Official BOOK OF THE FAIR A CENTURY OF PROGRESS INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION CHICAGO 1933 LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Gift of the Urbana Free Library IL^NOIS HISTORICAL SvAVey CIENIIUIRY (Dir PIR€ - ^ ^ ..%^*'».vr « .» _ . %T*.'»«''/^ • A «. 4.> %.▼*•*»/. room, a model kitchen, a pantry and caterer's quarters, and offices for the Commissioner, Honorable Harry S. New, the Assistant Commissioner, Colonel AV. B. Causey, and their staff. Hall of States A Century of Progress presents a distinct departure from previous American expositions in that there are to be no separate state buildings. One great building will house the official state exhibits in accordance with a plan ■which has met with the unqualified approval of the par- ticipating states, because it avoids the great expense of many separate buildings and preserves the obvious ad- vantage of concentration while giving ample opportunity for variety, individuality and pleasing contrasts. The location of the Hall of States is on Northerly Island, with the Agricultural Building on the north, ' ' The Sky Hide" and the Social Science Building on the south, Lake Michigan on the east and the Federal Building, which faces the lagoon, on the west. This structure is Y-shaped and two stories in height, 500 feet across at the base and with two arms 500 feet long and 140 feet wide at the widest point. The open part of the V faces west in an enclosed court which contains a sunken garden with appropriate landscaping. Opening from this court there are entrances to the various state and territorial exhibits. At the open end of the Hall of States is the Federal Building, which quite appropriately is the base and cen- tral figure of the whole Federal and State family. General Motors Building The General Motors exhibition building, now nearing completion on the Exposition 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 and 306 feet wide. A great entrance lobby leads from the street to a balcony overlooking an assembly plant where visitors may watch automobiles put together. This portion is 420 feet long and 90 feet wide. The balcony extends its full length and around its ends. To the north and south of the lobby are exhibit spaces, and above the entrance lobby rises a 173-foot tower. The lower level of the building is to be devoted to truck displays and other exhibits. There also is a lecture room and stage on this level. This building is of steel frame construction with the exterior covering of sheet metal and wall board and metal — 51 — ORIGINAL MODEL OF CHRYSLKK BUILDING sashes for the windows. At night, the exterior is to be brilliantly illnminated to accent the painted color plan of its walls. In addition to the displays of antomobiles and trncks, there will be exhibits of other prodncts mannfactnred by the General Motors Corporation and its snbsidiaries. General Motors Corporation was the first indnstrial concern to contract for the erection of a special display building on the Exposition grounds. Chrysler Building Both in architecture and in its exhibits, the Chrysler exhibition building, now under construction on the grounds of the Exposition, will stress motion, the keynote of the Exposition's exhibit scheme. On its quarter-mile outdoor track, visitors will be in- vited to test the various Chrysler models. There wall be a so-called Belgian roll, a device that bumps a car about and subjects it to every conceivable test it would undergo in actual use: sound motion pictures illustrating methods of construction; wind and weather tests in a glass refrigerator show case; and detailed exhibits of motor, body, chassis and tires. — 52 — This building will l)e a two-story structure, with the walls of its main exhibition area 125 feet high. It will be situated at Thirty-first Street and Leif Erik- sen Drive, north of the main Travel and Transport Build- ing. An open walk will lead to the second floor of the building. In the space below this walk there will be a group of animated exhibits. An interesting feature of the second floor, which will be reached by four ramps, will be an observation deck that will provide visitors with 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 be occupied 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. Firestone Building The building of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Com- pany, now under construction near the Twenty-third Street entrance, will house an outstanding and complete exhibit of the production of rubber and of rubber tires. It will be a structure of modern architectural design with two main entrances — one centered on Leif Eriksen Drive and the other facing the Twenty-third Street en- trance. In addition to the main building there Avill be two groups of shops or sliow^ windows, both fronting on the great circular plaza of the Twenty-third Street en- trance. Many products of the rubber industry will be shown in these exhibits. The main building will consist of a hall 50 feet wide and 150 feet long, a large exhibition room, two lounge rooms, offices, stock room and a power plant. A suite of rooms and a large outdoor terrace will occupy the mezza- nine floor. FIRESTONE BUILDING — 53 — MODEL OF SEARS, KOEBUCK BUILDING Sears, Roebuck Building Service to Exposition visitors is the motive that has inspired the erection and equipment of the gleaming white modern building, with its 150-foot tower, that Sears, Roebuck and Company has under construction on the Fair grounds. There will be relaxation, refreshment and recreation for the Exposition visitor within and on the broad wings of the Sears, Roebuck Building, which is located across the street from and south of the Administration Build- ing. Here, he may telephone or telegraph, check parcels or w^raps and obtain information about transportation or the Exposition itself. A delightful restaurant, a chil- dren's playground and an emergency hospital suggest the wide scope of services which will be provided. Exhibits, pictures and demonstrations will present the absorbing story of merchandising. Particularly interest- ing and informative will be a relief map of the United States, probably the largest in the world, with lights indicating the locations of Sears' stores throughout the country. Although this building will be windowless, adequate ventilation and illumination are provided. Its circulating plant will move 91,.'3()0 cubic feet of air every minute, and its electrical consumption will equal that of 1,800 ordinary six-room residences. American Radiator Building The American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Cor- poration, one of the leading manufacturers of heating — 54 — apparatus and plumbing goods with forty-three factories in North America and fourteen in Europe, is making elaborate preparations for its building and exhibits on the grounds of the Exposition. Its bureau of design development, now at work on in- terior planning, was established to develop the design of its products in relation to modern architecture. The new ideas evolved by this bureau for the American Radiator's exhibit building are expected to result in revolutionary changes in the heating and plumbing of commercial and apartment buildings as well as private homes. Illinois Host Building The Illinois Host Building, under construction at Leif Eriksen Drive east of Soldier Field, w411 be the headquar- ters for citizens of Illinois and a host building to distin- guished visitors welcomed in the name of the state. Its central section will be a high-ceilinged ' ' grand hall ' ' from Avhich the lounge-room and verandas to the south and the auditorium and Lincoln rooms to the north will be reached. This central section is surmounted by an aluminum tower. Indirect, vari-colored lighting upon this tower will produce beautiful effects at night. Entering the grand hall from the main entrance, the visitor will see on the wall a large mural showing colorful episodes in the history of Illinois. Here there will be information counters and offices for members of A Cen- tury of Progress Illinois Commission. Turning to the right, visitors will pass down a corridor to the auditorium, which will accommodate 300 persons, and will be equipped with a stage and a projection-booth. ILLINOIS HOST BUILDING — 55 — Lectures will be given and naoving pictures shown inform- ing visitors on the state's progress in social science, pub- lic welfare and other state activities. In six panels ranged about the walls will be photo-murals of momen- tous scenes in the state's history. Also in this wing will be the Lincoln rooms containing Lincolniana and copies of the fireplace, doors, windows and wallpaper used in the Lincoln homestead in Spring- field. 