of Berlin will have exhibits of fundamental historical and 
 scientific importance. The Deutches ^Museum of Dresden 
 will present dynamic exhibits of human physiology and 
 constitution. The Wellcome Museum of London will tell 
 the story of progress in British medicine and sui'gery. 
 The Liverpool School of Tropical ^ledicine will make an 
 exhibit on the cause, means of animal transmission, treat- 
 ment and prevention of ti'opical diseases, while the Mil- 
 waukee Pnl)lic Museum is ])i-ei)aring a disi)lay on primi- 
 tive medicine. A iniml)er of universities from the 
 United States will send collections portraying the various 
 discoveries and work initiated by this country's outstand- 
 ing i)]iysicians, wliile tlie American ^ledical Association 
 will pi-esent the evolution of the practice of medicine, and 
 the American Dental Association that of the history of 
 dentistry. 
 
 One interesting feature of the entire medical exhibit 
 will l)e the ti'ansparent man, a life size model of the human 
 body, composed of cellon. The ol)server, by means of the 
 model of tlie transparent man, visualizes human anatomy 
 as tliough lie ])ossessed X-ray eyes. The location of the 
 deep organs of the human l)ody is electrically illuminated 
 in rotation. The relation of these organs to the specific 
 location on the trans])arent skin is readily ai)parent.
 
 Some of the important deep parts readily seen are : skel- 
 eton, intestines, kidneys, pancreas, spleen, tliymns, 
 thyroid gland, pineal gland, pituitary gland, brain, spinal 
 cord, larynx, pharynx, oesophagus and trachea. 
 
 It is planned that visitors to the exposition may par- 
 ticipate in experiments of human anatomy and physiol- 
 ogy through the medium of the dynamic models. 
 
 By the mere pressing of electrical switch buttons or the 
 turning of levers, one may study the circulation of the 
 blood ; the action of the heart valves ; the various types 
 of vocal cords that produce the soprano, alto, tenor and 
 bass voices ; the action of the lungs in breathing ; the pro- 
 duction of sight, and many other body activities. 
 
 Progress in Medicine 
 
 From the days of the saddle back doctor in 1833 to the 
 modern physician of today, medical science has made 
 its greatest advancement in all ages. 
 
 The progress of knowledge in the cause, detection, 
 treatment and prevention of disease has been amazing. 
 It has stamped out plagues and many epidemics. It has 
 increased the span of modern man's life, freed him largely 
 from the fetters of pain and sickness and made the world 
 a remarkably more comfortable and healthful place in 
 which to live than it was 100 years ago. 
 
 The story of medical science's development lies almost 
 wholly within the past century. Among milestones in the 
 advancement were : 
 
 The first use of ether in a surgical operation by Dr. 
 Long in 1842 — a contribution having significant results. 
 
 The epochal work of Louis Pasteur in the study of 
 bacteriology and its effects. 
 
 The pasteurization of surgery by Lord Lister in 1867, 
 after the Civil War. 
 
 The contribution of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to the 
 elimination of child-bed fever. 
 
 The first use of the stethescope by Laennec to detect 
 abnormal sounds in the heart and lungs, introducing the 
 use of refined instruments in the detection of disease. 
 
 The discovery of serums in the treatment of diphtheria 
 and scarlet fever. 
 
 The discovery of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. 
 
 The first use of liver diet in the treatment of pernicious 
 anemia. 
 
 The discovery of radium as an aid to therapeutic treat- 
 ments. 
 
 The stoiy of these and many other advancements in 
 medical science is a tale of hard won victories, of sacrifice, 
 heroism and devotion shown by men and women of 
 science on behalf of humanity. 
 
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 Dioramas 
 
 Ax mmsual method ol" display called the dtoiama may 
 - now be viewed in the Hall of Science, defined as beinj^ 
 a pictnre in three dimensions — width, heij^ht, and depth — 
 with the forei^ronnd modeled in perspective so that it 
 blends in nnity with a painted backgroniid, tlins ,i;iviii,L;- 
 an illusion of distance. 
 
 This method of exhibition is a mere infant in h^q. Tts 
 ])i'eseiit foi-m is that develo])ed in two institutions, the 
 Imi)erial Institute, South Kensini>,ton, London, and the 
 Deutches Museum in Munich, and is the out*;rowtli of 
 experimental work done at the Wembly Exhibiticm in 
 1926. It was also used at the Paris Exposition last 
 summer. 
 
 In constructing a diorama, careful study, research and 
 investigation is first made to gather authentic data on the 
 subject so as to preserve absolute scientific accuracy to 
 the smallest detail. Then a Hat ])encil drawing or water- 
 color painting is made and a small study diorama about 
 15 inches wide prepared. In making the small study 
 diorama, the problems are considered and solved. Often 
 changes and rearrangements are made to afi'ord better 
 comjjosition and accuracy. Colors, figures and all are 
 painted or modeled in proper perspective. From this 
 small diorama a large one is built to scale — usually about 
 four times the size. Many kinds of material are used. 
 
 The resultant illusion should be so complete that there 
 is great difficulty in finding out where the actual modeling 
 stops and where the surface which is not modeled but 
 painted to represent tlieir third dimension begins. Liglit- 
 ing also plays an important part, as the theater has 
 proven by comj^letely changing a scene through a switch 
 of color in the illumination. 
 
 r)iiginally the E]xposition studio was organized to sup- 
 ply only the needs of the Exposition itself but it has 
 since become available for use by exhibitors, concession- 
 aires and others connected witli the Fair. 
 
 Life On Galapagos Islands 
 
 Evidence of evolution is graphically portrayed in the 
 Galapagos diorama, so-called because it was while visit- 
 ing this group of islands on the famous cruise of the 
 Beagle from 1831 to 183(3 that Charles Darwin developed 
 his theory of evolution by natural selection. 
 
 This diorama illustrates two biological princii)les. 
 First, it shows a convergence or coming together of sev- 
 eral kinds of animals, belonging to quite distant groups 
 
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 or classes, to a single type of habitat — in this case, a rocky 
 shore marine environment. It also shows how all these 
 animals live together in friendly relations. 
 
 Here are found four distinct classes of animals — mam- 
 mals, represented by the sea lions ; birds, represented by 
 the gannet or bobby, the gull, the penguin and the flight- 
 less cormorant, all fish eaters; reptiles, represented by 
 lizards, and crustaceans, represented by red rock crabs. 
 
 The second biological principle illustrated is a striking- 
 example of evolution. It shows how a small group of 
 animals cut off from their relatives may evolve along- 
 definite lines, becoming quite distinct and separable 
 forms, differing widely from their more numerous main- 
 land relatives. 
 
 Take, for example, the marine lizard, the Amblyrhyn- 
 chus. It is related to the Iguana or land lizard. This 
 marine animal feeds on seaweed and is quite at home in 
 sea water. His food and habits are different from all 
 other lizards. The Iguana is probably its nearest rel- 
 ative. It lives on the land and feeds on birds' eggs, 
 insects, etc. 
 
 The flightless cormorants, with the small shortened 
 wings as here pictured under the ledge below the sea lion, 
 cannot fly but they are related to cormorants that can. 
 In this connection, it is interesting to note that there is 
 no evidence that the descendants of this cormorant will 
 ever redevelop fully the power of flight, once it has been 
 lost, regardless of external conditions. 
 
 The scene pictured here is on Narborough Island, look- 
 ing north across a 10-mile channel to Albemarle Island^ 
 These two islands belong to the Galapagos group, located 
 about 400 miles west of South America, otf the east of 
 Ecuador. The equator crosses just beyond the pointed 
 peak on Albemarle. 
 
 DIOKAMA SHOWING GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 
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 ;a.ma vf the late jukassic age 
 
 Reptiles of Late Jurassic Period 
 
 A diorama guaranteed to stimulate the most sluggish 
 imagination is an exhibit in geolcjgy, showing the reptile 
 life of the late Jurassic period, 125 million years ago. 
 
 The large creature is a Brontosaurus, 84 feet in length, 
 18 feet high and weighing 40 tons. His name comes from 
 the Greek, meaning 'thunder reptile," although he was 
 probably incapable of making sound. He w'as a plant 
 eater and hence said to be herbivorous. He waded in 
 swamps and shallow waters and had habits very much 
 like our hippopotamus. 
 
 He was a giant in size but a dwarf in intellect, his brain 
 weighing only one pound, compared with the human 
 brain, which equals about two per cent of the body weight. 
 On the same basis, he was about 1,599 pounds short on 
 gray matter. 
 
 The smaller figure with the two rows of great sharp 
 bony plates along his back is a Stegosaurus, meaning "a 
 covered or roofed reptile." Although pin-headed, the 
 Steogosaurus was about twice the size of our largest 
 elephant, being 20 feet in length and weighing about 10 
 tons. 
 
 The flying dragon of the air is not a bird at all but a 
 reptile, called a Peterosaur. The later ones were much 
 larger with a wing of 25 feet, the greatest of all flying 
 creatures. The two small kangaroo-like creatures are 
 Leosaurs. 
 
 All of these are herbivorous reptiles, called Dinosaurs, 
 meaning ''terrible reptiles," and lived on the North 
 American continent more than 100,000,000 years ago be- 
 fore the Rocky Mountains were born. With the rising 
 of the Rockies, some 60,000,000 years ago, and the change 
 from a low moist country with much swamp vegetation io 
 
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 a high arid region, the great Dinosaurs became extinct. 
 But they left their foot prints on the sandy rocks of the 
 Painted Desert country near the Grand Canyon and in 
 Southern Utah; also in New Jersey, Connecticut and in 
 other eastern states. 
 
 Tracks and fossil bones of these creatures have been 
 found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas but con- 
 ditions in our western states made possible the best pres- 
 ervation of their bones. 
 
 Franklin's Kite Experiment 
 
 The Benjamin Franklin diorama is an exhibit in 
 physics. It represents Benjamin Franklin and his son 
 performing the experiment which proved that lightning 
 is a form of electric discharge. 
 
 In June, 1752, Franklin sent up a kite into a thunder 
 cloud. At the lower end of the kite string, he used a piece 
 of dry silk which served as an insulator. Above the silk 
 string he attached a key and from there used cotton cord 
 as the kite string. Through the cord, wet from the rain, 
 the electricity was conducted from the cloud to the key 
 and jumped from the key to the knuckle of Franklin's 
 right hand forming an ordinary electric spark. 
 
 Electricity was discovered long before Franklin, but 
 little was known at that time of its nature. His experi- 
 ments were considered so important that the name 
 ^^Franklinism" came to be used for electricity, particu- 
 larly in France. Later, after Galvani discovered the bat- 
 tery, electricity was widely known as ''galvanism." 
 Franklin was the first great American scientist. The 
 Franklin experiment led directly to the invention of the 
 lightning rod, which has saved many lives and millions 
 of dollars worth of property. 
 
 DIORAMA DEPICTING FRAXKLIN'S KITE EXrERIMENT 
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 Pi ^^^^m 
 
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 AD-MIKAI. r.VKIiS I'ol.AK SHIP 
 
 City of New York 
 
 TO PiVERY mail, woman and child, tlie 
 sturdy, wooden ice-crasher that carried 
 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his intre])id 
 crew to Little America spells romance and 
 adventure. 
 
 Built in Norway 50 years ago, she was 
 desigiieil to smash her way through thicknesses of ice 
 wholly impossil)le to other vessels, and even today she is 
 one of the strongest wooden ships afloat. Which is why 
 the late Captain Roald Amundsen, who had shipped as 
 an able seaman on her maiden voyage, recommended her 
 to Admiral Byrd when the latter ])lanned his dash to the 
 South Pole. 
 
 That valiant exjiedition to the Antarctic is now history. 
 But, as Lieutenant Harry Adams, U. S. N. retired, mem- 
 ber of tlie Byi'd Antarctic Expedition and now com- 
 manding lliis famous Soutli iN)l(' siiij) on what may l)e 
 hei- last voyage, reminisces the wjiile one prowls the shij), 
 those thi-illful, (huig('i--i)acked days and nights live in 
 the imagination. 
 
 Let iiim tell you what the men thought ol" tlieir resolute, 
 lion-hearted leader: 
 
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 "Admiral Byrd made no mistake when he selected the 
 *'City of New York" for his Antarctic Expedition. But, 
 after all, it would have been quite fatal to make a mistake 
 in anything. His ships, his men, his supplies and his 
 dogs — there must be no mistake in any of these things. 
 I do not wish to convey the impression that our com- 
 mander is infallible but, considering his achievement of 
 the North and South Poles — his flight across the Atlantic 
 — his genius for getting results — certainly he is marked 
 as a most unusual leader. 
 
 "Take, for instance, his selection of men, the Expedi- 
 tion's paramount assets. When he wanted a cook, he 
 selected George Tennant — a man who could furl a sail in 
 a blizzard, drive a team of dogs across the ice or shovel 
 coal in the fire room and, standing in the gallej^ of a rolling 
 ship, surrounded by a pack of snarling dogs, fry an 
 egg without breaking the yolk. 
 
 "Everyone of our 82 men possessed some qualification 
 fitting each for the work at hand. Every man was sup- 
 posed to have courage, of course — not only physical cour- 
 age but moral courage — and a high sense of humor. ' ' 
 
 As this 515-ton, 185-foot ship rides at her berth in the 
 "World's Fair waters, she is fully equipped and manned 
 by a crew ready for a polar expedition. Four members 
 of the original crew that sailed with Admiral Byrd are 
 on board — John Bursey, one of the dog drivers, Johnny 
 Buys, John McKeon and Lieutenant Adams. 
 
 A complete museum of relics is intact on the vessel 
 below decks. The visitor is oriented by a model of Little 
 America, made to scale by the Museum of Natural History 
 of New York, and showing in miniature the wireless 
 tower, the huts, and the paths, crossing the ice over which 
 the party's supplies and equipment were carried. There 
 are samples of the little-known dehydrated and concen- 
 trated foods ; the various articles of clothing used in the 
 Antarctic exploration; and all the scientific instruments 
 employed enroute to Little America. Specimens of rocks, 
 bird and animal life of that continent are interestingly 
 shown. 
 
 One of the latter is a stuffed penguin, a very peculiar 
 bird, because it cannot fly. But, in the water it is faster 
 than a fish. It has a most grotesque and laugh provoking 
 walk. One of our favorite screen comedians has so cor- 
 rectly copied them in his walk that these funny birds are 
 called the Charlie Chaplins of the Antarctic. While Byrd 
 did not discover the penguin, he popularized it. There 
 are two types of the penguin in Antarctica, the Adelies, 
 weighing about 15 pounds and the Emperors, weighing 
 between 80 and 90 pounds. Both types are exhibited in 
 the museum aboard the City of New York. 
 
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 THE L1.N( iil.N CUOll' AS SEEN FKOM THE AIU 
 
 Lincoln Group 
 
 t ^^[0 MORE toiicliino; and vivid record of 
 
 jijl^f^l^f -'^ the life of Abraham Lincoln, the Mid- 
 fUrifflrlC r ^ygg^'g greatest statesman and least assuming 
 citizen, can be imagined than is written in the 
 group of five concession building replicas 
 erected by the Congress Construction Com- 
 pany at Twenty-sixth street and the lakefront. 
 
 Some of them roughly constructed of logs, all of them 
 weather-beaten as were the originals, they are mutely 
 articulate of the struggle life must have been for those 
 dauntless souls who made today's skyscrapers possible. 
 
 The first of these buildings is a duplicate of the little 
 log cabin, with its dirt floor, in which the Great Emanci- 
 pator was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, 
 Kentucky. The site of the original building is now under 
 Government control, the cabin itself enclosed within a 
 monumental l)uilding. The search for a cabin of the 
 proper dimensions, made of logs hewn and notched in 
 the same manner, was conducted over three states, and 
 an almost exact duplicate, over 100 years old, was found 
 standing in Jersey County, Illinois. Tlie cabin was ])ur- 
 chased, each piece carefully numbered, and the logs taken 
 down, transported to Chicago, and reassembled. A car- 
 load of red Kentucky clay was brought to Chicago for 
 use in cliinking logs, plastering the stick and clay cliim- 
 ney, and giving the cabin a trodden dirt floor identical 
 with the original. 
 
 A similar search for old logs, shakes, pieces of punch- 
 eon siding and flooring was required for the otlier two 
 log structures in the group, the home of the Lincoln 
 
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 family in Indiana, and the Rutledge Tavern near Salem, 
 Illinois. The Indiana cabin, with its porch and stone 
 chimney, its trundle-bed (the children's bed that was 
 rolled under father's and mother's bed when not in use) 
 and corner-cupboard, was almost luxurious compared to 
 Lincoln's birthplace cabin. 
 
 The next structure is a replica of the building at Salem 
 where young Lincoln and William F. Berry maintained 
 a general store. It is the first of the group built of fin- 
 ished lumber. Here are on view a sauerkraut-cutter, 
 sausage-cutters and stuffers, and other quaint equipment 
 in use in stores of the period. 
 
 Fourth of the structures in the group is a replica of the 
 Rutledge Tavern, much frequented by the young Lincoln 
 during the period of his famous romance with Anne Rut- 
 ledge. Here it is planned to serve attractive menus in 
 the old-time dining room. 
 
 Of particular interest to Chicago, since it memorializes 
 the city's principal contribution to the history of Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, is the reproduction upon reduced scale of 
 the Wigwam, historic Chicago convention hall in which 
 Lincoln was nominated for the presidency. This Wig- 
 wam replica is a two-fifth size model of the original 
 structure, the only building in the group to be built on 
 reduced scale. 
 
 And within the last of these structures is the front par- 
 lor of Lincoln's Springfield home with its austere horse- 
 hair furniture and prim, tieback curtains. In this room he 
 received the notification of his nomination for president. 
 
 FRONT PARLOR OF LINCOLXS SPRINGFIELD HOME 
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 I'm. iii.Ai. oi- 
 
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 Amusements 
 
 TllK Midway— City of a Million Liirhts— 
 remindtT of the mairic name coiiR'd to 
 (h'scrihe the exotic area of si,u:lits and sounds 
 and thrills that constituted the amusement 
 area of (Miicai^o's AVorld's Fair, has been 
 adopted the oflicial name for the amusement 
 area of A Century of Progress. 
 
 Wliat it will be and how it will be different from amuse- 
 ment zones of otlu*r fairs is soniethini;' tiiat one can only 
 imajriiie until the curtain rin^s uj) on the com])leted stage 
 onJune 1, 19;5:i. 
 
