Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-15
WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS.
The Disposal That Has Been Made Ot
the Many Beautiful Structures.

The Worlds Columbian Exposition Sal
wage Company will nave completed within
q week or two their task of removing the
buildings of the late worlds fair at Chi
Csgo, says the Iron Age 1t has stretched
over a period of two and half years.
during which time an immense amount OF
labor has been done. A few buildings have
been permitted to remain. but they stand
only to serve special purposes. and are
only faiItly suggestive of the architectural
giories which once graced Jackson Park.
At the north end of the park stands the
art palace, now the Columbian Museum,
with it's thousands of unique treasures.
over by he lake shore is he once beau
t:ful German building in dilapidatiOn; far
Their south is to be seen tine sham Convent
of La Rabida. The Goddess of Liberty
still occupies her lofty pedestal, with her
cap gone and several of Ler fingers miss
Mg. The old whaler Progress still en-
cumbers the lagoon. beca Use nobody wants
to buy it. The vessel was offered the other
day for SO. Here the reminders of 1893
end But what his become of all the rest
of the structures that once filed the park?
There are bits of the worlds fair at the
present time all over the worid-in Eur ope,
in Asia. in Africa, in the two Americas,
in Australia.
The story of the principal buildings is
soon told. In the main it may be told In
one wOrd-ashes. Everybody knows the
of the peristyie, music hall and casino.
Everybody. too. remembers the grand py-
rotechnic display-the great fire of July 3,
1874. when the m manufactures building, ma
ohinery hall, the agricultural building, the
mines and mining building. the electrical
building, the administration building. the
terminal station, and number of minor
structures We're consumed. Those fires left
q but one article of Salyage-the steel This
material for the most part went to two
places-the rolling mills of the Illinois
Steel Company and the steel furnaces of
PittSburg.
OF the remaining buildings a portion of
one We removed to Springfield, ILL.,; two
Were tafen to Kansas City, one was moved
over on Stony Island avenue, Chicago, and
still another was worked over into HAT
building Tnesa are the only structures
that preserve anything like their integrity.
The New York building. one of the most
costly of the state edifices, was almost
complete failure as salvage. The fine mu-
raj pain :inGS by MIllet were on the plaster
and had to be sacrificed. The Iowa and
Clio buildings We're annexed to other
buildings and were scarcely worth tearing
down. The Texas building was another
failure from the standpoint of the wreck
ers- Only part of the Illinois building was
left Icy fire The Washington building. that
excited such comment by Its massive logs,
was torn down. and the timbers for the
most part sawed up The Wisconsin build
ing has been rec instructed at Kansas
City. where it has been opened as gen
fitted up in Kansas City for q private resi-
GenCe. The Pennsylvania building was torn
down carefully and used in the erection of
u flat building ut Emerald avenue and 43d
street. Chicago. The Rhode Island build
Ing secured by DIR. Wfloughby and
moved to Stony Island avenue and 1Oth
street. Chicago.
The fisheries building had little salvage
hut it was the one building In demand
The ball was started rolling when a hid
was put in for the glass. Then followed
innumerable applications for frogs. lizards
fish and other ornaments from the COL
umns. These little plaster ornaments were
soon "a premium. and few of them are
now being held at Z, fairly gCcd price.
The fire OF July 1894. was especially
disastrous to the 6Dlnterests of the fair
All the figures from the main building
were taken dGwn with the expectation that
there would be a demand for them. and
more money could be made fro m them than
from the regular salvage. Most of the
little angels from the wom&n's building
the symbolic figures, reliefs. and so forth
were PIT In the electrical building, where
1t was intended to exhibit them prior to
putting them OF sale. The fire came and
swept them all away. A few memorable
souvenirs, however, were saved Presi-
dent H. N. Higinbotham secured the four
lions that kept guard at the base Of the
obelisk near the south lagoon. They now
lord 1t over inoffensive ducks and chickens
at Mr.. Higtnbothan's farm at Elgin.
The status of Ben Franklin, that stood In