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 contributed 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. LACELIKE CEILING OP CHINESE LAMA TEMPLE — 56 — ^^^:\# INTEKIOK OF CIIIXESE LAMA TEMPLE — 57 — Chinese Lama Temple FRO:\r the present with its daring striic- tiu-es of steel, embodying modern ideals of beauty and usefulness, Exposition visitors may travel back through the centuries and halfway around the world to an alien shrine. It is' the resplendent sight of the Golden raxiiiun of Jehol, its gold-leaf roof glistening in the sun- light, that transports 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 the termination of the dynasty twenty years ago, was 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 in Mongolia before he selected this as the finest existing example of Chinese Lama architecture. Exact reproductions of the 28,000 pieces of w^hich the Temple is composed were made and numbered at its site in China. A Chinese architect w^as employed to inter- pret these marks and to direct their assembly on the Exposition Grounds. Chinese artists painted and deco- rated the finished structure. The Golden Pavilion is 70 feet square and 60 feet high, rising from a 4-foot pedestal. Its double decked roof of copper shingles is covered with 23 karat gold leaf. On the exterior, twenty-eight columns in red lacquer, 16 feet high, support the loAver deck. Twenty-eight other col- umns, 30 feet high, form part of the wall. Inside, twelve 37-foot columns support the gilded ceiling and the 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 dragons, cats and dogs. Hundreds of pieces of carved wood form the gilded ceiling. A Chinese guide, speaking excellent English and to the odors of incense, describes for visitors the treasures con- tained in the Temple. One of the interesting objects he points out is the ''prayer wheel," which the devotees turn instead of repeating prayers. One turn of the wheel is the equivalent of many million prayers. There is an interesting temple drum, horns so long that the player requires the services of an assistant to hold them up, bronze and gilded wooden Buddhas, images of numerous other gods and goddesses, altar pieces, incense burners, trumpets, masks used in sacred dances, silver lamps, tem- ple bells, rare carpets, and richly embroidered tapestries. — 58 — A CORNER OP THIO LAMA TEMPLE Within the temple are bronze and gilded wood Bud- dhas, altar pieces, images of other gods and goddesses, incense burners, masks used in the sacred dances, priestly robes woven of pure gold threads and other precious objects taken from Lama temples. 59- ;.\.\("r Ki;i'K(>i>rc'i'i().NS in ouKiiXAi, <'(Pi,(ii;s m- (ii;\ \\ii;.N'r-< am DKSKiNS I'or.Ml (l.N TIIK .M(».N.IAS, OK M .\M:I:\. A I 1 WIAL. ,\1A\A Vv\y ])i'(>])k' lealize that the Indians of Mexico were hiiildiiiji: ^reat pahices and tem])k^s of stone rnbble and cement h)n«,^ l)efore tlie comin.u: of tlie Spanish. Few know of tlie liiuli (h'veh)])ment of art, snch as is disphiyed on them. The walls of these sti-nctnres were covered with elaborate desiii:ns, luige mask heads, and great serpents carved in stone. The coloring of these ornaments were very brilliant and done with a surprising understanding of cok)r schemes and arrangement. — CO — w Maya Building 'HEX the Euroi)oaiis first reached Amer- ica they encountered 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 Amer- ica were in a rather primitive state, but in ^lexico and Middle America they had advanced far towards civiliza- tion. Among these most advanced peoples the best known are the ^laya, 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 15.30, the country was sutfering from civil war and the culture was somewhat in decline. Nevertheless, the ]\Iaya oifered sharp resistance to the invaders and were 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. This building will be located just north of the Thirty- first Street entrance. The great terrace, approached by a magnificent stairway, the high building opposite, and the two smaller buildings are now under construction. "Without doubt this reproduction of a vanished Amer- ican civilization will be one of the most spectacular of the many interesting structures at the Fair. It will emphasize in a unique way the differences in life between that of a people having a highly developed culture, l)ut little science, and that of a people with science at their command. J Hall of Religion The Hall of Religion is located midway between the Twenty-third Street Gate and the Twelfth Street en- trancej directly on the South Lagoon. It will be a large, imposing building of modern architecture, made beautiful with stained glass windows, a pipe organ, small assem- bly-rooms, an auditorium and many other interesting features. Over seven hundred invitations were issued by the Committee on Progress Through Religion to the Boards and Agencies of the many church denominations and re- ligious organizations throughout the country to exhibit in the Hall of Religion. Each was asked to show the contri- bution it had made to the advancement of civilization in terms of education, health, social service, world peace, recreation and civics. These groups have been asked to tell the story of their labors, and to present a dramatic survey of their achievements, so that the visitor to the Exposition may measure them all as a unified spirit- ual influence in the same field, and at the same time recog- nize in each one the contribution of each particular faith. In the main auditorium there will be held a series of conferences. The program of these conferences will be directed to clarifying the objectives and methods for the solution of present social problems. Emphasis will rest upon co-operation and not upon propaganda for special religious affiliations. These conferences will have for their subjects many phases of religious education, the at- titude of Youth toward religion, changing forms of wor- ship, the methodology of charity and social service, the co-operation of religious bodies for peace, and the organi- zation of religious leaders for the reduction of poverty. HALL OF KELKJION — 62 — Concessions THE first aim of A Century of Progress is to provide instruction, inspiration and entertainment for its visitors — to give all who enter the Exposition grounds such a delightful time that they will desire to return again and again and to take their friends with them. In con- formity with this aim, not only are there miles of free ex- liilnts but there are picnic grounds on the island, free seats around the lagoons and on delightful terraces, com- fortable lounges in special buildings, and such other things as free aquatic events, fireworks, bands, pageants, fountains and all the life and color that will characterize the Exposition. Nevertheless, there will be within the Exposition grounds some things for which, from their nature, visitors will pay. All such things are provided by concessions. If a person wishes to ride from one part of the Expo- sition to another, he will patronize a transportation con- cession. Perhaps he will get aboard one of the spectacular General Motors buses, the first units of which have been operated with great success by the Greyhound Lines since the middle of July. Or he may prefer to take a wheel chair. On a warm day he will perhaps choose an electric launch or a more romantic gondola. If he is more ven- turesome, he may take flight in a Goodyear dirigible or in a giant Sikorsky airplane. If he wishes to leave the Exposition for a point on the shore to the north or the south, he may patronize the concession providing such transportation. When visitors are hungry tliey will be served food by other concessionaires. The requirements for every taste and purse will be provided by concessions ranging from sandwich stands to restaurants of the highest quality. Concessions include also the right to sell a great variety of articles, such as souvenirs, guide