The Green Forest tribune., 1893-03-09
The GROUNDS AND The PARK.
WHAT THEY WILL Be LATER ON-ScClETV
PEOPLE TO ATTEND THE GREAT FAIR.
Theodore Thomas Tests Yonng Lady's Musca!
Accomplishments by Telephone.

fCCompEsEmehtS Wy icicpuouS.
Special Correspondence to THE TRInuSE.
CHICAGO March "a visit to the Fair
grounds found them covered with mud.
water, snow and general mixture of
all with plenty Of lime and plaster of
Paris for seasoning. We lodged hun
dred teams, was side tracked by sever
al patent whitewash machines, was
hallooed at by soldier looking guards,
received several liberal applications of
lime water in the face, and yet we did
not feel annoyed. AS the buildings
near completion, their imposing APP
pearence. their attractive finishing and
thei1 immense proportions, cause the
beholder to stand motionless i'll Won
der and amaZement.
But if we look on the "White City"
as so beautiful, sn inspiring now i'll its
unfinished condition, surrounded by
mud and dirt, with all the debris of
construction lying about, with timber
and lath showing in thousand places,
where granite or marble is supposed to
stand, what will it be three months
hence, when green grass plots and
pavement succeed mud and dirty snow;
when every structure is finished, every
hole covered, every bit of debris re-
moved; when fountains are playing
and gondolas are moving about upon
the lakes; when thousands of flags
are flying and hundreds of thousands
of people are vending their way through
the labyrinth of marvels, when hotil-
la of steamboats, is disoharging passen
gers at the great pier and swarm of
railroad trains are delivering their hu-
man freight; when the vast interiors Of
all these palaces now tenanted only
by workmen, wagons and teams, piles
Of lumber, railway cars, are filled with
all the products of mans ingenuity and
skill?
During the late spring''and early sum-
mer and 'nole especially i'll May and
June, Chicago will be the rendezvous
of the beau monde Of all quarters of
the globe 1t is established that New
York's 400" will be present in force,
a state Of affairs which is to be attrib-
uted to the mandates of the fashion
able doctors. The latter are advising
their patients to abstain from their
annual foreign trips and pulling out of
their pockets, when consulted, charts
of the course Of the cholera abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor have
secured a large suite of apartments at
the Auditorium hotel, and such foreign
or American friends as they desire to
entertain during the fair, will be their
guests.
The fair will be made beautiful by
electricity during the night and by rain
bows-or, to speak literally-by rain
bow effects-during the day. When
the fair is opened the rainbows, or
rather the great sheets of bunting that
are to modify and color the rays of the
sun falling through the skylights of the
buildings, will all be in place. A small
army of employees is at work sewing the
draperY together and getting it ready
for use. The sewing is done on ma
chimes driven by compressed air.
The aquarium in the Illinois building
will be pretty thing to look at. The
structure will be forty feet high with a
water fall nearly that high broked in
to cascades The water will drop
over small falls some six or eight
inches high, over which fishways will
be constructed A rustic bridge cross
es the mimac creek. AS the visitor
stands upon i he can see the fish jump
the ways against the swift current.
The hatcheries and the models of the
the tanks fot the transportation of
spawn will also be shown. The aquar-
ium will, however. be the big thing.
All the species Of both native and cul-
tivated fish within the confines Of Ili-
nois will be in the rapidly flowing wa
ters. Au that will be needed to con4-
plete the realism of the scene, will be
a barefooted boy with hickory pole
batting his hook With angleworms.
Col. Den. of Santa Barbara county,
California, has just completed arrange
ments with the fair official to ship to
the ayoOSti0n two fWenty-tWO wear old