Remake of Devil in the White City Timeline Xi-62 by Heather Walker https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks Period 7 en-us 2018-04-26 17:49:19 UTC 2018-04-27 18:24:22 UTC hello@padlet.com hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255767743 2018-04-26 17:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255767743 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255780874 Exposition didnt know where to build the Chicagos world fair.  Exposition visted Fredrick Law in Central Park  to seek help and he declined.(49)

]]> 2018-04-26 18:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255780874 "Mudgett claimed to have gone to Chicago in November 1885 and there to have acquired his 'portion' of the bodies" (43). https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781083 2018-04-26 18:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781083 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781677 "Englewood in fact had been growing quickly ever since the Great Fire of 1871" (45).]]> 2018-04-26 18:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781677 An employee of First National Bank placed an ad in the Chicago Tribune that reminded young women that honest businessmen would not advertise for a stenographer whose appearance met a certain criteria. Any advertisement requesting such requirements should be considered suspicious (11). https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781874 2018-04-26 18:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255781874 On April 14, 1912, Daniel Burnham was on the RMS Olympic crossing the Atlantic from America to England (3). hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782084 2018-04-26 18:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782084 6 months before July 1890, Congress had voted to give the World's Columbian Exposition to Chicago.(48) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782212 2018-04-26 18:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782212 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782348 In the first six month of 1892 there was about 800 deaths. The deaths that were caused by trains, fires, prosaic, arising from robbery, arguments, sexual jealousy, and people killing each other. In 1888, Jack the Ripper's murdered 5 people, following by Borden that killed her parents, (12).]]> 2018-04-26 18:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782348 He had piercing blue eyes, and was stiff from gout, which kept him from fully exploring the opulent ship (3). hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782615 2018-04-26 18:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255782615 Root and Burnham firm prospered because Root managed to solve puzzle that had bedeviled chicago builders. By solving it, he helped the city become the birthplace of skyscrapers. https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783248 (23)]]> 2018-04-26 18:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783248 Burnham had worked in Chicao, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Manila, and other cities (3). hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783286 2018-04-26 18:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783286 The final fair bill was signed in April by President Benjamin Harrison. This bill established a Dedication Day for October 12, 1892, to honor the moment four hundred years earlier when Columbus had first sighted the New World (48). ecrone901510 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783620 2018-04-26 18:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783620 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783950 "Mudgett was eighteen when he asked Clara A. Lovering to elope. She agreed. They married July 4, 1878, before a justice of peace" (41).]]> 2018-04-26 18:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255783950 After eating dinner with his wife, he tried to send a telegram to his painter friend, Francis Millet, on another ship (4). hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784041 2018-04-26 18:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784041 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784274 In the 1880 chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined especially within the downtown loop named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines.]]> 2018-04-26 18:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784274 August 1886 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784338 2018-04-26 18:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784338 Burnham and Millet met working on the Columbian Exposition of 1893, which lasted six months, brought in 27.5 million visits, and introduced visitors to many different world cultures and to products like Shredded Wheat and Cracker Jack. hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784349 (4-5).]]> 2018-04-26 18:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784349 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784465 John Augustus Roebling had used caissons, famously, in building he Brooklyn Bridge, but their first use in the United States had occurred earlier, from 1869 through 1874, when James B. Eads built a bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis(24)]]> 2018-04-26 18:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784465 On Monday, February 24, 1890, two thousand people gathered outside Chicago Tribune and at many surrounding hotels and newspaper stands waiting to see if Chicago won the bid (13) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784593 2018-04-26 18:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784593 "Mudgett remained in Minneapolis until May 1886, when he left for New York City, planning to take 'a part of the material there,' and leave the rest in Chicago" (43). https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784866 2018-04-26 18:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255784866 The formal opening was not until May 1st, 1893.(48) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785071 2018-04-26 18:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785071 The fair occupied a square mile and had HUGE exhibition halls (5) hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785353 2018-04-26 18:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785353 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785509 Holmes wanted Mrs. Holton's drugstore because he needed money. 

