5 - Comments
- Burnham went to the meeting in the Rookery and had produced a heightened awareness of how little time remained and everything seemed to take longer than it should, and nothing went smoothly.
- On February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage dich. It was nothing, routine but the word spread, and five hundred union men stormed the park and drove the worker off.
- On a friday, six hundred men gathered at the park to protest Mcarthur's use of what they alleged were "imported" workers.
- There was conflict, too, among the fair's overseers and the national commission, made up of politicians and headed by director-general George Davis. He wanted financial control, the Exposition Company, run by Chicago's leading businessmen and headed by president Lyman Gage.
- The company had raised the money, and by god the company would spend it in whatever way it chose. The committees ruled everything.
4 - Question
- Why they called people who were allegad were Imported workers?
- Why did two thousand mens were beating McArthur workers?
- Was McAuthur was building another skyscrapers?
- What is so important of the Skyscrapers?
3 - Vocabulary
- Expenditures = The act or process of expending; outlay.
- treason = the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
- Temperance = moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
2 - Literary terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Characterization = Her husband (Holmes) warm, and charming exterior were flowed
1 - Overview
- This part of the book is about thousands of people protesting and beating the imported workers and McAthur needed help.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The Devil in the White City
5 - Comments
- Soon after the meeting Olmsted composed a strategy for the transformation of Jackson Park. His ten- page memorandum captured the essence of all he had come to believe about the art of landscape architecture and how it should strive to conjure effects greater than the mere sum of petals and leaves.
- He concentrated on the fair's central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the jackson Park shore. Also, the dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island.
- The fair main buildings would rise along the lagoon's outer banks. Olmsted saw that the lagoon district as the most challenging portion of the fair.
- Olmsted hoped to provide visitors with a banquet of glimpses - the undersides of leaves sparkling with reflected lights, flashes of brilliaant color between fronds of tall grass waving in the breeze.
- Sedges and ferns graceful bulrush would probaly be planted on the banks of the Wooded island to conjure density and intricacy and to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.
4 - Question
- What is so important with a lagoon?
- What is a Lagoon and what does it do that is important to the main building and Olmsted?
- What type of trasformation would Olmsted do to Jackson Park?
- Is Jackson park is a historical place?
3 - Vocabulary
Dredges = Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
Lagoon = an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
Mingling = to become mixed, blended, or united.
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the book is about recontruction jackson park (transforming Jackson Park).
- Soon after the meeting Olmsted composed a strategy for the transformation of Jackson Park. His ten- page memorandum captured the essence of all he had come to believe about the art of landscape architecture and how it should strive to conjure effects greater than the mere sum of petals and leaves.
- He concentrated on the fair's central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the jackson Park shore. Also, the dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island.
- The fair main buildings would rise along the lagoon's outer banks. Olmsted saw that the lagoon district as the most challenging portion of the fair.
- Olmsted hoped to provide visitors with a banquet of glimpses - the undersides of leaves sparkling with reflected lights, flashes of brilliaant color between fronds of tall grass waving in the breeze.
- Sedges and ferns graceful bulrush would probaly be planted on the banks of the Wooded island to conjure density and intricacy and to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.
4 - Question
- What is so important with a lagoon?
- What is a Lagoon and what does it do that is important to the main building and Olmsted?
- What type of trasformation would Olmsted do to Jackson Park?
- Is Jackson park is a historical place?
3 - Vocabulary
Dredges = Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
Lagoon = an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
Mingling = to become mixed, blended, or united.
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the book is about recontruction jackson park (transforming Jackson Park).
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Devil in the white city
5 – Comments
- On February 24, 1891 on Tuesday, Burnham, Olmsted, Hunt, and other architects gathered in the library on the top of the Rookery to present drawing of the fair’s main structures to the grounds and buildings committee.
- A new man had joined the group, Augustus St.Gaudens, one of America’s best known sculptors, whom Charles Mckim had invited to help evaluate the designs.
- One by one, the architects walked to the front of the room, unrolled their drawings, and displayed them upon the wall. Something had happened among the architects, and it became evident immediately, as though a new force had entered the room.
