The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-31
THE FAIRS WHITE ELEPHANT.
what Is to BE Done with the Beautiful
buildings When the Show Is Over?

Buildings When the Show Is Over?
In lump figures $l9,00),000 went into the
construction of the Worlds fair buildings
and the preparation of the grounds for the
exposition The point that now interests
the stockholders, and incidentally the
whole city and country, is how much can
be realized from that Sl9,00O000 worth of
time and material.
IL is safe to assume that the time is dead
waste 1t is safe to say also that a large
q frightfully large-proportion of the ma
terial will have to 20 by the board.
In the rosy days of promotion it was fig
ured that 5000 600 could he realized from
the sale of the buildings and the materials.
Since then there has been slump in the
expectations. and today it is Il tossup
whether there will be enough salvage to
pay for the tearing down of the buildings,
the removal of the materials and the resto-
ration of the park to the condition in which
it was before it was turned over to the Ex-
position company.
The South park commissioners fear that
the fair corporation will forfeit its 100000
bond and abandon the buildings rather
than attempt to tear them down and restore
the grounds to their original condition.
John G. Flemming, Chicago represents
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nished about two-thirds of the iron enter
ing into the buildings, says that "a very
large part of the iron at Jackson park will
have to 90 into the scrap pile"
That means that it will have to be sold
for old iron and at Il price which may not
pay half or "a quarter of the price making
it available even for that disposition There
are Z 900 tons of iron in the Manufactures
building, costing about SO ton TO put in
place, or nearly 100000 in all.
There are nearly 10000 tons in the several
buildings, representing d cost of over 81,
SOC, GOO
Illustrative of the cost of taking down
iron work, it may be stated that the archi-
tect of Steele Maokaye's skeleton Specta-
forum estimates that it will cost S43, GOO
and every dollar that can be realized from
the sale of material to pull down and re-
move that unsightly monument of yet 9th
er blissful promotion moments
The owners OF. the Ferris wheel expect to
pay $4,000 to responsible contractors to
take down. transport and set up that won
derful piece of work on another site.
Emil Phillipson says it will cost 800, 00C
over and above the salvage to tear down
and remove the Manufactures building
Dilgent inquiry among wrecking firms and
would confess having any intention of bid
ding on the destruction of the White City
or that would admit they knew of anybody
who had definite purpose in that direc
ton.
No matter who has the work to do, there
is going to be great trouble and expense il
disposing of the waste and rubbish. Wher,
to put it will be tough problem to solve
1t cannot be dumped haphazard into tn,
lake, us much of it would be washed bacl
upon the shore by the action of the water
The authorities would not allow that dis
position to be made of it. There will b
between 10000 and IL, 600 carloads of vast
material to be hauled away from jackson
park, according to the calculation of
prominent contractor-that is to say, be
tween 800, 600 and 100000 cubic yards o
rubbish There will be some thousands o
carloads of staff alone to be carried away.
There is no hole or swamp to fill up with
in transportable distance OF Jackson park
A suggestion has been offered that TIN
waste material be used for the creation o
an artificial mountain at the southeast cor
ner o. he park. In the loose form it viii
be in v .leu carried from the grounds tn
waste material will make II pile 1000 fee
, square and between 10 and 20 feet high
| The surface area of such a creation woult
be about % acres.
1t was said while the buildings were be
ing erected that the iron framework of sew
eral of them would be sold to railroad com
panies to be used as stations. All the road
running into Chicago have fine stations
, and there seems to be no chance to dispos
of the iron frames here.
The question the officials want answere,
is, What shall be done with the building
: and the ubbsh?-Chicago Cor. New Yorl
Times