THE NORTH CANAL—LOOKING SOUTH —From a point near the west approach to the bridge connecting the Electricity and Manufactures Buildings a view was afforded southward down the South Canal, which had many interesting features. The always thronged bridge between the plaza in front of the Administration Building and the south front of the Manufactures cuts off, it is true, a portion of the view but adds in itself an interesting feature. The photograph from which the illustrations were made affords the usual afternoon scene at this point during the continuation of the Fair. On the right, the graceful columns of the Electricity Building give beauty to the foreground, and beyond, in the distance, the tall towers of Machinery Hall are outlined against the sky while to the left of them appear the Neptune Statues, the Columbian Obelisk and the Colonnade. Still further to the left appear the west facade of the Agriculture Building and a little of its northern frontage, the view concluding with the southwest corner of the Manufactures Building, close at hand. That it was one of the warm days of summer when this photograph was taken is evident enough. There is languor in the attitude of the figure of the young man lounging in the foreground, and the streamers upon the flagstaffs float all to the east, an indication that the breeze is toward instead of being from the lake, which means in midsummer, a warm day in Chicago. It is a pretty picture, though, upon the canal, where there is certainly lacking the dust which may be present upon the thoroughfares elsewhere.

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