Recessional
- At age seventy-three, Olmsted fears his dementia is getting worse. His son checks him into an asylum in Massachusetts, realizing at once that he designed the grounds.
- "They didn't carry out my plan, confound them!" he later writes.
- Olmsted dies shortly after in 1903.
- The Ferris Wheel remains at the fair until 1894 when it's dismantled and reassembled in Chicago's North Side.
- But it's not as cool anymore.
- The wheel is reused for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 and by 1906 it's completely gone.
- Prendergast stands trial. He's prosecuted by Alfred S. Trude, the same man who had, by total coincidence, saved his crazed postcards from years earlier.
- Prendergast is found guilty and sentenced to death.