The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-24
WORLDS FAIR SITE.
A Question That Perturbs All Chicago
and WIN Pu8zle the Commission.
ISneciai Cor1eSnondence1

A Question That Perturbs All Chicago
and WIN Paxzle the Commission.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Juno 10-When was a proof
reader sixteen years ago l quarreIed with
Ike Stuart, aBd we did not speak to each
| other for seven years, because Ike, who
had rented apartments on the lake shore,
came down to the newspaper Office one
night when it was 80 dogs. below zero
when the big cactus was on abe window
pane-and declared it was colder at the
Office by the thermometer than it was at
the edge of Lake Michigan by the Their
mometer. "Gentlemen,' said Ike, 'it's
warmer in winter and cooler IN summerp'
The entire night force, believing that Ike
was out of his mind, valiantly left me to
do the Quarreliag, for if a place be cooler
in summer how can it be warmer in win
ter? I remember that I destroyed Ike, to
my own satisfaction at least, by showing
that an oil stove {then q new thing, while
cooler in summer than a coal stove, would
not be felt at all on such a winter night as
we then had.
Seven years later I went to Ike Stuart
and asked his forgiveness. / told him
believed quoted TO him Boveet wonder
full figure, that Truth comes to US from
the past, as gold is washed down from the
mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but
precious particles, and intermixed with in
finite alloy, the debris Of centuries" Ike
forgave me, and counted me that much less
a fool
So now am come over the harsh road of
knowledge to believe that lake Michigan
serves as governor Of Chicago'B atmos-
phere. In summer the cold body OF water
cools the hot airs from sou6hland-not
enough dear reader, b. any uleaDS, but to
an extent that all Chicagoans appreciate.
In the winter the fierce northern blast
seeks the lake for it's southwark channel
and, taking up wa<Ta water, is itself mod
Grated in temperature; or, if it blow over
ice, not so much ice can be taken up as IL it
were snow on the plains.
On this account Chicago is twenty-five
miles long and not over five miles vida
Now, II you were on the national COM
mission of the Worlds fair, would you
place the fair on the lake shore, or back
where the temperature on red hot day is
10 degrees higher Every other argument
favors the interior site, because the means
of transit, poor "a they must be for hack Of
elevated roads, al favor the interior sites
ne lStAI Cd1AAOb &c fAb AAA bHS SAAOr&c NA4o-
trict" down town-every outsider VIII say
that. All the directors, who put up the
money, will favor the southern lake shore,
far away from the general population, but
convenient to the directors and their land
booms> Il they have any. The richest men
IN Chicago all live in a small space on the
south side To them the west division,
with its 10000 people, is q province-a
field for gas and horse car companies
Yet il | were q member Of the National
commission / believe should want TO
guarantee 70 the nation a fair on the
southern lake shore. Any other place
viii expose visitors 20 days OF heat and dis
comfort which will be hard to bear.
| may liken Chicago 70 Babylon and
Ninsveh, the wonders Of the world Yet
great as is Chicago, her aodaaity has been
no less marvellous. "A infant telling up
ward to chair has pulisd the chair over
upon it. II | nlistsSe not theirs will be
some forthcoming noise. Help rs, there
fore, all you can, reader, cut Of pride In
your republic. The Worlds fair is plenty
big for US. JOCK McGovERS