The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-29
Exposition City Takes Shape az
Buildings Are Completed
Rapidly

Chicago, March 29.-More than .
million people have already come to
wander through the 1893 World Fair
grounds, though the Century Of Prog
ress will not be officially open until
June l, 1893.
Since last June there have been
100000 paid admissions to the unfin-
ished grounds, and with those who
came before that, when no count was
made, an estimate Of million to date
Is regarded here as conservative.
Regular bus lines run to the fair
entrance, and uniformed guides take
visitors through the grounds where q
few hardy conceSSiOnaireS already
have set up stands and more will
move in this spring.
Some of the fair buildings have gone
no farther than the ground work, on
others the steel skeleton is rising. But
seven millions Of dollars have already
gone into the fair, and as 1900 work.
men toll among the foundations,
nearly 80 per cent Of the actual con-
struction Is already finished. You
can't see it, because the work has
been SO largely laying out Of streets.
water mains, foundations, and the
like. But it's there, and after the
first OF the year the buildings will
rise with mush-room-lik rapidity.
Chicago Dirt Flies
Already the administration building,
NJ a nj
transport, agriculture and social SCI
ence buildings, the magnificent Chi
nese temple. the replica Of old Fort
Dearborn, and the Lincoln group, are
complete.
Nearly all Of the activity at present
Is at the north end Of the two-mile
stretch along Chicago's famous lake
front, and ground has already been
broken for every Century Of Progress
building. The other two-thirds of the
area, the whole of which Is enclosed
by three and q half miles of sheet
steel fence, has been leased to the 10
foreign governments, states and pri-
vate interests which will present ex-
hibitS. Derricks, to0l-ShedS, concrete
mixers stand in the streets, where
fuu-groWn trees are being planted as
the landscapes build terraces and ap-
proaches.
Concrete is being poured for the
highest towers In the world, which
will support the sky ride, in which
visitors will be whisked in rocket cars
along q 2000-foot span Of cable 600
feet In air, from the mainland to
Northerly Island. BY the first Of
June, everything will be ready.
For Chicago as q municipality. may
not be able to pay its bills or control
its racketeers, but when 1t utters its
famous motto II VIII" In connection
with q privately financed project like
the Century Of Progress. things gen
orally move. Fair officials say they
are going to stage the greatest ex-
position Of all time, and that with
the memory Of the Columbian Expo
sition Of 1893 fresh in their friends,
certainly the greatest up to today.
For when Uncle Abner and Aunt
Emma went home from the fair IN
'v3, the memory Of the white city,
the court Of honor, the midway plais-
ance, the ferris wheel, the streets OF
Cairo and the wiggly dancing Of little
Egypt, were never quite erased from
their minds. Deducting duplicate ad-
missions, more than 12yO00, 900 people
thronged the Columbian Exposition
and that meant one in every six peo-
pie in the country In the Gay
NinetieS.
The Modern Side
The effects Of that exposition re-
vertebrate today. It really began the
city planning movement in AVerica
and one writer said 1T revealed 70
millions OF Americans whose lives
were necessarily colorless and mar
row, the splendid possibilities Of art
and the compelling power Of tho beau
tiful." Less than one mans natural
lifetime before the fair, wolves had
howled In the streets Of what was to
become Americas second city. The
Columbian Exposition was In celebra-
ton Of 400 years since Columbus dis
covered America.
The Century Of Progress Is to cele-
brate the remoulding Of world by
scientific progress in the 100 years
since the founding Of Chicago. And
since that u to b the keynote, the
design OF the buildings and grounds
and the exhibits themselves win look
to the future. whereas the view Of
the Columbian Exposition was toward
the past.
The exhibits viii tell. graphically