 The pre-fair visitor finds a wide ran<?e, durinj^ the pre- 
 fair perio(l, of interesting; and lutvel features. "Bozo," 
 *'Cych»n('," "the Funnies," "Lindy Loop" and "Iley 
 Dey" ])rovide the dizzy turns and rolls that make the 
 world look upside down, while anyone interested in test- 
 in«!: his maiksmaiisliip may knock over ducks, s(]uirrels 
 and ral»liits witli a sliot ji,un <tr dr(»p the lauudiiii^- chiwiis 
 into the water by liittinj; tlie tarj:;et witli a liall. 
 
 Those inclined to ride may take the little 'M)()dfi:e-Km" 
 boats on the lairooii that arc n<»n-sinkable and travel at a 
 Sliced of about foui- mih's an hour or one may go up in 
 the balloon and see, s])read below tlic city, llir lake and 
 the Exposition in the making. 
 
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 The only attraction of its kind is the Alligator Farm 
 opposite Fort Dearborn. Once inside the bamboo stock- 
 ade, visitors may well imagine they are deep in the 
 Florida everglades. Foliage, graceful cocoanut palm 
 trees, banana trees and flowering plants native to tropical 
 Florida have been transplanted to make a realistic back- 
 ground for a colony of alligators, the veteran of whom 
 is old Methuselah, said to be 200 j^ears old. Two Seminole 
 Indians plunge into a pool and, after an exciting struggle, 
 manage to land a 375-pound saurian on a platform. By 
 manipulating nerve centers on the alligator's bod}^, the 
 wrestler has the powerful reptile under control. 
 
 A champion high diver, plunging headlong into a shal- 
 low pool from a ladder 110 feet in the air, his blazing, 
 gasoline-soaked clothes converting the surface of the 
 water into a blazing inferno, will furnish still another 
 exciting spectacle. Boy Scouts will want to observe 
 Scoutmaster Phil James' proficiency with a bow and 
 arrow and his use of this primitive weapon to hunt game 
 in the Florida everglades. 
 
 For the Exposition are promised a tribe of seventj^- 
 five Seminole Indians — ^l3raves, squaws and papooses — 
 who will live in thatched palmetto huts just as they do in 
 the everglades. At that time, there will also be a much 
 larger colony of alligators to augment the present ex- 
 hibit, as well as a complete collection of flamingos, egrets, 
 cranes, land tortoises, turtles, a Manitee, or sea-cow, and 
 other Florida birds and beasts. 
 
 EXTERIOR OF ALLIGATOR FARM 
 — 38 —
 
 Public Conveniences 
 
 KEENLY aware of the physical discomforts attendant 
 upon elTorts to soo so extensive a thing as a Worhl's 
 Fair, tlie Exi)ositioii is making every ellort to procure 
 comforts for its guests. 
 
 When it is remembered that there are miles of shore- 
 line along wliieii will be distributed thousands of visitors, 
 the contract already in operation, for the furnishing of 
 some 60,U00 chairs throughout the enclosure, can well be 
 applauded. It will enable the guests to watch the water 
 activities by day or tireworks by night in comfort. 
 
 In each exhibit building will be attractive lounges 
 where visitors may rest and meet their friends. Comfort 
 stations will be located at frequent intervals over the en- 
 tire area, some in the large buildings and others in small 
 buildings set aside exclusively for purposes of rest. In- 
 teresting features of these will be the private dressing 
 rooms where complete privacy may be had for a nominal 
 charge. In each of these private dressing rooms will be 
 found a toilet, a lavatory, mirrors, clean towels, sterilized 
 combs and brushes, and every possible convenience. The 
 first of the public conveniences are already in operation. 
 
 Two sandwich stands, one in the Hall of Science and 
 one below Twenty-third Street in the Concessions area, 
 are already doing business. At the Twelfth Street 
 entrance an Eitel Rotisserie is in operation. This is a 
 glass enclosed structure where one may look out over 
 Lake Michigan, along the Chicago skyline and down the 
 length of the Exposition grounds while eating. 
 
 During the exposition period there will be ample pro- 
 vision, with numerous sandwich stands and restaurants. 
 
 Emergency Hospital 
 
 A hospital, fully equipped for emergencies, will take 
 care of sickness and accident cases which may occur on 
 the grounds. It is planned that the medical staff will 
 render first aid and all necessary medical service to vis- 
 itors and the Viuv ])ersonnel during the pre-Fair period, 
 the P^air period, and the post-Fair period, when demoli- 
 tion is under way. A completely equipped X-ray room, 
 two ambulances and a competent medical stall for carry- 
 ing on the hospital work will be available at all times. 
 
 It is planned that the emergency hospital will transfer 
 to nearby hospitals the cases which are more serious. 
 
 This work is carried on by the Zurich General Accident 
 an<l Liability Insurance Company, Ltd., and tlie doctor's 
 quarters are now in the Administration Building. 
 
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 Electrical Group 
 
 THE epic story of electricity, a phenome- 
 non of nature a century ago and today 
 the power utilized to turn the wheels of com- 
 merce and industry, will be vividly unfolded 
 within the walls of the Electrical group of 
 buildings for the benefit of Fair visitors. 
 
 The Electrical group on Northerly Island consists of 
 three buildings with connecting sections. One of the 
 approaches from the mainland is via a bridge from the 
 Hall of Science spanning the lagoon thirty feet above the 
 water level and symbolically bridging the gap between 
 engineering and science. 
 
 Stretching for nearly a quarter of a mile along this 
 sandy, man-made island and reflected in the translucent 
 waters of the lagoon, it will he one of the most eye-taking 
 buildings of the Fair with its brilliant white, yellow and 
 red exterior accented with gold, blue and silver. 
 
 The dominant feature of the sculptural decoration of 
 this threesome of buildings are the has relief panels 50 
 feet square which delineate man's struggle to wrest power 
 from nature. Between these panels will be an entirely 
 new and striking effect, obtained electrically, in brilliant 
 colors harmonizing with the pigmentation on the building. 
 
 Inscribed under the heroic figure, representing Light, 
 are the words : 
 
 "Light is the beginning of all Things. From the 
 utmost ether it issues shaping the stars, answering in its 
 patterns to the majesty of creative thought." 
 
 Under the other powerfully-sculptured figure, symbol- 
 izing Energy, is written : 
 
 ELECTRICAL GROUP 
 
 — 40
 
 "Energy is the substance of ail liiiiij^s — tiic cycles of 
 the atoms, the i)hiy of the elements are in forms cast as 
 by a miirlity liaiul to hecomo the world's foundations." 
 
 * Tlie app'roat'li to tlie Klectrical ^roup from tiie north 
 will be via a ram}) leading to tiie toj) level. This will ])e in 
 conformity with the i)lan of circnlating pedestrian trailic 
 from above — lifting!: people up to the hij^her level of the 
 l)nildiiiu:s first by ramps and terraces and then ])ermitting 
 tiiem to lilter down to the ground levels, ratiier tiian start- 
 ing them at the lower floors and carrying them upward. 
 
 To the north will be Radio Hall, housing the innumer- 
 able radio exliibits, from the lirst ci-ude cracker))ox sets 
 to the latest developments in the elal)orate, delicately- 
 adjusted models. Here also will be shown the latest awe- 
 inspiring experiments made in Television. 
 
 From Radio Hall, visitors may pass onward to Com- 
 munication Hall, a S(pnire-shaped structure facing Lake 
 Michigan and connecting the other two buildings. 
 
 In tlie center of Communication Hall will be a great 
 open well rising to the roof, with a wide staircase inviting 
 visitors on the lower level to ascend to the main floor, or 
 vice versa. The exhibits of wire communication, includ- 
 ing the telegraph and the telephone and their contribu- 
 tion to modern civilization, will ])e shown in this building. 
 
 The Communication Gardens, fronting on the Lake 
 side of the island, are to be spectacularly beautiful. There 
 will be a modern horticultural impression of the immortal 
 gardens of the Villa D'Este at Tivoli, near Rome. In the 
 center, rising like massed cypresses more than 100 feet in 
 the air, will be four gigantic pylons. At the base of these 
 will ])e pavilions containing exhibits depicting the history 
 of wire communication. 
 
 An electrical fountain of Arabian Nights splendor will 
 play in the garden of the pylons, the interior of wdiich 
 
 OF r.UILDINGS 
 
 — 41 —
 
 will be finished in gold. The exterior will be finished in 
 gold and green and black in the conventional design. 
 Furthermore, trees, shrubs, grass, fountains and striking 
 bits of sculpture will contribute to make the gardens a 
 romantically lovely meeting-place for visitors. 
 
 At the south end of the group is the semi-circular Elec- 
 trical building, which may be reached by corridors and 
 from the lagoon by gondolas and other small boats. 
 
 The exhibits here will serve to give the visitor an 
 insight into the generation, distribution and utilization of 
 electric energy. Public utility companies and electrical 
 manufacturers will demonstrate the use that is made of 
 devices designed to eliminate drudgery in the home, the 
 office, the factory, and on the farm ; devices to assist the 
 dental and the medical professions ; devices used to hasten 
 manufacturing processes; devices to beautify our sur- 
 roundings and to make them more comfortable. 
 
 At date of publication, exhibitors in this group are : 
 
 Altorfer Bros. Company International Telephone and Tele- 
 
 American Telephone and Telegraph graph Company 
 
 Company 
 Century Electric Company 
 Chicago Flexible Shaft Company 
 Conover Company, The 
 Coyne Electrical School 
 Crane Company 
 Curtis Lighting, Inc. 
 Delta Specialty Company 
 Electrical Central Station Committee 
 Federal Electric Company, Inc. 
 General Electric Company 
 Hanmiond dock Company, The 
 Hoover Company, The 
 
 Kelvinator Corporation 
 
 Norge Corporation 
 
 Radio Corporation of America 
 
 Sangamo Electric Company 
 
 Singer Manufacturing Company, The 
 
 Stewart Warner Corporation 
 
 United Air Cleaner Corporation 
 
 Van Cleef Bros. 
 
 Waters Center Company (Division 
 
 of McGraw Electric Co.) 
 Western Union Telegraph Company 
 Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- 
 turing Co. 
 
 Sky Rides 
 
 A CHANCE to get a bird's- 
 eye view of the pageant of 
 progress and a million-dollar 
 thrill at the same time is assured 
 "Sky-Ride" takers. 
 
 Two thousand tons of steel 
 will be required to erect the tow- 
 ers, each 600 feet high — higher 
 than the tallest Chicago sky- 
 scraper — which will sustain the 
 stout steel cables over which 
 rocket cars will take one for a 
 ride to be boasted of ever after. 
 
 If the visitor does not care to 
 ride, he may be lifted to the 
 tower tops, where he can see on 
 
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 THE SKY RIDE
 
 one side, the ^richigan shore and, on the other, st retelling 
 into the sunset, tlie century-ohl Cliieago. 
 
 Tlie double-decked rocket cars, twelve in numljer, will 
 run suspended from the four-cable ** track" between and 
 around the two towei-s, located 2,000 feet ai)art — one 600- 
 foot tower just south of tlie Stadium at IGtii Street, the 
 other (300-foot tower on the east side of Northerly Island, 
 between the Electrical group and the States' ])uilding. 
 
 Sky-riders will be trans])orted 
 to tlie rocket car platform at the 
 2U0-foot level and to tiie obser- 
 vation platform at the top of 
 each tower by four fast eleva- 
 tors, holding thirty persons each. 
 The plan of the towers is tri- 
 angular, gaily adorned and orna- 
 mented. At night they will be 
 l)rilliantly and colorfully illumi- 
 nated with beacons revolving 
 like the Lindbergh light. Flood 
 lights attached to the bottoms of 
 the elevators will transform the 
 glass shafts into mounting and 
 receding pillars of colored light 
 as elevators rise and descend. 
 
 The cars of metal and glass, 
 shaped like rockets will emit col- 
 ^ "^ WM ored steam like rockets' tails. 
 " '*■" Powerful beacons w^ill be trained 
 
 TUE CAPTIVE nALLoox ^j^ them as they shoot across 
 
 from tower to tower. 
 The cars will be double-decked wdtli seats arranged 
 lengthwise so that passengers will face outw^ard. The 
 whole system will handle 5,000 passengers an hour. The 
 cars will be suspended from their aerial track by four- 
 wheel trucks, each wiieel running over a cable to assure 
 absolute safety in operation. 
 
 Besides the 2,000,000 pounds of steel for the towers 
 over 100 miles of stout strands of steel will be used in 
 cables used for the aerial track and to support and steady 
 the towers, including the 600-foot long backstays. 
 
 Another interesting trip for those M'ho like to be up in 
 the air is provided already by a blimp l)eing operated by 
 the Goodyear Tire and Rul)ber Company. The dirigible 
 is the Puritan, which carries six passengers, is 140 feet 
 long, 39 feet in diameter and inflated with 112,000 cubic 
 feet of non-inflammable helium gas. The ship o])ei-ates 
 from a base l)el<)W tlie Travel and Transport Building. 
 
 Still another aerial view of the Pair grounds is a Horded 
 this year by an observation balloon electrically operated 
 by a winch and carrying passengers 1,000 feet in the air. 
 
 — 43 —
 
 Golden Temple of Jehol 
 
 FROM the present with its farflung struc- 
 tures of steel, and its modern ideals of 
 beauty and usefulness, Exposition visitors 
 may travel back through the centuries and 
 halfway around the world — all within the 
 confines of the 424 acres of Fair grounds 
 which lay beneath the surface of Lake Michigan only a 
 few years ago. 
 
 It is the resplendent sight of the Golden Pavilion of 
 Jehol, its gold-leaf roof glistening in the sunlight, that 
 will transport them to China of the eighteenth century 
 with its culture and art that amaze and delight us today. 
 The Golden Pavilion, the original of which was built 
 in 1767 at Jehol, summer home of the Manchu emperors 
 from 1714 until abdication of the dynasty twenty years 
 ago, is brought to the 1933 World's Fair and the city of 
 Chicago by Vincent Bendix, exposition trustee. Dr. Sven 
 Hedin, noted Swedish explorer, acting for Mr. Bendix, 
 spent two years roaming through Mongolia before he 
 selected this as the finest existing example of Chinese 
 Lama architecture. 
 
 It was impossible to bring the actual temple, so he em- 
 ployed a Chinese architect to make detailed sketches and 
 drawings and he got a crew of skilled draftsmen to repro- 
 duce the structure exactly. The temple arrived in Chi- 
 cago in 28,000 pieces, each numbered in Chinese. 
 
 The Golden Pavilion is 70 feet square, 60 feet high, rises 
 from a 4-foot pedestal. Its double decked roof of cop- 
 per shingles is covered witli 
 pure gold leaf. On the ex- 
 terior, twenty-eight columns, 
 in red lacquer, 16 feet high, 
 support the lower deck. 
 Twenty-eight other columns, 
 30 feet high, form part of the 
 wall. Inside, twelve 37-foot 
 columns support the gilded 
 ceiling and upper deck. 
 
 Carved grills, in red, blue, 
 yellow and gold, enclose the 
 glass window panes. The 
 cornice beams are gilded and 
 carved with images of drag- 
 ons, cats and dogs. Hun- 
 dreds of pieces of carved 
 wood form the gilded ceiling. 
 
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 ARTISTS FROM TUE ORIENT
 
 A (okm;!; i>f tiik lama tkmi'I.k 
 
 Witliiii the temple will be l)r(>nze and s^ilded wood Bnd- 
 dlias, altar pieces, images of other ^ods and ^odtlesses, 
 incense burners, masks used in the sacred dances, priestly 
 robes woven of ])ure n'old threads and other precious 
 objects taken from Lanni temples. 
 
 — 45
 
 Progress in Agriculture 
 
 THE progress of agriculture in the past century has 
 been greater than in all the previous ages of history 
 combined. A century ago farmers in the United States 
 and elsewhere were employing agricultural methods but 
 little advanced over those used by the ancient Israelites. 
 
 Hand labor was the main reliance, with oxen providing 
 much of the power for heavy work. Small wooden plows 
 were still in use. Fertilizing and crop rotation were only 
 partially understood while soil analysis, parasite control, 
 plant diseases and drainage were virtually unknown. 
 Marketing facilities were primitive. Storage and trans- 
 portation of farm commodities were crude. Wheat and 
 other small grains were still reaped with a sickle on many 
 farms. 
 
 One hundred years ago, it required 64 hours to produce 
 an acre of wheat. Today it requires only 2 hours and 23 
 minutes. One hundred years ago seed was sown broad- 
 cast by hand and it took about 4 hours to seed and cover 
 an acre of small grain. Today by modern methods it takes 
 only 6 minutes to seed and cover an acre. It took from 
 5 to 10 hours to plow an acre of ground with the primitive 
 plow of a century ago. Today a tractor and four-furrow 
 plow can turn an acre in about 40 minutes. 
 
 The mechanization of agriculture, which has revolu- 
 tionized farming methods and speeded human progress 
 to an amazing degree, began with the invention in 1831 
 of the reaper by Cyrus H. McCormick. With this epochal 
 invention, the need for better plows, better harrows and 
 mechanical seeders developed. The wooden-beam steel 
 bottom plow succeeded the wooden plow. In turn, it was 
 succeeded by the sulky plow and in modern years by the 
 gang plow. Disk harrows, grain drills and seeders were 
 developed and improved. The invention of machines to 
 facilitate the harvesting of hay and corn speeded the 
 production of these crops and aided in the nation's 
 growth. The invention of the all-purpose tractor has 
 freed the farmer from dependence on slow and costly 
 animal power. The magic of machines has helped trans- 
 form all farm crops and all agricultural operations — 
 tilling, planting, cultivating and harvesting. Added to 
 this, the development of the science of agronomy, the 
 work of the Federal and state governments, the endless 
 effort to improve the quality of grains and field crops, of 
 livestock and dairy products, has made the progress of 
 agriculture as dramatic a saga of human advancement 
 as the growth of industries. 
 
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 Agricultural Building 
 
 THE design of tlie ])nil(Uiig to house the 
 romantic story of tlie transition in tlie 
 science of agriculture is es[)ecially lit ted for 
 it. Looking across the lagoon one sees on 
 the north end of the island a ])eculiar resem- 
 l)lance to machinery. To be sure, it's many 
 times magniiied, for the building is 628 feet long and rises 
 some 40 feet above the ground. The arched roof on the 
 north section, extending to the ground, corrugated in 
 plan and the long horizontal fin above the roof, running 
 the full length, suggest moving machinery belts or cater- 
 pillar chains. 
 
 Like the other buildings, this one is of steel frame 
 covered with specially treated gypsum board. 
 
