The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-06-09
G. M. Pullman Will Furnish q
Site and Take S5,000,000
Worth OF Bonds.
This If the Directors of the Worlds
Fair Exposition win Locate the
Same Upon His Ground.
The City of Deadwood Visited by a
Disastrous Flood Railroad Of
fieials Badly Wrecked.

CHICAGO. JuneT.
II story that is being whispered In cer-
tain circles be true, then would there be
wailing among certain parties who have
invested in real estate in the absolute con-
idence that the worlds fair would 90 to
Jackson park. This story is to the effect
that George M. Pullman stands ready
with an offer TO take s5, ,0OO, 900 worth of
bonds II the directors win locate the
worlds exposition upon his ground, lying
between Ninety fifth and One Hundred
and Fifteenth streets and Michigan avenue
and the Illinois Central railroad. IL has
been talked around pretty openly for some
time that Mr.. Pullman would be very will
ing to have the great fair placed near the
little city of his founding, but men have
pooh-poohed the idea. But in the little
circle where the whispering is heard, it is
said that MIR. Yerkes has already
engaged Attorney w. G. Goudy
TO lay an injunction against the
location of the fair st Jackson park,
while another interested individual is
ready TO do something If Garfield park is
selected. The claim is set forth that,
permission for the fair TO be held 10 any of
these parks, its act would be unconstitu-
tional, for the reason that IL cannot divert
property from the purpose for which IL was
set apart. In any event, they say, In
functions would follow, and the managers
OF the fair could not aud would not abide
the slow action of the courts. An injunc-
ton would mean such retaEdation as would
prevent the preparation Of the monster
buildings In time. knowing these things,
as the story goes, MFR. Pullman steps IN
with his offer of q site aad Of relief from
any financial bother by himself taking for
his company 5,O0O, 600 of bonds.
There may be nothing in. the above, Jet
II is told by men in the swim" when they
think they can talk eonfadentially 10 each
other. aud it Ii fact thai more than ono
Spectator il already acting on the good
faith of tie whole matter by buying IN the
neiehborhood on the Pullman tract. The
Pullman partisans claim that he has plenty
of land for all possible purposes of the
fair, aud that he can shoe transportation
facilities thai are nnquestioned. One
hears much OF late of the impossibility OF
securing either OF the great parks, showing
that some spirit is at work endeavoriug to
create prejudice against them, and
Il is noticeable that many Of
those who thus talk are decidedly
reticent when asked just where the fair
ought TO go. II was no part of the pur-
pose that the offer of the land and the
taking of the bonds should be thus made
public, but rather held back until the time
was ripe and then present II In the most
allnring form. The Pullmanite enthusi-
asts insist that the $1,000, 900 offer must
settle the matter beyond any peradventure;
that from the east and the west, the north
and the south, and from all parts Of this
broad country viii come the demand that
he who Is willing to do such noble things
ought above all men to have the right 10
declare WHERE the fair shall Gn.-------------