The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-07
TO cRoWN THE CHICAGO SNOW.
A Fiuai stupendous Dream from the brain
or steele Mackaye.

in tho show line In Chicago. 30 lar as the
Worlds Fair project was concerned this new
scheme was known to be somi-detached.
1t did not come unict Mr.. Palmcr's eRis In
strict sense II so ignoble a phrase can be
applied 80 such RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1t was side
show. But its magnitude was overwhelming
II It's particulars were not definite. Mr. Henry
Wnttcrson had alluded to 1t in the Whisper
ing corridors Of the Hoffman House with bated
breath. as one speaks OF tho luminiferous
ether or the millennium.
Mr.. s. Bernstein had dropped. in all the beer
cellars OF Twenty eighth street whore the
tympan and the trombone clnk beer glasses
In the MAJOR mode. dim hints OF it. fraught
with much mystery and beclouded with much
smoke
Stray newspaper mon from the Rolan city
threw out dark promises at tho Gilsey House
OF tho impending cataclysmic show.
Couriers and agents came trickling Into the
market. They wore engaging musicians by
tho battalion. They were affecting the already
doubtful census reports by lassoing all tho
available ballet talent
But these were only licatenanta.
Presently the Director General himself ar
rived with the palo cast Of thought. and en-
gagged three parlors and nvo offices ut the
Everett House. On Tho inside OF the doors.
whore no one but the initiated who had re-
CcNeu the ptSsWOiu Gllp Souie oS0 thoihs
were inscribed these words:
General Eastern Headquarters OF tho Co.
lumbar Celebration Company. Privato"
There we're secretaries. stenographers. SER
Eearts-at-arms. layers OF officials. Asilent.
grim. and earnest, and In tho penetrnlia OF it
all. behind curtains and Intermediate doors.
doubly guarded and gilied in executive
majesty. was tho Director General himself
Jy IL" Prophet. It was Steele Macknyc!
Thee could DO no question OF tho identity
after you got through the new imperiousness.
1T WAS our oNa Sts.i. he Of tho Conserva-
toirr. OF tho frisky Lambs Club. OF Dclsarte
reformation: now o! Goldsborough. North
Carolina. and now of Block Island; the Tom
Taylor Hamlet OF tho Crystal Palace.
London: the Paul kauvar OF Buffalo.
New York: the inventor OF the double
stage. the revolving chair. the ascending or
che-trn. Hazel kirke." and tho Drama OF
Civilization" with somebody liver pills In the
front groove: concever of the Madison Square
and the Lyceum theatres. and protector also
OF those cenotaphs OF departed worth.
Tho moment one got tho Director eneral
Right in his memory. the historic perspective
opened widely and the evolution OF the Chca-
80 Columbian Celebration Company became
merely n question OF analysis.
Tn, widest New York pessimlst conceded
everythn: when he saw who the Director-Gen-
eral wa
New York had calculated his splendid but
errutic orbit for twenty years: had seen his
irideSccnt tail euswathe the universe. and his
transparent nucleus 20 to pieces in showers
o. me.eoric fragments when ;ha tail was
biggest.
Author. dramatist. reformer. orator. mech
anician. artist. actor. architect critic. littera-
teur. Hamlet. Rouianxer. Ca:liostro. Naro.
leon, MlnphltlSau, tnlS Sn,enllI genius ana
inelI'ble conceive utter months OF Gestaton.
Viii t"f ri ssr' Of his 81 once more
But that wnich in the rain DO Nv att sphere Of
ShieHEo Locked ne tho str rennissan N OF
gest-d rather Hoods cnmelorarj, so mighty
Chicago. $" far asI the past i, concerned. has
an aching void. The hest she can do is to
stun it like u turkey with the chestnuts OF tho
And in any such hypothecating feat there
E9uIa ss no Gehlus aasIuaht1 TO ne ,h oeSTs1m
Of his life. VIA. less OF a chestnut than an
or,,,olan. The whole turkey became a pudding.
tating in London wien the note OF ,prepara-
ton from Chicago reached him. We know b!
iiienry irving VA and framing some Kind Of a
nrpulou- Loldborough dream when 1t occur
rod t" him tnat the time had arrived to wave
tho rest OF the starry possibilities OF the uni
verse from his mimi and concentrate himself
on the practical chicago.
Hayes .neatric experience had already taught
him how effective IL club is in dreams. On.
the Western city. The dream had taken shape.
We can note tho successive steps OF it's gene
sis. because we had seen it evolute here ON
several occasions.
There was a banquet at which were assem-
hied the Atacrnas of Chicago. the opulent
George Pullman: the adm illustrative Gen. But
tsrworth: the credulous but princey Lyman
5. Gage: the imaginative Sydney,C. White: the
the ponlerous and double banked Fred Archer.
The club knew that II Mr.. steele Mackaye
tH" " men meI alter the Wine was In. Iypnotism
would do the rest: And it did.
Mr.. steele Mackaye is said to have Girded
JUNCTION q chic%co and stfsis Mackaays: ~ -.
Ma aa ' the .. %as Called tic coam
p'I' is not stated that Mr. George Pullman and
! the rest OF them cut themselves with knives
and aGat to H fSt w 1Ssr "Ys
sn ns N b ssss Hfys
s ,ons%s HS sFu'S" J" s1" na
| columbus and Its Realization" on u scale Of
rsasie grandeur never S Gtfore attempted by
out IT Chicago"
Its initial step was to erect, All OF Mr..
|
tect building must lc made. Everything
wa, based on a grand spe;;!tAtor,nmn mat would
rolled. like the mngicinn's two ,Eanbits. into
one. by this creative intellect. Chicago was
| sreilbound on it own bailiwick. for II there is
| any conceivable" human project that will take
| ful! possession OF tho Chicago soul. 1t is to
build something bigger than Babel or any
! thing that has yet b sen attempt
III" dimensions OF the Spcc'atorium settled
| It,
1t was to be planted Immediately opposite
| the main entrance to the World Fair. 1t was
| to hay" II roof garden and sol beer: 1t WAS to
give three performances u day. 1t would be
open on sunday.
| There would DO ballot of 100. a chorus OF
| Coo. an orchestra OF loo. There would be real
water. real Columbus. real storm ut sea: rera,
| discovery Of America. Tho genius of the
world would combine to write its music.
nubinstein. Delibss. sullivan. and Jerome
Hopkins would hnsten to the not-pourri when
| they heard that Mr.. FreIl Archer OF Chicago
WAS musi;aI director Paris. Vienna and her ser;
estimate tho Spectutorium would taken in
SanOo9 day; The s toe s could rsim-
but they disavowed all desire to be re-