The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-14
MISS CHICAGO DRESSES UP.
6ho Dons Her Best BIB and Tucker for
tho Worlds Fair.
Especial Correspondence


sho Dons Her Best BIB and Tucker for
tho Worlds Fair.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Oct. Chicago will put on
her best bib and tucker next year. Nav.
she will do more. Even her best Sunday
Eo-to-mecting attire will not be good
enough i'll which to receive her guests-the
representatives of the nations of the earth.
SO she will array herself in gorgeous ap-
parcl, like unto the queen of Shcba. to the
tnd that her guests, even before an oppor-
tunity has been afforded them OF gazing
upon the glories of Jackson park may be
astounded and dazzled and bewitched and
captivated, and may say, us their eyes
sweep from the north to the south, to the
east and to the west, verify, this city is
fair to look upon"
Every now and then when this place or
that is honored by the presence of II con-
ventlon or II reunion or some similar fes-
tive gathering, the telegraph informs us
that as n result of the enthusiasm and en-
terprisc of the citizens the city has put on
gala attire" But it will require some
thing more than this stock phrase to do
Justice to Chicago few months hence.
Columns upon columns will needs be writ
ten, the quintessence of descriptive genius
drawn upon to adequately describe how
the Windy City is adorned
The monster establishment of the mcr-
chant prince and the humble store of the
man who is struggling to make Il bare liv-
ing, the towering eighteen story Masonic
temple and it's diminutive neighbor across
the way, the half II million dollar mansion
on Michigan avenue and the fifteen hun
dred dollar cottage few miles south-all
will be arrayed us was Solomon when in
his glory. 1t will be hard to tell whether
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of marble or of brownstone, for the ex-
terror will he hidden from view by folds of
drapery, while flags innumerable will float
from windows and copings and STATS and
roofs, and wherever else II pole can find II
lodgment. Outwardly Chicago will be u
thing of beauty, if not joy forever.
Some sensitive souls, whose aesthetic
ideas are considerably in advance of the
times-that is, of Chicago timcs-are very
much afraid that the residents of the me-
tropolis of the wild and woolly west are
lacking more or less in artistic taste, and
that consequently the decorations will par
take more of the fearful and wonderful
than of the beautiful and impressive.
Hence they are inclined to urge that these
decorations should be uniform, both as
concerns character and color. Some of
them have even gone so far us to suggest
that every other hue but Spanish yellow
should be tabooed
Fancy State street and Madison and
Wabash and Michigan avenues and many
other thoroughfares whose length may be
counted by the half score of miles, imagine
them one mass of yellow-yellow flags.
yellow banners. yellow draperies, yellow
notices, yellow portraits. Could any
thing more atrocious from an artistic
point of view be imagined, or could any
thing more cffpctunl Ina ,lpSi,rnnl ., co,r,
people out Of the city rs soon us they had
got into it? Better by far that every
building, great and small, be like Joseph's
coat, "of many colors," with plenty of the
stars and stripes, and of the red, white and
blue of the union jack of old England, and
OF the colors of all participating states and
nations. And that's about how it will be.
just where all this bunting is to come
from is for the time being mystery. At
the present moment it is anything but a
drug on the market, for Washington. New
York and other cities are going to do some
decorating on their own account, and they
have taken up all the stocks that are in
store Ill the manufactures. But one local
house has placed II mammoth order in Paris
for flags of all nations, and both France
and England are being secured by Chicago
men, who are determined to get possession
of every available bale of bunting. cost
what it may. The orders placed with the
American manufacturers will be heavy
enough to keep them going at full capac-
lily Tor several months to come aud al
together there need be little fear that
Chicago will find it necessary to trim ut
both ends i'll order that there may be enough
material TO go around
HENRY NJ. HUME
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