 Across the avenue from the building will be the Florida 
 gardens, brilliant with the fragrant l)loom of buginvillaea, 
 poinsettia, palm trees and hibiscus, against the back- 
 ground of the lagoon. 
 
 An unusual shaped corridor 40 feet high, running full 
 length of the building, forms the central feature from 
 which branch exhibits on both sides. The west half 
 of the roof, lower than the arched corridor, will be a 
 terrace, connected with the avenue by three stairs. This 
 terrace will be a gathering place to view the lagoon and 
 the many events to take place therein. 
 
 
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 RENDERING OF DAIRY lU ILDING 
 
 At date of publication 
 for space in tlie Agricultu 
 
 Atlas Brewing Company 
 
 Ball Brothers Company 
 
 Burpee Can Sealer Company 
 
 Cliappel Bros., Inc. 
 
 Clir. Hansen's Laboratory, Inc. 
 
 Coca-Cola Company 
 
 Thos. A. Edison 
 
 General Foods Corporation 
 
 Heinz Companj^, H. J. 
 
 Hotel Sherman Company 
 
 International Harvester Company 
 
 the following have contracted 
 ral Building : 
 
 Kerr Glass Mfg. Corporation 
 Kraft-Phenix Clieese Corporation 
 Libby-McNeill & Libby 
 ilcCormiek & Company 
 Morton Salt Company 
 National Biscuit Company 
 National Sugar Eefining Co. of N. J. 
 Quaker Oats Company, The 
 Standard Brands, Inc. 
 Stover Manufacturing & Engine 
 Company 
 
 Dairy Building 
 
 A^ 
 
 ^CROSS the avenue to the west and north 
 is one of the most unusual types of ex- 
 hibit buildings, that of the Century Dairy 
 Exhibit, Inc. 
 
 Designed somewhat on the idea of a thea- 
 tre, on an egg-shaped plan, one enters a low 
 portal along a vestibule and then turns and goes into the 
 auditorium. But, instead of an auditorium, he finds him- 
 self in an orchestra pit, and, instead of a pit on a balcony, 
 looking down, as well as up, to a 40-foot high stage. On 
 this stage will be the central exhibit, the dominant fea- 
 ture, the keynote of the dairy industry, dramatizing in 
 sculpture, painting and with projection equipment the 
 contribution of dairy products to the development of 
 mankind. 
 
 In passing to what is equivalent to the back stage, one 
 views the modern equipment and machinery and then 
 passes down into a lower level and exhibit space. 
 
 Fittingly, this building will be white as the predominat- 
 ing color and brilliantly illuminated at night. 
 
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 Copyrieht 1932— H. M. Pettit— Evanston, 111. 
 
 Afller Planetarium G-1 
 
 Adniiiiistration Building G-9 
 
 Agricultural Group G-4 
 
 American Radiator Building E-IO 
 
 Amusements Group D-l»3 
 
 Anthropology Group C-IG 
 
 Bathing Beach G-2 
 
 Bendix Lama Temple F-15 
 
 Bus Terminal H-10 
 
 = A Century 
 
 INTERNATION. 
 
 CHICA|( 
 
 Byrd's Polar Ship ■ G-10 
 
 Century Dairy Exhibits G-5 
 
 Chrysler Building C-17 
 
 Court of Nations G-3 
 
 Dancing Pavilion F-4 
 
 Edison Memorial F-10 
 
 Electrical Group F-9 
 
 Field Museum 1-9 to 13 
 
 Firestone Area D-16 
 
 U. S. Government Bt
 
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 F Progress 
 
 k EXPOSITION 
 
 ).1933 
 
 K«»rt Dcarlioni . . I' 
 
 fJi'iKT.-il K\hiJ>its K 
 
 (Jriiir.-il Miitors Ruilding < 
 
 ll:ill of Siini.c F 
 
 Hollywood !• 
 
 Illinois BuililiiiK (i 
 
 Hoiin- and Industrial Arts Group <* 
 
 Lincoln (irouji I) 
 
 Main Eiitranci- I 
 
 "« y ' 
 
 If, M;,va T.ni|.l. . . .<-i: 
 
 -14 Musi.- Croup Ii-1.1 
 
 -17 S.ars Ho.l.u.k Huildin^ G-ll 
 
 12 Sticdd A<|Uariuni 1-6 
 
 -12 Skv Uidr F-8 to F-13 
 
 12 Soldi, r Field G-12 
 
 -17 Standard Sanitary ItuildiuK K-l*i 
 
 -17 Stat.-s (;roui» F-7 
 
 1-8 Trav.l Jc Transport IJuildinK C-17
 
 Travel and Transport 
 Building 
 
 ^^ 1 1 K magic spectacle of a century of traiis- 
 r i)()rtati()ii, \vliicli IS, in elTect, a century of 
 pioj^ress, will come to life witiiin — and with- 
 out — the amazing structure that is the Travel 
 ^Jr3 and Transport building. 
 
 And it is ])ro1)al)le that this building, with 
 its great cable-suspended dome, will be the most discussed 
 of all the architectural and engineering surprises that 
 spring u]) along the tliree-mile stretch of Fair grounds. 
 
 For the lirst time in architectural history a dome has 
 been constructed on the principle of a suspension bridge. 
 Just as a suspension bridge has no pillars, columns or 
 arches to sui)i)ort it from below and depends on cables 
 to cari-y its load, so the roof of the Travel and Transport 
 dome is suspended about 125 feet above the ground by 
 cables attached to twelve steel towers instead of being 
 su]:)l)orted from the ground by columns or arches. The 
 reason for the daring use of this suspension principle 
 
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 SECTION OF TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT DLILDI.NG 
 
 was the necessity for a clear, unobstructed space for 
 exhibits, and the result is a demonstration of how it may 
 be done satisfactorily at a much lower rate per cubic 
 foot than has previously been spent for such space. 
 
 This dome is made with joints that expand or relax as 
 the temperature varies, resulting in a difference in cir- 
 cumference of more than six feet. It also raises or lowers 
 as much as eighteen inches according to the amount of 
 snow or other pressure on the roof. It is this feature 
 that has given rise to the name, "the dome that breathes. ' ' 
 
 Within the dome, which has an interior diameter of 
 310 feet at the base and 206 feet clear of any obstruction, 
 will be housed historic and modern transportation exhib- 
 its. The first automobile ever operated on the streets of 
 an American city will be on view here . . . and its pro- 
 lific descendants down to the highly efficient cars and 
 trucks of 1933. There will be the creaky, lumbering 
 wagons of a century ago — stage-coaches, post-chaises, 
 '^prairie-schooners" and the like — The Rocket, first loco- 
 motive that proved of practical use, and its odd-looking 
 relatives with their upright boilers and curious walking 
 beam effects — ^balloon stacked ' Svood-burners " of the 
 'forties, 'fifties and 'sixties — big and handsome freight 
 and passenger pullers of today — and oil electric — and 
 locomotives and trains, old and new. 
 
 To make this vivid setting even more colorful it is 
 planned to project on the circular walls of the upper part 
 of the dome an illuminated mural and decoration from 
 a central fixture suspended from the ceiling telling the 
 
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 great story of transportation, presenting an ever-shifting 
 panorama of vari-colored effects. 
 
 On tlie first floor at tlie south end of the main Travel 
 anvl Transport l)uil(ling tiie railways will have tiieir exhib- 
 its of liistoric nature dramatizing what their eomj)anie8 
 have done to develop the areas of the country they serve. 
 
 Directly back of the wide central entrance is a great 
 hall. Here, under a barrel-shaped dome 80 feet high, 
 220 feet long and 100 feet wide, the steamship companies 
 will have their displays. 
 
 North of this hall and extending to the north of the 
 main building is a smaller hall, 200 feet long and 54 feet 
 wide, which is known as the marine exhibition area. 
 
 Exhibits of railway oquii)ment, supplies and engineer- 
 ing, highway engineering, maritime and mechanical 
 engineering, and automotive equipment will occupy the 
 second floor, which may be reached by ramp, escalator 
 and stairways. 
 
 To the south of the Travel and Transport building will 
 be the outdoor exhibition area, where, on standard rail- 
 road tracks and highway rimming the lake, in the air 
 above and on the water beneath, the pageant of a century 
 of transportation will make a slo^v-motion picture before 
 the enthralled eyes of the thousands assembled on review- 
 ing-stands and grand-stands. 
 
 From the first crudely-constructed wagons of a century 
 ago to the giant dirigibles and the heavier-than-air planes, 
 the seaplanes and the amphibians of today, every type of 
 conveyance that has transported man from the humble 
 log-cabin of 1833 to the skyscraping structure of 1933 will 
 be represented in this history-making cavalcade. 
 
 At date of publication, the following are exhibitors in 
 this building: 
 
 Ahlberg Bearing Company Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail- 
 
 Alcmite Corporation way Company, The 
 
 American Steel Foundries Clark Tructractor Company 
 
 Association of M't'g's's of Cliillcd Cord Corporation 
 
 Car Wheels General American Tank Car Corpo- 
 
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company ration 
 
 Bernard & Company, Inc., J. E. Gray Line Sight-Seeing Company of 
 
 Borg-Warner Corporation Cliicago 
 
 Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com- Illinois Central Railroad Company 
 
 pany and allied lines — Pere Mar- International Harvester Company 
 
 quette; New York, Cliicago & St. New York Central Railroad Com 
 Louis; and The Erie Railway pany. The 
 
 Companies. Packard Motor Car Company 
 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 
 road Company and allied lines — Pullman Comp.-iny, The 
 
 Northern Pacific ; Great Northern ; Railway Express Agency, Inc. 
 
 The Colorado & Southern; Fort Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 
 
 Worth & Denver City, and Spo- Studebaker Corjioration. The 
 
 kane, Portland & Seattle Railway Timken-Dotroit Axle Company, The 
 
 Companies. Timken Roller Bearing Com|)any 
 
 Chicago and North Western Railway Union Switch and Signal Company 
 
 Company Walker Vehicle C'(.in|):iny 
 
 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pa- Waukesha Motor ('<imj)any 
 
 cific Railroad Company Westinghousc Air Brake Company 
 
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 General Motors Building 
 
 THE General Motors Exhibition building, now under 
 construction on the Fair grounds, faces west across 
 Leif Eriksen drive at its intersection with Thirty-first 
 street. 
 
 This building is in the form of a rectangle with 
 rounded corners, 454 feet long by 306 feet wide. At Thir- 
 ty-first street and Leif Eriksen drive, a great entrance 
 lobby will lead from the street to a balcony overlooking 
 an assembly plant Avhere visitors may watch automobiles 
 put together. This plant will be 420 feet long by 90 
 feet wide. 
 
 The balcony will extend the full length of the plant and 
 also around its edges. 
 
 To the north and south of the lobby will be exhibit 
 spaces and above the entrance lobby will ascend a 173- 
 foot tower. 
 
 The lower level of the building will be devoted to truck 
 displays and other exhibits. There will also be a lecture 
 room and stage on this level. 
 
 This building will be of steel frame construction with 
 the exterior covering of sheet metal and wall board and 
 metal sashes for the windows. At night, the exterior will 
 be dramatically colored to accent the painted color 
 scheme of its walls. 
 
 In addition to the displays of automobiles and trucks, 
 there will be exhibits of other products manufactured by 
 the General Motors Corporation and its subsidiaries, 
 including machines and commodities in many different 
 fields. 
 
 General Motors Corporation was the first industrial 
 concern to contract for the erection of a special display 
 building on the Exhibition grounds. 
 
 Chrysler Building 
 
 BOTH in architecture and in its exhibits, the Chrysler 
 Exhibition building, soon to rise on the grounds of 
 Chicago's 1933 World's Fair, will stress motion, the 
 keynote of the Exposition's exhibit scheme. 
 
 On its quarter-mile outdoor track, visitors will be in- 
 vited to ride and test the various Chrysler models. There 
 will be a pool in which ''floating power" engine mounting 
 will be symbolized ; a Belgian roll, or device that bumps a 
 
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 car about and subjocts it to every coiK'eival)lL' lesl it 
 would uii(i('ri;() in actual use; sound motion pictures illus 
 tratin.u- nietbods of construction; wind and wcallicr tests 
 in a glass refrigerator show case; detailetl exhibits of 
 motor, body, chassis antl tires. 
 
 This buihling will l)e a two-story structure, with tlie 
 walls to its main exhibition area 12.') feet G inches high. 
 
 It will be situated at Thirty-tii-st street and Leif lOrik- 
 sen drive, north of the main Travel and Transport build- 
 ing. An o])en walk will lead to the second floor of the 
 building. The ])assageway below this walk will l)e cov- 
 ered and in this si)ace will be a group of animated ex- 
 hibits. All interesting feature of the second floor, which 
 will be reached by four ramps, will be an observation desk 
 that Avill ])rovide visitors witli a clear view of the entire 
 grounds and of the cars that are being driven around the 
 outdoor track. 
 
 The area at the left of the covered passageway will ])e 
 occui)ied by a long, narrow court, extending from the 
 Thirty-first street entrance to the main part of the build- 
 ing. A pool flanked by gravel walks shaded by stainless 
 steel umbrella trees will be placed in the center of the 
 court. At the south end of the court will be the main 
 exhibition area, known as Walter P. Chrysler Hall. Chry- 
 sler's "floating power" will be dramatized on the first 
 floor of the hall. 
 
 A building material that will reflect the rays of the sun 
 in the daytime and lend itself to a dramatic illumination 
 scheme by night will be used. Rising above the building 
 will be four great pillars of light, each displaying the 
 name of a Chrysler car that will be on exhibit. 
 
 Progress in Land Transportation 
 
 The story of the railroad is one of the most remark- 
 able in the chi'onicle of man's advancement which A 
 Century of Progress Exposition will present. 
 
 From twenty-three miles of iron-rimmed wooden rails 
 to a network of 4.'^(),()(K) miles of steel spanning the coun- 
 try south, north, east and west. From tiny, wood lairning 
 upright boilered locomotives to oil-electric freight and 
 passenger hauling giants that draw air-cooled trains 
 across the continent. This is the story of the develo])- 
 ment of railroad transportation in the Tnited States in 
 the past hundred years. 
 
 Until a century ago, man traveled over the surface of 
 the earth as he had traveled in the time of the Caesars — 
 by his own feet or by the feet of animals. Then steam 
 power genei-ated l)y the combustion of fuels a])i)lied 
 through mechanical means revolutionized transportation, 
 made possibh^ tlu^ f|uick movement of goods and people, 
 
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 speeded civilization's growth and aided vitally in the 
 nation's development. 
 
 The growth of railroad transportation is largely the 
 story of man's progress in the hundred years that A 
 Century of Progress Exposition will commemorate. 
 
 With the development of the railroads came the devel- 
 opment of the United States. At the begimiing of the era 
 of railroad transportation a century ago, the area of this 
 country was 1,972,000 square miles. Today it is more than 
 3,000,000 square miles, exclusive of our territories and 
 insular possessions. 
 
 In 1830, this country had a population of 12,866,000 
 people. Today its population exceeds 120,000,000. The 
 amount of money in circulation about a century ago was 
 $87,344,000. In a recent vear it exceeded $7,500,000,000. 
 The production of wheat in 1839 was 84,823,000 bushels. 
 Today it is ten times that total. 
 
 The quick transportation provided by the railroads 
 has promoted the growth of great cities, fostered the 
 development of great industries and manufacturing 
 enterprises of all kinds, spurred agriculture forward 
 from a primitive stage to its present proportions and 
 aided the settlement of lands everywhere. 
 
 On tires of rubber a ceaseless stream of automobile 
 traffic flows over America's highways. The automo- 
 bile is one of the newest forms of transportation devel- 
 oped by man in the hundred years which A Century of 
 Progress International Exposition will celebrate. 
 
 Forty years ago during the World's Columbian Expo- 
 sition in Chicago in 1893, automobiles were first being 
 introduced. 
 
 In 1900 there were only 8,000 passenger automobiles 
 in operation in this country. By 1920 there were 8,225,- 
 000, or 1,000 times as many. Today there are 22,347,000 
 motor cars in operation and 3,446,404 motor trucks. 
 
 There is one automobile for every five people in the 
 land, or virtually one to every family. There is a motor 
 truck in service on the roads for every eight families. 
 
 Stretching east, west, north and south, there are 3,705,- 
 565 miles of highway providing the United States with 
 arteries for the passage of motor cars, busses and trucks. 
 
 Transportation has been largely revolutionized since 
 the advent of the motor car. The automobile has become 
 an indispensable necessity. 
 
 The automobile industry not even in existence forty 
 years ago, today has become one of America's major 
 industries. It provides a livelihood for millions of 
 workers and for millions of others in related fields. The 
 products of scores of other industries are utilized in 
 the manufacture of automobiles. 
 
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 Transportation 
 
 STKETCIIIXG southward alon^ diicago's lake front 
 from Twelfth to Thirt\ -iiintli streets, cast of tlio Illi- 
 nois Centrars trackage, A Century of Progress Exposi- 
 tion has unexcelled transportation facilities to and from 
 the grouiuls. 
 
 Suburban railroad service near the j^rounds can handle 
 50,()(H) persons ])er hour; elevated, surface lines and other 
 suburban transportation, 1,(K)(),(K)U persons ])er day, and 
 motor buses from all parts of the city and suburban tour- 
 ist camps, '20,000 visitors per hour. Exhibitors will find 
 terminal facilities for handliiii;* frei.i^lit of all kinds 
 equally convenient and at a minimum cost. 
 
 At least four j^reat entrances will be available to handle 
 the crowds. These are at the north end of Twelfth street, 
 at Twenty-third, Thirty-first and Thirty-ninth streets. 
 
 Inside the Exposition grounds, visitors will be served 
 by a fleet of sixty semi-trailer type open buses, which will 
 accommodate from 15,000 to 20,000 passengers per hour. 
 Other forms of intra-mural transportation are being 
 studied and developed. 
 
 The buses, built especially for this service by the Gen- 
 eral Motors Corporation and operated by the Greyhound 
 Lines, are fifty feet long and contain two longitudinal 
 seats arranged back to back so that the sixty passengers 
 face outward. They are open, with a roof overhead and 
 curtains for use in inclement weather. 
 
 Two experimental buses are in sei"vice already. These 
 serve not only for ex])erimental purposes but they add 
 to the comfort of the 1932 visitors. 
 
 The first of a Heet of decorated launches is operating 
 during 1932. These will ply the lagoons next summer 
 and form the central unit of the fleet of Venetian gon- 
 dolas, Soutli Sea Island out-riggers and other picturesque 
 craft to be found in that beautiful water enclosure. 
 
