Show u a 4 a IL U tri j jI I Dream City Being Erected Upon Man Made Shore of Lake Michigan AA I By VICTOR T. T HACKLER I CHICAGO Dec 29 AP Out AP-Out Out on tho desolate man made mado shores o of Lake Lako Michigan tho the modern dream city that is to bo be the tho worlds world's fal fair of ot 1933 Is gradually taking shape Two and a a. half years before the th I opening of or thE tho century of or progress progress' exposition six buildings are aro up I three throe of at them erected esp especially fo for tho the fair six others are to be bo started as Js soon as weather permits A is staff of persons is working daily dally and tho the visitor hears wherever he goes gocs Wo We aro eighteen months ahead of or any largo fair ever held before Three fixtures of or Grant park the planetarium the Field mus museum um am and that great concrete horseshoe known as Soldier field aro to be made part of the fair Facing west to tho the Field museum and and In the tho distance the lower enc end endot of ot downtown Chicago o Is a bold bole green and gray structure of ot modernistic modernistic mod mod- design the administration building control point of at the fair already alive aUvo with x people cople PLAN LAGOON Back of ot It is a bleak k strip of or water partly covered with Ice Gulls swoop down upon It now now but tho the worlds world's fair worker sees only a a. beautiful lagoon slow moving movIn gondolas gondolas gon gon- dolas tho time reflection of ot thousands thousand's of lights Farther east across the lagoon Is the he planetarium reached by a causeway Alongside is a J. J desolate wind swept waste vasto Just dirt ash ashes street treet sweepings and whatever elso elm Chicago uses when it wants moro land and and takes it by pushing back Lake Ako Michigan In Iii tho summer of 33 it will be trod by tho feet teet of or thousands It n is there that the for for- ei ign villages are to be built builL Tho next group of or buildings buildinG'S Is to togo too go o up on the tho lower end of the Island where hoboes now huddle in shacks hacks that are arc half hatt caves They are re the three units of the electrical IndustrIes display and will wm correspond correspond corre- corre spond pond to three similar units of tho the general exhibits group in corresponding corresponding corre- corre position back on tho the main main- land and Construction of or both groups Is expected to start next spring From the tip of the Island Islan 1 back backo to o the mainland a semicircular bridge is planned to be bo cut In the middle by the pillar piliar of light a display of light and water INDIAN VILL VILLAGES South of tho the general exhibits group tho the fair air grounds narrow down downto to o a strip bisected by the through traffic highway Months he hence ce a group group of or Indian villages mages miscellaneous laneous s exhibit buildings and probably abl ably bly an amusement group will be built there At the south tip of the tho grounds Is s the travel tra and transportation building an nn Immense immense- red hulk hull without with with- out ut windows That big bulge over overn on n one ono side is designed to to hold a a. replIca of an ocean steamship And this this' his unusual structure connected wIth one corner of or the th main build build- big ng is the great dome omo absolutely clear ear of pillars suspended by cables to o cover a display of ot modern loco loco- motives A grand stand In front of or which a transportation pageant will bo be staged ever every da day Is planned across he the the the- road Midway 1 between n tho the administration tion lon and transportation buildings and occupying In less space than either Ither of them is 13 a a. copy of ot old Ft Dearborn once all of ot Chicago It was vas built to scale tho the same Mma type loSs logs were used and even the hinges are Jre hand tooled metal The fort is completed Tho The illusion illusion mu- mu sion is js nearly complete But In the tho middle of oC one of or the bunkhouses is isan isan isn an n apparatus that would have havo led lied the soldier occupants of or the 1812 model model model-a a watchman's time box |