Author: Chicago House Wrecking Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-25

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781333251130

Excerpt from Furniture, 1908-1909: Including Everything for the Home, Office and Hotel Only you who have gazed with admiration on the works of man as portrayed St. Louis in 1904 and have marveled 'at the mammoth palaces constructed after years endless toil and who have appreciated the vast amount of energy, brains and money needed to build such an Exposition - only you can realize what an enormous undertaking it must be to successfully pull down these works of art and to place the material in condition so that it can again be utilized. At the close of the St. Louis World's Fair our company became the owners of the entire Exposition. We locked the gates on the night of December lst, 1904, and entered absolutely into possession of that beautiful White City. We owned the fish in the lagoon and the very birds in the air. The fire departments and the office furniture, the buildings, the pipe in the ground, the magnificent furnishings. All the stately statuary and even the trees. Every part and parcel of the great Louisiana Purchase Exposition was ours absolutely. What to do with such an immensity would stagger the imagination and tax the ingenuity of any one. But our systematized business, perfected by years of careful training and previous experience placed us in possession of wisdom sufficient to properly cope with such an undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.