 1.M1:a MlllAL iiUa 
 rr
 
 A Story of Industry 
 
 THE first tiny oil well drilled in Pennsylva- 
 nia nearly seventy-five years ago, helped 
 to revolutionize the naodern world. 
 
 The growth and development of the petro- 
 leum industry and its equipment for gather- 
 ing, producing and distributing its products 
 have been factors of inestimable importance in bettering 
 the living conditions of people everywhere. 
 
 From a few barrels of oil produced in 1859, the produc- 
 tion of petroleum has risen to more than 850,000,000 bar- 
 rels a year. 
 
 From the crude implements first used in its production 
 — iron pitcher pumps, iron drills, and wooden windlasses 
 — improved equipment and devices of the most scientific 
 nature have developed. 
 
 The discovery of oil made possible the internal combus- 
 tion engine. It made possible the 25,793,000 passenger 
 automobiles and motor trucks that now operate on the 
 nation's highways. 
 
 Each day an average of 39,720,000 gallons of gasoline, 
 heretofore a waste by-product, are required to provide 
 motive power for the nation's automobiles and trucks and 
 gas-driven engines. An average of 14,500,000,000 gallons 
 of gasoline are consumed in the United States every year. 
 
 AVithout petroleum products, the commercial and indus- 
 trial application of scientific discoveries could never have 
 been possible on the scale on which they have proceeded. 
 Comforts and conveniences of modern civilization taken 
 so largely for granted could never have been provided 
 without the development of this industry. 
 
 Besides automobiles, such things as airplanes, farm 
 implements, tractors, gasoline engines and high speed 
 industrial machines that weave clothing, manufacture 
 shoes, food and furniture are dependent to a large extent 
 on their present development to gasoline and petroleum 
 lubricants. 
 
 Dyes, medicines, cosmetics and scores of other com- 
 modities in daily use are traceable to the petroleum 
 industry. 
 
 Great cities have risen as a result of its operations. 
 Millions of people have been provided with employment 
 and a livelihood b}^ it. It has furnished a product vital 
 to modern civilization — the development and perfection 
 of which has taken place within the latter part of the 
 century which this Exposition will celebrate. 
 
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 General Exhibits Buildings 
 
 THE foregoing is but a single example of the story to 
 he tokl in the (leiieral Kxlnl)its (J roup. With its ter- 
 races, courts, sluuly corners, and attractive po(jls, these 
 buiklings will invite one to enter and see ])ortrayed the 
 stories of the grajihic art, furniture, office e(piipment, 
 jewelry, cosmetics, and textile industries. 
 
 Comh-shaped in i)hin, witii courts and ])avilions open- 
 ing toward the lagoon, the structure connects to the llall 
 of Science by a curved bridge or passage overhead and 
 extends south 10,10 feet. The courts are 120 feet wide 
 north and south, wliile the pavilions are 110 feet in the 
 same (lirecti(»ns. Within each pavilion, one enters into a 
 main hall, 40 feet wide by IGO feet long, with a ceiling 
 height of 46 feet. Stairs and ramps lead to the up])er 
 level and now one may look down into the hall. Wander- 
 ing on the upper level onto the terracs, one can overlook 
 the courts and crowds below, moving about the quite 
 smooth surfaced water pools, within which are reflections 
 of gaily colored exteriors. 
 
 Within the individual pavilions will be a flexible 
 arrangement or exhil)it space so that the character of the 
 industries exhibiting will be definitely expressed whether 
 the exhibit be a large one or a small one. 
 
 This group of buildings will constitute another out- 
 standing example of the Exposition's architecture. 
 Adaptable within to the wide variety of uses to which the 
 buildings will be put, they are yet easy of construction 
 and can be produced at remarkably low cost. 
 
 Interesting experiments are being made for both the 
 interior and exterior lighting of this grou]), which will 
 enhance a number of special features of decoration 
 dt'siL'iicd t'oi- them. 
 
 AUCniTECTS KENKEKl.NG UK GENKUAL KXHUUTS r.ril.DINUS 
 
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 At date of publication exhibitors in this group are : 
 
 A. B. Dick Company 
 Addressograph Multigraph Corpora- 
 tion 
 American Colortype Company- 
 Armstrong Bros. Tool Company 
 Armstrong-Blum Mfg. Company 
 American Evatype Corporation 
 Burroughs Adding Machine Company 
 Bristol-Myers Company 
 C. B. Cottrell & Sons Company 
 Chicago Camera Club 
 Copper & Brass Eesearch Association 
 Dictaphone Sales Corporation 
 Elgin National Watch Company 
 Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Com- 
 pany 
 Ernst Hertzberg & Sons 
 Henry Lederer & Company 
 Illinois Steel Company in behalf of 
 
 itself and the other subsidiary 
 companies of the United States 
 Steel Corporation 
 
 Inland Steel Company 
 
 International Business Machines 
 Corporation 
 
 Link Belt Company 
 
 Minna Schmidt 
 
 National Cash Eegister Company 
 
 Owen Bros. (London) 
 
 Petroleum Heat and Power Com- 
 pany 
 
 Pure Oil Company, The 
 
 Quarrie & Company, W. F. 
 
 R. E. Donnelley & Sons Company 
 
 Sanford Manufacturing Company 
 
 Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Company 
 
 Varityper, Inc. 
 
 Waterman Company, L. E, 
 
 Sears, Roebuck Building 
 
 SERVICE to Fair visitors is the idea that inspires the 
 modern building that Sears, Roebuck and Company 
 will erect at A Century of Progress. 
 
 The building will be located across the street from and 
 south of the Administration building, opposite the north 
 end of Soldiers ' Field and facing east. It will be 260 feet 
 long and 120 feet wide, with a central tower. 
 
 There will be large rest rooms for men and women, 
 a large exhibition hall and a very large lobby in which 
 friends may gather before beginning their tour of the 
 Fair, and a small emergency hospital. 
 
 MODEL OF SEARS, ROEBUCK BUILDING 
 
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 On the second floor, ^vlli^h will 1)0 roachod ])y a curved 
 ramp on eacli sidi', will he a hw^i' restaurant, a public 
 elieck room, i)ul)li(' ti'lcpliones, a ;i:(Mieral information desk 
 and special information desks (.lealiny with transixirta- 
 tion and the exposition itself. 
 
 In the center of tlic main exliibition ludl at the rear of 
 tlie second lloor will he a lari;e map well and in it a 
 map of the United States 4.') feet lonj^ on which will he 
 shown by electric lij^hts location of the retail and nniil 
 order stores, factories and other o])erations of Sears, 
 l^>ebuck and Company. Around the ed.<::e of the main 
 exhibition hall will be a series of diorannis depicting the 
 progress of merchandising; from 1883 to 19.'5,S. 
 
 Cireat lounj::inj; spaces on the roofs of the wings at 
 either side of the tower will be tlotted with tables with 
 Imge sun umbrellas. 
 
 American Radiator and 
 Standard Sanitary Building 
 
 THE American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Cor- 
 ])oration, wliieh is one of the leading mainifacturers of 
 heating ai)i)aratus and jjlumbing goods with forty-three 
 factories in North America and fourteen in Kuroi)e, is 
 making elaborate plans for its proposed exliibit building 
 at A Century of Progress Exposition. 
 
 Its bureau of design (leveloi)nient, now at work on in- 
 terior ])lanning, was established to develoj) the design of 
 its products in relati(m to modern architecture. 
 
 The new ideas ev()lved by this liureau f(»r the American 
 Radiator's exhibit building are ex|)ected to result in revo- 
 lutionizing changes in the heating and ])lumbing of com- 
 mercial and apartnu'ut buildings as well as ])rivate homes. 
 
 Firestone Building 
 
 THE Firestone Tire and Rubber Comjiany will ereet a 
 special biiilding for their exhibit at the Tweiity-thinl 
 Street entrance of the Exposition (Jrounds. 
 
 Their ])lans include an outstanding exliibit of the jtro- 
 duction of rubber and rubber tires from the various raw 
 materials used in the manufacture of these ])ro<lucts. 
 It is probal)le that one <»f the most interesting features 
 (>f their exhibit will be two com|)lete assembly lines, one 
 for automobile tires and one for tubes. 
 
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 Federal and Slates Buildings 
 
 IN SIMILAR enterprises heretofore held in this coun- 
 try, it was felt that the aspect of a national participa- 
 tion could be shown only by a separate building for each 
 of the states of the union. With respect to this exposi- 
 tion, it is felt that it truly records the changes in the 
 last half of the past century by arranging for the partici- 
 pation of all states to be in one building, thus typifying 
 the increased feeling of the loyalty of citizens to the union. 
 
 The Hall of States will be a V-shaped two-story struc- 
 ture, 500 feet across at the base and with its two arms 500 
 feet long and 140 feet wide at the widest point. The open 
 part of the V will face west in an enclosed court with its 
 sunken garden and appropriate landscaping. Opening 
 onto this court will be entrances to the various state and 
 territorial exhibits. From the outside of the court one 
 will be able to enter on the second floor level. 
 
 The Federal Building, 620 feet long by 300 feet wide, 
 will be at the open end of the great V-shaped Hall of. 
 States. With its 75-foot dome-shaped main structure, 
 buttressed with three triangular shaped towers repre- 
 senting the three great divisions of government, it will 
 be one of the attention compelling architectural features 
 of the exposition. 
 
 Each of the three towers will be 150 feet in height; 
 they will be fluted with modern designs, and silhouetted 
 at night with striking lighting effects. On the west front 
 of the Federal Building there will be a plaza extending 
 to the lagoon and connected by a 40-foot span to an 
 embarcadere — a curved island 150 by 20 feet — where on 
 state occasions dignitaries will be brought in barges and 
 landed. 
 
 The Federal government has already appropriated 
 $1,000,000.00 for its building and displays. Forty-four 
 states and four territories have either made appropria- 
 tions, appointed commissions, or taken both steps, looking 
 to participation. 
 
 To civic-minded citizens of these United States, the 
 Federal and States buildings, expressive as they are to 
 be of the dignity and power of government, probably will 
 be the most vitally interesting twosome of edifices at 
 A Century of Progress. 
 
 Certainly, unprecedented benefits must accrue to the 
 citizen, individually, and the nation, generally, from the 
 
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 ii:iii;kai, am> siatks r.i ii,i>i.n<;.s 
 
 j)r()|)()S(.'(l {•(imjiaiisoii of iiu'lhods used in tlu' various 
 states and tiie results obtained therefrom in detection of 
 crime and in criminal jirocedure, in the care and treatment 
 of tlie mentally feeble and the insane, and in the ])rotec- 
 tion and trainini^ of de])endents, ])articularly children. 
 
 Radiatinji; from a common center, the functions of tlie 
 tliree l^ranches of j^ovenmient will he shown, tirst in gen- 
 eral or historical form, and (U*velo])ed in detail in the 
 exhibits of various l)ranches and de))artments of the v^ov- 
 ernment in the lai.i^er areas. The Inilk of the exlii))ition 
 space will be on the ground floor, with space on tlie floor 
 al)ove, at terrace level, allot tecl to the remaining: exhibits. 
 
 Two levels will be developed in the central domed fea- 
 ture, the three branches of government being expressed 
 by three ^reat niches or apses and from these apses will 
 be rooms suited to the various pui'poses of the President 
 and cabinet, the Senate and the House and the Sujiieme 
 Court — all at the ujiper story. 
 
 pjxtending into the court of the Hall of States will be 
 a win^ containinLT a recej)tion suite, with a rece])tion 
 room, 7.') in- 'M] feet, where celebrities will be welcomed 
 on gala days. The reception suite will be ])artly sur- 
 I'ounded by the trian^ndai" sunken garden. 
 
 The United States Commissioner, the Honorable Harry 
 S. New, and Col. William B. Causey, assistant commis- 
 sioner, have set uj) their offices in the Administration 
 Building and commenced their task of jdanning and 
 assembling exhibits. The Unitetl States Commission is 
 composed of the Secretaries of State, ('((nunerce and 
 Agriculture. 
 
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 Home and Industrial Arts 
 
 T 
 
 'HE Home and Industrial Arts exhibit 
 
 promises to write a new chapter to the 
 
 story of home building — one that will bring 
 
 people everywhere homes that are more com- 
 
 fortable, livable and attractive. 
 
 ^'-i*fe:> .T*i The exhibit will comprise eight houses and 
 a series of exhibit pavilions, to demonstrate under prac- 
 tical conditions the solution to certain housing problems. 
 It will introduce new building materials, new uses for 
 traditional materials, new trends in architecture, home 
 furnishing, lighting, equipment and decoration. 
 
 Each of the houses exhibited in this show Avill be built 
 of a different material. Architecturally, they will be de- 
 partures from anything done before in America. Two or 
 three will be fabricated in a factory and assembled on the 
 lot. Several of the houses will be air-cooled in summer 
 or humidified in winter. Each will present a new solution 
 to the problems of the kitchen and the laundry and intro- 
 duce new mechanical means of doing heavy household 
 tasks. Each house will be provided with modern furnish- 
 ings and decoration. Each will utilize every foot of space 
 for the comfort and convenience of its dwellers. In addi- 
 tion, the houses will be equipped with new types of heat- 
 ing plants, utilizing everything from coal, oil and gas to 
 electricity. Each house, it is expected, will be priced 
 considerably below what the average American home 
 owner has been accustomed to pay. 
 
 Arrangements for the construction of the eight exhibit 
 houses have already been made. These houses will be 
 built by the following interests : 
 The Lumber Industries, featuring a plywood exterior and 
 
 some new uses of American woods for interior finish ; 
 The Masonite Corporation, showing its Masonite and 
 Prestwood in many interesting new exterior and in- 
 terior uses ; 
 The American Eolling Mill Co. and Ferro Enamel Corp., 
 
 which will introduce a new enamel steel house ; 
 General Houses, Inc., which will present a house of un- 
 usual interest, constructed of steel and capable of being 
 erected by a small crew within a few days ; 
 John C. B. Moore, who is also working out a solution to 
 the problem of the minimum house for the industrial 
 worker and the young couple with small resources ; 
 Carl A. Strand, who is about to enter the unit house field 
 with a house which utilizes a new system of steel frame 
 construction and a new type of exterior material ; 
 
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 The Common Brick Association, witli a house sliowinp; 
 
 some rcv()liiti(»narv dcvolopmciits in tlic use ot" l)rick; 
 And the State of Fh)ri(hi, whicli is (h'vehjping a unicjue 
 
 honse suital)le for tlie southern elinnite. 
 
 Manufacturers who have already made arrangements 
 to ctxtjK'rate in showing tiie hitest househohl aj)j)liance8 
 and equipment inchule : 
 
 Altorfer Hros. Company; American (Jas PrcKlucts Cor- 
 poration; Birtnnin lOk'ctric Company; Bryant Heater & 
 Manufacturing Company; Conover Comi)any; Copehmd 
 Prochicts, Inc.; Formica Iiisuhition Conii)any; Frigidaire 
 Cor])oration ; Fulh'r l-Jrusli C(»mj)any; (ieiieral Kk-ctrie 
 Kitchen Institute; Hess Warming cV: Ventihiting; HoUand 
 Furnace Company; Ilg Filectric Ventihiting Company; 
 Illinois Bell Teh'phone Company; International Nickel 
 Comi)nny; S. C. .Johnson & Son; Kelvinator Corporation; 
 Miracul Wax Company; Xorge Corjjoration; Servel 
 Sales, Inc.; Singer Mamifacturing Company; Surface 
 Combustion Corpoi-ation ; Walker Dishwasher Corpora- 
 tion; Waters-Center Company. 
 
 The interior decoration of the exliibit houses will be 
 handled by some of America's foremost furniture design- 
 ers, interior decorators and furniture manufacturers. At 
 the i)resent time the interior decoration and furnishing of 
 three of the houses has ))een delinitely arranged for: 
 
 Wolfgang Hoffmann, Inc., of New York, a leading ex- 
 ponent of modern furniture, is the interior decorator for 
 the Lumber Industries House. He has arranged with a 
 group of furniture manufacturers, including S. J. Cani])- 
 bell Co., West Michigan Furniture Co., Hastings Table 
 Co. and Charlotte Furniture Co. to produce furniture of 
 his designs, while draj)eries, lamps and other items will 
 be sup])lied by e(iually well known manufacturers. 
 
 The interior decoration of the ^lasonite House will be 
 handled by Kussel Wright of New York, an interior dec- 
 (»rator, who has definitely arranged with certain out- 
 
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 standing furniture companies, drapery manufacturers 
 and others to supply the necessary furnishings. 
 
 The furniture for the General Houses house will be 
 especially designed and manufactured by Kroehler Mfg. 
 Co. and their subsidiaries. 
 
 In connection with the houses, particular attention is 
 being devoted to proper landscaping. The architectural 
 design for the group of houses and adjacent gardens will 
 be worked out by one of America's leading landscape 
 gardeners so that the exhibit houses will be properly 
 co-ordinated in their relationships and tied together by 
 a group landscape plan which will demonstrate the uses 
 of co-operative action along this line in suburban areas. 
 The plan, as worked out, will be executed by James W. 
 Owen, nurseryman of Bloomington, 111. 
 
 A sprinkling system for this landscaping development 
 will be installed by ]\Iuellermist of Illinois. The Mueller- 
 mist System includes copper piping, concealed spray 
 heads and a control system which will enable the home 
 owner to sprinkle any part of his yard or all of it. 
 
 "Home Planning Hall," the main exhibit pavilion of 
 the group, ^viU. be one of the outstanding features of the 
 Exposition. Air conditioning devices of all kinds will be 
 exhibited here, including insulating materials, heating 
 and cooling systems, blower systems and other devices. 
 Household equipment will be demonstrated in other ex- 
 hibit spaces. The story of advancements in home clean- 
 ing, cooking, sewing, washing and refrigeration will be 
 presented by the leading manufacturers in each partic- 
 ular field. The visitor will also be enabled to study newer 
 phases of house building as revealed by exhibits of build- 
 ing material companies, for here will be told the story of 
 flooring, walls, roofing, hardware, etc., as well. 
 
 In another pavilion it is planned to demonstrate the 
 decorative arts. A series of rooms of various types Avill 
 be available for demonstrations by interior decorators 
 
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 hi: \i.\--i >\ I I i: llorsK 
 
 and inaiiufactiirers of falirics and t'liniisliinj^s. This will 
 be under the i)ersunal supervision of Ely Jac<iues Kahn, 
 known the world over as an authority in this lield. A 
 series of connecting galleries devoted to crafts, such as 
 metal, leather, line wood and draperies, is ])lanned. 
 
