Evening journal., 1893-08-01
GREAT FAIR HALF OVER.
In Three Months the Fair
White City Will Vanish.
THE GREAT ORGAN DEDICATED.


Columbian Chorus of GOO Voices
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-When the guards
and gatemen closed the gates of Jackson
Park last night one half Of the Worlds
Fair period passed into history. Three
months of the big show has elapsed and
only three months remain before exhib-
itors will begin to move out their displays
and the work of tearing down the White
City will begin.
With the first half of the exposition
the officials are satisfied, except in one
respect. The attendance has been small.
4 For various reasons people have not
come to the fair as il was expected they
would come, and, unless there is q Won
+ derful increase in the attendance during
the remaining period, the managers of
the show will be troubled to pay its
3 debts.
President Higinbotham said yesterday
8 that there was not much hope of return
q ing stock subscriptions or doing much
s more than to return the money for
which the exposition is legally liable
81 Other officers of the fair had about the
same views as those expressed by Mr.
n Hieinbotham. They are satisfied with
& the show in all respects except the at
tendance, and believe that the next
h three months will see a great many more
people at the fair than the three that
are gone.
The Days Increased Attendance.
There was a reaction in the attend
ance at the fair yesterday compared with
that of the day before. The paid ad-
missions numbering 1886.
In less than three hours
after he gates had been opened
the number of paid admiss lons
was n exc IS of that for all of Sunday
The day was bright, clear, and cool. and
the visitors were not slow to take advan-
tage of it.
How Engineers Day was Celebrated.
It was Engineers Day and several
thousands of the craft took part in cele-
brating it. They went in a body on the
whaleback steamer Christopher COlum-
bus and under an escort of exposition
officials saw the wonders in the way of
engineering skill in the White City.
Shortly after noon they had a recep
tion at the Music Hall by the engineers
of the exposition, and during the after
noon and evening they took in the Ferris
wheel, the Krupp pavilion, where the
gigantic gun is on exhibit, the ice rail
way, the movable sidewalk. and other
sights that are interesting TO men of me
hanical tastes
For the night a special attraction had
been arranged, and Wooded Island never
before looked so charming II was il
Eliminated from oneend to the other with
japanese lanterns, and the big search
lights on the Manufacturers building
played upon It all through the evening
The Columbian chorus of 600 voices
under the direction of Professor Tom
Inns aud accomp plnied by the Chicago
band. gave a concert of patriotic and
other music, and the novel feature was
big and enjoyable success.
The Great COlum bian Organ Dedicated.
The great Columbian organ, which
has just been put up in Festival Hall,
was dedicated in the afternoon by
Clarence Eddy The inaugural concert
was attended by a large gathering of
music lovers, who were loud in their
praises of the marvellous tone Of the in
strument, and it was plainly demon
strated that the organ recitals planned
for the rest of the Worlds Fair season
are destined to become one of the popu-
lar features Of the musical program.
theodore ThOmas's symphony Concert.
Many of the worl s best known or
genists have been engaged to perform at
rectals to be given in Festival Hall from
time to time during the'summer This
afternoon at Music Hall there will be 6
symphony concert by the Exposition
orchestra under the direction Of Theo
dore Thomas
On Wednesday there will be a popular
orchestral concert at 10 o'clock. Th'
music for the remainder of the day viii
be given over to the National Union o.
America, which will celebrate the day al
the fair.
When the matter of confirming judgei
of award came before the National Com
mission to day, Mr.. Burton, of Kansas
took exception TO the list proposed fo
the Department of Fine Arts All tn,
men there mentioned, except six, wer
from New York He wanted to know
why New York got such a large repre-.
sentation, and his remarks resulted in
lively wrangle.
On motion OF Attorney w. E. Mason
representing Clarles w. Clingman, tn
contempt proceedings against the expo
sition officials for alleged violation o
Judge STEMS Injunction restraining
them from closing Jackson Park on Sun
days, went over until to morrow.
Judge Stein announced that Johl
barton faYu6 uau Deeu thOseu 10 repre-
sent the court and Mr.. Mason asked 70
a continuance on the gr und that MI
Payne was sick and that he himself hs
not completed his replication and brie
to be filed in reply to the answers of tn
defendants.
Reception to Colonel and Mrs. Ere
Grant.
CHICAGO, Aug. LATTER. Memoirs
services in honor of deceased men
bers of the Board of Lady Managers, wei
held in the Womsns Building this morI
ing.
George E. Whiting, of Boston, gave a
organ recital in Festival Hall at noon an
the Thomas Orchestra gave a Symptom
concert in Music Hall at 3 o'clock
The Illinois Woman's Board receive
its friends in the reception room of Il
Illinois State Building during the afte
noon.
To night at s o'clock a recantion. w