Big Week-End

For miles around not an empty hotel room could be found in Chicago. On 40 extra Pennsylvania Railroad trains 30,000 travelers were deposited at Union Station. New York Central brought in another 20,000, the Chicago & North Western 15,000. Air lines reported waiting lists. Automobiles were spotted from every state of the Union. At 11 o'clock Sunday night a wriggling, milling mob made State Street look like Saturday afternoon. It was Labor Day week-end and Chicago was playing host to its largest out-of-town crowd in history, estimated at 500,000 persons.

Biggest attraction was, of course, the Century of Progress, which on Sunday broke its previous attendance record (272,000 on Aug. 25) to ring up 361,000 paid admissions and rang up another 240,000 Monday when Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson talked on Labor. But Chicagoland had much else to offer. In suburban Highland Park Virginia Van Wie retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference (see p. 23). And even the stench-laden stockyards made national news when, following a long Armour & Co. proxy battle, Armour directors voted down their proposed recapitalization plan (see p. 51).

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