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| THE LAKE SHORE PROMENADE - The above
magnificent panoramic view presents a phase of the Exposition
environment which has not heretofore received attention in these
pages. Looking southward from the low stone pavilion, an original
feature of Jackson Park, but used as a State Structure by the
Commonwealth of Iowa, one sees, first of all,
standing out white and
sharp against dark foliage, the fine structure built by the French
Government, and farther on, keeping along the shore, many other
well-known buildings erected by foreign nations, among them those of
Germany and Great Britain, the latter standing
at a point where the
great pier makes into the lake. Behind it the observant reader
catches a glimpse of the big battleship, and
away across the open
lake in the extreme background stands Music Hall. To the right rises
the roof of the great Manufactures Building,
flanked in the middle
distance by the Government dome, and beyond by
that of the
Administration. Still farther to the right of
the picture one can
pick out the Art Palace, the beautiful edifice
erected by Brazil, the
Horticultural dome, and many objects of
interest which will long
dwell in memory. Yet it is possible that the mind will revert with
most pleasure to the shore of the lake, with its broad wind-swept
promenade, from which the view lakeward or landward, north or south,
was equally inspiring, and every one will reflect with much
satisfaction that this ideal breathing place upon which so much labor
and money were lavished will remain a permanent improvement to the
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