- The next structure presented was even bigger than the other one. All that space, moreover, was to be lit inside and out with electric lamps.
- Post proposed to top his building with a dome of 450 feet high, which would have made the building not only the biggest in the world but also the tallest.
4 – Question
- Why did they want to build a bigger building with a dome of 450 feet high?
- Why the architects are so important in Chicago?
- Back in the 1890’s do the architects get pay a lot?
- What would happen without architects in Chicago?
3 – Vocabulary
Gleamed = to emit a gleam; flash or glow
Brusque = Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. See Synonyms at gruff.
Promenade = A leisurely walk, especially one taken in a public place as a social activity.
2 – Literary Term
- Simile = Olmsted looked gray, expect for his eyes which gleamed beneath his bald skull like marbles of lapis.
- They are like super people.
1 – Overview
This part of the story is about the architects building a great building.
- On February 24, 1891 on Tuesday, Burnham, Olmsted, Hunt, and other architects gathered in the library on the top of the Rookery to present drawing of the fair’s main structures to the grounds and buildings committee.
- A new man had joined the group, Augustus St.Gaudens, one of America’s best known sculptors, whom Charles Mckim had invited to help evaluate the designs.
- One by one, the architects walked to the front of the room, unrolled their drawings, and displayed them upon the wall. Something had happened among the architects, and it became evident immediately, as though a new force had entered the room.
- The next structure presented was even bigger than the other one. All that space, moreover, was to be lit inside and out with electric lamps.
- Post proposed to top his building with a dome of 450 feet high, which would have made the building not only the biggest in the world but also the tallest.
4 – Question
- Why did they want to build a bigger building with a dome of 450 feet high?
- Why the architects are so important in Chicago?
- Back in the 1890’s do the architects get pay a lot?
- What would happen without architects in Chicago?
3 – Vocabulary
Gleamed = to emit a gleam; flash or glow
Brusque = Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. See Synonyms at gruff.
Promenade = A leisurely walk, especially one taken in a public place as a social activity.
2 – Literary Term
- Simile = Olmsted looked gray, expect for his eyes which gleamed beneath his bald skull like marbles of lapis.
- They are like super people.
1 – Overview
This part of the story is about the architects building a great building.
Friday, December 12, 2008
The Devil in the White City
5 - Comments
- Holmes dreamed and sketched the feature of his building becoming more elaborated and satisfying but, it was only a dream phase. Holmes could imagined the pleasure that would fill his days when the buildings was finished and flesh-and-blood women moved among its features and as always, the thought aroused him.
- He was thinking that constructing a building won’t be easy, that it would be a challenge. He devised/ created a strategy that he believed it would not only allay suspicions but, also reduce the cost of construction. He placed newspaper advertisements for carpenters and laborers, and soon workers with teams of horses would begin excavating the land.
- Holmes became/ cast himself as a demanding contractor and as soon workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even when the workers were doing perfect work. He didn’t like giving money away to anybody. Everybody quit, or he fired them so anyways, the worker would have to find another job anyways. He fired the workers, gets new people to fill in for them and treat them the same way he treated the others. This process was going slow but for a good cost said “ Holmes”.
- A bricklayer named George Bowman found the experience of working for Holmes somewhat chilling. George bowman told Holmes to throw a brick to his brother-in-law and they don’t get well with each other. George told him that when that “incidents” happen, that he would give Holmes fifty dollars.
- Three men did meet Holmes’s standard of trustworthiness and each worker for him throughout the period of construction and continued to associate with him after the building was completed.
4 - Question
- Why didn’t Holmes pay the workers what they earned? Why was Holmes was building/ construction a building?
- Why was Holmes was thinking of hitting a man with a brick that George told him to? do? Would he do it for money and agreed with George?
- Would Holmes pay every worker there money that they earn or not?
- If Holmes don’t pay what the workers needed the amount to get pay, would they destroy the building?
3 - Vocabulary
- wholly = In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
- chute = an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level.
- embedded = To enclose snugly or firmly
2 - Literary terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the story is about when Holmes is construction a building of his own with worker he don’t want to pay.
