The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
The Chicago Fair.

The Century declares editorially that
the time has come when all parts of the
country should join hands and help the
managers of the Worlds fair finish the
work they are pushing with such energy.
It is not creditable to our national pride
that the most backward portions of the
exposition are the state exhibits and
buildings. New York city has Jagged
back and suiked, sneering at Chicago and
doing all in her power apparently to
hinder and belittle the fair This is
especially true of the New York papers,
moved by jealousy of the great city by
the lake. New York city is so big and
powerful that it does not need to be
jealous of anything, but the New York
editors are laboring hard to create diff
ferent impression. At any rate it is not
likely that Chicago would have thus tried
to destroy the fair in case New York had
secured it.
The Century calls attention to the fact
that the directors of the exposition have
at their command a sum of money three
times as large as was used at Paris in
1889. This sum is'to be expended on the
grounds and buildings. 1t is $4,000, 900.
Foreign countries are preparing to spend
for the exposition $40,000,000 No
worlds fair ever yet had nearly SO much
money as this. The nations of the earth
since historic times were never before so
great, rich and well disposed to one
another as they are now. Canada is GO
ing to aid generously with money and
exhibits. Under these circumstances
the states that are hanging back ought
to be ashamed of themselves
The Century says of the Chicago
grounds and buildings:
No exhibition that has ever been held has
had site OF such great natural attractive
ness as that which has been selected in Chi
cago, and when it shall have been occupied by
its buildings and its natural advantages devel-
oped to meet the demands of the occasion, we
think 1t can safely be said chat it will be the
most suherb setting ever given to such a pur-
pose. The space is far larger than that Of
other exhibitions, comprising about ZOO acres
with frontage of. two miles on Lake Michi-
gan. The Philadelphia exhibition grounds
comprised 2j acres and those of Paris l73. The
| buildings will be grouped upon the lake front,
and flowing between them viii be a system of
canals and lagoons, from 100 to 800 feet in
width, which will add greatly to the pictur-
esque appearance of the exhibition.
This system will connect the small lakes
already in jackson park, which forms the site,
with Lake Michigan, and over this waterway,
which will be circuit of three miles in length
many bridges will be thrown. 1t will flow
| around a wooded island twenty or thirty acres
in size, and down to its edges will slope broad
grassy terraces leading from the principal
buildings. The canals will connect with Lake
Michigan at two points Atthe southern point
Of the site, where the great main building is
to stand, upon a jutting strip Of land which
runs 200 feet into the lake, piers VIII be con-
structed, at which passengers caa DO landed
from the steamers. Within the lir OF these
piers will be formed wide harbor in which
pleasure boats of all descriptions and nation
Rlities, used for carrying passengers about in
the canals from one building to another, can
lie.
| There will be no fewer than twelve great
buildings, all designed by American architects
OF high rank, and exceeding i'll beauty as well
Es in extent anything of the kind ever seen in
this country. The estimated cost of these.
with their names, is given in the following ta-
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