 A special building to be erected by the Johns-^Ianville 
 Company will be designed bj' Mr. Kahn. It will be con- 
 structed as far as possible of Johns-^Ianville products. 
 It will demonstrate in its exhibits the control of heat and 
 cold, the control of sound, the control of tire and of motion 
 by the utilization of tlie company's products. 
 
 An exhibit building to be erected by the Southern 
 Cypress Manufacturers' Association will be of mountain 
 lodge type with an arcade and trellis. It will demonstrate 
 the uses of cypress as a building material. A number of 
 objects of historic interest ^vill be on display, such as 
 lani)) posts, sewer pii)es and grave markers, all made of 
 cypress, which have withstood the ravages of the elements 
 for scores of years. Special decorative panels illustrat- 
 ing different types of cyi)ress and their utilization will 
 be one of the feature exhibits. 
 
 Progress in Home Development 
 
 A century ago people still lighted their houses with 
 candles. Housewives used cranes and pots and skillets 
 instead of gas ranges and elect I'ic cooking stoves. 
 
 The spinning wheel and the domestic loom were imple- 
 ments in use in countless homes. People wrote letters 
 M'ith quill pens instead of fountain ])ens. 
 
 Homes of 1833 used o])en-firei)laces instead of steam 
 heat. Cisterns or wells or springs ])rovi(led the water 
 supply instead of fawcets in kitchen sijiks or bathtubs. 
 
 There were no telephones, no radios, no electric light 
 in any homes in the United States or elsewhere in the 
 world a century ago. 'J'here were no phonograi)hs, no 
 modern plumbing, no sewing machines, no mechanical 
 refrigerators. 
 
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 The century that has elapsed since 1833 has seen dis- 
 coveries and inventions almost without number which 
 have made home life easier, more enjoyable and com- 
 fortable. 
 
 Improvements in housing facilities, home equipment 
 and furnishings have been as remarkable as the advance- 
 ments in industry, transportation and communication. 
 
 Today, the factory built houses, utilizing new building 
 materials, and architectural design, introducing new 
 mechanical means for doing hea\^^ household tasks, pro- 
 viding modern furnishings and decoration, new heating 
 and air conditioning devices utilizing every available foot 
 of space for the convenience of its dwellers tells of a new 
 age of comfort in living and forecasts even more startling 
 advancements in the years to come. 
 
 Wonderland for Children 
 
 A CALLER at the Exposition some months 
 ago asked what the children will see at 
 the Fair besides other people's feet. The 
 answer is that parents visiting the Exposi- 
 tion next year have perfect assurance that 
 their children ^vi\[ be well cared for and 
 amused in the wonderland on Northerly Island. 
 
 Gay launches, diminutive motor buses, a magic moun- 
 tain, a wading pool, a model farm with a talking cow, 
 puppet shows, marionettes, a children's theater, special 
 talkies, tropical ''jungles" with rare birds and game, 
 ponies, calves and little pigs are among the contem- 
 plated attractions. Children visiting this enchanted 
 island will be allowed to lay aside their ordinary work- 
 aday clothes and don costumes of Indians, cow-boys, sol- 
 diers, bunnies and such during their stay. They may eat 
 in a restaurant on a fairy-like barge. 
 
 For some months, the Junior League has worked assid- 
 uously in aiding the project to become a reality. The 
 Leaguers in charge are a committee of Margot Atkin, 
 Dorothy Schmidt, Florence Higinbotham and Mrs. 
 Shreve Badger. Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank and V. K. 
 Brown, director of recreation for South Park Commis- 
 sioners, were among the first to advocate the idea, and 
 Miss Josephine Blackstock, director of the Oak Park 
 recreational center, is acting as adviser. 
 
 The participating contractors represented in the proj- 
 ect and who will build it for A Century of Progress are 
 B. W. Construction Company, Louden Playground 
 Equipment Company, Swain Nelson & Sons and G. H. 
 Buckley. 
 
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 Social Science Exhibits 
 
 
 T 
 
 () THE north of the Maya Imildin^' it is 
 proposed to show some oi" the typical 
 
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 Indian cultures of North America. Here it is 
 plaiiued to have the Indians of the Wood- 
 lands and the hulTalo huutei-s of the Plains 
 living in their frail wigwams and tepees of 
 bark and skin, hi sharp contrast to these will be the mas- 
 sive lionses of the Pueblo dwellers, the low earth covered 
 hogans of the Navajo, and tlie villages of the Northwest 
 Coast with their painted carvings and totem poles. All 
 this will furnish a series of sharp contrasts in Hidian life 
 and customs. P]ach group will be living its old life and 
 conducting its colorful ceremonies and dances. Just in 
 front of the temple terrace will be some of the most spec- 
 tacular earthworks constructed by the Mound Builders 
 Avho formerly occupied the u]iper Mississippi Valley. 
 
 Beginning with the anthropological exhibit which 
 depicts the life of pre-historic man from the earliest rec- 
 cords found in the rocks and in the sands, this dramatized 
 story will be l)rought down in exhibit form, through the 
 various and successive cultures to the intricate and amaz- 
 ing civilization of today. 
 
 In the Maya buildings it is planned to tell the story of 
 man through the ages. Here also will be exhibits in edu- 
 cation, social service, and child welfare, while interesting 
 demonstrations will be sliowai in the basic sciences of 
 psychology, history, sociology, economics, political science 
 and statistics. Those in the field of economic service, 
 
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 insurance, banking, advertising, marketing, finance, dis- 
 tribution and similar subjects of public and private wel- 
 fare, are planned for an adjacent building. 
 
 Maya Temple 
 
 When the Europeans first reached America they en- 
 countered many Indian tribes. Some lived in compact 
 villages in houses of stone or adobe bricks ; others were 
 hunters and lived in tepees or dwellings easily moved. 
 In general the tribes in North America were in a rather 
 primitive state, but in Mexico and Middle America they 
 had advanced far towards civilization. Among these 
 most advanced peoples the best known are the Maya, 
 Inca, Toltec and Aztec. 
 
 The Maya civilization probably had its beginnings cen- 
 turies before the Christian era in the highlands of Guate- 
 mala and Honduras. From there it spread slowly into 
 Yucatan, where it reached its highest development about 
 1200 A. D. These people built great cities in stone. On 
 the tops of pyramids stood stately temples, government 
 buildings and astronomical observatories, the stone walls 
 of which were decorated with intricate carvings. Art, 
 mathematics and astronomy were highly developed. 
 
 At the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, about 1530, 
 the country was suffering from civil war and the culture 
 was somewhat in decline. Nevertheless, the Maya offered 
 sharp resistance to the invaders and w^ere only subdued 
 after a severe struggle. The conquerors wiped out the 
 ruling educated class, burned and destroyed their books 
 and written records, and left their cities in ruins. The 
 descendants of the Maya still live in Yucatan and Central 
 America, but the old civilization has vanished. 
 
 In order to bring to life this story of the past A Cen- 
 tury of Progress cooperated with Tulane University of 
 New Orleans in sending a party to Yucatan. This expedi- 
 tion gathered data necessary for the construction at the 
 Fair of a replica of one of the finest of the Maya buildings. 
 That chosen was the Nunnery at Uxmal, a Maya city 
 southwest of Merida, the present capital of Yucatan, and 
 about 80 kilometers inland. The model of the Nunnery, 
 which is exhibited in the case in the north end of the 
 Exhibition Hall of the Administration Building, was 
 made at Tulane University. Back of the model, against 
 the north wall of the room, is an assemblage of the casts 
 restored from the data gathered by the expedition. These 
 casts represent examples of ornament taken at random 
 from various parts of the structure. The casts give an 
 indication of the color which can still be found on pro- 
 tected parts of the original structure. It is planned to 
 place the Maya Temple just north of 31st Street. 
 
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 Buildings Under Construction 
 
 riciicnil Exliibits 
 Bnililiiit; 
 
 Afjrioultural 
 Buililin^j 
 
 » SixtfiMitli Street 
 Bridjji" 
 
 Oeiieral Mcitors 
 Hiiiltlin;; 
 
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 Foreign Exhibits 
 
 Tl 
 
 ^HIS publication, issued as a Guide Book 
 for the international exposition, A Cen- 
 tury of Progress, to be held in 1933, contains 
 the statement of preparations and of the 
 progress made in carrying them out up to the 
 first of June, 1932, one year before the Fair 
 opens. It has been carefully prepared upon the basis of 
 things actually accomplished and contains no reference to 
 hopes indulged nor to promises not realized. 
 
 In this edition of the Guide Book there is, therefore, 
 no reference to foreign participation. The association 
 has received great encouragement from about twenty for- 
 eign governments but reserves its statements as to par- 
 ticipation on the part of these governments until appro- 
 priations are made by them and commissions appointed. 
 Announcements of this nature will be made b}^ the Gov- 
 ernments themselves. 
 
 An examination of the experiences of previous exposi- 
 tions discloses the fact that it is customary to have the 
 definite government appropriations for participation 
 made within the last twelve months before the opening 
 of the Fair. 
 
 Edison Memorial 
 
 THIS structure, which is to be built as a memorial to 
 Thomas A. Edison, will, in its simple, monumental 
 and dignified architecture, attempt to reproduce the spirit 
 which Edison represented to the world. Appropriately 
 enough, it will be erected on the lagoon's edge, adjoining 
 the Electrical Group. 
 
 The Memorial will house displays setting forth the fun- 
 damental discoveries that this great inventor has con- 
 tributed to science during his long years of service to 
 humanity. 
 
 Edison's garden at his home in Orange, New Jersey, 
 was one of his most pleasant avocations and the place in 
 which he spent much of his leisure time. The garden 
 which is planned outside the Memorial will be planted 
 with flowers and plants and shaded by a great oak tree, 
 all of which will be brought to Chicago from Edison's 
 own garden. 
 
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 Construction 
 
 T 
 
 'HE city within a city that is rapidly 
 
 trrowiiit^ to coinpli'litm on the acri's ('oiii- 
 
 j)iisin^ till' Fair i^rttuiids will iiavo its own 
 
 water supply, gas, electricity and telephone 
 
 systems, Iniilt to take care of the needs of 
 
 ]",UUO,OCU) persons daily. 
 
 At intervals throughout the grounds are to be found 
 
 ditclu's dwj; and being dug for these, while plans arc being 
 
 prepared for construction of four pumping stations. 
 
 Water is being provided at all necessary points in the 
 grounds. The water system and the sewerage system 
 will be connected to the City of Chicago system. All 
 electric and telephone wires are laid underground in 
 conduits, or connected to structures. Gas will be pipetl 
 to all buildings and points where it w^ill be required. 
 
 Three bridges are contemplated to connect the main- 
 land with Northerly Island — one at the south end of the 
 island at Twenty-third street, one at the north end of the 
 Island at Twelfth street and another spanning the lagoon 
 at Sixteenth street. 
 
 The original park plan provided two north and south 
 highways, one of which. Lief t]ricson Drive along the 
 lake's edge, was completed and the other, on the inner 
 edge close to the Illinois Central right-of-way, was only 
 partially finished when the Exposition took over the land. 
 The Exposition widened the existing section and com- 
 pleted the inner road to avoid interfering with city traffic 
 after the fence was erected. Just inside the fence is being 
 built a roadway for bus traffic only, while Lief Ericson 
 will form the main pedestrian artery. 
 
 An extensive svstem of walks has been laid out and 
 promises something entirely new. Consideration will be 
 given to using colored sidewalks as decorative features 
 in and around buildings for the Exposition. Experiments 
 of this nature are in progress. 
 
 These walks will not only be attractive but they will 
 be non-skid, non-glare and comfortable for j)edestrians 
 to walk on and, together with the superb highways and 
 roads, they will contribute to an Exposition grounds a 
 hundred per c<?nt mudless. They will also provide a ready 
 accessibility to every building that will lend greatly to 
 the \'isitors' comfort and facilitate sightseeing. 
 
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 Housing, Tourist Accom- 
 modations 
 
 WHEN the world storms Chicago's gates for the 150 
 days of A Century of Progress Exposition, the city 
 of ''I Will" will have made ample and lavish provision 
 for its comfort. 
 
 A careful survey by the Chicago Association of Com- 
 merce reveals that, within forty-five minutes of the Ex- 
 position grounds, 400,000 visitors can be accommodated 
 at the city's hotels. Furthermore, hotel association offi- 
 cials insist, none of these hotels will advance their rates. 
 
 About the grounds, there will be numerous information 
 booths maintained by the Association of Commerce for 
 the sole purpose of giving visitors the latest exact infor- 
 mation as to lodgings in clubs, private homes, etc. 
 
 Another feature of practical interest to prospective 
 Fair visitors will be the circle of official 1933 World's Fair 
 tourist camps fringing the outskirts of Chicago. 
 
 Credentials have been issued to the Official Tourist 
 Camps and Parking Corporation of Chicago by the Ex- 
 position and work is to begin immediately on the first of 
 a series of twent}^ camp-sites by this company. 
 
 The first camp will be at 211th street and the Illi- 
 nois Central Railroad on the Lincoln Highway near Mat- 
 teson, Illinois, and fifty cabins soon will be available 
 for use. Later this will be increased to 500 individual 
 and unit type cottages. The Matteson camp will serve 
 as a model for the other camps to be built by this com- 
 pany. It is expected that several other companies will 
 shortly enter into similar agreements with the Fair. 
 
 The Exposition will not erect or operate any tourist 
 camps of its own. But when a responsible company 
 agrees to erect, equip and maintain a camp on a site 
 approved by the committee on tourist camps, and con- 
 forms to the strict standards set for providing roomy, 
 clean quarters, all facilities for modern sanitation, com- 
 plete protection for cars and personal belongings, rea- 
 sonably priced restaurant or cafeteria, or a convenient 
 place to prepare meals, then A Century of Progress gives 
 its official approval to such a camp. This approval in- 
 cludes an official emblem certifying to its connection with 
 the Fair and the cooperation of the Exposition's pub- 
 licity via newspapers, automobile associations, maga- 
 zines and radio. 
 
 Fourteen major highways entering Chicago will have 
 special names and markings reaching seventy-five miles 
 
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 out, sncli as "Industrial Boulevanl," "Electrical High- 
 way," "Agricultural Highway," etc., according to a cora- 
 prohciisive scheme worked out by the Exposition's traffic 
 committee. Tourist camps will be located along these 
 designated highways, with special reference to s])eedy 
 transiJortation by steam, sul)url)an electric, surface car, 
 elevated or motor bus transportation lines. The Exposi- 
 tion will maintain information booths for the convenience 
 and guidance of the motor tourists. 
 
 According to the general plan, the lirst indication to 
 the motor tourist that he is approaciiing Chicago will ])e 
 a sign across the highway informing that a World's Fair 
 information booth is close at hand (»n the roadside. The 
 attendant here will give the tourist a list of rooms, kept 
 up to the hour by telephone communication with the cen- 
 tral bureau of information in the city. The list will con- 
 tain the locations and prices of tourist camps, rooming 
 houses and hotels. The tniveler will also be given a map 
 showing the location of the tourist camps, and will be 
 told where the first one on his road is located. Here he 
 will find clean, comfortable cabins at the camp with facil- 
 ities for tub or shower bath and other necessaries to his 
 comfort. Here he will be given a chart of the Exposi- 
 tion grounds and all the information he needs to get 
 there quickly by the nearest fixed transportation route. 
 
 The plans for the tourist cam]is and information facil- 
 ities are based on an estimated daily average number of 
 25,000 motor tourists. 
 
 Special Features 
 
 THE arranged program for A Century of Progress 
 l*]xposition does not by any means encom^iass the 
 whole, or even a major part, of the features and attrac- 
 tions which will be available to the Fair visitors in ID.'i'x 
 There will be hundreds — thousands — of s])ecial and as 
 yet unlisted events to thrill and to charm, to entice and 
 to soothe, to teach and to entertain. 
 
 Music 
 
 Lovers of music — and who does not love 
 music in some one of its myriad moods f 
 — will find delightful surprises upon almost 
 cvei'y one of the l.")0 days dui'iiig the Exposi- 
 tion's life. Singing societies, distingui'<hed 
 orchestras and bands, noted choral groups 
 from all over the world have signified their intention of 
 gathering here to become a i)art of this Exposition. 
 
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 The music events tentatively programmed include 
 presentation of one or two choral classics a week — stand- 
 ard works re(iuiriiig from HOO to a tliousand voices. The 
 Chicago Orchestra Association, headed l)y that matchless 
 director, Dr. Frederick Stock, is already working out 
 this schedule. 
 
 Sports 
 
 Sports of all kinds and <lescriptions must 
 necessarily play an important role in the 
 Fair. A program of a most inclusive char- 
 acter is being ])repnred by the Cicneral Spoi-ts 
 (V)mmittee, headetl by George (Jetz, and as 
 chairman of its managing committee. With 
 magnificent Soldier Field available for held and track 
 sports, football, baseball, wrestling and boxing; with the 
 lovely lagoon, the harbor and the whole of Lake Michigan 
 ready for aquatic sports, swimming, canoeing, motor-boat 
 racing and yachting; and with numerous famous golf 
 courses and tennis courts in the vicinity, almost at the 
 doors of the grounds, no Fair in history has l)een so well 
 equipped to give proper place to sport, which is such an 
 important factor in modern American life. 
 
 Pageantry 
 
 Those who are fond of the pomp and color of page- 
 antry will find delight in the variety of these classic 
 shows which will undoubtedly be arranged on the scene by 
 national groups and organizations, members of which 
 expect to come to the Fair in a body. And Chicago's 
 Soldier Field, one of the permanent and noteworthy 
 structures which will be devoted to the Fair, is ideal for 
 the conduct of the massive type of pageant. 
 
 The open-air dramatic spectacles of the foreign groups 
 ought to be especially thrilling. Special days have been 
 set aside for the various nationalities. Upon these days 
 each will stage its pageant, perform its mass singing, 
 stage its own gorgeous show in its o\m peculiar wav in 
 Soldier Field. 
 
 Congresses and Conventions 
 
 In considering the unscheduled features which will 
 enhance the Fair program, the various congresses of 
 scientists, scholars and educators, must not be overlooked. 
 
 The American Association for the Advancement of 
 Science has joined with A Century of Progress in inviting 
 distinguished foreign scientists to a])pear before the 
 meeting of the association in 1933. 
 
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 Many of these distinguished guests will be available 
 for public lectures, so that the regular program of the 
 Exposition will be enriched and its international char- 
 acter emphasized. 
 
 As has been mentioned, there have been hundreds of 
 groups, organizations or associations from all parts of 
 the civilized world to decide to meet in Chicago during 
 the Fair. These conventions alone must bring to the 
 Fair a countless number of visitors who will combine 
 participation in the Exposition with the pleasure and 
 benefits of their annual or biennial get-together. 
 