- Holmes dreamed and sketched the feature of his building becoming more elaborated and satisfying but, it was only a dream phase. Holmes could imagined the pleasure that would fill his days when the buildings was finished and flesh-and-blood women moved among its features and as always, the thought aroused him.
- He was thinking that constructing a building won’t be easy, that it would be a challenge. He devised/ created a strategy that he believed it would not only allay suspicions but, also reduce the cost of construction. He placed newspaper advertisements for carpenters and laborers, and soon workers with teams of horses would begin excavating the land.
- Holmes became/ cast himself as a demanding contractor and as soon workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even when the workers were doing perfect work. He didn’t like giving money away to anybody. Everybody quit, or he fired them so anyways, the worker would have to find another job anyways. He fired the workers, gets new people to fill in for them and treat them the same way he treated the others. This process was going slow but for a good cost said “ Holmes”.
- A bricklayer named George Bowman found the experience of working for Holmes somewhat chilling. George bowman told Holmes to throw a brick to his brother-in-law and they don’t get well with each other. George told him that when that “incidents” happen, that he would give Holmes fifty dollars.
- Three men did meet Holmes’s standard of trustworthiness and each worker for him throughout the period of construction and continued to associate with him after the building was completed.
4 - Question
- Why didn’t Holmes pay the workers what they earned? Why was Holmes was building/ construction a building?
- Why was Holmes was thinking of hitting a man with a brick that George told him to? do? Would he do it for money and agreed with George?
- Would Holmes pay every worker there money that they earn or not?
- If Holmes don’t pay what the workers needed the amount to get pay, would they destroy the building?
3 - Vocabulary
- wholly = In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
- chute = an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level.
- embedded = To enclose snugly or firmly
2 - Literary terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the story is about when Holmes is construction a building of his own with worker he don’t want to pay.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The Devil in the White City
5 - Comments
- In Minneapolis, there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone/anybody to share the agony of their days. Holmes lived in Eaglewood that is not the heart of Chicago, was at first a disappointment, but here is too that was a vibrancy far as she experience at home.
- They (Holmes and Myrta) went to settled in a apartment in the second floor and by spring in the year 1888, Myrta was pregnant.
- She help her husband with the pharmacy and she just love when Holmes is working and helping the customers. She admired her husband Holmes that she admired too of the charm with which he managed each transaction and how he won the business even of elderly customers loyal. Myrta came to see that underneath her husband’s warm and charming exterior there flowed a deep current of ambition.
- Myrta insisted of Holmes having more wealth, but his ambition never impaired his character and never distracted him from his role as husband and eventually father. She swore that she would have a gentle heart and that Holmes would adored children’s and animals. Holmes was a lover of pets and always had a dog or cat and usually a horse and he would play around with them. He never drink nor smoke and also did not gambled.
- Holmes begins to act like a dutiful husband. Her parents were cool at first but then Holmes courted their approval with moist-eyed declarations of regret and displays adoration for his wife and child.
4 - Question
- Why does Holmes act like a dutiful husband?
- Does Myrta knows about the past of Holmes and that Holmes is not his real name?
- Are the parent of Myrta happy with Holmes? Are they suspicious of Holmes?
- Why did Myrta increased the possessiveness? Was she jealous of Holmes when he was looking into a woman?
3 - Vocabulary
- vibrancy = moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating
- Transaction = Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.
- exterior = situated or being outside; pertaining to or connected with what is outside: the exterior territories of a country.
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Characterization = Her husband (Holmes) warm, and charming exterior were flowed a deep current of ambition.
1 - Overview
- this part of the book is about when Myrta is describing how good Holmes really is.
- In Minneapolis, there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone/anybody to share the agony of their days. Holmes lived in Eaglewood that is not the heart of Chicago, was at first a disappointment, but here is too that was a vibrancy far as she experience at home.
- They (Holmes and Myrta) went to settled in a apartment in the second floor and by spring in the year 1888, Myrta was pregnant.
