The Progress., 1892-10-29
MISS CHICAGO DRESSES UP
She Dons Der Hest Rib and Tucker for
tho Worlds Fair.
Especial Correspondcnce.1


CHICAGO. Oct. 4-ChicaSo win put on
her best bib and tucker next year. Nay,
she will do more. Even her best Sunday
go-to-meeting attire VIII not he Gor'
enough in which To receive her gucsts-the
representatives of the nations oi the earth
So She will array herself in gorgeous ap
parel, like unto the queen OF SneDa, TO the
end that her guests, even before an oppor-
tunity has been afforded them OF gazing
uuon the glories of Jackson park, may he
astounded and daZzled and bewltched ana
captivated, and may say, as their eyes
sweep from the north to the south, 10 III"
east and to the west, "Nerily, this city !
fair TO look upon"
Every now and then when this place or
that Is honored by the presence OF con-
vention or a reunion or some similar fes'
tive gathering, the telegraph informs Us
that as a result of the enthusiasm and en-
terprise 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 VIII
ten. the quintessence of descriptive genius
drawn upon to adequately describe low
the Windy City is adorned.
chant prince and the humble store OF the
man who is struggling TO make bare nv
inc. the towering eighteen story Masonic
temple and its diminutive neigh0or across
the way. the half million dollar mansion
on Michigan avenue and the fifteen hun
dred dollar cottage few miles soiith-ali
will be arrayed as was Solomon when III
| his glory. 1t will be hard to tell whether
T.. - l. .f.f a.
of marble or of brownstone, for the ex-
terror will lie hidden from view by folds oi
drapery. while flags innumerable will float
| from windows and copinas and staiis ana
roofs. and wherever else pole can find 2
lodgment. Outwardly Chicago will he Q
| thing of beauty, if not JOY forever.
| Some sensitive souls, whose aesthetic
ideas are considerably in advance of The
times-that is. of Chicago tines-are very
much afraid that the residents of the me
tropolis OF the wild and woolly west arr
| lacking more or less in artistic taste, ant
| that consequently the decorations w!!i par
| take more of the fearful and wonderful
! than Of the beautiful and impressive
| Hence they are inclined to urge that thes
decorations should be uniform, both n
concerns character and color. Some C
them have even gone so far as 70 suGses
that every other hue but Spanish yellow
should be tabooed.
Fancy State street and Madison an
Wabash and Michigan avenues and man
ether thoroughfares whose length may D
counted by the half score of miles, imat;in
them one mass of yellow-yellow ilaG'
; yellow banners, yellow draperies, yeilo'
; inottoes, yellow portraits. Could any
thing more Gtrocious from an artist
point of view be imagined, or could any
!; thing more e.fectual be designed to scar
people out Of the city as soon as they ha
!, cot into itg Better by far that ever
= | building, great and small, be like Joseph
{ coat. ''of many colors," with plenty OF I'll
D stars and stripes, and OF the red, white an
blue OF the union jack of old England, an
] of the colors of all participating states an
1 nations. And that's about how 1T Will b
u Just where ell this bunting Is to con
n from is for the time being mystery. 4
Q the present moment iJ is anything but
drug on the market, for Washington, Ne
i York and other cities are going TO do son
decorating on their own acsoiint, and the
d have taken up all the stocks that are
y store in the manufactures. But one loc
II house has placed a mammoth order in Par
4 for flags of all nations, and both Fran
d and England are being secured by Ch!cas
n men. who are determined to get possessi'
le of every available bale of bunting, co
z what it may. The orders placed with q
American manufacturers will be hea'
10 enough to keep them going at fuli cap;
Z ity for several months to come, and
to..ether there need be little fear tn