The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-23

facilities for winter sports during the cold months.
 The fair commission, under the plan, would add 30 acres to North erly Island. The fair proper would cover 200 acres.
 @7,1OO,OOO for Hall
 On the mainland, at 23rd street, according to the plan; an exhibi- ton hall would stand. It would be one of the largest in the world, with five acres of floor space, and would cost $7,10O,000. In 1t agrl- cultural and industrial exhibits might take place and conventions of any type and size could gather. A central arena in this hall would seat 5O,0O0 persons. The exhibit tion hall, with a facade of 1900 feet on the lagoon, would derive the motif of It's architecture from A Century of Progress. In fact, the Worlds Fair of 1898 and 1894 is the model for the entire project as to general planning, service, and transportation facilities. The ar- chitects comment that the project resembles the Tiergarten in Ber- lin and the parks at Monte Carlo rather than the Coney Island or Atlantic City play centers. They say 1t would require eighteen months to build the Fair from the date construction actually started.
 The new Fair proposal carac from Mayor Kelly's Worlds Fair committee, headed by Leonard Hicks. The detailed plans were drafted by Ralph Burke, chief en- gineer for the Chicago park dis trict; Alfred Shaw. Chicago archi- tect, and Frank w. Darling, New York architect who designed Play land, the recreational center at Rye, N. r.
 "In its report recommending the Chicago Fair the committee pre- sents to Chicago the most mo- mentous suggestion since the city plan was announced" Mayor Kelly said. What it may mean, perma- nently, to our city yfairly staggers ones imagination.
 "It is practical. Not one dollar of additional burden is put on our taxpayers; 1t offers us an estate on our lake front which will pay its own costs. It will add permanent ly to Chicago business revenues, swell the volume of our commerce and the total of our employment.
 Northerly island will appear from the city front as wooded isle. Here will be magnificent bathing beach, with all the con- veniences the best club would of- fer; Q broad beach walk will sur- round the whole island. Areas will be equipped for certain social games and other attractions. The best facilities are planned for boat ing, pageants, concerts, and open air opera. There will be a field for national tennis matches, and the Echanted Isle of the 1884 worlds fair will be preserved.
 "The great exhibition hall will furnish opportunities for shows that can be given nowhere else. The planned midwest industrial ex- hibitions should become ultimately of even greater importance to the of Progress. The plan provides also for a portion of the island to operate during the winter, offering skating, tobogganing, children's bobsledding, and the great unde- veloped activity of amateur hoc- key"
 The fair would be controlled by a board of authority to be set up by the state legislature, thus in- suring freedom from political in- fiuence, the report asserted.
 Of the total $20,000,000 to be sought for the fair it is proposed to spend $5.650.oo0 for park ex- tetnsions. shore protection, bridges, and landscaping; $6.750,000 for buildings and recreation facilities; $7,1OO,000 for the exhibition build ing and it's facilities, and to set aside $500,000 as an operating fund,