| Show I The Columbian Expositloa CHICAGO Marc liThe first building of the Worlds Columbian ords exposition will > under roof in a few days Jt is located at j Jackson park just within a stone I throw of the site selected for the government govern-ment display It i not very much to look at just a two story brick and the cheapest cheap-est kind of bricks at that but it will b j l t worth preserving after it has served its j i purpose just as Libby prison John Browns I fort at Harpers Ferry and other reminis I cences of great events are being preserved j in accordance with the existing mania I I it are t b located the constructor general and his staff and the staf superintendent of buildings while in the wings that jut out from the right aid left are fir prbof vaults that are intended t contain the plans of I i nil the exposition construction and which I j i are hats valued at a round half a million dol j I have an idea that an almost similar story was told a month or so ago about a j little two story frame building on the LakeFront I Lake-Front park and the first stakes for which were driven in with much eclat This hatter j hat-ter structure stands solitary and alone In a snow drift with n sad mournful Godforsaken Godfor-saken air about it Its glory a the first alleged structuua of the exposition has vanished van-Ished It arose from the frozen sod with a blare of trumpets but ere the shingles had covered its roof the Lake Front a a site had been abandoned and thereupon vanished van-ished its claims upon history It can b had now for tho asking by anybody that la willing to cart it away or rather to get it ont of sighb by that peculiar method of removing re-moving houses from one section of the city to another that prevails only in Chicago Yet even on these liberal terms there i no one to do it honor Nobody wants it and eventually it will be razed to the ground in mighty leas time than it took to put it up HESBY M HUKT I 1 Ry l Hu |
