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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage Postcards%u2756The Union Pacific Railroad%u2019s streamlined train%u2014the M10000, shown at the Fair in 1934. The train had a Pullman sleeper called %u201cOverland Trail,%u201d which contained 10 sections, a compartment, and a double bedroom.Souvenir %u201cLucky Piece%u201d produced from ALCOA aluminum, and featuring the Union Pacific%u2019s streamlined engine. Coins were given to John Bower by Lucille Mendenhall (right) c.1959, and Lynn Bower (left) 2020.A Second World%u2019s Fair for Chicago (Continued)the bulbs, and threw them down to the pavement below. Some chairs were thrown into the lagoons, while a number of lawns and flowers were completely trampled. In a hunt for free mementos, signs were ripped off buildings to be carted home. However with police at all the gates, no one was permitted to carry their ill-gotten souvenirs off the property.There was another rather unpleasant aspect of the Fair that needs to be mentioned. There were illnesses and accidents%u2014sometimes emotional despair%u2014during the Fair%u2019s 2-year run. For example, between June and November of 1933, two Chicago hotels suffered an outbreak of amoebic dysentery, with more than a thousand cases, and 98 deaths. Fortunately, Joel Connolly of the Chicago Bureau of Sanitary Engineering discovered some defective plumbing, which allowed sewage to contaminate the drinking water of the two hotels, which crews of plumbers worked rapidly to get repairedSadly, on July 13th of 1934 Maciej Kaleta, who owned a shoe store in nearby East Chicago, jumped to a gruesome death from one of the Sky Ride%u2019s tall towers. As he plummeted downward, one of his legs was severed when it struck a support cable and sailed by itself toward the ground. The rest of his body landed with a sickening thud on the roof of the ride%u2019s loading platform. In his pocket was a note saying, %u201cMy dear wife and children, I am sorry to leave you, but I am forced to go.%u201d