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Excerpt from Rand, McNally and Co; 'S Advance Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition: With Indexed Map of Chicago The statues surrounding the Transportation Building consist of sixteen figures commemorative of inventors, eight of them placed at the north end, with a similar number at the south end of the building. On the front of the building, facing the lagoon, are four typical groups on each side' of the Golden Doorway. At the north end of the building is the outside exhibit of the Transportation Department. At the south end of the building the Vanderbilt Railroad System and the Wagner Palace Car Company make a special exhibit in a building of handsome design. The terminal depot of the Elevated Railway (south Side Elevated road) is on the left of the Annex. Near the Transportation Build ing, and between it and the Terminal Railway station, are to be found the cooling plant of the Hygeia Mineral Spring Company, the building and the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, the Ore Mining Company, and the Cold Storage and Ice skating-rink of the Hercules Iron Works. 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.