books, illustrated books, photographs, programs, magazines, newspapers, and a hundred other things of interest to the Exposition visitor. Concessions also include amusements, Avhether they be in the nature of athletic events, or concerts, or theatres, or thrilling rides, or oriental shows, or strange animals, or "the funnies," or any similar thing designed to fur- nish diversion. Amusements range from simple games of skill to pretentious shows and spectacles, the climax of which is reached in the Enchanted Island and Hollywood. — 63 — The Enchanted Island O N a five-acre tract on Northerly Island, there is one of the outstanding features of the Exposition, a development which will be a place of enchantment for children. Lying between the colorful lagoon and the lake, with much of the Exposition and the marvelous sky-line of Chicago visible in the distance, it occupies a place whose natural charm can hardly be sur- passed. In its center a miniature mountain rises out of an artificial sea, and a little railway winds its way over strange lands and through weird caves and along the shore of an apparently boundless ocean. All the inhabitants (the guards and other employees) of these regions are dressed appropriately as characters from the enchanted lands of childhood. Along landscaped avenues are found the latest in playground and amuse- ment devices ; and shady nooks provide quiet retreats for stories and intellectual diversions wiien little feet become tired. One section of the area contains a little farm yard — bright little chickies, paddling duckies, playful piggies, a colt, a calf, a lamb, and a tiny striped burro. In another section are ponies for the venturesome. Here is a giant push-wagon, fifteen feet high, with a giant mechanical boy on top. Beneath is a shop in which wagons are made. There is a house of marbles. ARCHITECTS CONCEPTION OF WONDERLAND FOR CHILDREN — 64 — On one side a pretentions bnilding rises. It is the chil- dren's theatre. In it will be presented plays by cliildren, plays for children, dances by children, puppet shows, midgets, magic, trained animals, acrobatics — by far the greatest series of entertainments ever provided for chil- dren. And there is a restaurant, an infirmary and a nursery for tiny tots and a headquarters for lost children. Here in this enclosed and protected wonderland parents may leave their children, confident of their safety and entertainment; and here they will find children who be- come lost anywhere on the Exposition grounds. The Junior League of Chicago, during the winter months, is explaining the nature and scope of the En- chanted Island to the students in every elementary school in Chicago and its suburbs. In addition to providing these hundreds of descriptive talks to 400,000 pupils, the League will produce plays in the Children's Theatre throughout most of the period of the Fair. The tens of thousands of children who will visit the Enchanted Island will be given pleasures that princes and princesses have never enjoyed, and they will carry back to several hundred thousand homes glowing accounts of the wonders of the Fair. With their parents they will visit the Exposition again and again ; and for years the^^ will hold glorious pictures of it in their memories, as did thousands of children who visited the Columbian Exposi- tion in 1893. The Sky Ride In 1893 the Ferris Wheel was the wonder of mechanical devices, as famous in its day as Barnum's elephant Jumbo. It was an enormous success both as a sensational ride and as a financial venture. In 1933 the outstanding amusement structure on the Exposition grounds will be the Sky Ride. It consists of two enormous 620-foot steel towers, one on the main land south of Soldier Field and the other on the island nearly half a mile away, with a cable-way connecting the two at an altitude of 200 feet. From the observation floors at the top of these towers such a structure below as the Ferris Wheel would appear to be not much more than a child's toy. When a visitor goes to the top of one of the Sky Ride towers he will be higher than the roof of any other build- ing in Chicao:o, and 100 feet higher than the observation level of the Washington ]\Ionument. The Exposition will be spread out below him as a magic garden, more lovely than those that made Babylon famous throughout the world. To the westward he will see the city and its sub- urbs; to the southward, Hammond and Gary in Indiana; — 65 — — 66 — to the northward, the hilLs of southern Wisconsin; and to the eastward, on clear days, the sand dunes of Mich- igan. To add to his pleasures he will frequently see pass- ing approximately at his level a shining silver Goodyear dirigible or a giant Sikorsky plane, loaded with merry passengers. Only one span in the world, that of the George Wash- ington Bridge across the Hudson River just above Xew York City, exceeds the Sky Ride cable-way in length. Its l,8o0-foot span is being supported by steel cables whose wires have a breaking strength of 220,000 pounds per square inch of cross section. Suspended from this cable- way rocket cars will pass in from one tower to the other, giving the combined system of towers and cable-way a capacity of 4,800 visitors per hour. The tests of every element in the project are so exliaustive that visitors to the Exposition will be able to ride almost among the clouds more safely than they can drive in their own cars. The Garden and Flower Show One of the most delightful and widely available avenues of aesthetic enjoyment is provided by gardens and flow- ers. For this reason A Centurj^ of Progress has set aside, on Northerly Island, nearly five acres of its choicest ground for a horticultural concession. It is expected that the Garden and Flower Show, in its extensive buildings and spacious outdoor gardens, will present exhibits throughout the entire period of the Ex- position to which visitors Avill be drawn again and again. Here will be shown, in season, every principal flower from tulips to chrysanthemums that adorns our gardens and conservatories, and here flower lovers will find a delight- ful home. HORTICULTURAL BUILDING Hollywood There has been no great exposition in the United States since motion pictures became the principal source of amusement of the masses. Consequently an unparalleled opportunity is now presented to use the glamour that envelops the industry in developing an exotic amusement center. Fortunately one word — Hollywood — stands in the mind of everyone for its stars, its mystery, its extraordinary appeal. Hollywood at the Exposition will be developed on a large tract of land at the south end of Northerly Island, opposite the Twenty-third Street Plaza and at the eastern extremity of the circular bridge. Facing the lagoon there will be a gorgeous entrance, flanked on one side by an exotic restaurant, hanging over the water. A little beyond there will be a glamorous theatre, the Hall of Stars, con- necting with Malibu Pool in which and around which much of the entertainment will center. Adjacent to the Hall of Stars will be the broadcasting studios which will be in operation from the opening hour to the closing and in which most of the broadcasting stars are expected to appear. There will be style shows and a novel theatre dedicated primarily to the dance. Every day there will be some celebrity at the Fair — the President, a governor, a foreign ruler, a motion picture star — who will be photographed in Hollywood for the newsreel services which are advertising the Exposition in more than 40 countries. These celebrities will be trans- ported to Hollywood in an appropriately decorated Hol- lywood boat. They will disembark in regal splendor at the Hollywood docks, then be conducted to the Hall of Stars or to Malibu Pool or to one of the "lots" for pic- tures. Every hour of the day Avill be filled with these activities or with photographic tests of girls aspiring to movie careers. In the dance theatre there will be the dance as a fine art, the dances of all lands, style shows, and other entertainment. In Malibu Pool there will be bathing beauties and fancy swimming and diving. In tlie restaurant there will be good food, music, dancing, and laughter, while the songs of gondoliers will be wafted in from the lagoons which at night Avill mirror the reflec- tions of ten thousand varicolored lights