[Vynne, Harold Richard] [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman · leaf 270
ons with the opportunity to discuss their in-terests, will secure to the people the opportun-ity to hear words of wisdom from the wisest ofmankind. Suppose Mr. Gladstone, the mosteminent Englishman of his time, should visitthe fair, as is not improbable? Should he doso he will unquestionably be… … PART VI. THE FAIR ITSELF. WHEN Mr. EdwinLee Brown, a pioneercitizen of Chicago,died in the summerof 1891, there passedaway the man who issaid to have been thefirst to suggest theidea of holding aworlds fair in com-~ memoration of the400th anniversary ofthe discovery .ofAmerica. The mind,therefore,…
