PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS
Page 70 – LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING
LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING.—From the roof of the Government Building, looking northeast, a view was afforded of a portion of the North Inlet, the elevated railway a group of prominent structures and of Lake Michigan beyond. Conspicuous in the foreground on the right is a portion of the Life Saving Station, the inlet upon which it was located connecting with the lake a little further to the east. On the left, the north loop of the electric road is seen, and beside it the eastern wing of the Fisheries. Across the inlet, on the left, the front of the India Building shows, and east of the thoroughfare, on which it stands, a whole nest of important piles are outlined, the German Building towering above them all. The two edifices with long facades on the water front are the Banquet Hall, as it was termed to the left, and the Clam Bake to the right. The buildings clustered beyond are those of Germany, Spain, Hayti, New South Wales and Canada. Away to the extreme left appears a ruin, so great that it is imposing even at such a distance. It is the skeleton of the great “Spectatorium,” the building which was to accommodate hosts and gratify them with the grandest stage illusions ever produced, the building which was begun and had hundreds of thousands spent upon it but which was never finished. It was the one inharmonious feature in the landscape of the Fair, an object of curious amazement to all who did not know its history. It was, in its wasting condition, an object lesson in finance, if not in architecture.