from the opposite shore. Every exposition has had a principal center of gayety and joyous life, but none hitherto has had so romantic a setting as the south end of Northerly Island or has had attached to it so much that is alluring and exotic as will be found in Hollywood. It is confidently believed that for many years it will stand as a model which other expo- sitions will vainly attempt to equal. The Midway W] Midway ' 'HEX the Exposition closed its contest for a name for its amusement zone, it was found that a very large majority favored simply "The Midway." Evidently the un- paralleled success of "The Midway Plai- sance" (abbreviated by the public to "The of The "World's Fair of 1893 has permanently introduced the term into our language as a symbol of joy and gayety. Fortunately, "The Midway" is a peculiarly appropriate name for the amusement zone in this Fair, for its center of jollity is located almost exactly in the middle of the Exposition grounds. Xorth of it are the Twenty-third Street Plaza and the magnificent exhibits of science and industry that occupy the space to Twelfth Street. South of it, extending to Thirty-ninth Street, are railways and steamships and automobiles and airplanes and pageants relating to travel and transportation. Con- sequently every visitor, unless he is satisfied to see only half the Fair, will necessarily traverse the entire length of the amusement zone. The sub-title, "City of a Million Lights," to some de- gree characterizes the Midway of this Exposition, though it falls short of suggesting the symphonies in color that can be achieved by the use of modern lights. Now all the hues of the rainbow are available to the artist for the THE HEAD OP "BOZO" — (59 — iN( (tl i;^L A\I> CIHCITLAR BRIDGE production of effects that were not even dreamed of in 1893. From the Sky Ride towers, Leif Eriksen Drive, for the time transformed into the Midway, will appear like a mile of dazzling jewels connecting the two ends of the Fair. Along its borders will be ranged in close suc- cession all that imagination can conceive and money pro- duce which will be startling and mirth provoking. These attractions will range from the "Fort Dearborn Massacre," opposite the replica of Fort Dearborn, to the International Bazaars, featuring Oriental products and life, succeeded on the north by European villages. Concourse and Circular Bridge One of the chief centers of attraction and activity will he the Twenty-third Street Concourse, at the crossroads of the Fair. All the traffic between the great exhibition area to the north and the amusement zone to the south will pass this elevated plaza, Avhile cross currents of traffic will leave the Plaza by way of the Circular Bridge for visits to the Garden and Flower Show, and the En- chanted Island. Such a center of activity will naturally be the )rincipal area for restaurants and attractive retail shop , On the plaza itself will be the largest soda fountain in le world, while nearby to the south are Old Heidelberg _.nd other restaurants having a foreign atmosphere. On the Cir- cular Bridge, reminding the traveled visitor of the Ponte Vecchio in Venice, will be smart shops filled with enticing merchandise and articles gathered from all the world. — 70 — The Lincoln Group I ^^[OTHING on the Exposition grounds ex- I 1. ^ presses more dramatically the transfor- mations that our country has undergone in about 100 years than the Lincoln Group of structures. First among them is a reproduc- tion of the log cabin in which Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. This cabin is constructed of logs taken from a house found standing in Jersey County, Illinois, which dates back over 100 years to Lincoln's boyhood days. The clay used for chinking between the logs, for plastering up the fireplace chimney, and even for the floor itself was brought from Kentucky. The second structure in the group is a substantially accurate reproduction of the Lincoln Home near Gentry- ville, Indiana, to which the family moved when Lincoln was about eight years old. Though this cabin is a marked improvement over the birthplace in Kentucky, yet it is primitive in the extreme. All its materials — walls, floor, roof — are the product of the keen ax of the pioneer. The trundle bed for children, in the day time pushed under the larger bed of the grown-ups, speaks eloquently of the primitive conditions and the necessity for economy of space. How far the world has advanced almost within the memory of men still living is made vivid by the crude fur- niture and scanty equipment of this frontier home. There are two additional historical structures in the area, a replica of the general store of Berry and Lincoln, at New Salem, Illinois, and a reproduction on two-fifths scale of the ''Wigwam," in Chicago, where Lincoln was nominated for the presidency in 1860. The store is fitted out with the equipment in use in its day, while the Wig- THE LINCOLN GROUP AS SEEN FROM THE AIR — 71 — INTERIOR OF RUTLEDGE TAVERN warn is filled with objects associated with the life of Lin- coln, including furnishings and a reproduction of the parlor of his Springfield home, the room in which he re- ceived formal notification of his first nomination for the presidency. Rutledge Tavern Rutledge Tavern, located in the Lincoln Group, has already delighted thousands of Pre-Fair visitors with its quaint surroundings and excellent food. This restaurant will be enlarged for the Exposition period and will un- doubtedly be one of the most popular on the grounds. Rutledge Tavern specializes in steaks and chops broiled over charcoal. The Lake and the Lagoons Visitors from inland towns and rural areas will find the lake and the lagoons among the most interesting fea- tures connected with the Exposition. If they wish to come by water to the Exposition grounds, either from the north or the south, they will be brought by swift boats operating under contracts with A Century of Progress. If they desire the thrill of riding ])etween white cataracts arching from the bows of powerful speedboats, they will l)e accommodated. If they crave the luxury and the exhilaration of bathing in the pure waters of the lake, they will find a marvelous beach for their use just south of the Planetarium. — 72 — As wonderful and delightful as the lake is, that whicli makes the setting of the Exposition one of unparalleled beauty is the lagoons. They are twin mirrors, together about a mile in length, from whose surfaces will be re- flected the tens of thousands of lights that will circle their shores. The magnificent pylons and towers of the Hall of Science, on the one side, and the colorful court and fountains of the Electrical Group, on the other, from opposite sides of the south lagoon will be seen once as they are and once mirrored in its waters. At night rock- ets will dart up from barges into the sky and, as seen by reflection, apparently plunge equally far into the depths. But the lagoons tliemselves will be centers of activity and life. In the first place, on them will be all aquatic sports and races. There will be a show boat and various other craft of scientific or historic interest, including the ship in which Admiral Byrd made his memorable voyage to Antarctica. Slow moving craft — row boats, swan boats, gondolas, and various power boats — ^^vill cease- lessly traverse these sheltered waters. Surrounding them will be many of the most spectacular buildings of the Ex- position. The lofty towers of the Sky Ride will appar- ently reach up to the stars, while its colorful rocket cars will seem to hang from the clouds. An evening on the lagoons, surrounded by myriads of colored lights and with soft strains of music floating over the water, will be an experience to l)e cherished always. ADMIRAL BYKDS POLAR SHIP — 73 — Blue Ribbon Restaurant The Blue Ribbon Restaurant, opposite the General Ex- hibits Group, will open in February. Charles Miiller and Brothers, who have a long and successful record as restau- rateurs, will operate this as well as several high class concessions on the Exposition Grounds. Victor Vienna Garden Cafe Victor Vienna Garden Cafe will be noted for its atmosphere. This restaurant is set in a lovely garden at the south end of the Midway section. Mr. Victor Deisen- hofer, once chef for Emperor Franz Josef, and M. Gruber, who operated Old Vienna at