The record-union., 1899-07-30
PAH-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
PLANS FOR BUILDINGS AMI
GROUND ADOPTED.
Work of Construction Will Nov
Go Forward Steadily and
Rapidly.
Especial Correspondence. }

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BUFFALO IN. ", July 81 have
| made the statement some hundreds OF
times during the past three months
that the acreage of the Pan-American
| Exposition would be about 44O, but now
I retract and give a different figure and
| thereby hangs a tale that is being ap-
preciated by the men and women OF
| Buffalo with the exception of one. OF
two disgruntled and hungry real estate
men, whose greed for money success
| fully smothered all civic pride and
made them Stunned by all who had the
success of the coming fair at heart.
In that 440 acres originally spoken
and written about there was about sc
acres of land included which it seems
was the property of some New York
and Buffalo capitalists. AS was unof-
| fcially announced at the outset that
| so acres was thought to be the key to
| the situation; the ne plus ultra plot
without which the exposition could not
be; the lone star chunk which was more
| to be desired than all of the rest Of
the land together.
| And the hungry owners were lead to
! believe it and they put their heads to-
|
screws and started in to milk the stock
holders. One might have been led to
believe after having heard these men
talk, that the underlying strata Of the
! land which they possessed was cut dia-
monds of mammoth size, for the price
was boosted to such abnormal figures
that one would almost be tempted to
| believe that the tract in question was
| located at the corner of Broadway and
Dali streets in New York, instead Of ad-
| joining Buffalo's park.
| A silver floor composed of dollars
placed so closely together that a
glimpse at the turf meath it all would
have just about paid for the tract and
to arguments and appeals the holders
were deaf and dumb. They wouldn
come down in price and nothing could
make them. The matter was discussed
| in all it's phases and the populace Joined
| in and loudly called the men who
| thought they held the key to the stu
alton which would have made a Shy
| lock hide his head in shame.
But it all awaited nothing.
"They need the land and they'll have
| to pay the piper" was the stand seem
ingly taken by the few who were so
roundly hated until yesterday.
Now they are simply laughed at, for
the Advisory Board of Architects ar
rived in the city from New York re-
Gently with the plot plan of the expo
sition completed.
Beautiful" calculated the members
of the Board of Directors when they
first saw the drawings. Magnificent.
But you have made some changes.
Where is the 90-acre tract?"
Right over there" said one of the
architects, indicating the spot with his
pencil. Right here, just outside of the
exposition grounds and with a nice,
| high, clean, board fence provided so
that the people who wish to occupy that
| land during the fair can sit and count
| the knot holes in it,
| And the much mooted and very
wearisome site question is therefor set
| tied for once and for all and the ex-
position will be constructed on 335
acres of beautiful land and laid out in
the most beautiful manner imaginable.
This plot plan which will in all prob
| ability be adopted in a day or SO and