The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-24
WREckeRS At WORK..
fhs Columbian Exposition In the Hands
of Destroyer.

fhs Columbian Exposition In the Hands
OF Destroyers.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10. HALF a month has
gone by since the Worlds fair closed, and
within the two weeks wreckers have done
moro work than was done by builders last
spring in thrice the time.
The next two or three weeks ought to
show a heavy demand for day laborers,
especially among the state buildings, for
all Of these have been dismantled OF their
fine furniture, some have been sold for
wreckage, and the owners Of others are
lying awake nights worrying over how
they are to get rid Of them. The huge II.
linois state building Is to lie sold at pub.
lie auction, a. required by law, Dec. rs.
and It's purchaser must get 1t out Of the
park at once, either whole or In scraps.
Ohio Building Brings $500.
II cost enc, 900, but It will sell for less.
The Wisconsin building, which will make
o pretty and durable home for some one,
10 to be sold to seal bidders Nov. 20. On
the same day it, furniture and fittings will
be put up at auction. The little Ohio
building has been sold to a Cincinnati
man for $500 and he will begin to tear It
down Dec. 10. The heroic monument to
Ohio sons, which stood in front Of the
building, has fallen before the vandal. The
bronze statues Of Grant, Sheridan. Sher-
man, Garfield, Chase and Stanton, which
with the symbolic figure OF Ohio made up
the group, were all taken down. These
figures are worth $iz5, QUO, belong to the
state, and will be set up In the capitol
grounds at Columbus. Tho furniture In
Michigan's building will DO sold to the
states institutions. There are no plans
yet for the disposal Of the building. In.
diana's furniture 10 to be distributed
among the states institutions. and the
commissioners met to decide how they
shall dispose Of the building.
Disposed Of for o75.
Nebraska's building went low. SEWERS
q Tcarnley of Cincinnati bought 1t fol
SIS, and will take IL to Cincinnati. Ths
same firm has purchased the clambak,
restaurant building. The governor Of
Wet Virginia will get the furniture from
the states building, and the house itsell
10 still on the market. The governor o.
New Jersty though IL luckier than hi
brother Of West Virginia. He is going Il
have his states building to loll around II
Of summers. New Jerseys house Is
quaint colonial one, an exact reproduction
Of Washington's headquarters at Morris
town. 1t will be carefully taken dowl
and rebuilt somewhere In the rural por
tion Of the state as a summer home 70
that lucky governor. That other histori
cal building, Mount Vernon, has been soil
: by the Virginia commission to John Nc
> CURE of Chicago for e4O0. Mr.. McGuir
10 going to move 1t to Seventisth street.
The New York Building.
/, G. II. McGann, executive commissions
! for Maryland, 10 in Baltimore trying {
decide what will be done with his build
: ing, but Commissioner Foley OF Ne,
, York IL right here In town frstting b,
. cause some one does not come along an
offer him some part Of the Clio, 900 til
Empire state lavishsd on her big, squar,
white palace. New York had this whit
elephant comfortably given to the won
ans board once and accepted, too, bu
q when Potter Palmer made his big gift fc
:, q permanent memorial building th
= women said they guessed thoy would M
|" tax New York's generosity, and now NJ
Q Foley 10 worrying again. The most
New York's furniture has been disposed
Il at private sale. The California builuiu
Q has been sold to the Worlds Fair Wrecl
ing and Salvage company, which pr
poses to use it as q storehouse for mat
y rial torn from other buildings for the d
l. molition Of which the company is negot
II atinH.