CHAPTER I.

A WONDERFUL METAMORPHOSIS.

Jackson Park in 1891— An uninviting strip of sand, swamp and scrub oaks— No redeeming feature except area
and location— The most magnificent transformation scene ever presented to mankind— Twenty-five mill-
ions of dollars expended on buildings and improvements— Director of Works Daniel H. Burnham and his
engineers, architects, sculptors, painters and landscape designers, transform a spot of swamp and sand into
a white city of palaces and collonades — Terraces, towers, turrets and statuary on every hand — Plantations
of massive foliage and flowering plants — Beautiful fountains and picturesque water ways — Artificial canals
that put to blush shores of the bride of the sea — Burnham and his staff . .... 63

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