The first alarm: Burnham, Final Official Report, 61, 74; Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1893; Graphic, July 15, 1893, Chicago Historical Society; Synoptical History, 74–77.
“Never,” the Fire Department reported: Synoptical History, 75.
“as though the gaseous: Burnham, Final Official Report, 61.
“I saw there was: Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1893.
Daniel Burnham testified: Chicago Tribune, July 12, 1893 303. On Tuesday, July 18: Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1893.
“The attempt to hold you: Geraldine to Burnham, July 19, 1893, Burnham Archives, Business Correspondence, Box 1, File 32.
With the stink: Chicago Tribune, July 14, 1893.
As if things: Chicago Tribune, August 3, 1893.
“no expenditures whatever: Ibid.
Love
The twenty-four teachers: Dreiser, Journalism, 121.
“an intense something: Lingeman, 118.
Dreiser followed the ladies: For details about the teachers’ visit to the fair, see Dreiser, Journalism, 121–38.
“sentimental: Lingeman, 121.
“into a dream: Ibid., 119.
“If you marry now: Ibid., 122.
Couples asked permission: Untitled typescript, Ferris Papers, 9.
Georgiana Yoke: Trial, 364.
He was so alone: Ibid., 436.
“a little heart: Ibid., 364.
He cautioned, however: Ibid., 436.
Mayor Harrison too: Abbot, 233; Chicago Tribune, August 24, 1893; Muccigrosso, 181.
Freaks
“can only be characterized: Chicago Tribune, August 3, 1893.
“If the directory had seen fit: Chicago Tribune, August 2, 1893.
“Hundreds of newspapers: Chicago Tribune, August 13, 1893.
“We want to do something: Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1893.
Millet also organized: Chicago Tribune, August 12, 1893.
“Whether the apprehensions: Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1893.
Further enriching the affair: Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1893; Downey, 168.
“Chicago built the fair: Chicago Tribune, August 16, 1893.
At nine-fifteen that night: Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1893.
It was hot: Ibid.
“native costume of bark: Ibid.
The official menu: Ibid.
Attendance rose: Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1893.
“If Congress does not give: Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1893.
“Why should the wealth: Chicago Tribune, August 31, 1893.
Prendergast
One afternoon: Chicago Record, December 16, 1893, McGoorty Papers.
“No,” Prendergast said: Ibid.
Toward Triumph
By ten o’clock: Dybwad and Bliss, 38–40.
“The Paris record: Ibid., 38.
“There must be a million: Ibid., 39.
The fireworks: Ibid., 64–68.
In that single day: Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1893.
The Tribune argued: Ibid.
But the best news: Badger, 109.
Departures
“You know my dislike: Moore, McKim, 127.
“indeed it is the ambition: Ibid., 126.
“better to have it vanish: Boyesen, 186.
“I can’t come to you: Stevenson, 415.
For all of 1893: Crook, 102.
“Never before: Bogart and Mathews, 398.
The pressure: Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 21, 1894.
First he set fire: Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 23, 1894; Boswell and Thompson, 89; Franke, 41; Schechter, 64–65.
He advised the insurers: Ibid.
The guardians of Minnie: Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 21, 1894; July 27, 1895; Franke, 106.
In the fall of 1893: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1896.
Holmes fled: Ibid.
Soon afterward Holmes set out: Geyer, 346; Trial, 302, 608; Franke, 213.
Just before leaving: Geyer, 346; Trial, 210.
Nightfall
Throughout October: Chicago Tribune, October 29, 1893.
Twenty thousand people: “Ferris Wheel, Statement of Business by the Week,” Ferris Papers.
“peer cautiously: Chicago Tribune, October 25, 1893.
“Look at it now: Abbot, 228.
At two o’clock: Chicago Tribune, October 29, 1893.
At three o’clock: Chicago Tribute, December 20, 1893.
In the midst of supper: Chicago Times, December 14, 1893, McGoorty Papers.
“It must have been: Ibid.
They argued: Chicago Record, December 15, 1893, and Chicago Daily News, October 23, 1943, McGoorty Papers.
“Lock me up: Chicago Record, December 15, 1893, McGoorty Papers.
“We are turning our backs: Chicago Tribune, October 31, 1893.
At exactly four-forty-five: Ibid.
The six hundred carriages: Chicago Tribune, November 2, 1893; Miller, 101.
Harrison had heard them: Chicago Tribune, November 2, 1893.
“The good-by: Dean, 418.
“Beneath the stars: Pierce, As Others See Chicago,