 The variety in the types of conventions which have 
 already signified their intention to hold their meetings 
 here is a striking commentary on the widespread interest 
 in the Exposition and the diversity of its appeal. A list 
 of these is appended on the last pages. 
 
 Soldiers Field Stadium 
 
 THE Soldiers Field Stadium is one of the pivotal 
 points in the building scheme of A Century of Prog- 
 ress. More fortunately located than many others of the 
 world, it reflects the intention of its designers, both in 
 architectural line and in detail, to make it a noteworthy 
 monument to civic pride. 
 
 Not only the landscape architects of the South Park 
 system, but also the traffic engineers, operating officials, 
 and maintenance organization, made a study of future 
 needs and the problems involved in the use of the struc- 
 ture by a capacity attendance, before the structure was 
 built and sidewalks and highways around it laid. 
 
 The structure is of concrete faced in pre-cast Benedict 
 stone. Classical in the precise meaning of the word, the 
 U-shaped structure, open at one end, is a true stadium. 
 The colonnade surmounting the structure is a purely 
 architectural feature. 
 
 In the past, many notable events have taken place in 
 this enclosure. It has been estimated that 225,000 people 
 were massed within it for the Eucharistic Congress. Find- 
 ing a different use in the Dempsey-Tunney fight, 183,000 
 persons gathered. Football games between the Army and 
 Navy, Notre Dame and Southern California, and others ; 
 the Chicagoland Music Festival ; and many similar activi- 
 ties have been staged here. 
 
 The opportunity to include this structure within the 
 Exposition grounds gives assurance of being able to take 
 proper care of very large groups gathered for special 
 features and events. 
 
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 Museum of Science 
 and Industry 
 
 I^lli'l Mnscnm <»r Science and Induslrv is closely 
 related to the purpose of A Century of Progress. The 
 primary intention of tliis museum is to «^iv{» peo[)le an 
 opportunity to survey tiie technical and scientific pro<^^ress 
 of till' past and e\aluate the status of the present. 
 
 This institution, throuj;h the an-ani;ement and lumdlinj; 
 of its exhibits, will demonstiate \aiious scientific ])rin- 
 fi])les and inventions, will show industrial and en»;ineer- 
 ini;' jjronress, and at the sanu' time will indicate their 
 equally important social implications. It is to be more 
 than a storehouse to which the j)uhlie will be admitted. 
 The machines will be in aetion. 
 
 The museum is rendering- assistance to A Century of 
 Proi::ress by co-operating in the i)reparation and arrang- 
 ing of the scientitic and industrial exhibits which are to 
 form such an important ])art of the Ex|)osition. 
 
 It is anticii)at('d that, at the close of the Kxi)osition, the 
 Museum will install and maintain as ])ei-manent exhibits 
 many of the industrial and scientific exhibits which have 
 formed a ]>art of A Century of Progress. 
 
 The ^^useum of Science and Industry, housed in the 
 remodeled Fine Ai-ts Building of the Columbian Kxposi- 
 tion, is the outgrowth of the interest and enthusiasm of 
 Mr. Julius Kosenwald in the technical museums of 
 Europe. 
 
 This building has been called by many the masterpiece 
 of the Columbian Exjxjsition. Classical in architecture, 
 it was designed by C. B. Atwood and covers some seven 
 acres of ground. The ])lain and ornamental pilaster of 
 its plaster walls has been rejjlaced by Indiana limestone 
 and the interior has been c<>mpletely redesigne<l to suit 
 its present ]»urpose. 
 
 MUSKl.M OF SCIKNCK A.NO l.NULSTUY
 
 THE AKT IxXaTlTUTE 
 
 Art Institute 
 
 CHICAGO'S famous museum of art at Michigan 
 Avenue and Adams Street has been chosen as the 
 official exhibit building of fine arts by A Century of 
 Progress. Here, the greatest masterpieces of the ages, 
 gathered from the four corners of the earth, will be on 
 view throughout the 1933 World's Fair. The Art 
 Institute is located near the north entrance of the Fair 
 Grounds. 
 
 Paralleling the general exhibits of science and industry, 
 the fine arts exhibit will show the progress of art in the 
 last hundred years. The large contemporary section will 
 comprise both foreign and American paintings and sculp- 
 ture, including a representative group of works by Chi- 
 cago artists. 
 
 The retrospective American section will adequately 
 cover the period from the American pre-Colonial painters 
 to the time of Homer and Duveneck. Retrospective foreign 
 sections will fill a number of galleries, with emphasis on 
 the Impressionists. 
 
 As a background to the ''Exposition of One Hundred 
 Years of Art, ' ' the Art Institute will arrange in sequence 
 individual galleries devoted to Italian, Dutch, Flemish 
 and French Primitives, to Dutch sixteenth and seven- 
 teenth century painting, to Italian painting of the six- 
 teenth and seventeenth century, and to eighteenth century 
 French and English painting. 
 
 The standard of the entire exhibition will be the highest 
 possible. All works shown will be selected by invitation 
 
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 only. The loans from Anu'ricans will l)e chosen as to illus- 
 trate the |)r()g:ress and imixirtance of picture collections 
 in the United States dnrin,i>' the ])ast century. 
 
 The collections in the Art Institute inchide about GOO 
 paintings; 7)00 casts of sculpture; lOU original niarhle 
 statues and frag:inents, some from the earliest i)eriods; 
 3,000 textiles of ancient and modern times, and extensive 
 collections of ])()ttery, ])()rcelains, and china. 
 
 The various collecti(»ns contain many notable examples 
 of the work of Rembrandt, Kubens, Van Dyke, Millet, 
 Corot, Turner, (Jainsl)orough, Reynolds, Constable, In- 
 ness and other artists of early and modern i)eriods. 
 
 Original sculpture and architectural fragments from 
 the Classical Age and casts of the masterpieces of this 
 period, including the Winged Victory, Venus of Melos and 
 the Discus Thrower, are housed in the galleries. An 
 Egyptian Collection, and an exhibit of rare textiles form- 
 ing a chronological history from about 2,000 B. C, are 
 among- the most valuable of the collections. 
 
 The Art School of the Art Institute originated with a 
 small group of students in 1866, and now has a yearly 
 attendance of 4,500 students and a staff of 75 instructors 
 and lecturers. The Institute offers over seventy lectures 
 and concerts every year, most of which are free to the 
 students, and distinguished artists from other cities and 
 from Europe are engaged from time to time to give them 
 special instruction. 
 
 Besides the permanent exhibitions, an average of 
 seventy-five temporary exhibitions, consisting of numer- 
 ous one-man shows and special exhibitions given by the 
 various departments, are held every year. 
 
 BLACKSTONE HALL— ART INSirrUTE 
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 ABLER PLANETARIUM 
 
 Adier Planetarium and 
 Astronomical Museum 
 
 THE Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Musemn, 
 northernmost structure on Northerly Island, is an 
 imposing- edifice of rainbow granite, dodecagonal in 
 shape, with copper dome. Inset at the exterior corners 
 are bronze plaques of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac. 
 
 Inside, a heavenful of drama as old as the Earth itself 
 will unfold itself to the Exposition visitors. The firma- 
 ment passes in review. Visitors sit beneath an artificial 
 sky and see the stars and planets, the Sun and Moon, 
 move across the dome. 
 
 The Planetarium was made possible through the public 
 spirit and generosity of Mr. Max Adler of Chicago, who 
 provided the funds for its erection and equipment. It is 
 the first of its kind in America and up to the present, the 
 only one. The building was designed by Ernest A. Gruns- 
 feld, Jr., Chicago architect. 
 
 As the visitor takes his seat, he sees above him a domed, 
 dead-white ceiling. In the center of the fioor, under this 
 ceiling, is a mysterious object mounted on steel stilts. 
 
 The lights gradually grow dim, as in a theater. What a 
 moment ago was a naked white vault, now has become the 
 deep blue of the midnight sky. And then the miracle 
 happens. A switch has been thrown and this blue vault 
 becomes a firmament of twinkling stars. 
 
 The voice of the lecturer is heard, explaining the won- 
 ders of the drama of the heavens. Behind the desk a 
 switchboard is concealed that gives him absolute control 
 over the intricate apparatus. 
 
 — so —
 
 So lloxiblc is lliis apparatiis llial, willi a sli^^lil ailjust- 
 meiit of tlie motors, the (li*nioiistrator can t»x|H»riiiu*iit with 
 tliis mail math' universe as hi' wills, Spfctators may look 
 liackwaitis or t"oi\var<ls in tinu*, ih'pciidiii^; i»ii the optT 
 ator. How ditl tln' iK-avciis appt-ar wlu'ii Ciirist walked on 
 Kaith.* How did the sky appear at the time ol" (ialih'o* 
 Wliich star will hv the Pole Star thousands of years hoiico! 
 
 Or, the lecturer may sh<»w the s|M'ctators how eternal 
 Sjirinj;, Sunnner or W'iiitei-, or eternal no(»n<lay can he 
 astronomically realized, lie can transport them visually 
 to the tr(»pics and show them constellations they have 
 never seen hef(»re, or to either the North or South I'ole 
 where the celestial Ixulies simply swinj;; aiound forevei- 
 in circles, withi>ut risinj;: or setting. 
 
 The sky is faintly illmninated, so that it seems blue 
 despite the clear wliite of the dome. The same ])h<'nom 
 enon is ol)serve<l out of do((rs on a fnie ni,u:ht. So it haj* 
 pens that the watchers of the ]»lanetarium sky lose all 
 sense of enclosure. As a star sets its hri.i^ditness dimiii 
 ishes. The reason is to be f<»und in our atmos])here which 
 absorl)s a part of the li^ht. Xear the horizon the rays 
 from a star pass through a much thicker layer of air. 
 Hence the faintness of setting:: stars. It is perfection of 
 detail such as this that has caused famous astronomers 
 to pay tribute to the country's (uily planetarium as "tin' 
 most remarkable wav of teachinir astmiKtinv." 
 
 T h I- riiinctariuiii 
 chamber with au 
 die lift' assi'inhh'ii 
 for a lecture- 
 deinonatration 
 
 l)«'iiiiiiiHt ration <if the I'lanc- 
 tarintii itiNlrutneiit. It |>ru- 
 jfctit H miniature uiiivemc — 
 sun, muon, iilanetn ami itlnra
 
 THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
 
 Field Museum 
 
 AT THE front door of A Century of Progress, directly 
 -^^ west of the north entrance to the Exposition, stands 
 one of the world's greatest scientific museums, the clas- 
 sically beautiful Field Museum of Natural History. 
 
 Founded in 1893 by the late Marshall Field as part of 
 the World Columbian Exposition, it was moved some 
 years ago to the magnificent building it now occupies. 
 
 Within its lofty walls are assembled exhibits related to 
 the four great natural sciences of anthropology, botany, 
 geology and zoology, each with its many and important 
 subdivisions. In other words, the things with which this 
 museum deals are basic ones — the life of man, the life of 
 plants, the life of animals and the composition of the earth 
 upon which all these forms of life exist. 
 
 In pursuance of its mission to disseminate knowledge of 
 the world we live in, the Field Museum aims to present 
 information in its most fascinating form, employing 
 methods which are graphic, vivid and dramatic, and at 
 the same time to maintain the highest standard of scien- 
 tific accurac3^ 
 
 That it is making science attractive to the general public 
 is demonstrated by the fact that over one million visitors 
 enter its portals annually. Free lectures and moving 
 picture programs featuring natural history, science and 
 travel are held regularly. More than 1,000 traveling 
 exhibits are being circulated among the schools and lec- 
 turers with stereopticon slides and moving pictures are 
 sent to the schools to give talks to the children. A library 
 of 95,000 scientific books is maintained for the general 
 public, as well as being available to a large number of 
 scientists, students and teachers. 
 
 — 82 —
 
 Shedd Aquarium 
 
 CIIK'A(i() boasts the larp:cst and tinost aquarium in 
 tlie world in the .John (J. Sliechl Ai|uariuni, located 
 directly north of the Twelfth Street entrance to the lv\- 
 ])osition. Presented to the city hy the late .lohn (i. Shedd 
 at a eost of $o,UUU,()UU, this octaj;onal building of (Jeor^ia 
 marble contains the world's most priceless collection of 
 fish and other acjuatic life. 
 
 The bniidini;- consists of a main floor, a basement mezza- 
 nine and a central tower KM) feet hiii:h. The exhibits are 
 so arranji:ed that they may be seen without climbinjJT any 
 stairs or retraeinji; steps. Inside the front vestibule, the 
 visitor enters a spaci -us mar])le foyer which opens into an 
 octagonal rotunda, also of marble, in the center of which 
 is an immense pool arranged as a semi-tropical swamp. 
 Radiating from the rotunda are six main exhibition halls. 
 
 In these halls are 1.S2 ])ermanent wall tanks, ninety-iive 
 reserve tanks and several ])ortable tanks, the sky lights 
 above them so arranged that the visitor views the fish by 
 means of reflected light. 
 
 The ** balanced" aquarium room, decorated in colorful 
 Japanese style to re|)resent an open-air courtyard, is ])ar- 
 ticularly interesting. In the center of this octagonal room, 
 lighted by large Jai)anese lanterns, is a central kiosk in 
 which fancy goldfish are exhibited. The walls of this room 
 contain sixty-five smaller acpiaria which are ])lanted with 
 aquatic life and in which "t(>y" tropical lisli are shown. 
 
 Other interesting features are a lecture hall, a hatchery, 
 scientific laboratories, and a museum of rare specimens. 
 
 The museum, which has been visited by more than 
 n,0()(),0()0 ])ersoiis in the last year and a half, has its own 
 railroad car which is in use nine months out of a year, 
 transporting exhibit material from all over the country. 
 
 THE JOUN <;. SHEDD AQUARIUM 
 — 83 —
 
 Admission Charges 
 
 During the pre-fair period, the gates are open between 
 the hours of 9 a. m. and 11 p. m. daily, and charges within 
 the Exposition enclosure are as follows: 
 
 Gate Both Adults and Oiildreu, 10c 
 
 Hall of Science Free 
 
 Dodgem Outboard Motor Boat, 2 persons in boat, per boat, 25c 
 
 City of New York Children, 15e; Adults, 25e 
 
 Lindy Loop Both Adult-s and Children, 10c 
 
 Hey Dey Both Adults and Children, 10c 
 
 Funnies Both Adults and Cliildren 10c 
 
 Barrels Both Adults and Cliildren, 10c 
 
 African Dips Three balls for 1 Oc ; nine balls for 25c 
 
 Shooting- Gallery Twelve shots for 25c 
 
 Fort Dearborn Both Adults and Children, 15c 
 
 Balloon Week days, Cliildren, 25c; Adults, 50c 
 
 Balloon Saturday and Sunday, Oiildren, 50c; Adults, $1.00 
 
 Alligator Show Children, 15e; Adults, 25c 
 
 Lincoln Group Cliildren, 15c; Adults, 25c 
 
 Travel and Transport Bldg Free 
 
 Goodyear Dirigible "Puritan". .Fifteen-minute trip for $3.00 
 
 Lagoon Boat 10c 
 
 Bus transportation, round trip througli grounds 
 
 Both Adults and Children, 25c 
 
 Bus transportation, between any two points within grounds. . 
 
 Both Adults and Cliildren, 10c 
 
 When other buildings, such as the General Exhibits and 
 the Electrical, are turned over to the Fair by the con- 
 tractors, they will be opened to the public free of charge. 
 
 On and after June 1, 1933, the admission prices for 
 general admission to A Century of Progress will be as 
 follows : 
 
 Adults 50c 
 
 Children .... 25c 
 
 There will also be available season tickets which are 
 highly restricted in that they require a passport photo- 
 graph to be furnished at the Exposition's expense and 
 the signature of the person purchasing the ticket. This 
 ticket will sell for the price of $15.00. 
 
 It is contemplated that tickets will be ready for delivery 
 on or about September 15, 1932. 
 
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 AHCHITECTS 
 
 (■(•NCKPTION 
 
 UF CENKKAL 
 
 MOTOKS 
 
 BUILDING
 
 Pertinent Facts 
 
 THAT this is the first World's Fair unsupported by 
 taxes ! 
 
 That the opening day of the Exposition is June 1, 1933 ! 
 
 Tliat a pool of 127 Insurance Companies, the largest of 
 its kind ever formed, is indemnifying the Exposition 
 against fire and windstorm damage! 
 
 That more than 600 Chicago organizations have ap- 
 pointed volunteer committees engaged in aiding the 
 Exposition ! 
 
 That the World's Fair Legion comprises 120,000 citi- 
 zens who, four years ago, paid $5.00 each for tickets of 
 admission to the Exposition ! 
 
 That every organization promoting sports on a na- 
 tional basis has been invited to hold its established 
 national and international championships in Chicago in 
 1933! 
 
 That several million dollars' worth of Exposition ex- 
 hibit space has-been sold! 
 
 That a large percentage of that exhibit space has 
 already been paid for ! 
 
 That the J. C. Deagan, Inc., has installed a carillon in 
 the Hall of Science tower ! 
 
 That almost 200,000 people visited Fort Dearborn in 
 1931! 
 
 That the site of the World's Fair is entirely man-made ! 
 
 That a representation of Hollywood is under way ! 
 
 That all of the space in the Communications Building 
 has been contracted for by only four companies. 
 
 That there are hundreds of exhibitors already pledged 
 to i^articipate ! 
 
 That, out of 164 American cities, 45 have worse homi- 
 cide records than Chicago. 
 
 That the Waverly Press has published a series of dollar 
 scientific books, called "A Century of Progress Science 
 Series"! 
 
 That World's Fair merchandise certificates are being 
 issued by business firms over the country ! 
 
 That Chicago has a delightful summer climate ! 
 
 That John Alden Carpenter, Howard Hanson and John 
 Phillip Sousa have prepared special Century of Progress 
 musical compositions ! 
 
 That the Electro-Acoustic Products Company will 
 install on the Exposition grounds the world's largest 
 loud speaker ! 
 
 — 86 —
 
 That tlio Xatiitiial Hcsoaivli Coum-il, through an 
 advisory rdiniiiittcc nf 4(K) of tho country's i)rc*t»ininont 
 scientists, aidrd in pii-parin^ tin* cxiiiltit plan. 
 
 Tliat tile Social Scimcc cxhiliit will show the contribu- 
 tions made hy tlu' various other nationalities to American 
 civilization ami culture by mt-ans of the " Kpic of 
 America." 
 
