The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-05
wREoklNe A WORLDS FAIR.

wRECKINe A WORLDS FAIR.
d UILDINGS THAT COST $S,OO0OOO have been
n sold for S132,00O That looks like great sacr-
fee, but in this specific instance the vendors
have made good bargain. The amount last named
is what a Chicago house-wrecking company pays for
the privilege of demohshing and carrying away the
structures of the fated Pan-American exposition st
Buffalo The size of the undertaking is evidenced by
the fact that 1t viii take 900 six months to
plete it.
According to the American Lumberman, $4,000
600 feet Of lumber used IN the construction all
of which viii be more or less available for sale by the
wreckng company. Other items are 10000 square
feet of windows 27000 square feet of doors, 100000
pounds of iron and lead pipe, 100000 pounds of
structural ron hundreds of thousands of brick 1000
GOO feet of wire, 10000 flag poles 10000 Hags 100000
square feet of roofing tile, 100000 incandescen lights
twenty-five high speed automatic engines and nineteen
great boilers.
There are other numberless small items, and the
work of getting them all properly separated and ready
for shipment to the cOmpanys yards at Chicago Is
tremendous. Still in this day of saving everything
and using it over and again the company should
get back many times the amount it pays for the wreck
ing privilege 1t is stated that when the task is
pleted and nothing left of the Rainbow City," cata
logues viii be sent out to the trade and within short
time the materials used in the construction of the
buildings viii be scattered to all parts of the United
States.
Perhaps the plank in the Music hall floor on which
President Mckinley stood when he assasslnated
viii be used in the construction Of barn or chicken
coon on some backwoods farm, for sentiment and
house-wreeking don't go hand in hand The emer-
gency hospital where the president carried where
his wound first received treatment will be broken to
pieces and used perhaps In the construction of sheds
AMI fences Into the hearts and minds of those who
saw the beauties of the exposition pang at
the thought of the base use to which it will now be
put So it is with every human thing.
For the wind passeth it. and it is gone; and
the place thereof shall know it more"
It Is to be hoped that the RESOLUTION introduced by
Congressman Williamson calling for congressional
investigation of the SchleySampson controversy will
be killed The public has had about all it stand
about the matter, its mind Is made up, and long
Einded inquiry by congress would reduce bored peO-
pie to the verge of distraction.
The prominent citizens who we're fined for absent
ing themselves from the federal court after they had
been summoned jurors will probably remember the
date and the number of the court hereafter Your
Uncle Samuel doesn't like to be trihed with.
Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, convicted thief, is
still fighting for his liberty That's all those Kansas
fighting. They used handsDikes instead of habeas
corpuses- That makes difference
Utah politicians who haven't been provided for
need not lose heart The heir apparent TO the throne
Of China Is to be appointed within few weeks What's
the matter with hurrying some endorsements over!
Just listen to this. An Illinois mayor has been in
dted for permitting gambling What busy time that
grand jury would have in of western towns.
They'd make the Office of mayor mighty unpopular.
The Mercur Sunshine wasn't merry yesterday
morning 1t was Professor Sunshine and he got
Loudly because plain, blunt fighting by the
of Smith pounded him up somewhat strenuousy.
The runaway horse that made dash for a milf
merry store Tuesday was probably after of those
equine bonnets that were so popular last summer
A Mr. Merriam of Idaho is going to build
opera house If there's anything in a the people
of chat town won't anything but comedies.