Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-16
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
II is not creditable to our national pride
that the most backward portions OF the
exposition are the state exhibits ana
buildings. New York city has Jagged
back and sulked, sneering at Chicago ana
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 1t 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 sum of money three
times as large as was used at Paris in
1885, 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 S40,0O0,OOO. 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 a 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 it can safely be said that it will be tlru
most subeTb setting ever given to such pur-
pose. The space is far larger than that Of
other exhibitions. comprising about / 900 acres
with n frontage of two miles on Lake Michi-
gan. The Philadelphia exhibition grounds
comprised 236 acres and those of Paris 173. The
buildings will be grouped upon the lake front,
and flowing between them will 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 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. At the southern point
OF the site, where the great main building is
to stand, upon jutting strip of land which
runs 200 feet into the lake, piers will be con.
structed, at which passengers can be landed
from the steamers. Within the lines of thesi
piers will be formed a wide harbor in whicl
pleasure boats of all descriptions and nation
alities, used for carrying passengers about il
the canals from one building to another, cal
lie.
There will be no fewer than twelve grea
buildings, all designed by American architect!
OF high Eank, and exceeding in beauty as wei
as in extent anything of the kind ever seen il
this country. The estimated cost of these
with their names, is given in the following Ia
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