New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
DESERTED STREETS.

HOW THE WHITE CITY LOOKS TO-DAY.
Chicago. May PA year ago the White City
stood In Jackson Park awaiting It's Inhabitants or
II they had already begun II only
explorers and early settlers; to-day II stands prac-
tlcally the same but with hope Of ever
again being peopled. For though there have been
fires and rumors Of fires. and sales and edIcts by
park authorities and other less destructive
things, the Worlds Fair buildings stand to-day
practically they stood year ago
Indeed 1t is presumable that there few people
who would not be surprised visiting Jackson
Park now to find how lijte change there Is. OF ths
things which went TO make up the beauty Of the
Fair as a whole but is missing. the Peristyle
Most of the State buildings are gone. 10 be sure.
but they were always In the suburbs. 80 10 say
patriotic New-YOrker cannot look upon the small
heap Of rubbish which marks the size Of the once
proud palace Of his State without regret, but even
the passing of this takes nothing out Of the picture
a whole.
In visit this afternoon 10 the park the chief
thing missed was the people. At the entrances.
open WIDE there were few dispirted individuals
who made fant-hearted remarks about "keos.'
which vehicles could be hired for twenty-five cents
to take you all through and show you everything"
But no one took keb. or acted as If ne ever heard
of keb; and the promoters OF the kebs themselves
apparently had idea that anybody would take
one had heard Of one. Even the horses
seemed TO the hopelessness Of the whole wreched
oatiess feed-bags and pretended TO sleep. In
side, the first thing noticed WAS that most OF the
brick walks had been taken up and a yielding
variety OF sand unmasked. few aimless strangers.
perhaps to the acre, to become STATISTICAL were
wandering about. one substantial citizen Of the
Republic sitting under tree on Wooded Island
emptying the sand out Of his shoes. great silence
rested everywhere; the citizen pouring out the
sand made not sound An occasional! policeman
was leaning peacefully against building. with
that peculiar air of easy familiarity with stationary
objects always observed in a Chicago officer. The
Columbian Guards are gone. but whether destroyed
by fire or sold to contractors who will convert them
into drygoods clerks could not be ascertained
Between the Art Building which stands and u
to stand and become the permanent home or the
Field Museum and the Court OF Honor, there Is
scarcely a change in an important building. The
Illinois State Building IS pretty well gone-the
dome has entirely Disappeared but the Illinois
State Building OF the structures which 1t
is possible dispense with. The Government
Building unfortunately. has not yet Joined 1t. On
this the plaster of paris eagles still sit up as
straight as ever. as IL they sitting in a bar
ber's chair awaiting a hair cut or, perhaps, rather,
the application OF a hair restorative for their bald
heads The funny brick batteship still dehes the
enemy. and though the winds Of whtor have dealt
somewhat rudely with the perpendicular Egyptian
maldens Of the Transportation Building, most OF
them yet cling to the moudering wall. The dome
of the Horticultural Building still bares its brow
% the sunlight, and the Mining and Electricity
buildings seem untouched by either the tooth OF
time or contractor Even the Liberal Arts Build
ing though reported fire more than once. shows
little signs of suffering But the beauty OF the Court
of Honor is forever destroyed by the absence OF the
Perlstyle. II 1t in place big black section
out OF the centre of the Agricultural Building could
b. overlooked. as well the lack OF gliding on
the great dome of the Administration Building.
There are little square blocks fallen off the surface
Of the Obelsk making it look as If 1t had adorned
Itself with black patches OF court-piass.er. r
statue OF the Republic seems sad amid the SILENCE
and loneliness with her staff broken and her git
preston that the Popuists had got control OF the
The statuary about the grounds and on the build
ings seems on the whole to have passed the win
bears as BELTS their boreal nature, have come
through in the best condition. Even the crowded
group OF the Triumph of the Republic In the basin
intact. and. that the restraining Perstyle
gone appears about to push awa a n tb ne way
The figure is gone from the roof OF the Art Buiid,
perch RU on their dizzy pnnaces as il about utter
away If somebody should say Shoe! Our Diana
the Chicago people done with her? There Is
rumor that she is soon 10 appear on some downtown
The Joyous bulls and the kittensh horses OF the
agricultural wall paintings stu gambol to the sound
panums Of the Liberal Arts Building have been re-
moved, but the decorated domes remain Inc g1Iy
of the golden doorway Of the Transportaton buiia-
Ing is departed. and the conventionalized Pullman
sleepIng-car pOrterS who last summer prompted
gayety of the nations Of two hemspheres look bag
gard and disreputabe, as II they had been smut In
their upper berths
Faint hearted attempts are noted here and there
at tearing down the buildings and carting them
away: but though they were put up simply as tenn
porary structures the task of removing them seems
10 daunt even Chicago energy. Down the Midway
Plasance there Is not much left but cheap inter.
national ruin. Even the Ferris Wheel, denuded OF
garden-spder's web A policeman who was sitting
on something which may have been either an
ostrich egg or the true Barney said that the
wheel was to be removed TO New-York