- She help her husband with the pharmacy and she just love when Holmes is working and helping the customers. She admired her husband Holmes that she admired too of the charm with which he managed each transaction and how he won the business even of elderly customers loyal. Myrta came to see that underneath her husband’s warm and charming exterior there flowed a deep current of ambition.
- Myrta insisted of Holmes having more wealth, but his ambition never impaired his character and never distracted him from his role as husband and eventually father. She swore that she would have a gentle heart and that Holmes would adored children’s and animals. Holmes was a lover of pets and always had a dog or cat and usually a horse and he would play around with them. He never drink nor smoke and also did not gambled.
- Holmes begins to act like a dutiful husband. Her parents were cool at first but then Holmes courted their approval with moist-eyed declarations of regret and displays adoration for his wife and child.
4 - Question
- Why does Holmes act like a dutiful husband?
- Does Myrta knows about the past of Holmes and that Holmes is not his real name?
- Are the parent of Myrta happy with Holmes? Are they suspicious of Holmes?
- Why did Myrta increased the possessiveness? Was she jealous of Holmes when he was looking into a woman?
3 - Vocabulary
- vibrancy = moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating
- Transaction = Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.
- exterior = situated or being outside; pertaining to or connected with what is outside: the exterior territories of a country.
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Characterization = Her husband (Holmes) warm, and charming exterior were flowed a deep current of ambition.
1 - Overview
- this part of the book is about when Myrta is describing how good Holmes really is.
The Devil in the White City
5 - Comments
- Holmes’s sales of tonics and lotions increased by the end of 1886, and the pharmacy was running smoothly plus profitably. He thought that he would tuned to a woman that he had met earlier in the year during his brief in Minneapolis, Myrta Z. Belknap.
- What elevated her above mere beauty was the aura of vulnerability and need that surrounded her. She became an immediate obsession, that her imagination and her needs to lock his brain.
- The city toughened them quickly, however the best way to catch them would be at the start of their ascent toward freedom. In transit from small places, when they were anonymous, lost, their presence recorded nowhere. Everyday, he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and also hansom cabs, that inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged.
- The city’s madams understood this and were known to meet inbound trains with promises of warmth and friendship, saving the important news for later. Holmes adored Chicago, adored in particular how the smoke and din could envelop a woman and leave no hint that she ever had existed, save perhaps a blade-thin track of perfume amid the stench of dung, anthracite, and putrefaction.
- When he left the store that first day, as motes of dust filled the space he left behind, her own life seemed drab beyond endurance. A clock ticked. Something had to change. When his first letter arrived, she asked sweetly if he might court her, that she felt as if a coarse blanket had been lifted from her life.
4 - Question
- Why did Holmes said that Chicago was the most feared and magnetic of cities?
- Does Holmes like/love Myrta Z. Belknap? Do they live together?
- Is the pharmacy of Chicago that Holmes own is a famous pharmacy and why did he created a pharmacy?
- What does Myrta Z. Belknap want to do with Holmes?
3 - Vocabulary
- Anthracite = a mineral coal containing little of the volatile hydrocarbons and burning almost without flame; hard coal.
- putrefaction = the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- clerked = A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
2 - Literary Terms
- Characterization = She was a young and blond, with blue eyes and a lush figure. Holmes was a handsome, warm, and obviously wealthy.
- Simile = …. conduct that applied in their safe little hometowns, like Alva, Clinton, and Percy, might actually still apply once they had left behind…
1 - Overview
- Holmes was in a trip in Minneapolis and about a woman name Myrta Z. Belknap, that I think he loves her and she loves him.
- Holmes’s sales of tonics and lotions increased by the end of 1886, and the pharmacy was running smoothly plus profitably. He thought that he would tuned to a woman that he had met earlier in the year during his brief in Minneapolis, Myrta Z. Belknap.
- What elevated her above mere beauty was the aura of vulnerability and need that surrounded her. She became an immediate obsession, that her imagination and her needs to lock his brain.
- The city toughened them quickly, however the best way to catch them would be at the start of their ascent toward freedom. In transit from small places, when they were anonymous, lost, their presence recorded nowhere. Everyday, he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and also hansom cabs, that inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged.
