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Show I'ooit i'itui'Mis iuu Tin: oiuii'.sr.tiit. New a from Chicago relating to the World' Fair It uot rrauurlng. W are told lliat the Kalr Illnvtory hat abandoned the Like Front a a tlio for any portion ot the fair. We are given to uuderttaud that thla It a triumph over the real ettate tnvculaton. And In fact, a newipar aibllihel In tills clly, tho manager of which It a World Fair Cominluloner, ao exprestet Ittctf A greater fallacy could not be promulgated promul-gated In cold print. The facU In the catearo the direct oppoaite. Ill the tint lace there It not In Chicago a iik called the Houlh l'ark. There la what U called the Houlh l'ark ynteiii. Thl Includoa Jackton Park Waildugtuu l'ark, and teveral oilier piece of hud each Invented with a fantottlo title. I'orlnitance, ono I known n the "Midway 1'liluncr," whatever llmt may mean. In thl nclghtorhood a number of wealthy oplo rrelde. They aro of ths lyie of the-Udy In the play of "Natural Oat." Their language It a mlaturo of queer Fnncli aud bad Kngllth. It wa one of tlu win gave tho name of "Mid- ay 1'laltanco" to a tract of land near Jackton l'ark. Tho lake l'rout It n plat of city projierty, coutlitlng of about tlxly acm,ltualeJalmoiitlii tho renter of Chicago. The old l'.poltlou building lion thla ground. When thu Fair wa lint talked of, iubllo opinion In Chlca-goatoureaelcclodthe Chlca-goatoureaelcclodthe I.ako Front aa tho proper tltu for tome of hu building. build-ing. It wai central. Working men and their hinltlot could vlalt It without with-out pa lug car fire. When Ihu tho mllllont wat Drat mlcrllwd for by private iwwna, It a done with the dlatlnct underttaud lug that the Uko Froul would be uwt of tho tlte. Wheu the iuelion uf ralalng five million more by taiatloii wa ml. milled to the HXple, It u aa then announced beyond dlapule that tho Lake I'Mnt lia I Iwen aittled upon forlhltiiurpoto. The people voted fur the raWru or the money with thl uuderataudlng. All the time, Jackaou l'ark aantlte fur the Fair had lUhowllug ajv.cntii. Tliey wero the real taluthark. They lought every bit of hud for lullea around the l'.nk. 1'roptrly tin rein tla mouth iulutupleil lu price. And atone time, theaotharkamvJe threat agalnal member of the local directory, laying that Uiiltm Jurkhm l'ark wat made the aolo and eaclutlve tlte, a revelation woul I como forth that would relegate many to olocurlty. oar coram the new that the Lake Front I aUndonrd. Thl la a triumph tri-umph for the rial etalu aharka, but It la a ilef.nt for the Fair, 1 ho peor le of t'hlcagu will Uke no mora Interval In It. fa vlalt Jackm 1-ark one mutt ride over lo ijainua 0f ttiect car, Togonndcoiue will coat WccnU for tRrli-nqn. Till might help rallrua It an 1 ttrwt can, but not tlio public. The people oaunot recall the flu mllllona they voted for lait November. If they could (hey woull. Hut tub-crlliert tub-crlliert In World' Fair ttock cau withhold tlio unpaid portion, and they will probably ito to. Uulew (.'ongret aud thu dlllerent Htatn come to tlio mwuu Ih'era will bo very little of a I'alrluISii), Tlio money Dint hat been approptl-atcd approptl-atcd It already contume.1 In talarlc. Tlio Becretary or tlio National Com-mlulon Com-mlulon eel. JlD,oo a year, Ju.t at S much at one of thu Judgea of the Ulied 8Ute Hiij rente Court receive. In fact, errrtthlng csnnected with the Kalr, both In the local hoard and In llio Coinmhelon, mado a mutter of alary. Congrra ran not nlTohl to tultlty llaelr by throwing 0n tho National Truuury t iiich a liordoof ea'arynrabrnrt. Tne Hlate Leglila-tunw Leglila-tunw of tho country do not em to be In 0 groat hurry to make approprla-tlonafir approprla-tlonafir riUlo Mhlblt. Tho rrlvale ulcrl Hon Hart, which waa ix.ectod tocmw to vitt Uluwiitloiit, ho not yet matcrlallrrd. There It only one way In which the cotiflJenco of tbe po'l'le and of the rouiilryran U tecum) In all of the Fair. That la by recalling the i-)lllloil haikt who hold the profitable oilier. I'nlra aonielhlng I done, whereby thceiinrty iajraiitecanbeinovrd,Hie Fair will undoubtedly be a failure. It I now well undenitood that with thete men at the pivot of the Fair, the real Mtate harkt had not a great deal of trouble In routing tho Lake Front to bo abandoned. |