 That the Kxposition j4:rounds are ench»se«i by a nine 
 f<M)t all metal fence especially designed not only for pro- 
 ti'ction but for its place in tlie c«»l<>r and li^htinj^ scheme. 
 
 That railr»»ads ar»' already runninij: special throuj^di fare 
 excursions to Chicay:o. 
 
 Officers 
 
 Rurcs C. Daweh, PrvHident 
 
 ClIAKI.KS S. PBTKIISO.N, Vi»'t« I'rOHiiltMlt 
 
 Dakiel II. BrK.NiiAM. Vice Prcnidfiit ntul Swrt-tary 
 
 (iKOKUK WooUKcrr, Tn'amirtT 
 
 Lknox H. Loiik, (iciK-ral .M:iii:i);fr 
 
 Allen D. Albkkt, Assist.mt to Prfsidfiit 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Rufus C. DawoH 
 Brit ton I. RmUl 
 Danii-I II. Huriiliaiii 
 FraiK-is X. Busdi 
 Gen. .\bi'l DaviH 
 Mrs. Kfllogg Fairbank 
 
 Amos (\ Miller 
 F. R, Moulton 
 diaries S. Peterson 
 Dr. Wni. Allen l*U!U*y 
 (Jeorge Wotxiruff 
 
 Trustees 
 
 Max Adler 
 Arthur .Andersen 
 Philip ]>. Armour 
 Flovd L. Bati-nian 
 Mrs. Jat-ob B:iur 
 Vincent Bendix 
 Herman Black 
 Mrs. Tiffany Blake 
 Mrs. Waller Bonlen 
 Homer J. Buckley 
 Britton I. Bu<ld 
 Dr. Ih-rman N. Bundeson 
 Daniel II. Burnhani 
 Francis X. Busch 
 Rush C. Butler 
 Charles ('. Carnahan 
 John Alden Carin-nter 
 Robert F. Carr 
 Anton J. C'ermak 
 Dr. llarrv W. (liase 
 Harley L. Clarke 
 D. .\. Crawford 
 John F. Cuneo 
 Arthur W. C^ltten 
 Gen. .\Im«1 D.-ivis 
 Rufus C Dawea 
 
 Roy D. Koohn 
 
 D. F. Kellv 
 
 Edward J." Kelly 
 
 Col. Frank Knox 
 
 Krnest J. Kruetgen 
 
 Albert I.jisker 
 
 Mrs. Jame« Hamilton Lewis 
 
 Mrs. Andrew MacI^Msh 
 
 Mrs. David .Maver 
 
 Cliauncev .McCormick 
 
 (VjI. R.dnrt n. -McCormick 
 
 Donald H. McLennan 
 
 Mrs. Arthur Meeker 
 
 Amos C. Miller 
 
 John J. Mitchell. Jr. 
 
 F. ]{. Moulton 
 
 Miiu Agnen Nestor 
 
 Victor A. OInnder 
 
 Birger Osland 
 
 Mrs. !• •• - " ' - 
 
 Maj «. -r 
 
 Col. Si . !v 
 
 Clinrles N. Pelerf 
 
 George Pick 
 
 Dr. \Vm. Allen Puwy 
 
 George M. Keynolda 
 
 — 87
 
 Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes 
 
 George W. Dixon 
 
 L. A. Downs 
 
 Max Epstein 
 
 Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank 
 
 Oscar G. Foreman 
 
 Gen. Milton J. Foreman 
 
 George F. Getz 
 
 Cliarles F. Glore 
 
 James E. Gorman 
 
 Homer Guck 
 
 Sangston Hettler 
 
 Ralph J. Hines 
 
 Edward N. Hurley 
 
 Dr. Robt. Maynard Hutehins 
 
 Samuel Insull 
 
 Samuel Insull, Jr. 
 
 Theodore W. Robinson 
 
 Fred W. Sargent 
 
 Dr. Walter Dill Seott 
 
 Chas. W. Seabury 
 
 John C. Shaffer 
 
 Arch W. Shaw 
 
 Col. Albert A. Sprague 
 
 Eugene M. Stevens 
 
 Maj. Felix .T. Streyckmans 
 
 Bernard E. Sunny 
 
 Orville J. Tavlor ' 
 
 S. E. Thomasen 
 
 Mrs. Frederic W. Upham 
 
 B. M. Winston 
 
 Gen. Robt. E. Wood 
 
 Mathew Woll 
 
 George Woodruff 
 
 Architectural Commission 
 
 Harvey Wiley Corbett, Chairman, New York 
 
 Edward H. Bennett, Cliieago 
 Arthur Brown, Jr., San Francisco 
 Daniel H. Burnham, 
 
 (ex-officio) Cliieago 
 Hubert Burnham, Cliieago 
 
 Paul Philippe Cret, Philadelphia 
 John A. Holabird, Cliieago 
 Raymond Mathewson Hood, New York 
 Ferruccio Vitale, New York 
 Ralph T. Walker, New York 
 
 Committees 
 
 William H. Beck man 
 
 Chicago 
 Francis X. Busch 
 
 Chicago 
 
 LEGAL COMMITTEE 
 
 C. C. Carnahan 
 
 Chicago 
 Samiel a. Ettelsox 
 
 Chicago 
 Carl Latham 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Amos C. Miller 
 
 Chicago 
 .TULIIS Smietanka 
 
 Chicago 
 
 GENERAL FINANCE COMMITTEE OF CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR 
 Gex. Charles G. Dawes, Chnirmnn 
 
 Sajiuel Insull Col. Albert A. Sprague 
 
 Chicago Chicago 
 
 Joseph E. Otis Clement Studebaker, Jr. 
 
 Chicago Cliieago 
 
 Daniel J. Schuyler George Woodruff 
 
 Chicago Chicago 
 
 Britton I. BUDD 
 
 Chicago 
 Gen. Abel Davis 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles F. Glore 
 
 Chicago 
 
 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION 
 
 John D. Ames 
 
 Chicago 
 E. M. Antrim 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles E. Byrne 
 
 Chicago 
 Milton Fairman 
 
 Chicago 
 Paul E. Faust 
 
 Chicago 
 Peter S. Lambros 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Homer J. Buckley, Chairman 
 Harry Lipsky 
 
 Chicago 
 W. W. M A.I OR 
 
 Chicago 
 E. L. McCarthy 
 
 Chicago 
 W. Frank McClure 
 
 Chicago 
 William D. McJunkin 
 
 Chicago 
 EnwARD J. Mehren 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Martin J. Quiglet 
 
 Chicago 
 Harry C. Read 
 
 Chicago 
 Henry J. Smith 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles S. Stanton 
 
 Chicago 
 Arthur D. White 
 
 Chicago 
 
 AUDITING COMMITTEE 
 
 Oscar G. Foreman, Chairman 
 
 Floyd L. Bateman Gen. Abel Davis 
 
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 Ct)MMITTEE ON NATIONALITIES 
 
 MaJ. Pslix J. Strktckmanm. Chairman 
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 I>M Max IIemi'M 
 
 EliiCNE llll.t>EBRA.\U 
 
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 Cblrairo 
 Yeimabibu Tsccoki 
 
 Chlcairo 
 J. M. I'LLMAN 
 
 Cblcafo 
 
 COMMITTEE ON TKAKFIC CONTROL 
 
 BioN J. Arnold 
 
 Chicago 
 W. D. Beck 
 
 Chliugo 
 A. Bernard 
 
 Chicago 
 James V. Bickbt 
 
 Chicago 
 Bbitton I. BfDD 
 
 Chicago 
 Chaki.es II. Dexmh 
 
 Chicago 
 Beknaki) J. Fallon 
 
 Chicago 
 L. I>. (Javton 
 
 Chicago 
 CtiAS. M. Hayes 
 
 Chicago 
 \V. C. Ilu;<;i.vBOTTOu 
 
 Chicago 
 
 THUMAS IllKJAN 
 
 Chicago 
 
 CaPT. T. J. IIOWABD 
 
 Chicago 
 Ml< IIAEI. L. IiiOE 
 
 Chicago 
 K<iv I> Keehn 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Sidney S. (Iorham, Chairman 
 Chicago 
 R. F. Kelker 
 Chicago 
 
 KolltKT KiNGERT 
 
 Chicago 
 I'ETEK LaMBRoM 
 
 Chicago 
 UoiiEKr M. Lee 
 
 Chicago 
 I.AKA\ETTE MaRKLE 
 
 Chicago 
 J'ait. F. J. Mati-hett 
 
 Chicago 
 U. H. Nai- 
 
 Chicago 
 Maj. (;ei*ri;e griNLA.v 
 
 Cblcagii 
 C. I.. Rue 
 
 Chicago 
 
 (ir> \. KuliAEDMON 
 
 Chicago 
 \\ IIIIAM F. Rt-BBELL 
 
 « hIcMgO 
 
 Kbek \V. Saroent 
 
 Chicago 
 CllAN. <i. Sacebh 
 
 Ulvfr Forr»i 
 
 Walter P. Savnorrb 
 I.,aUrancp 
 
 liARRET T. SBELT 
 
 Chicago 
 
 I.EHTEII 1>. SEYMOI'R 
 
 Chicago 
 
 CaHRuI.L SHArrER 
 
 Chicago 
 
 I.EHLIE S. SORENBON 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles S. Stantox 
 
 Chicago 
 Ka\ nor f. Stake 
 
 Chicago 
 Kluee Stbtens 
 
 <*hlcago 
 <'ai-t Edwaed E. Tavloe 
 
 Chicago 
 El UENE S. Tayloe 
 
 Chicago 
 S. E. Thouabo<< 
 
 Chicago 
 Sidney J. William* 
 
 Chicago 
 Rii iiABD W. Wolfe 
 
 Cbicagu 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ENGINEERING 
 L. E. RiTTEB, Chairman 
 
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 Wm S Munbue 
 
 Chicago 
 Eim;ar S. NrrcHBEccT 
 
 Chicago 
 
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 K. A K.N.ERn 
 
 Chicago 
 
 W I'lTNAM 
 
 W A Roc ERE 
 
 Chicago 
 Kidney J Williams 
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 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC PUBUCATIONH 
 I>R. IIbnrt Crew. Chairman 
 
 Dr. Allen D. Albert 
 
 Chicago 
 Donald Bean 
 
 Chicago 
 Homer J. Bicklcy 
 
 Chicago 
 
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 COMMITTEE ON ELECTRICAL GENERATION, DISTRIBUTION 
 AND UTILIZATION 
 
 W. O. Batchelder 
 
 Chicago 
 A. W. Berresfoud 
 
 New York 
 
 BRITTOX I. BUDD 
 
 Chicago 
 Paul S. Clapp 
 
 New York 
 Augustus D. Curtis 
 
 Chicago 
 Oen. Otto II. Falk 
 
 Milwaukee 
 
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 Lloyd, Chairmuii 
 Chicago 
 
 John F. Gilchrist 
 
 Chicago 
 George A. Hughes 
 
 Chicago 
 Samuel Insull. Jr. 
 
 Chicago 
 W. S. Monroe 
 
 Chicago 
 L. E. Myers 
 
 Chicago 
 S. G. Neiler 
 
 Chicago 
 
 John J. O'Brien 
 
 Chicago 
 P. G. Parker 
 
 Chicago 
 Guy A. Richardson 
 
 Chicago 
 R. F. Schuchardt 
 
 Chicago 
 N. G. Symonds 
 
 Chicago 
 F. L. Thompson 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Herman Behrens 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles H. Bueras 
 
 Chicago 
 
 INSURANCE COMMITTEE 
 
 C. W. Seabury. Chairman 
 Chicago 
 
 Wade Fetzer 
 
 Chicago 
 John C. Harding 
 
 Chicago 
 
 George D. Webb 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles P. Whitney 
 
 Chicago 
 
 MUSIC COMMITTEE 
 
 Herbert Witherspoox, Chainnan 
 Chicago 
 
 Herbert M. Johnson, Srcrctari/ 
 Chicago 
 
 Dr. Allen D. Albert 
 
 Chicago 
 H. Leslie Atlass 
 
 Chicago 
 G. C. Bainum 
 
 Chicago 
 Carl Beecher 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Waller Borden 
 
 Chicago 
 Carl Brk'ken 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. J. Lewis Browne 
 
 Chicago 
 Dudley Buck 
 
 Chicago 
 Nobel Cain 
 
 Chicago 
 Harry T. Carlson 
 
 Chicago 
 John Alden Carpenter 
 
 Chicago 
 Phit-lip Greeley Clapp 
 
 Chicago 
 
 D. a. Clipi'inger 
 
 Chicago 
 (JEORciE Dasch 
 
 Chicago 
 Eric Delamarter 
 
 Chicago 
 Richard De Young 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Howard Hanson 
 
 Rochester 
 Mrs. Samuel Insull 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Francis J. Johnson 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Arthur Meeker 
 
 Chicago 
 Joseph E. Maddy 
 
 Ann Arbor 
 Otto Miessner 
 
 Chicago 
 Russell V. Morgan 
 
 Cleveland 
 Edgar A. Nelson 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Dr. Daniel Protherob 
 
 Chicago 
 Carl Reckzeh 
 
 Chicago 
 J. Oliver Riehl 
 
 Chicago 
 Samuel L. Rothakel 
 
 New York 
 Dr. Frederick A. Stock 
 
 Chicago 
 Leo Sowerby 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Charles H. Swift 
 
 Chicago 
 NiLEs Trammel 
 
 Chicago 
 Steven Trumbull 
 
 Chicago 
 H. E. Voegei.i 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Judith Waller 
 
 Chicago 
 Howard Wells 
 
 Chicago 
 
 SPORTS COMMITTEE 
 
 George F. Getz. clminiKiii 
 Chicago 
 
 MANAGING COMMITTEE ON SPORTS 
 
 Avery Brundage, Chairman 
 
 J. L. Bingham, Secretary 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Members of Managing Committee on Sports 
 
 Frank W. Blankley 
 
 Chicago 
 V. K. Brown 
 
 Chicago 
 T. J. Canty 
 
 Chicago 
 Gen. John V. Clinnin 
 
 Chicago 
 
 E. C. Delaporte 
 
 Chicago 
 George T. Donoghue 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles C. Fitzmorris 
 
 Chicago 
 Fred Gardner 
 
 Chicago 
 Thomas T. Hoskixs 
 
 Chicago 
 
 — 90 — 
 
 Herbert G. Reynolds 
 
 Chicago 
 Harry S. Richards 
 
 Chicago 
 Amos Alonzo Stagq 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter Wright 
 
 Chicago
 
 I>K. Allen D. Albeit 
 
 I'llABLCS ANTdlNR 
 
 Lesteh Ahmuik 
 
 I. J. ATW(K)D 
 
 ChloiiKo 
 K. A. Ai TV 
 
 William KAriiBACii 
 
 KAi.rii A. ItAKK 
 t'liii'iinii 
 
 Kl>WIN ItElKEH 
 ItEN.IAMIN ItKlIK 
 
 Kka.nk Hciikim: 
 Chictitzo 
 
 KliBKKT .1. ISENKIUCT 
 
 Mhs. .Iovte Crank Bahbb 
 Chirajii' 
 
 CaSSON BlTCHER 
 
 Chii-njjo 
 J. L. Bingham 
 
 ChicaBo 
 Herman Hlaik 
 
 ChicaKi. 
 William MrC\ Blaie 
 
 .('hit'a>;<> 
 W. M. Hi.AiR 
 
 Chivngo 
 Frank W. Blankley 
 
 CUirngo 
 c;e(«r<;e W. Blossom 
 
 Chicago 
 
 RoNALK I*. BOABDMAN 
 
 Chicago 
 
 NoRRIS tl. BOKCM 
 
 Chicago 
 Fred A. Beitten 
 
 Chicago 
 Kverett C. Brown 
 
 Chicago 
 V. K. Brown 
 
 Chicago 
 Avery Brindagb 
 
 Chicago 
 Albert Brinkee 
 
 Chicago 
 T. J. Bryce 
 
 Chicago 
 Kenneth Birns 
 
 Chicago 
 I'ail Bitler 
 
 Chicago 
 
 T. J. C'ANTY 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Elizabeth Chase 
 
 Lake ForcHt 
 S. T. Chase 
 
 Chicago 
 Gen. John V'. Clinnin 
 
 Chicago 
 Kobert C. Coit 
 
 Chicago 
 John Coleman, Jb. 
 
 Chi<-agr) 
 
 JOSEI'H C. CORMACK 
 
 Chicago 
 
 M. M. i'oHrENINC 
 
 Chi.ag.. 
 Mrs. I'll I LI I- CoBsoN 
 
 New Vork 
 
 W. R. ClMMINGH 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Katherine Cuetib 
 
 Chicago 
 J. IIAVMONII DaLT 
 
 Chicago 
 Samiel Daucuy 
 
 Chicago 
 Palmer I»awes 
 
 Chicago 
 Harry (J. CJoelitz. Jk. 
 
 Oal< I'ark 
 Frank .M. Gorikin 
 
 Chicago 
 
 MfiulxTN ut Spurt* Cuiiiiiiliii>f 
 
 LEMLIK K. (fURUON 
 
 Chicneo 
 
 'I'llllMAH R. (iUWE.VI.OCK 
 
 «'lllciigo 
 
 .Mrs. I.ahned Crrei.ky 
 
 Wiiinclka 
 KAirii Ghcen 
 
 Chicago 
 
 TaITAN liREiloUV 
 
 Chicago 
 .1. K. (IRIKKITH 
 
 Chicago 
 CuL. lloRATKi B 
 
 IIackett, Cliicago 
 Miss Ki.ixaiiktii IIalsev 
 
 Iowa Clly 
 'I'd.M Mam.moni> 
 
 llarv. V 
 
 K. !•;. llANLEY 
 
 Kvaiistoii 
 Kk'iiaro R. Markers 
 Chicago 
 
 IIR. BlRTON HaSELTINB 
 
 Chicago 
 Otto H. Hassel 
 
 Chicago 
 Jesse Hawlev 
 
 St. Cliarlcs 
 John IIkrtz 
 
 Chicago 
 Hale Holden, Ju. 
 
 Cliicago 
 Tmi.MAS T. Hoskins 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Elizabeth Hovey 
 
 Boston 
 William I. Howland 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter L. Hudson 
 
 Chicago 
 Edward N. Hirley, Jr. 
 
 Chicago 
 Samiel Insill, Jr. 
 
