Identifier: authenticguideto01merc (find matches)
Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ading rifle cannon;four 6-inch breech-loading rifle cannon; twenty 6-pounderrapid firing guns; six 1-pound rapid firing guns; two gatlingguns, and six torpedo tubes or torpedo guns. All of theseare placed and mounted respectively as in the genuine battle-ship. On the starboard side of the ship is shown the torpedoprotection net, stretching the entire length of the vessel.Steam launches and cutters ride at the booms, and all the out-ward appearance of a real ship of war is imitated. After landing at the pier from the steamer the visitorencounters first the buildings erected by foreign countries,the first of these being the structure devoted to Great Brit-ain. Although the exhibits of this country are scatteredthrough every department of the Fair, the building of GreatBritain is a noticeable feature, being a reproduction on alarge scale of one of the antique manor halls, adapted in itsinterior architecture to the uses for which it has been setapart. 87 i68 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 169 The next building is that erected by Germany. It is atypical old German house enlarged, and adjoining it is asmall, chapel-like annex. The building is a very attractiveone. Turning eastward the visitor comes across the SwedishBuilding. This building is triangular in shape and covers12,000 square feet. It is built after the manner of an oldSwedish cathedral and consists of a main floor and gallery,above the center of which rises a tower 200 feet high. Directly opposite this structure is a group of threebuildings representing Colombia, Hayti and Nicaragua. Ad-joining these is the magnificent exhibit of Brazil. Surround-ing the main building are several smaller structures, suc^. \sa sugar mill in operation, a coffee quinta, and several hutsinhabited by natives. Turning northward the visitor encounters in successionthe exhibits of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Ecuador. To thesouth of the building erected by Costa Rica is the structuredevoted to illustrating Tu

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