Devil in the White City 4

The chapter starts with H.H. Holmes as the main suspect.  Holmes moved to Inndaipolis to get them off his trail.  We found out that Holmes has some children with him.  Holmes get capture and he begins to write a book. He also wrote a letter to Carrie Pitezel, telling her where her children were and asking how she could believe he would hurt her children or her husband.Geyer’s search led him to Toronto, Canada. He found a house Holmes had rented and found the bodies of Alice and Nellie. This is start of tying holmes to the murders. Then the attorney question Holmes about the body but Holmes saw the paper and didn’t say nothing. Holmes got his book published and accused minnie and howard for the murders. Geyer succeeded in finding Howard but  Howard had been murdered.  All that was left was to put the murders on Holmes. Holmes was indicted for the murders of Benjamin, Howard, Alice and Nellie Pitezel in their respective cases in several states. Many hoped for a conviction in Philadelphia, which would give him the death penalty.

The Magic of the White City

After watching the documentary in class I felt that I wish could be there. It looks so beautiful and amazing.  The things that attracted me the most from the Exhibition is are the Carl hall, the statue of the columbian ship, the key that the whole crowd could see, as it reflects on light.  I also liked the Midway Planisance which connected the Johnson Park and the Washington park and was the main area of attraction during the exhibition. To write the paper I am thinking about both prompt 1 and 2. However it seems like I am leaning  towards prompt 2. 

Devil in the White City. part 1

In the first part of Devil in the White City it starts with an introduction to the Chicago city and the development that has been going around that time. In this chapter mainly the characters are introduced. The characters are Burham, Root, H. Holmes etc. Oh this part we can see that there was a voting  for the columbian exhibition. There was competition between New York and Chicago. At the end the Windy City ( Chicago) wins. All the joy and excitement of hosting the Columbian exhibition , turned out a lot difficult than assumed. Burham with Root got the responsibility to plan the fair’s architecture and their mission was to outcast the Eiffel tower and go beyond the world’s fair at Paris. The economy and weather seemed to be an obstacle however it did not seem like to stop them to plan the exhibition.Another character to notice in this part is H. Holmes. He is a young man who is addicted to woman . He is very nice with people and manipulates  them with his lovely behavior. 

Things worth writing about

watching the documentary The Magic of the White City during class on Thursday reminded me of the many interesting facts about the Chicago worlds fair. Originally I had seen the movie as an extra credit assignment in the fall semester, but watching it again, sort of refreshed my memory of of the little details which i missed while watching it for the 1st time. the fair had many interesting exhibits which represented many countries from around the world. of the many exhibits present, some of the things which i found interesting and worth writing about in the guided paper was :

the electrical building, which housed the huge dynamo’s of george westinghouse.

The ferris wheel which was originally designed in response to the Eifle tower in paris,

and the Midway Planisance – it is where all the main attractions of the fair was located.

as for the paper, as of right now, i have narrowed my choices down to choice 1 and 2, but so far i haven’t decided which one to actually write about. as of right now, i might be planning to focus on prompt 1, but within the next few days, i will have a better idea.

Chicago World Fair-Interesting Items-SoniaS

Items covered in the documentary I found interesting and potentially worth writing about in my paper: Chicago auditorium; Court of Honor; Statue of Republic; and the Carl Hall.

Devil in the White City- part IV

In part IV of the Devil in the White City Larson shows that in the end the Columbian Exposition did more than just cover up the dark city hiding behind the white city but led to the permanent improvement of Chicago and other cities in America. The Chicago fair taught people that cities didn’t have to be “dar, soiled, and unsafe, but also be beautiful as well”. Burnham and other American architects sought to make many of the structures they built for the Columbian exposition a part of the permanent makeup of major cities. This led to the city beautiful movement and modern urban planning in which Burnham was at the head. Innovations, technology, and new discoveries became a part of the daily lives of Americans. The innovations diplayed at the Columbian Exposition didn’t die when the exposition was burned but survived in American architecture and can still be seen today.

Devil in the White City Interesting Items

From reading the Devil in the White City and watching the Columbian Exposition I found several interesting items which I would like to encompass in my paper. Both the book and the documentary illustrated how Chicago’s efficiency in business and industry allowed them to pull off the Columbian exposition. In the Chicago Stock Yards they used all the parts of the pig when they slaughtered them and sold them to other businesses. The same image they were trying to escape, “a city build on pigs blood and slaughter”, was the mechanism that allowed them to be efficient in creating the Columus exposition and create a profit even while facing an economic depression. The Columbian exposition was a preidction of what the 20th century would be like, good and bad, just like the Devil in the White City illustrated the positive and negative aspects of industrialization.

Devil in the White City- part III

In part III of the Devil in the White City Larson makes a stronger contrast between the white city and dark city in Chicago. More specifically you see the efforts of Chicago to hide its dark city behind its white city in hopes of changing the world’s perception of its city. Even how hard Chicago tried to change the world’s perception of its city it couldn’t control outside forces which threatened to make the fair an embarassment for not only Chicago but America as well. Economic ruin speculation, delays in the disbursement of money, labor movements, and weather threathened the success of the Chicago fair. The combination of all of these damaging outside forces illustrates that darkness is never far, even in the white city. Chicago “attempted to clean its dirty laundry so all the world wouldn’t see it” but it didn’t seem to care at any other time. The Chicago fair created a “rally round the flag effect” on America, and particularly in Chicago where everyone put aside their differences to make the fair a success and to aid the US in making a strong political argument that they were emerging as one of the global powers. But the dark city quickly becomes a reality at the fairs end.

Part 3- The Devil In the white city

This books gets more ineteresting as you read more. The fair started out pretty bad because a lot of the things weren’t finished yet. Most of all the Ferris Wheel wasn’t done which was suppose to be one of the most inetresting part of the fair. The result of the attendance was great and they thought tehy were going to be able to pull off a good fair but after a couple of days the attendance was bad. The economy was also dropping which also caused people to want to stay at home more. Holmes had a great result at his Hotel except that ONLY women were allowed which was very questionable. Many guests begin to disappear and Holmes appeared to be as surprised as them, even though deep down inside he was happy. I was very interested in Midway Plaisance and The Illionois Building because it was suppose to be a very important one. I would like to focus on these two.

Intresting things

Midway Planisance – it is where all the main attractions are.

Ferris Wheel

Columbian exposition

Electricty building – it showed why electricity is important in society