Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Chicago Proposes to Have Well Paved
Streets and Everything in Good Order.
[Snecial Corresnondenne

Sn1caSo proposes TO Have Well Paved
Streets and Everything in Good Order.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, June 16.-Chicago will have
well paved streets, clean streets, and first
class general sanitary arrangements during
the Worlds fair year. These are three very
essential conditions to the comfort and
convenience of the hundreds of thousands
of guests that the city will be called upon
to entertain between May and November,
1893, and the latter feature, in particular,
may be commended to the consideration of
the members of the medical fraternity, at
home and abroad, who will gather here in
international convention before the doors
of the big show have been closed. 1t may
seem small matter to dwell upon, but it
| isn't. The three points in question are
necessaries in their way, and it must be
! confessed that at the present time the
streets of the city are anything but well
paved, anything but clearly, and that
moreover, the general sanitary arrange
ments might be vastly improved upon
If cleanliness is next to salvation, then
the city of Chicago is a good many leagues
| away from tie gates of the New Jerusa-
lem. New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Detroit, not to mention a score
of other good sized towns, could put the
Windy City to shame in one and all of
these particulars. Nor is it the municipality
that is moving toward giving Chicago a
new bib and tucker. That has been left to
| number of public spirited citizens, or
| rather a large number of social clubs,
which have appointed delegates to a COM
mittee for the purpose of doing what must
be done. The women, too. have proffered
their cooperation. 1t has been accepted,
and between the two bodies there is little
doubt but that the objects aimed at will be
| fully accomplished
That is a novel idea that has been
| preached by Commissioner Bynum, of Mis-
sissippi, who is working earnestly and in
defatigably for a good representation from
his state. He thinks that there are lots of
people who would like to come to Chicago
with their families and devote many weeks
in inspecting and studying the exhibits,
| but who could not do so if they were under
heavy tax for room and board. Conse-
| quently he suggests that the board of di-
rectors should secure a few hundred acres
of vacant land adjoining or near Jackson
! park, where any one so inclined could put
up their tents and live in army fashion.
Mr.. Bynum thinks, and doubtless he
| is correct, that no inconsiderable per-
centage of the population of his own
state would be enabled to visit Chi
cago and the fair if these conditions
prevailed, and the difference between the
cost of living in this way and the putting
up at hotels and boarding houses, he also
thinks, would be spent with the merchants
and manufacturers Moreover, those that
adopted the camping out plan would, by
their long stay, add immensely to the gate
receipts There are good many things to
/ be said in favor of this scheme, and prob
ably something to be said against it. TIE
collective wisdom of the board of directors,
| however, will have an opportunity of sit
ting in judgment upon it some time in the
| future