The herald., 1893-12-10

South park commissioners will not per-
NIT them to remain, and there is not
enough money in the treasury to re-
move them all and restore Jackson
park to its former condition, as was
promised in the agreement with the
city. The directors have tried to sell
them, of course, and when that hope
failed endeavored to give them away, in
whole or in part, but as yet no one has
seemed at all anxious to find go large
gilt in their Christmas stocking-even
in Chicago hosiery.
There are many who think that it
would require only a small effort to hold
worlds fair every summer and that
the entire grounds should be preserved
in their present repair and beauty.
Others, little more worldly wise, ar OF
the opinion that it would be great and
good thing to retain the court OF honor,
the Peristyle and the facades OF the
buildings completing the square. Some
proposed erecting mammoth ice palace
"a la Montreal-in machinery hall and
holding carnival there as a winter
attraction and drawing card. Another
would clear the park and remove the
32-acre manufactures building to the
down town lake front to be used for
holding national conventions, state
fairs, dog shows and like demonstra-
tions requiring great floor space. This
was a capital idea but the property own
ers ON Michigan avenue fatty refused
having their lake view cut off by any
such maneuver.
individuals pop up every day to argue
that if only one building is to remain,
by all means let it be the administration,
for reasons thus and so; again it is the
forestry, or the art palace, or horticul-
tural, or fisheries that predominantly
should verify the 'survival OF the fit
test" The women have offered to the
city the children's building and gen.
erous endowment, to be used as is the
Sharon play house in Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, but again their efforts
have met with rebuff. Thus the war
goes merrily on, no one conceiving
what another day may bring forth.
A great many of the state and foreign
buildings have been bought by the
Chicago House Wrecking company for
ridiculousiy small sums, for instance,
the New York, the most magnificent of
them all, brought only $1,000. Many
have been sold to private parties, who
will take them down, remove and re-
construct as sammer residences on lake
shores, at mountain retreats and seaside
resorts. Whoever has secured the Idaho
building is to be envied, as it will be an
ideal abode for q number of convivial
epirits out on hunting and fishing ex-
pedition in the woods. Some, of more
classical order and architecturally more
beautiful, are to be set up in different
city parks throughout the country, and
any place should be proud to hold such
substantial souvenirs and mementos OF
the fair.
There have been many "bsrgsin days.
and occasions" in the transportation
building, as the immense quantity OF
Office furniture and fixtures have been
put there for private sale and auction.
There have also been days on which the
miles of garden hose has been disposed
OF. also The tons of flags used this sum
mer, the sprinkling carts, tire-eugines,
ambulences, benches and chairs, cos.
tunes used for representations on floats
! Chicago day, water-tanks and filters,
awnings, fancy electric light globea
wheelbarrows, shovels, and thousands
\ OF dallars worth of-stuf. nearly guot
-.'ii4 ~<.l.->l,> mot sscc Cnt
exposition one dollar on the hundred.
The world is to hold three universal
expositions this winter, but what will
they be besides poor chromoH as COM
pared with superb painting? They
| will not be immitations in that thew
cannot immitste. The sleepy Spaniards
and slow Belgian5 are no match for the
lightning cord-breakers of Chicago,
while the San Francisco fair-well, ev-
eryone knows What that will be! The
foreigners having anything to sell were
willing enough to 60 little farther for
lucrative motives, while the variety
show contingency was eager for the
chance. Instead OF the "cream," as was
promised, they have secured little of the
good and all of the bad. 1t will be a
one-tent show with multi-side elbows.
in fact, "the tail will wag the dog" Ali
California will rush as to an unusual
state exhibition, and fasteners who
have planned spending the winter in
Southern California will probably take
it in en- route; but few, if any, will 90
ont of their way to visit the ''left oyers"
of past glory. The scraps OF BANQUET
rarely make good meal. Antwerp and
Madrid can at least claim the honor of
originality.
The papers state that what was once a
dream is now a nightmare. 1t is not
quite go bad as that just yet. 1t is now
the perfect White City, and the soul,
ascending to realms of history and fame,
leaves its spirit house wrapped in ma
tures most peerless rsiment, not the
intense gorgeousness of summer nor the
mellow harmonies of autumn, but the
soft and clinging cloud OF winters snow,
which, enveloping everything, bene-
ticiently covers the defects and sccentu-
ates the faultless.
And to the lone wsnderer, standing
in untrayeled paths and gazing about
him, it is sublimely beautiful and peace
tul. But az it is said that peace comes
only with death, this must be the end,
G. L.
Homely Suggestions.
Janpaen Millar Mnpthlx,. ,.,o- -