]]> 2018-04-26 18:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785509 "There, in July 1886, borrowing one of the most prominent family names of the time, Mudgett registered his name as Holmes." (pg.44) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785875 2018-04-26 18:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785875 American had little interest in celebrating its past. France had a world fair, and it inspired Americans to do the same (14-16). https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785884 2018-04-26 18:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785884 There were problems, too. Fire, an assassination, workers killed, AND A MURDERER! Young women were disappearing, and the story was worse than anyone could really imagine. (6) hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785890 2018-04-26 18:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255785890 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255786176 Mudgett enrolled on September 21, 1882. During the summer of his junior year he committed what he called, in his memoir, 'the firt really dishonest act of my life'" (41).]]> 2018-04-26 18:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255786176 Holmes Childhood https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787028 Holmes given name was Herman Webster Mudgett. There was a noteworthy event that happened when he was little. He was dragged into a doctors office by two older kids that had found out his "weakness". Mudgett was afraid of the skeleton on display there and the children had brought him right up to it. After the struggle, Mudgett simply "gazed at the skeleton with cool appreciation" (39) and at that point Mudgett became a different person. We later find out that Mudgetts parents were "devout Methodist" (39) and their response to insignificant misbehavior was sending the child to the attic with no food and the order not to speak.]]> 2018-04-26 18:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787028 It turned out that the reason Burnham's telegram couldn't reach his friend is that Millet's ship was the Titanic (7). hwalker13 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787159 2018-04-26 18:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787159 Prendergast https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787181 Larson introduces a new character name Patrick Joseph Prendergast. He's describes him as hardworking and quiet student who lost his father and friend. Prendergast suffered from a newly identified disorder called paranoia. he believed that when Harrison won the April 1981 Election, Harrison would reward Prendergast with a job. ]]> 2018-04-26 18:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787181 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787383 "He graduated in June 1884 with a lackluster record to set out to find 'some favorable location'" (41).]]> 2018-04-26 18:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255787383 Vaux built and refined Central Park from 1858 through 1876 (49) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788039 2018-04-26 18:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788039 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788249 New York,St.Louis ,Washington,and Chicago all wanted to have the fair in there cites. On June 29,1889, chicago's mayor Dewitt C. Cregier appointed a citizen committee of 250 of the city's prominent men. ]]> 2018-04-26 18:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788249 The great chicago fire took nearly 8000 buildings and left more than 100,000 people homeless. (19) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788316 2018-04-26 18:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788316 Chicago's soil, which prompted one engineer to describe the challenge of laying foundations in chicago as "probably not equaled for perverseness anywhere in the world https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788375 2018-04-26 18:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788375 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788843 During The earlier years of H.H Holmes life he was referred to as Herman Webster Mudgett. In his late teens he graduated from school and took a teacher job in Gilmanton and then in Alton, New Hampshire. He met a young woman named Clara A. Lovering. He went to college and enrolled in a medicine program.]]> 2018-04-26 18:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788843 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788992 "each man (burnham and root)respected each others skills that resultant harmony was reflected in the operation of there office"  burnham knew that together he and root had reached a level of success that neither could achieve on their own]]> 2018-04-26 18:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255788992 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255789918 He graduated college with a lackluster record and set out to find "some favorable location" to launch practice(41).]]> 2018-04-26 18:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255789918 Burnham was born into a family that was devoted to public service and obedience. He was not very intelligent, but he excelled in drawing and sketched a lot. https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790214 2018-04-26 18:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790214 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790371 2018-04-26 18:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790371 Burnham returned to Chicago. He sought work in a field where he might be successful and took a job as a draftsman with architectural firm of Loring & Jenny https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790401 2018-04-26 18:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790401 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790963 Tuesday, August 12, Codman arrived in chicago and filed a report. He was surprised to find the report had shown that the fair could not be held in Jackson park. They wanted a second report and got more than what they wanted six days later.]]> 2018-04-26 18:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255790963 November 1890 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255791148 Directors have at least reached a decision as to where to build the fair.Jackson Park]]> 2018-04-26 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255791148 the solution,when root first struck it,must have seemed too simple to be real.He re visioned digging down to the first reasonably firm layer of clay,know as hard-pan,and there spreading a pad of concrete nearly two feet thick. (25) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255977254 2018-04-27 12:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255977254 once built,this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with portland cement to produce a board,rigid raft that root called a floating foundation. (25) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255980723 2018-04-27 12:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255980723 once built, the montauk was so novel,so tall, it defied description by conventional means.No one knows who coined the term,but it fit,and the montauk became the first building to be called skyscraper.(25) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255983360 2018-04-27 12:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255983360 when burnham and root were together, one women said, "I used always to think of some big strong tree with lighting playing around it."(27) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255985915 2018-04-27 12:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255985915 Each man recognized and respected the other's skills. The resultant harmony was reflected in the operation of their office, which,according to one historian, functioned with the mechanical precision of a "slaughterhouse", an apt allusion, give burnham's close professional and personal association with the stockyards. (27) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255987575 2018-04-27 13:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255987575 Burnham knew that together he and root had reached a level of success that neither could have achieved his own. (27) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255990081 2018-04-27 13:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/255990081 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256117810 In 1881 a Massachusetts investor, Peter Chardon Brooks III, commissioned Burnham & Root to build the tallest office building yet constructed in Chicago, which he planned to call the Montauk (24)]]> 2018-04-27 17:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256117810 https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256118819 The partners quickly grew frustrated with Brooks. He was pichy and frugal and seemed not to care how the building looked as long as it was functional(24) ]]> 2018-04-27 18:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256118819 Burnham and Root became rich men. https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256120664 2018-04-27 18:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256120664 Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Amour, or to have their wives gowns described in the city's newspapers, but rich beyond anything either man had expected, enough so that each year Burnham bought a barrel of fime Madeira and aged it by shipping it twice around the world on slow freighters. (26) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256121100 2018-04-27 18:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256121100 As their firm prospered, the characters of each partner began to emerge and clarify.(26) https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256127711 2018-04-27 18:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hwalker13/kxdsx0yisks/wish/256127711