the World's Fair of 1893, will be in charge. They have arranged an interesting season of Viennese music to supplement their cuisine. — 74 — Old Heidelberg Old Heidelberg, seating twenty-five hundred patrons, is near completion at Twenty-Fourth Street and Lake Michigan. This will be operated by Robert and Max Eitel, of Eitel, Inc., in true German style, with a fine German concert orchestra. The building includes garden terrace service, a high class lunch room, and an old-fashioned Rathskeller in the basement, seating two hundred. Edwards' Rancho Edwards' Rancho will specialize in Mexican and South- western type of food. The building will be adobe style, with a genuine hickory-fired roasting pit. Colonel Ed- wards is bringing his cooks from Texas. This restaurant will be located in the Midway Section. -^ ii -^wx ^m^' XTC <%^^-N?fKvf:fVV\ 75- Foreign Participation E SSENTIALLY different in character and purpose from other world's fairs, A Centnr}^ of Progress has aroused nn- nsual interest on the part of foreign na- tions. In spite of financial crises, many foreign governments are planning to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the Exposi- tion to show their contributions to the advancement of science, culture, and political and social economy. While foreign governments usually delay making definite plans for participation in world's fairs until two or three months before the opening, the international character of A Century of Progress is already assured, and pre- sent plans of numerous governments indicate that inter- esting exhibits will be on display from all parts of the world. Five months before the opening date of the Exposition, in January, 1933, eighteen foreign nations had signified their intention to participate. In more than a dozen other lands, official or semi-official committees were work- ing to insure that their countries also would be repre- sented. The eighteen nations intending to exhibit were: Ar- gentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Hondu- ras, ten states of India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Roumania, and Turkey. Plans for representa- tion were under consideration by Algiers, Czechoslo- vakia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Syria. In Austria, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia official or semi- official committees were working in the interest of par- ticipation. Sites on which it is planned to erect national pavilions had been selected by Belgium, China, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands and Sweden. Several nations not desiring to erect separate pavilions were considering space in the "Hall of Na- tions," a section in the Travel and Transport Group, where displays emphasizing the appeal these countries has for tourists, and exhibits indicating their cultural and industrial progress will l)e housed. — 76 — Official commissioners to represent their governments at the Exposition had been named by Italy, Japan and Eonmania. Belgium had appointed a committee of patrons, and organizing committees were at work in Argentina, China and the Dominican Republic. Many of these foreign governments already had de- cided upon the general plan for their exhibits. Belgium, China and Japan will erect villages typical of those found in these countries. There will be exhibits of arts and handicrafts fashioned on the grounds by native artisans, displa3^s of art objects of great historical and artistic value ; exhibits showing the scenic beauties, natu- ral resources, and economic and social progress of these nations. Theaters, and restaurants in which native food will be served, will also be included in the villages. Egypt proposes to erect a building typical of Pharoanic architecture, while the India pavilion will be of the Moghul type having the general appearance of the Taj Mahal of Agra. Morocco plans to construct a building of native architecture. Exhibits by foreign governments will bring no revenue to A Century of Progress beyond the additional visitors they may attract. Sites for buildings by foreign nations are provided free of charge, and the space within these structures is under the jurisdiction of the countries erect- ing them, with certain supervision by officials of the Ex- position. Foreign industrial exhibits may be placed in the various national sections or in appropriate sections of the buildings erected by the Exposition. J^ FOREIGN VILLAGE India Pavilion The proposed India Pavilion will be near the 23rd Street Entrance to the Fair grounds and will lie in close proximity to the Amusement Zone and Foreign Section. The India Pavilion will be of Moghul architecture and will have the general appearance of the Taj Mahal of Agra with a dome in the center of the building surrounded with attractive minarets. In the interior of this building it is proposed to create a Fountain Court, with a plaza eifect and every effort will be made to make this Court a special feature of attraction. Every effort will be made to acquire unique art col- lections of most historic importance from different states in India. The Government of India is expected to make a loan Exliibit of the raw products gathered from various provinces of India. India Restaurant It is planned to have an India Restaurant annexed to the India Pavilion, where visitors will be served with both American and Indian dishes under the supervision of Indian chefs, preparing typical Indian dishes. It is also expected to have Indian waiters in kliatisamah outfits, thus lending the Indian atmosphere to the Restaurant. It is also proposed to have the restaurant decorated in an Oriental style with its walls paneled with paintings illustrating various modes of Indian life, both of the past and the present. India Theatre In the India Theatre it is proposed to show some of the latest cinema films produced in India, especially those dealing with the historical past of India, and also to have some other acts of conjuring and dancing, as well as advanced occultism. INDIA PAVILION — 78 — Transportation CHICAGO is the most accessible city in the world, due not only to its favorable geographical location near the economic heart of the continent, but also to its un- equalled transportation facilities. Railroads Chicago is the world's greatest railroad center. Thirty-three trunk line railroads, including twenty-five operating passenger trains, and embracing approximate- ly one-half the railroad mileage of the United States and Canada, terminate in Chicago. The six downtown stations, all within easy reach of the Exposition grounds, are starting points and destina- tions for approximately 1,500 passenger trains daily, linking Chicago and A Century of Progress Exposition directly with hundreds of cities and towns from coast to coast and nearly every province of Canada. Fast, frequent and comfortable passenger train service will enable millions of visitors to leave their homes in the evening and attend A Century of Progress Exposition the following day. More than 50,000,000 of our popula- tion live within an overnight's ride of Chicago, and at least 100,000,000 live within twenty-four hours' ride of the Exposition grounds. Many of the railroads maintain frequent suburban service to and from their city terminals. Exposition visitors, who are the guests of friends, relatives or hotels in the suburbs, will find this service very convenient and besides travelers will be able to step from trains at suburban stations and establish their headquarters in nearby homes or hotels before proceeding downtown. Co-operating with the Exposition management and realizing that visitors will see more and enjoy more if free from care, the railroads of the United States and Canada have made elaborate preparations for the com- fort of their passengers not only en route but during their stay in Chicago. Every ticket office in America is a bureau of information for A Century of Progress Expo- sition. These bureaus will make a specialty of Exposition travel and will render every possible service in pleasing patrons. While all details concerning special train service and low fares cannot be included herein, the member railroads of the various territorial passeng-er association-s have amiouiiced attractive reductions in round-trip fares throughout the period of the Exposition. The xH'ecise reductions depend upon the time limit of the tickets, whether going and return routes are the same, whether stop-overs are desired, whether tickets are for individuals or groups. The charge for return trip tickets ranges from one and one-half of the one-way fare down to less than one-third of the regular fare for groups of 100 adult passengers travelling in coaches with a time limit of three days. Long before the gates of the Exposition are formally opened, complete information will be available at rail- road bureaus of information. Prospective visitors should keep in touch with their local ticket agents. