The Devil in the White City

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.