Reactions to the Fair
The White City
New York Daily Tribune: October 22, 1893
"The wonderful group of buildings, with their marvelous, beautiful surroundings of land and water, created as if by magic, cannot adequately be described or portrayed by either pen or pencil. The eminent architects and artists to whom all this is due laid under tribute the traditions and models of historic art, and all the ripe experience of the distant and the past were combined with the present to form the most beautiful and remarkable collection of architectural monuments that this world has ever witnessed."
The Midway
Harper's Monthly#1899, May 13
"Visitors will be able to see things within the Midway Plaisance which, were they not exhibited there, they would have to take a journey to the ends of the earth to inspect...It would have been better, of course, if all the sights and entertainments of the Midway Plaisance had been within the grounds of the World's Fair proper, and that they had been a part of the great university to which all can go for an admission fee of 50 cents... "
Views on Race
New York Age: 1892
"...we would advise the race to have nothing whatever to do with the Columbian Exposition or the management of it...The glory and the profit of the whole thing, is in the hands of white 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' and in all charity"
The White City
New York Daily Tribune: October 22, 1893
"The wonderful group of buildings, with their marvelous, beautiful surroundings of land and water, created as if by magic, cannot adequately be described or portrayed by either pen or pencil. The eminent architects and artists to whom all this is due laid under tribute the traditions and models of historic art, and all the ripe experience of the distant and the past were combined with the present to form the most beautiful and remarkable collection of architectural monuments that this world has ever witnessed."
The Midway
Harper's Monthly#1899, May 13
"Visitors will be able to see things within the Midway Plaisance which, were they not exhibited there, they would have to take a journey to the ends of the earth to inspect...It would have been better, of course, if all the sights and entertainments of the Midway Plaisance had been within the grounds of the World's Fair proper, and that they had been a part of the great university to which all can go for an admission fee of 50 cents... "
Views on Race
New York Age: 1892
"...we would advise the race to have nothing whatever to do with the Columbian Exposition or the management of it...The glory and the profit of the whole thing, is in the hands of white 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' and in all charity"