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TRAVEL IN PERFECT COMFORT AND RELAXATION. DINING IS ALWAYS AN ENJOYMENT ON A RAILROAD DINER. THE FOOD AND COOKING IS ALWAYS THE BEST. Local Facilities Stretching southward along Chicago's lake front from Twelfth to Thirty-ninth streets, the Exposition has un- excelled transportation facilities to and from the grounds. Suburban railroad service near the grounds can han- dle 50,000 persons an hour ; elevated roads, surface lines and other suburban transportation, 1,000,000 persons a day; and motor buses from all parts of the city and suburban tourist camps, 20,000 visitors an hour. Inside the Exposition grounds, visitors will be served by a fleet of sixty semi-trailer type open buses, capable of transporting from 20,000 to 25,000 passengers an hour. Other forms of intra-mural transportation are being developed. The buses, built especially for this service by the Gen- eral Motors Corporation and operated by the Greyhound Lines, are fifty-four feet long and contain two long seats arranged back to back so that passengers face outward. They are open, with a roof overhead and curtains for use in inclement weather, and have a capacity of 100 pas- sengers each. Two experimental buses have been operating w^ith great success since July 19, 1932. The first of a fleet of decorated launches was operated during the summer of 1932. These boats will ply the lagoons during the Exposition and form the principal transportation means on the lagoons, though in addition there will be Venetian gondolas, South Sea Island out- riggers, and other picturesque craft on that beautiful body of water. The lake shore to the north of the Travel and Trans- port building and across Leif Eriksen drive will be the scene of all the aviation activities in connection with A Century of Progress. Amphibian planes will be oper- ated in a shuttle service connecting the Exposition with the Municipal Airport, where all the regular airmail transport services to Chicago are centered. By means — 81 — of this air ferry service, air travelers may come directly to the Fair grounds and remain on the grounds until a few minutes before their plane is scheduled to leave the Municipal Airport. FORT DKAKBORN ROUTE SCIENCE ROUTE INDUSTRIAL ROUTE Automobiles and Tourist Camps Fourteen major highways entering Chicago will have special names and markings to a distance of seventy-five miles from the city. They will be given such names as "Industrial Boulevard," "Electrical Highway," "Agri- cultural Highway," etc., in accordance with a compre- hensive plan worked out by the Exposition's traffic com- mittee. See official map on page 91 in this book. Tourist camps near speed}^ transportation to the Expo- sition by steam trains, suburban electric trains, surface cars, or motor buses will be located along these desig- nated highways. The Exposition will maintain informa- tion booths for the convenience and guidance of motor tourists. The Exposition wall 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 of modern sanitation, com- plete protection for cars and personal belongings, rea- sonable priced restaurants or cafeterias, or a convenient place to prepare meals, then A Century of Progress gives its official approval to such a camp. This approval includes an official emblem certifying that the camp is officially recognized by the Fair. According to the general plan, the first indication to the motor tourist that he is approaching Chicago will be a sign across the highway informing him that a World's Fair information booth is close at hand on the roadside. The attendant here will give the tourist a list of rooms, kept up to tlie hour by teleplione communication with the central bureau of information in the city. The list will contain the locations and prices of tourist camps, room- ing houses and hotels. He will be given a map of the Exposition grounds and all the information he Avill need to get there quickly by the nearest transportation route. Related Institutions A Century of Progress is exceptionally fortunate be- cause its exhibitions will be near several great cultural institutions that are visited annually by several millions of persons. The Exposition will draw a still greater num- ber of visitors to their doors, and they in turn w411 offer splendid additional attractions to draw visitors from a distance. Probably there has never been a Fair so for- tunate in its immediate surroundings. Adler Planetarium The Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, northernmost structure on Northerly Island, is an im- posing edifice of rainbow granite, dodecagonal in shape, with a 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 unfolds to the visitors. The firmament passes in review as they sit beneath an artificial sky and see the sun, moon, planets and stars move across the dome. THE PLANETARIUM CHAMBER WITH AU- DIENCE ASSEMBLED FOR A LECTURE- DEMONSTRATION DEMONSTRATION OF THE PLANETARIUM INSTRUMENT. IT PROJECTS A MINIATURE U X I V E R S E — SUN. MOON, PLANETS AND STARS ABLER PLANETARIUM Tlie Planetarium, the only one in America, was made possible throngh the public spirit and generosity of Mr. Max Adler of Chicago, who provided the funds for its erection and equipment. As the visitor takes his seat, he sees above him a domed, white ceiling. In the center of the floor, undei- this ceil- ing, 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 becomes the deep blue of the sky. And then the miracle happens. A switch is 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 his desk a switchboard is concealed that gives him absolute control over the intricate apparatus. So flexible is this apparatus that, with a slight adjust- ment of the motors, the demonstrator can experiment with this man-made universe as he wills. Spectators may look backward or forward in time, depending on the operator. How did the heavens appear when Christ walked on Earth! How did the sky appear at the time of Galileo? Which star will be the Pole Star a thousand years hence? Or, the lecturer may show the spectators how eternal Spring, Summer or Winter, or eternal noonday can be astronomically realized. He can transport them visually to the tropics and show them constellations they have never seen before, or to either the North or South Pole where the celestial bodies simply swing around forever in circles, without rising or setting. The sky is faintly illuminated, so that it seems blue despite the clear white of the dome. The same phenom- enon is observed out of doors on a fine night. So it hap- — 84 — • « * • • K m • • I. m.».:^^-0 % fjg^ pens that the watchers of the planetarium sky lose all sense of enclosure. As a star sets its brightness dimin- ishes in the skj^ and in the Planetarium as well. It is the perfection of details such as this that has caused famous astronomers to pay tribute to the country's only planetarium as "the most remarkable way of teaching astronomy." Terrazzo Esplanade The Terrazzo Mosaic Esplanade, leading to Adler Planetarium on Northerly Island, is being constructed as the National Terrazzo Mosaic Association exhibit. This esplanade will begin at the east end of the Twelfth Street bridge, which connects the mainland with the island. The approach from the bridge is sloped toward the Plane- tarium on a gradual rise to permit a display of the beau- tiful terrazzo mosaic patterns in the bottom of twelve shallow pools, each s^Tiibolizing a month of the year. Soldier Field No previous exposition has had such a magnificent stadium for its use as Soldier Field. This huge horseshoe of concrete has 85,000 permanent seats, which on certain occasions have been supplemented by temporary con- struction to a total of 125,000. Naturally, the