St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-10
WHITE CITY DESOLATE.
BETTER THAT THE FIRE HAD CON-
PLETED ITS w. RK
THAN LEFT UNsIGHTLY RUINS
To Mark the Place Where Once
Stood the Magnificent Court of
HonOr-GreaL Golden Statue,
the Republic, Stands Alone in
Its Maicsty-The Displays for
San Francisco All SAFE.


San Francisco All SAFE.
CHICAGO. Jan. 9.-The first and most
universal feeling today regarding the
worlds fair fire of last night is one of
marvelOusly beautiful court of honor
should be married by the red-tongued
fend whose malice has heretofore
brought sorrow and suffering to Chica-
| go. Others took more philosophical
view of the situation, saying the fire
but anticipated the work which time
would have assuredly done. Still others
expressed the wish. barring the tact
that the exhibits had not all been re-
moved, that the flames had been given
their will without let or hindrance, and
that they might have swept the grounds
from end TO end, including the Midway,
leaving nothing behind them except
| ashes and the indestructible portions of
the great deposition. So should it have
had fitting finale. Unexampled i'll
the magic of its rearing and unmatched
IN Its almost supernatural beauty, its
end would have been equally unpar-
| alleled, and its grandeur would have
been treasured in memory, unblemiShed
by the gnawing tooth of time, Instead
OF falling apart piece by piece and be
coming melancholy reminders of van
iShed loneliness. The scene at the
eastern end of the court of honor today
was one of utter desolation and destruc
ton where AT sunset last night CLEANED
the white columns of the p1ristyle.
ffanked by the music hall and the
casino and capped and ornamented by
the imposing quadrigga over the cen-
trail arch and figures along the
cornice. The perlstyle is 10 more, and
the music halt and casino are heaps of
ashes. Save for the great Statue of
the Republic, standing in silent majesty
at the eastern end of the basin,
the view from the grand plaza.
i'll front of the administration
building, between the agricultural
building on the one side and the great
manufactures hall on the other,
out oyer the blue waters of Lake
Michigan is unobstructed. and what
yesterday was a perfect architectural
whole, is now an unsightly and sorrow
ful aggregation Of unbalanced arch
| itecture. Tins does one little change
mar the symmetry of an artistic whole;
thus is shown with what almost in
spired knowledge of artistic unity the
builders or the worlds fair worked.
The beauty of the grand court is CONF
| pletely taken away. as an artistic whole,
and the plans for its preservation have
been put completely to rout unless it
snail be determined to rebuild the de-
af oil
| likely.
THE FRISCO EXHIBIT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9-The news
| of the great fire at the Columbian eX-
| position at Chicago was received with
| considerable alarm at the Office of the
! executive co mmittee of the midwinter
| exposition, until it had been definitely
aScertalned that that exhibits intended
for the midwinter exposition had es-
/ capped the contiagration. kilograms
were received by Viscount Cornely at
the foreign department this tTuesday)
morning to the effect that no French or
Herman goods were damaged; that
Austria had escaped. and that the eX-
POSITIONS prospects in relation to dis
/ plays to be made by these countries
would not be at all Interfered with.
Mr.. Joseph Fernando. assistant commits
sioner from Spain, who arrived from
| Chicago this morning, received tele-
| gram here to tbs effect that no Spanish
goods were injured. The only posi-
biiity of serious damage lies in
connection with the Russian section.
port of which had not been shipped yet,
| and from which no definite information
has been received. Mr.. Lohn, the pen-
tleman who constructed the magnificent
| facades for the German section at Chi
cago, and who Is TO construct them
here, is congratulating himself on the
| fact that all material for this work had
already been shipped before the fire
As a matter of fact, the great bulk of
foreign exhibits which are to be sent to
the midwinter exposition have left Chi
cagO. and are we'll on their way to San
Francisco. The portion still remaining
there, however, would have been Il seri-
GUS loss to the exposition if it had been
| destroyed.
Later information received says the
Russian exhibit, concerning which there
was some anxiety, escaped untouched,
and none OF the dampness incurred will
Interfere with speedy shipment of ex-
hlblts which have not yet started.
| CHICAGO, Jan. 9-The French COM
mlsSionerS and special agents have APP
| praised the total loss in their section at
| $40, 900.