 Chicago 
 A. s. R. Jackson 
 
 Chicago 
 W. R. James 
 
 Chicago 
 O. W. Johnson 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter M. Johnson 
 
 Chicago 
 E. J. Kelly 
 
 Chicago 
 Weller Kimball 
 
 Chicago 
 Wey.moith Kirk land 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Lilian Klein 
 
 Chicago 
 C. W. Knhjht.s 
 
 Chicago 
 
 <'I.AREN< E KRAKT 
 
 Cliicago 
 
 M. S. KCHNS 
 
 Cliicago 
 Dr. Rali-h H. Kithns 
 
 Chicago 
 Robert Laird 
 Chicago 
 
 ERIi- C. Lam BART 
 
 Chicago 
 Hon. K. M. Landis 
 
 Chicago 
 MiNH Mabel Lee 
 
 LoK Allt>clcH 
 
 Kenneth I/mkett 
 
 Chl.ago 
 Otto Lehmann 
 
 Chicago 
 Ceuhoe Lvtton 
 
 Chl.ago 
 I'ETtn J, reri. 
 
 Chicago 
 .Ia^iem I'iiei.an 
 
 LuFavillc 
 
 I'MARI.r.H I'lKE 
 
 Chicago 
 
 )>K HoLLIII E. PoTTEB 
 Chlrngo 
 
 — 91 — 
 
 W. C. r<iWBLL 
 
 Chli-niTo 
 I'AII. I'BKIIN 
 
 Chniu|>nli;» 
 
 E. J. l'BEM>ER<iANT 
 
 ChlcHk-o 
 
 'riiEoiMiHr r. I'BoHT 
 
 Chlcag.i 
 Chaui.en Renhhaw 
 
 <-h|r«Ko 
 
 Kahi K M. Rkwoldm 
 
 Clilcngo 
 IIkhbert (>. Rev Noi.DM 
 
 <-hlcago 
 Ari'h Riciiahun 
 
 Chicago 
 Hahhv S. Rk iiahdn 
 
 <'hl<ngo 
 (iEoR<;E Rl< IIARDHUN 
 
 Chicago 
 John Rin<:i.in<; 
 
 Chi<-ago 
 .Mhs. Haven RiyiA 
 
 Lake Ftin-Ht 
 C. Rodman 
 
 I'hicago 
 I'Ai L S. RrssEi.L 
 
 Chicago 
 J. W. Saikbider 
 
 Chicago 
 
 (iEoRiiE W. SriIAEFFER 
 
 Chicago 
 1»R. Otto L. Schmidt 
 
 Chicago 
 Harvey J. Sconce 
 
 Chicago 
 Harold N. Scott 
 
 Chicago 
 Gilbert S( ribner 
 
 Chicago 
 Albert Seckel 
 
 Chicago 
 John Sellers 
 
 Chicago 
 Caroll Shaffer 
 
 Chicago 
 .Miss Li- label Sloat 
 
 Toronto 
 Col. a. a. SpBAd'E 
 
 Chicago 
 A. A. Stago 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter P. Stiffen 
 
 Chicago 
 )>r. Alfred A. Steafss 
 
 Chicago 
 Edward F. Swift, Jr. 
 
 Chicag<i 
 T. PHii.ir Swift 
 
 Chicago 
 Stiart J. Templeton 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss .Vnne Townsend 
 
 .Mcrion. Pcnn. 
 JOSEI'H Triner 
 
 Chicago 
 Calvin I». Trowbrid<;e 
 
 i'hicago 
 Beverly B. Vedder 
 
 Chicago 
 Wm. L. Veeck 
 
 Chicago 
 Ri HSEI.I. S. Wal<"OTT 
 
 Chicago 
 Pail Walker 
 
 Chicago 
 E. C. Wami'I.er 
 
 Chicago 
 William S Oei.ant 
 
 Chicago 
 E. <'. Delapobte 
 
 i'hlcngo 
 
 TlloMAM C I»E\NtIIY 
 
 < 'hicngo 
 Edinon Dick 
 
 Chlcngo 
 
 Ji iMjE J E. I>imii 
 
 Chlcniro 
 lloMrn L Dixov 
 
 Chlcngo
 
 Thornb Donnelley 
 
 Chicago 
 George T. Donoghue 
 
 Chicago 
 D. B. Douglas 
 
 Chicago 
 James H. Douglas 
 
 Chicago 
 Thomas J. Doyle 
 
 Chicago 
 John B. Drake, Jr. 
 
 Chicago 
 Carl Easterburg 
 
 Chicago 
 Glen Edwards 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles C. Fitzmorris 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Richard Folsom 
 
 Chicago 
 Harold Foreman 
 
 Chicago 
 Fred Gardner 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Vera Gardner 
 
 Chicago 
 Harry Gill 
 
 Urbana 
 Chauncey McCormick 
 
 Chicago 
 L. J. McCormick 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Hugh McKenna 
 
 Chicago 
 Douglas R. MacNeil- 
 
 LBDGB, Chicago 
 
 Furber Marshall 
 
 Chicago 
 M. C. Meigs 
 
 Chicago 
 A. G. Melville 
 
 Chicago 
 Charles R. Miner 
 
 Chicago 
 John J. Mitchell 
 
 Chicago 
 Col. Robert H. Morse 
 
 Chicago 
 James Mulroy 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. O. E. Nadeau 
 
 Chicago 
 Austin Niblack 
 
 Lalie Forest 
 Miss Bertha Ochsner 
 
 Chicago 
 Norman M. C. Olsen 
 
 Chicago 
 William George D. Orr 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Marie Ortmayer 
 
 Chicago 
 H. O. Page 
 
 Bloomington 
 S. Peabody 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter C. Peacock 
 
 Chicago 
 Christian Peterson 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Elizabeth 
 
 Waterman, Chicago 
 E. P. Waud 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Miss Agnes Wayman 
 
 New York 
 D. P. Welles 
 
 Chicago 
 Edward K. Welles 
 
 Chicago 
 Barrett Wendell, Jr. 
 
 Chicago 
 S. W. White 
 
 Chicago 
 Lynn A. Williams 
 
 Chicago 
 K. L. Wilson 
 
 Evanston 
 Col. M. J. Winn 
 
 Chicago 
 Farwell Winston 
 
 Chicago 
 Wallace Winter 
 
 Chicago 
 Harvey T. Woodruff 
 
 Chicago 
 Clark C. Wright 
 
 Chicago 
 Walter Wright 
 
 Chicago 
 Jay Wyatt 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Alma J. Wylib 
 
 Chicago 
 Fielding H. Yost 
 
 Ann Arbor 
 HoBART P. Young 
 
 Chicago 
 Robert C. Zuppkb 
 
 Urbana 
 
 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EXHIBIT OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 
 Dr. William Allen Pusey, Chairman 
 
 Dr. Frank Billings 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Arthur D. Black 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Alfred S. Burdick 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Bert W. Caldwell 
 
 Chicago 
 H. C. Christensen 
 
 Chicago 
 Edwin R. Embree 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Chicago 
 Prof. E. N. Gathercoal 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Ludvig IIekteon 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Herman Kret- 
 
 schmer, Chicago 
 Dr. I'AUL Nicholas 
 
 Leech, Chicago 
 Dr. Nelson S. Mayo 
 
 Highland Parli 
 
 Thomas McMahon 
 
 Chicago 
 Dr. Benjamin H. 
 
 doff, Chicago 
 Julius H. Riemen- 
 
 schneider, Chicago 
 Julius Stieglitz 
 
 Chicago 
 R. A. Whidden 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Orn- 
 
 Frank Balthis 
 
 Chicago 
 Paul Battey 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Mrs. Tiffany Blake 
 
 Lake Forest 
 Mrs. Waller Borden 
 
 Chicago 
 RuFUS C. Dawes 
 
 (ex-offlcio) 
 
 Evanston 
 Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank 
 
 Chicago 
 Kellog Fairbank 
 
 Chicago 
 
 HORTICULTURAL COMMITTEE 
 Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Chairman 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Tiffany Blake F. R. Moulton 
 
 Chicago Chicago 
 
 Mrs. Clay Judson Alvin E. Nelson 
 
 Lake Forest Glen View 
 
 COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL FUNCTIONS 
 Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, Chairman 
 Evanston 
 Mrs. James Hamilton 
 
 Lewis, Chicago 
 Hon. James Hamilton 
 
 Lewis, Chicago 
 Mrs. Andrew MacLeish 
 
 Glencoe 
 Mrs. David Mayer 
 
 Glencoe 
 Mrs. Chauncey McCor- 
 mick, Chicago 
 
 Chauncey McCormick 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Arthur Meeker 
 
 Chicago 
 Arthur Meeker 
 
 Chicago 
 Miss Agnes Nestor 
 
 Chicago 
 Mrs. Frederic W. 
 
 Upham, Chicago 
 
 Max Epstein 
 
 C. H. Worcester 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ART INSTITUTE 
 At the Art Institute of Chicago 
 
 A Century of Progress 
 Dr. William Allen Pusey, Chairman 
 
 Mrs. Tiffany Blake 
 
 Art Institute 
 Percy B. Eckhart Chauncey McCormick 
 
 Selected by Both 
 John Holabird 
 
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 SSB« 
 
 MGllT AM) DAY VIKW OK ClKCl l.AK TKICKA. 1. 
 OF THE HALL OF SCIENCE 
 
 M(,lll AM) I>AV VIIAV OF FUONT FACADE 
 UF THE ADMLMSl liAllON liUlLDlNO 
 
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 1933 Conventions in Chicago 
 
 The organizations listed below have officially notified 
 the Chicago Chamber of Commerce of their group attend- 
 ance in Chicago in 1933. Many others have informally 
 advised the Exposition of their intention of gathering 
 either in the city itself or in the immediate vicinitj^ of 
 the Exposition. 
 
 JUNE 
 
 American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science 
 American Association of Cereal 
 
 Chemists 
 American Electroplaters Society 
 American Federation of Musicians 
 American Institute of Banking 
 American Institute of Electrical En- 
 gineers 
 American Oil Burner Association 
 American Optometrie Association 
 Illinois State Society of Optometrists 
 American Osteopathic Association 
 American Peony Association 
 American Railway Association, Div. 1 
 American Seed Trade Association 
 American Society of Parasitologists 
 American Society for Testing Mate 
 
 rials 
 American Society of Refrigerating 
 
 Engineers 
 American Union of Swedish Singers 
 American Waterworks Association 
 Beta Psi 
 Beta Sigma 
 Catholic Order of Foresters — Illinois 
 
 State Council 
 Cornell Alumni Association 
 Daughters of Norway, Supreme 
 
 Lodge 
 Delta Sigma Fraternity 
 Evangelical Lutheran Augustana 
 
 Synod of U. S. 
 The Garden Club of America 
 Holstein-Friesian Association of 
 
 America 
 Tlie Protected Home Circle — Sigma 
 
 Phi Gamma Sorority 
 Illinois Bankers ' Association 
 Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc. 
 International Association of Chiefs 
 
 of Police 
 International Association of Lions 
 
 Clubs 
 International Chamber of Commerce 
 International Circulation Managers ' 
 
 Association 
 International Stamp Manufacturers' 
 
 Association 
 Jefferson Standard Life Insurance 
 
 Co. Agents 
 Kiawanis International 
 Linen Supply Association of America 
 
 The Maccabees Great Camp of Illi- 
 nois 
 
 Music Industries Cliamber of Com- 
 merce 
 
 National Association of Insecticide 
 and Disinfectant Manufacturers' 
 Association 
 
 National Association of Oflfice Man- 
 agement Association 
 
 National Association of Real Estate 
 Boards 
 
 National Chess Federation of U. S., 
 Inc. 
 
 National Confectioners ' Association 
 of tiie U. S. 
 
 National District Heating Associa- 
 tion 
 
 National Electric Medical Associa- 
 tion (Illinois Electric Medical 
 Society) 
 
 National League of Nursing Educa- 
 tion 
 
 National Leather and Shoe Finders' 
 Association 
 
 National Macaroni Manufacturers' 
 Association 
 
 National Paper Box Manufacturers* 
 Association 
 
 National Retail Hardware Associa- 
 tion 
 
 National Retail Tea and Coffee Mer- 
 chants ' Association 
 
 The National Sojourners 
 
 National Terrazzo and Mosaic Asso- 
 ciation 
 
 National Wholesale Jewelry Trade 
 Association 
 
 Pan-American Homeopathic Con- 
 gress 
 
 Phi Pi Phi Fraternity 
 
 Phi Sigma Nu Fraternity 
 
 Reserve Officers' Association of the 
 U. S. 
 
 Rotary International 
 
 The Second Division Association 
 A. E. F. 
 
 Society for Promotion of Engineer- 
 ing Education 
 
 Swedish Evangelical Mission Cove- 
 nant of America 
 
 United States Football Association 
 
 Volunteers of America 
 Voung Peoples Luther League and 
 Choral Union 
 
 94-
 
 JULY 
 
 American Society of Civil Knpineer-i 
 
 Anu'rican Title Association 
 
 Aiicioat Order tif lliherniaiis in 
 Aiiu-riea (Also Ladies' Auxiliary) 
 
 ('lii(ay;o Co()|)erative Clubs 
 
 Couiuiercial Law Leajj;ue of America 
 
 E(|uitable Life Insurance Company 
 of Iowa 
 
 Intercollegiate Musical Council 
 
 Illinois Hrancli, National League of 
 District Pastmasters 
 
 Jnternational Association of Cloth- 
 ing Designers 
 
 Kappa Sigmii Fraternity 
 
 Abraham Lincoln Life Lisuraucc Co. 
 
 Loyal Knights of the Bound Table 
 
 International Turity CongreM 
 Mutual Trust Life Insurance Com- 
 pany 
 National Federation of Business and 
 
 I'rofrssional Women's Clubs 
 I'olisli Falctins of America 
 United States Building and Loan 
 
 League 
 Veterans' Association of the Second 
 
 Hegiment Air Serm-e Mechanics 
 
 A. E. F. 
 Volunteer State Life Insurance Co. 
 \V .lit her Le.igue of the Synodical 
 
 Conference 
 Woodmen Circle and Woodmen of 
 
 the World 
 
 AUGUST 
 
 American College I'nblicity Associ- 
 ation 
 American Dent.al .Association 
 American Lawn Bowling Association 
 .\merican Pharmaceutical Association 
 .American Veterinarj' Medical Associ- 
 ation 
 Brotherhood of St. .Vndrew Juniors 
 Delt-:i Phi Delta Fraternity 
 American Philatelic Societv 
 Delta Tau Delta Fraternity 
 Grand .Vrmy of the Republic 
 Western Section, International .\sso 
 
 fiation of Electrical Inspectors 
 International .\ssociation of Printing 
 
 House Craftsmen 
 International Photo Engravers Union 
 
 of North America 
 
 International Stewards' Association 
 
 Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A. E. A. 
 
 \ .\. Supreme Lodge (Colored 
 
 Organization) 
 
 -National .Association of Boards of 
 
 Pharmacy 
 National Association of Chiropodists 
 
 National .Association of Retail Cloth 
 iers and Furnishers 
 
 National .Association of Typewriter 
 and Onice Machine Dealers 
 
 National Costumers' Association 
 
 National E.xchange Clubs 
 
 National Havmakers' Association of 
 the U. S. ■ 
 
 National Life Insurance Company 
 
 National Shorthand Reporters' Asso- 
 ciation 
 
 -Northwest University Dental School 
 —Class of 1918 
 
 Pennsylvania Retail Clothiers' Asso- 
 ciation 
 
 Phi Delta Fraternity 
 
 Pliiladeljihia Life Insurance Com- 
 jia ny 
 
 Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority 
 
 Theta Hii Fraternity 
 
 United N.itional Association of Post 
 Oflice Clerks 
 
 U. S. Civil Legion 
 
 Wisconsin Retail Clothiers' and Fur- 
 nishers' Association 
 
 SEPTEMBER 
 
 •Ani'rican Association of Port .\u 
 
 thorities 
 .American Chemical Society 
 American Electrochemical Society 
 -American Legion — National 
 American Life Convention 
 -American Public Herilth Association 
 American War Mothers 
 Association of Advertising S|iecialty 
 
 Mfrs., Imi)orters, Jobbers 
 American Psychological Association 
 Bakery and Confectionery Workers' 
 
 International Union of .America 
 Brotherhood of St. Andrew 
 Delta Kappa Ei)siIon Fraternity 
 International Acetylene Association 
 International Association of Elect ri 
 
 cal Inspectors 
 International Association of Fire 
 
 CTiiefs 
 
 -National .Association of Police and 
 Fire Surgeons and Medical Direc- 
 tors of the Civil Service of the 
 U. S. and Canada 
 
 National Association of Postal Su- 
 pervisors 
 
 National Federation of Post Oflice 
 Clerks 
 
 National Association of Retail Drug- 
 gists 
 
 National Life Insurance Company 
 
 National Selected Morticians 
 
 Old Time Telegraphers and Histoii 
 cal -Association 
 
 P.atriotic Order Sons of .America 
 National Camp 
 
 Public Ownershi]) League of America 
 
 Reunion of American and Canadian 
 Engineers and Architects of Nor- 
 wegian Birth Descent 
 
 — or,—
 
 International Moulders' Union of 
 North America 
 
 National Association of Insurance 
 Agents 
 
 National Association of Life Under- 
 writers 
 
 Sigma Kappa Fraternity 
 Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity 
 Tau Delta Phi Fraternity 
 Technical Association of the Pulp 
 and Paper Industry 
 
 OCTOBER 
 
 American College of Surgeons 
 
 American Dietetic Association 
 
 American Gas Association 
 
 American Institute of Mining and 
 Metallurgical Engineers 
 
 American Institute of Steel Con- 
 struction, Inc. 
 
 American Library Association 
 
 American Paint and Varnish Manu- 
 facturers 
 
 American Photo Engravers' Asso- 
 ciation 
 
 Association of American Medical 
 Colleges 
 
 Association of Military Surgeons of 
 the U. S. 
 
 Congress of Anesthetists 
 
 Delta Sigma Fraternity 
 
 Direct Mail Advertising Association 
 
 Dii-ect Selling Federation 
 Etta Kappa Nu Fraternity 
 Illinois Association of Chiropodists 
 Illinois Association of Insurance 
 
 Agents 
 Illinois Home Economics Association 
 Independent Oil Men of America 
 Insurance Advertising Conference 
 Mail Advertising Service Association 
 
 International 
 National Association of Farm Equip- 
 ment 
 National Guard Association 
 National League of Compulsory Ed- 
 ucation Officials 
 Society of Industrial Engineers 
 Special Libraries ' Association 
 Telephone Pioneers of America 
 
 ARCHITECTS CONCEPTION OF WONDERLAND FOR CHILDREN 
 
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