availability of this splendid area provides a setting for the most mag- nificent productions. A great military spectacle is planned for Soldier Field during the first ten evenings after the opening of the Exposition. This show, which will be put on under the direction of Major General Frank Parker, Commander of the Sixth Corps Area, will derive mass effects from uniformed troops and cavalry and army equipment. Not only will it provide the thrill of moving masses and mar- tial music, but the sky will be illuminated by army search lights and magnificent fireworks. Several other fine spectacles, including a rodeo, are planned for Soldier Field during the period of tjie Expo- sition. In addition, this huge amphitheatre will be used for celebrations by the larger groups of recent foreign extraction and by fraternal orders. It offers an unparal- leled setting for national pageants and ceremonies. Finally, Soldier Field provides splendid facilities for a great variety of athletic events, such as track meets, ama- teur baseball games, soccer matches, and football games. The Sports Committee is availing itself of the opportu- nity presented for promoting many kinds of amateur and professional sports. — 85 — A Sports Century of Progress Exposition will make Chicago the sports capital of the world during 1933. Seven national championships already form the nuclens for an international sports carnival centering in Soldier Field Stadinm and tne Exposition lagoon. These seven are: men's senior and junior track and field meet ; women's track and field meet ; gymnastics tournament ; four-wall handball tournament; men's national swimming championships; weight-lifting championship; and senior cross-country run. Final commitments for twenty or more other cham- pionship tournaments have not as yet been made, but assurances have been received that many of them will be held at the World's Fair. The national open golf cham- pionship, played over a Chicago course, may be witnessed l3y visitors to the Fair. The National Canoe Association expects to stage its annual meet in the Exposition lagoon, and an intercollegiate crew race, enlisting the leading col- lege crews of America, also is planned. A national soccer tournament is in prospect, with at least one foreign team engaged. A novelty for Mid-western sports followers will be a match between the champion lacrosse teams of the United States and Canada. The national track and field meet, tentatively set for early in July, is America's most important meet. Un- usual interest will be aroused this year because the metric system of distances will be used exclusively for the first time. The Fair will mark the passing of the foot, yard, and inch from American athletics, and American athletes will have their first opportunity, outside of the Olympic games, to attack the records at metric distances. It is expected that many records will be shattered. Soldier Field Stadium provides the ideal site for a "World's Fair sports carnival. It has 85,000 fixed seats, and on special occasions many thousands of additional ones have been added. It has iDeen the site of such out- standing events as an Army-Xavy football game in 1926, the Music Festival of the Chicago Daily Triljune, the Eodeo, and the Eucharistic Congress in 1926, during which more than 225,000 visitors were massed within its walls. AA'ith the great attractions that athletics can offer on the World's Fair program, the Stadium may break all records for attendance at sports events. Classical in the true sense of the word, this U-shaped concrete structure, open at one end, is a true stadium. The colonnade surrounding it is a purely architectural feature, supplementing the classic dignity of the Field Museum of Natural History, which is directly north of it. — 87 — M Friends of Music USIC is to have a place of appropriate proniinence in A Century of Progress. The Friends of Mnsic, a recently formed or- ganization nnder the chairmanship of Dr. Frederick Stock, are raising fnnds for a per- manent mnsic bnilding on Northerly Island. This organization is expected to contribute much to music at the Fair, Bands will play in the open air. There will be com- munity singing. In the several courts and in the music building will be presented great compositions for choral societies, choirs and glee clu]3S. A group of oif erings will be those of the choruses of commercial institutions, of which there are twenty-seven of high artistic standing in the Chicago area alone. German singing societies have applied for time both before and after their Sangerfest in St. Louis in mid- summer. A series of programs which it is expected will arouse the greatest interest and be the subject of discussion long after the Fair is closed, is in process of organization by the National Conference of IMusic Supervisors. Choruses, orchestras and bands are being made ready in the high schools in the United States and Canada. The National High School Orchestra and the National High School Chorus have been assigned to a period of several weeks in mid-summer. With the offerings of these groups will be joined gymnastics by high school boys and girls and the folk dancing of old Europe by children of the elemen- tary schools in and around Chicago. Art Institute An opportunity to view the greatest single loan exhibi- tion of paintings and sculpture ever assembled in this country is assured Chicago World's Fair visitors. This priceless art collection, which is to 1)e housed in the Art Institute of Chicago, official exhibit building of fine arts of A Century of Progress, is now being gathered from the four corners of the earth under the direction of Robert B. Harshe, director of the Art Institute. He is being assisted by Daniel Catton Rich, associate curator of painting. Paralleling the general exhibits of science and intlustry, the fine arts exhibit will show the progress of art in the past hundred years. It will be divided into three main sections — a representative but carefully chosen loan col- lection of old masters; a collection of the outstanding paintings of the past hundred years, stressing particu- larly the French and American contributions, and a col- lection of contemporary art, with special emphasis on the work of American artists. The first section will include masterpieces, beginning with the Italian duogento and continuing down through the eighteenth century. Galleries, arranged in sequence, will hold Italian, French, German and Flemish primitives, sixteenth century Italian examples, seventeenth century paintings from Spain, Holland, Italy and Flanders, and eighteenth century French and English masterpieces. The aim of this division is to show the public an histo- rical survey, utilizing the great works privately and publicly owned in America, and to stress a century of progress in American collecting. A hundred years ago, America possessed very few great pictures; today, its private collections and museums contain treasures of amazing worth. The second section of the exhibition will be given over to a century of progress in painting. Here, where the institute is preeminent among American museums, great stress will be laid on the past hundred years of American and French art. In the retrospective American section will be represented such early American masters as Whistler, Sargent, Inness, Homer, Ryder, Eakins, and the American impressionists. Rooms will be set aside for Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin and Toulouse- Lautrec, with probably special one-man galleries for Cezanne and van Gogh. ]\[odern painting will be featui'ed in the third section, with 175 works of 175 living artists making up the Amer- ican group. The foreign contemporary group will include the leading French modernists, an astonishing group of German works and representative examples of the Italian, Dutch and Spanish artists of today. THE ART INSTITUTE — 89 — Museum of Science and Industry The .Miiseiim of Science and Indnstry will be housed in the remodeled Fine Arts Building of the Columbian Ex- position, 1893. Between this Museum and A Century of Progress there is hearty cooperation. The central section of the Museum is scheduled to open on May 1, 1933. The Field Museum of Natural History 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 classically beautiful Field Museum of Natural