The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-03
THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
News and Notes Regarding the Worlds
Fair Enterprise.
Especial Correspondence.I

Fair Enterprise.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, March 1G-When the tens of
| thousands of visitors that will visit the
Worlds Fair two years hence congregate
| upon the Lake Front and the numerous
plaZas and view the placid bosom Of Lake
Michigan, they will not be compelled to
MARBLE the old refrain, water, water
everywhere, but not a drop to drink"
The exposition will be provided with
WHITEWATER for drinking purposes and
water for fire purposes-to an unlimited
extent. The plans to that end have
already been approved, and it is char
acteristic of the magnitude of the en-
terprise that even so relatively small de-
tail as this will necesstate an outlay of
somewhere in the neighborhood of two
hundred thousand dollars. The manage
ment proposes to lay the mains as an
addition to the present water works at
Hyde Park, and to pay the city for every
gallon of water used, the measurements
being taken by meters. AT the close of
the exposition it is thought that the city
can be induced to buy the plant at good
shading off of its original price
The advocates Of Sunday closing are not
making very much noise just now, but it
does not follow by any means that they are
idle. As a matter of fact they are doing
effective work all over the country. Tens
of thousands of petitions are in circula-
ton and are being signed largely, pray
ing that the doors of the show be closed on
the Sabbath day. The American Sabbath
union through its various state auxilia-
iS ( ba Oh ha
time that the question is to be determined
there will be rolled into headquarters Pc
tition many. times larger than some of
those that have been trundled into the
house of commons on memorable occa-
sionS.
Those who believe in an open Sunday do
not appear to be taking any steps toward
counteracting the efforts of the Sabbath
element, and will probably rely upon the
flood of eloquence that will be poured upon
the committee intrusted with the rather
unenviable duty of deciding the issue
Jackson Park is to have driveway that
will eclipse even the far famed Thames
entertainment. 1t will be constructed along
the shore for distance of several miles.
and will be eighty feet in width. This
will represent an Investment of half a
million dollars contributed by the rate
payers through the South park commits
sioners, and viii add materially to the out
ward attractions of the fair.
1t is an open question, after all. whether
Chicago is to eclipse the Eiffel tower for
although the funds have been pledged the
promoters of the Proctor steel tower have
so far been unable to find firm that will
undertake the contract. The tower should
be completed by the time fixed for the ded-
ication ceremonies, or year from rext
October, and when it is remembered that
nearly two hundred men were engaged
for two years in the task of making draw
ings for the Eiffel tower it is not to be won
dered at that American contractors hest
tate at the monster jobthat they are asked
to undertake A structure TO cost round
three million of dollars, and which would
require . coo tons of iron aud steel in the
alone, and s.oe0 on the super
structure, is something of a colossal under
taking, and unless the age of miracles can
be induced to return for this special occa-
sion it is very doubtful whether the tower
will rear its head high above the surround
ing structures. HENRY NJ. Hunt