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| PANORAMA OF STATE BUILDINGS- The pond here
seen is the original water of Jackson Park, which existed before the
harbor at Victoria House was made, or the
Art Palace pond was excavated. On the site of the Washington State Building, which may be
identified by the flag and tall staff, all the old-time Saturday
concerts of Jackson Park were given; and for years they were an
institution of the city, calling down Michigan and Prairie Avenues
the richest pageant of Chicago's equipages. The bridge across the
pond is at Fifty-seventh street, and at the right foreground the Esquimaux had their settlement. A kyak, or
canoe, is in sight. At the end of the pond in the distance, the huge
Jesuitic architecture of California
Building comes in view, and further on, in the extreme
perspective, the eye detects an object which gives a melancholy
interest to this notable picture. It is the fatal tower and chimney
of the Cold Storage Warehouse. This was
a fine construction surrounding a sheet-iron smoke stack, and the
iron may be seen issuing from its wooden sheathing. It was from the
heights of this death trap that sixteen firemen leaped and lost their
lives on July 10th, 1893. Toward the left the first great dome is on
the Illinois Building, and the second one
is on the Administration. The Kansas Building is at the left, in the
foreground. |