- The city’s madams understood this and were known to meet inbound trains with promises of warmth and friendship, saving the important news for later. Holmes adored Chicago, adored in particular how the smoke and din could envelop a woman and leave no hint that she ever had existed, save perhaps a blade-thin track of perfume amid the stench of dung, anthracite, and putrefaction.
- When he left the store that first day, as motes of dust filled the space he left behind, her own life seemed drab beyond endurance. A clock ticked. Something had to change. When his first letter arrived, she asked sweetly if he might court her, that she felt as if a coarse blanket had been lifted from her life.
4 - Question
- Why did Holmes said that Chicago was the most feared and magnetic of cities?
- Does Holmes like/love Myrta Z. Belknap? Do they live together?
- Is the pharmacy of Chicago that Holmes own is a famous pharmacy and why did he created a pharmacy?
- What does Myrta Z. Belknap want to do with Holmes?
3 - Vocabulary
- Anthracite = a mineral coal containing little of the volatile hydrocarbons and burning almost without flame; hard coal.
- putrefaction = the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- clerked = A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
2 - Literary Terms
- Characterization = She was a young and blond, with blue eyes and a lush figure. Holmes was a handsome, warm, and obviously wealthy.
- Simile = …. conduct that applied in their safe little hometowns, like Alva, Clinton, and Percy, might actually still apply once they had left behind…
1 - Overview
- Holmes was in a trip in Minneapolis and about a woman name Myrta Z. Belknap, that I think he loves her and she loves him.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
The devil in the White City
5 - Comments
- One day on August 12, day Tuesday, four days after Olmsted and Codman arrived in Chicago, he filed a report with the exposition directors, who then, he chagrin made the report public and he also had the intention of the report for a professional audience for Jackson Park.
- Olmsted lectured the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.
- All Chicago can afford to take nothing less than the very best site that can be found for the fair, regardless of the special local interests of one quarter of the city or another. That every landscape element of the fair had to have one supreme object of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.
- Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: that site an the lakeshore above the loop of two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city and of Jackson Park. Olmsted himself prefer the northernmost site and he insisted Jackson Park could work and produce results of a pleasingly that becomes character such as having not hitherto been aimed at in world fair.
- Burnham hoped that his second report would at least compel a decision that delay was maddening. The board seemed unaware that Chicago now risked becoming a national, even global, temperament.\
4 - Question
- What is the importance of Jackson Park?
- What best site Chicago has that everybody in Chicago need to go?
- Why is Olmsted is really interested in Jackson Park?
- What does the landscape of the element of the fair have to do with the supreme object?
3 - Vocabulary
- exasperating = to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely
- tonnage = the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.
- terraces = To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = Chicago is like a big dump.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
Olmsted is doing a project that is related to Jackson Park.
- One day on August 12, day Tuesday, four days after Olmsted and Codman arrived in Chicago, he filed a report with the exposition directors, who then, he chagrin made the report public and he also had the intention of the report for a professional audience for Jackson Park.
- Olmsted lectured the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.
- All Chicago can afford to take nothing less than the very best site that can be found for the fair, regardless of the special local interests of one quarter of the city or another. That every landscape element of the fair had to have one supreme object of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.
- Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: that site an the lakeshore above the loop of two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city and of Jackson Park. Olmsted himself prefer the northernmost site and he insisted Jackson Park could work and produce results of a pleasingly that becomes character such as having not hitherto been aimed at in world fair.
- Burnham hoped that his second report would at least compel a decision that delay was maddening. The board seemed unaware that Chicago now risked becoming a national, even global, temperament.\
4 - Question
- What is the importance of Jackson Park?
- What best site Chicago has that everybody in Chicago need to go?
- Why is Olmsted is really interested in Jackson Park?
- What does the landscape of the element of the fair have to do with the supreme object?
3 - Vocabulary
- exasperating = to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely
- tonnage = the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.
- terraces = To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = Chicago is like a big dump.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
Olmsted is doing a project that is related to Jackson Park.
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