I just finished reading this book by Eric Larson. It is about the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, and about H. H. Holmes aka Herman Mudgett. One of the most prolific serial killers.

It’s a well written book. It talks about the work that Daniel Burnham put into getting the World’s Fair ready in less than 2 years from planning to completion. It also tells about Mudgett building his ‘World’s Fair Hotel’ by hiring temporary workers so no one realized there were so many odd rooms.

The Ferris wheel was built to outdo Eiffel’s tower, built for the 1889 Paris World’s Fair.  Oddly, we find that George Washington Gale Ferris dies broke at 37.

Frank Millet, the painter who worked to get all the buildings painted the same color, died on the Titanic. Burnham was on the Olympic, and tried to reach his friend on the ship to ship telegraph the evening of April 14.

They only knew for sure about 9 of the murders Holmes committed.  They suspected many more, but no one ever figured out the real number.

It’s a sobering to know so many young women disappeared during the worlds fair. Who knows what happened to them.

Lateness and g’nite.