ed by the directors was the section known
as Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. The park has a frontage of one
and a half miles on Lake Michigan and contains 600 acres, while the
Midway Plaisance, connecting Jackson and Washington Parks, afforded
eighty-five acres more. It is 600 feet wide and a mile in length. Since
world's fairs have become a favorite among nations, the following
statistics will give a correct idea of the vastness of the one held in
Chicago, from May 1 to November 1, 1893:

London, 1857, 21-1/2 acres occupied; 17,000 exhibitors;
total receipts, $1,780,000

Paris, 1855, 24-1/2 " " 22,000 exhibitors;
total receipts, 6,441,200

London, 1862, 23-1/2 " " 28,633 exhibitors;
total receipts, 1,644,260

Paris, 1867, 37 " " 52,000 exhibitors;
total receipts, 2,103,675

Vienna, 1873, 280 " " 142,000 exhibitors;
total receipts, 6,971,832

Philadelphia, 1876, 236 " " 30,864 exhibitors;
total receipts, 3,813,724

Paris, 1878, 100 " " 40,366 exhibitors;
total receipts, 2,531,650

Paris, 1889, 173 " " 55,000 exhibitors;
total receipts, 8,300,000

Chicago, 1893, 645 " " 65,422 exhibitors;
total receipts, 33,290,065

The countries which made generous appropriations for exhibits were:
Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Denmark, Danish West Indies, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Barbadoes, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Cape
Colony, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, New South Wales, New
Zealand, Trinidad, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Haiti, Japan,
Liberia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Dutch Guiana, Dutch West Indies,
Nicaragua, Norway, Orange Free State, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Salvador,
San Domingo, Spain, Cuba, Sweden, Uruguay.

All the States in the Union entered heartily into the scheme, their
total appropriations amounting to $6,000,000. The original plan called
for ten main buildings: Manufactures, Administration, Machinery,
Agriculture, Electricity, Mines, Transportation, Horticulture,
Fisheries, and the Venetian Village; but there were added: the Art
Galleries, the Woman's Building, the Forestry, Dairy, Stock, Pavilion,
Terminal Station, Music Hall, Peristyle, Casi