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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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icw^ AFTER THE FAIR. IN spite of prophesy, cranks and the proverbial slow-ness of official machinery, the White City of a sum-mers life is now dissolving into its component ele-ments, and the exhibits are returning from ornament to use.It was but six months ago that the readers of theReview were invited to take a stroll with the Reviewer,who promised many instructive rapid transit sights, in afew rapid transit flights about the buildings and thegrounds of Jackson Park. all the buildings, especially those state buildings in whichagricultural art was illustrated by grain of various kind.The agricultural building is a mine of wealth and peansof sparrow joy are constantly heard there. The newlymarried couple would be happy in Greenland, the) holdeach others hands and coo and coo in each others frostedears regardless of expense. The crowds of October has given way to a handfullof people, numbered by the few lingering turn-stiles at300 or, 500 or 750, according as the day is clear orcloudy.
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But not so now. In the first place, Jackson Park is acold, cold place with wild and untamed breezes fromLake Michigan, whistling over an expanse of snow.Inside the buildings it is colder yet to stand, and theerstwhile statuesque Columbian guard paces rapidly toand fro and applies his Stoney Island avenue breath tohis numbed fingers. In rare instance there is a littlewarmth and diversion created by heated altercationsbetween the teamsters as to who has the right of way. The only ones who enjoy Jackson Park are theEnglish sparrows and the newly married couple, whothought the Worlds Fair would wait for them. TheEnglish sparrows tind many crumbs of comfort in almost Sic transit gloria mundi. In the Transportation Building the same watchful bus-iness like management of the clearing of the building isnoticed, as called forth our editorial praise in the installa-tion. The great travelling electrical transfer table isagain called into action, and loading up with an 80-tonlocomotive or two, tr

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