Show WORLDS FAIR MATTERS Rc body Is IlustHns and Everything Is Moving Special Correspondence CHICAGO Feb 10 Everybody must bustle and everything must be hustling So said Thomas W Palmer when he was here a few days ago When the rotund and good natured exgovernor of Michigan exminister to Spain and president of the national commission of the Worlds fair says a thing he means it and so it is that his presence and vigorous utterances have tended toward the exercise of increased vim and energy through all the departments depart-ments Down on the Lake Front and almost under the shadow of the big Auditorium the initial structure that is intended for the headquarters of the bureau of construction con-struction is nearly under roof and will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks The department of promotion and publicity has doubled its staff and the board of lady managers has issued its call for plans for the womens building to cost in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of a couple of hundred thousand dollars with the proviso that none but those prepared by women architects will be considered The board of control of the government exhibit has selected its site and work on Uncle Sams distinct portion of the enterprise will shortly be in full blast Fifty thousand copiesof the classification classi-fication and rules for exhibitors have been turned out of the government office and are now being scattered throughout the country where they will do most good and afford the most information Four times as many will be forthcoming as fast as they are needed Chiefs have been appointed ap-pointed for several departments including that of fish and fisheries and altogether Gen Palmer cannot ask for very much more hustling than is being manifested from the office of the director general to those of the minor officials at the present time Five months hence or not later than June 13 the grounds in Jackson park must be ready for the building contractors contract-ors This is but a short time in which to do the tremendous amount of clearing excavating ex-cavating and filling that is necessary but the contractors are under heavy bonds and the ground will be surrendered on time even if it is necessary to keep both day and night forces of men at work The first thing to be doneor rather the first thing that is now being doneis the removal of all trees shrubs and other obstructions to excavation before any digging can be done and all this material must either be burned or removed from the area Then all the surfaces to be covered by buildings are to be graded to a height of four and a half feet above city datum while the surfaces intended for open spaces must be one foot higher When the work of excavation is entered upon fully one thousand men and as many teams will find employment in throwing up the earth nnd carting it away to the low levels and ditches that are to be filled up With the ground thus in order I there is no reason why the erection of the main buildings the Illinois state building and the womens structure should not have been commenced by the next anniversary anni-versary of Americas independence It will not be necessary for visitors to the exposition to do very much walking outside out-side of the structures Plans for an intramural intra-mural railroad have been made and together to-gether with the route have been approved by every one of the ten members of the board of architects The route will wind in and out between the great buildings landing passengers at their very doors It is not unlikely moreover that the jail way will be connected with the elevated road now in course of construction on the South Side of the city and in this event visitors may be able to leave the center of the city make a tour of the park see the exteriors of all structures and return without having hav-ing to leave the car Each of the ten members mem-bers of the boardfive in Chicago and five in the easthave received the ground plats and adjustments of the buildings and are now assumed to be hard at work on their respective designs It has been left for the five eastern architects to conjointly design de-sign the main group of buildings at Jackson Jack-son park Architect R M Hunt has prepared the outline plan for each of the buildings which constitute the group and from his general suggestions the other architects will work out their plans The music hull the mining horticultural and agricultural buildings and the live stock structure will be designed by the Chicago architects The leather interests have been considerably consider-ably worked up over u report that the plans as outlined left them out in the cold and headquarters have been deluged with inquiries growing out of the rumor It is hardly necessary to say that it is erroneous er-roneous The leather men will have a building and a big one at that It will be located immediately north ofthe main building and will cost a round 100000 Mrs President Potter Palmer will very shortly realize that her position is no sinecure sin-ecure According to the decision of Secretary Secre-tary Blaine she is authorized to personally appoint all the women envoys that are to be sent to the LatinAmerican countries and it is probable that she will be also empowered em-powered to name all the women to be sent to Europe although a decision on this latter lat-ter point has yet to be rendered The very announcement that she will have these plums at her disposal will naturally bring down upon her a deluge of members of the fairer sex all anxious and willing to ti porarily leave their country for their coun trys good Possibly she will find it necessary neces-sary out of the abundance of good material ma-terial to make her choice by lot or ballot Mrs Palmer and Secretary Couzing are iu daily conference designing schemes and plans for interesting women all over the country and abroad in the work they have before them The next movo on the carpet I car-pet is to organize each state by counties and then townships Indiana will probably prob-ably have the honor of inaugurating this movement as the idea originated in the fertile brain of Mrs Virginia C Meredith the lady manager for that state The committee on ceremonies has made considerable progress although the general ideas that it has formulated will be kept under lock and key for some time to come Its members have not been pushed to the wall for want of advice and suggestions for letters by the bushel containing all sorts of ideas and schemes have poured in from every part of the country as well as from Canada and oven from England France and Germany Not a few of the writers judging from the products of their imagination are cranks of the first order The members of the committee however will not attempt to do too much but will finally formulate a programme which while simple in its impressiveness will at the same time be commensurate with the magnitude of the occasion HENRY M RtJNTo f t 1 |