History. The John G. Shedd Aquarium Chicago has the largest and finest aquarium in the world in the John 0. Shedd Aquarium, which is located north of the Twelfth Street entrance to the Exposition. — 90- Admission Charges General admission to the Exposition Grounds during the Fair period will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. There are, however, other classes of tickets at reduced rates. Among them are non-transferable sea- son tickets, bearing an identifying photograph of the purchaser, which are now on sale at the Administration Building for $15.00 each. There are also on sale special souvenir books of ten tickets, artistically designed and printed in colors, for $5.00 each. These tickets carry also an admission to Fort Dearborn. During the pre-Fair period the price of admission to the Exposition Grounds is 10 cents for both adults and children. Admission is free to all completed buildings within the grounds except Fort Dearborn and the Chinese Temple, the admission for each of which is 15 cents, and the Lincoln Group, the admission of which is 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Bus transportation is available within the grounds, the charge being 10 cents between any two points and 25 cents for round trips with stop-offs at points of interest. rll MILWAUK.E.E Ai I e M / 6 A NFOriMATION /bOOTH^ O'JTLyiNO HOU,Sir^G JCeOMOOA TION^ •^OAflKn/a AfiEAS K CENTURY Of PR«6RLSS INTLRNATIONAL EXPOSITIO- CHICAGO SCHEMATIC MAP SHOWING METHOD OF HANDLING OUT OF TOWN AUTOMOBILES — 91 — Officers RuFus C. Dawes President Charles S. Peterson Vice President Daniel H. Burnham Vice President and Secretary Georxje Woodruff Treasurer hEtiOS. B. LOHR General Manager Allen D. Albert Assistant to President Rufus C. Dawes Britton I. Budd Daniel H. Burnham Francis X. Busch Executive Committee Gen. Abel Davis Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank Amos C. Miller F. R. Moulton Charles S. Peterson Dr. Wm. Allen Pusey George Woodruff Trustees Max Adler Arthur Andersen Philip D. Armour Floyd L. Bateman Mrs. Jacob Baur Vincent Bendix Herman Black Mrs. Tiffany Blake Mrs. Waller Borden Homer J. Buckley Britton I. Budd Dr. Herman N. Bundesen Daniel H. Burnham Francis X. Busch Rush C. Butler Charles C. Carnahan John Alden Carpenter Robert F. Carr Anton J. Cermak Dr. Harry W. Cliase Harley L. Clarke D. A. Crawford John F. Cuneo Arthur W. Cutten Gen. Abel Davis Rufus C. Dawes 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 Charles F. Glore James E. Gorman Homer Guck Sangston Hettler Ralph J. Hines Edward N. Hurley Dr. Robt. Maynard Hutehins Samuel Insull Samuel In.sull, Jr. Roy D. Keehn D. F. Kelly Edward J. Kelly Col. Frank Knox Ernest J. Kruetgen Albert Lasker Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis Mrs. Andrew MacLeish Mrs. David Mayer Oiauncey McCormick Donald R. McLennan Mrs. Arthur Meeker Amos C. Miller John J. Mitchell, Jr. F. R. Moulton Miss Agnes Nestor Victor A. Olander Birger Osland Potter Palmer Mrs. Potter Palmer Ma j. -Gen. Frank Parker Col. Stuyvesant Peabody Charles S. Peterson George Pick Dr. Wm. Allen Pusey George M. Reynolds Theodore W. Robinson Fred W. Sargent Dr. Walter Dill Scott Chas. W. Seabury John C. Shaffer Arch W. Shaw Col. Albert A. Sprague Eugene M. Stevens Maj. Felix J. Streyckmans Bernard E. Sunny Orville J. Taylor S. E. Thomason Mrs. Frederic W. Upham B. M. Winston Matthew Woll Gen. Robt. E. Wood George Woodruff Architectural Commission Harvey Wiley Corbett, Chairman, New York Edward H. Bennett, Chicago Arthur Brown, Jr., San Francisco Daniel H. Burnham, (ex-officio) Cliicago Hubert Burnham, Cliicago Paul Philippe Cret, Philadelphia John A. Ilolabird, Cliicago Raymond Mathewson Hood, New York Ferruccio Vitale, New York Ralph T. Walker, New York — 92 — Advisory Committees The following official advisory committees have been appointed by the Board of Trustees of A Century of Progress : Agriculture, Committee on Exhibit of Art Exhibit, Committee on Auditing Committee Electrical Generation, Distribution and Utilization, Committee on Engineering, Committee on General Finance Committee of Chi- cago World 's Fair Historical Committee Housing Bureau Committee Information, Committee on Public Insurance Committee Legal Committee Medical Sciences, Committee on Ex- hibit of Music Committee Nationalities, Committee on Eadio Exhibit, Committee on Ama- teur Eeligion, Committee on Progress through Scientific Publications, Committee on Social Functions, Committee on Sports Committee Traffic. Control, Committee on List of Corporations and Companies Which Have Signed Contracts For Exhibit Space or For Special Buildings up to January 1, 1933 SPECIAL BUILDIKGS American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation Christian Science Publishing Society Chrysler Sales Corporation Edison, Thomas A., Inc. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company General Motors Corporation Johns-Manville Corporation National Poultry Council National Terrazzo & Mosaic Assn. Religious Exliibits Committee, The Sears, Roebuck and Company Southern Cypress Mfg. Assn. Time, Inc. AGRICULTURAL GROUP Associated Cooperage Industries of America Atlas Brewing Company Ball Brothers Company Burpee Can Sealer Company Century Dairy Exhibit, Inc. Chappel Bros., Inc. Chocolate Products Co. Coca Cola Company Committee on Live Stock and Meat Exhibit General Foods Corporation Hansen's, Chr., Laboratory, Inc. Heinz Company, H. J. Hovden Food Products Corporation Illinois, State of International Harvester Company Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. Kerr Glass Mfg. Corporation Kraft-PhenLx Cheese Corporation Libby-McNeill & Libby Morton Salt Company National Biscuit Company National Sugar Refining Co. of N. J. Quaker Oats Company, The Reynolds Exhibits Corp. Standard Brands, Inc. Stover Manufacturing & Engine Co. ELECTRICAL GROUP Altorfer Bros. Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company Century Electric Company Chicago Flexible Shaft Company Conover Company, The Coyne Electrical School Crane Company Curtis Lighting, Inc. Delta Manufacturing Company Electric Storage Battery Co. Electrical Central Station Committee Federal Electric Company, Inc. General Electric Company Hammond Clock Company, The Hoover Company, The International Telephone and Tele- graph Company Kelvinator Corporation Norge Corporation Radio Corporation of America Reynolds Exhibits Corp. Sangamo Electric Company Singer Manufacturing Company, The Stewart Warner Corporation Van Cleef Bros. Waters Center Company (Division of McGraw Electric Co.) Western Union Telegraph Co., The Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co- — 93- GENERAL EXHIBITS Addressograph Multigraph Corp. Americau Colortype Company Armstrong Bros. Tool Company American Evatype Corporation Ansell Simplex Ticket Co. Barrett & Co., C. E. Baumgarten, Joseph Boyer, The Society Parfumeur Bristol-Myers Company Builders Iron Foundry Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. Chicago Camera Club Clover Leaf Crystal Shops Cluett, Peabody Co. Cook Company, The M. B. Cottrell, C. B., & Sons Company Copper &: Brass Eesearch Association Crowe Name Plate & Mfg. Co. Dick, A. B., Company Dictaphone Sales Corporation Donnellej- & Sons Company, K. R. Ecker, B. A. Elgin Xational Watch Company Erickson, Hubbard H. Felt &■ Tarrant Manufacturing Co. Goss Printing Press Co. Gulf Eefining Co. Hertzberg, Ernst, & Sons 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 Kochs, Theo. A. & Co. Link Belt Company Lullabye Furniture Co. Master Lock Co. National Cash Eegister Company Norfolk & Western Ey. Co. Owen Bros. (London) Paper Foundation, The Petroleum Heat & Power Company Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Co. Phoenix Hosiery Pure Oil Company, The Quarrie, W. F., & Company Reflec-0-Lite Signs Eeynolds Appliances Co. Eeynolds Exhibits Corp. Schmidt, Minna Sherman, Beatrix Sanford Manufacturing Company L^'nderwood -Elliott-Fisher Company Varityper, Inc. Waterman Company, L. E. White. H. X., Company Yardley & Co.. Ltd. THE HALL OF SCIENCE Abbott Laboratories American Optical Company Baker & Co., Inc. Bausch & Lomb Optical Company Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. (U.SA.) Inc. Chicago Pharmacal Company Deagan, J. C, Inc. Dentists ' Supply Co. of N. 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