Show our worlds fair letter special CHICAGO march alarca 1 1893 A visit to the fair grounds this morning found them covered with mud slush water snow and a general mixture of all with plenty of lime and plaster of paris for seasoning we dodged a hundred teams was eide tracked by several patent whitewash machines was hallooed hallowed hallo oed at by soldier looking guards guard received several liberal applications of lime water in the faco and yet we did not lot feel annoyed A As the buildings 0 near completion their imposing appearance their attractive finishing and their immense proportions cause the beholder to stand motionless in wonder and amazement hut but if we look on oil the white city as so beautiful so 0 o ins inspiring now no vv in its anfin unfinished dished con condition surrounded by mud and dirt with ill all the debris of construct construction iou lying about with timber and lath showing in a thousand places where granite or marble is supposed to tn stand what will it be three months hence when green grass gras plots and pavement succeed mud anti and dirty snow when every structure is finished every hole covered every bit of debris removed when fountains are playing aud and gondolas are moving 0 about upon tile the lakes when thousands of flags are arc flying and hundreds of thousands of p people bolle are wending their way through 0 tile the labyrinth of marvels alien wh en a flo flotilla eilla of steamboats steamboat is discharging passengers at the great pier and a swarm of railroad trains are delivering C their human freight 0 when thelast the vast interior of all these palaces now tenanted ten anted only by workmen wagons C and teams piles of lumber railway ay cars are filled with all the products of mans in gennity and skill during the late spring 0 and early s summer miner u and more especially in may and june chicago chisago chi ago will be the rendezvous of the beau monde monac of all quarters of tile the globe it is established that new yorks gocr will be present in force a state of affairs which is to be attributed to jo the n mandates ian dates of the fabbio doctors the latter are arc advising their patients to from their annual foreign trips and are pulling out of their pockets when wl en consulted charts of the course of the cholera abroad mr and mrs john jacob astor have secured a large suite of apartments at the auditorium hotel anti and such foreign or american friends as they desire to entertain during Z the fair will be their guests tile the fair will be made beautiful by electricity during the night and by rainbows or to speak liter all ally v by bv rainbow effects during the day when the fair is op opened ned the rainbows or rather the great sheets of bunting that are to modify and color the rays ot the sun falling in through 0 ali the skylights of the buildings 0 will all be in place A k small mail army of employees are at work sewing the drapery together and getting it ready for use the sewing is is done on machines driven by compressed air tile the aquarium in tile the illinois building 0 will be a pretty thing to look at the structure will be forty feet high a water fall nearly that high Z broken into cascades the water wa ter will drop drap over small falls some six or eight inches high over which fish ways will b constructed ted As tile llie visitor stands upon it he can see sec the fish jump the ways against the swift current the hatch hatcheries fries and the models of the tanks for the transportation of spawn will al also 8 0 b be C tile the aquarium will how evere be the big thing all the of both native and ad cultivated fish within the confines of illinois Illi aois will be in the rapidly y flowing r waters all that will be needed to complete the realism of the scene will be a barefooted boy with a hickory polo pole baiting his hook with angleworms angle worms colonel den of santa barbara count county california has just completed arrangements with the fair fail officials to ship to the exposition two twenty two year old date palms male and female each forty five feet tall and two and one half feet in diameter one of the trees is loaded with fine fruit the trees will bo be boxed in earth and will be planted in the center of the california state building with the earth attached to the roots they weigh fourteen tons and it will cost 1500 to ship them thein here miss minnie minnic formerly of this city new of now york is desirous of playing in the concerts to be given by theodore thomas durin during the fair ho he did not feel like closing a contract with lier her however until ho h had first heard her play As miss time to come to chicago and mr thomas time to go to new nev york it was decided that a test recital should le be given by telephone A group of music lovers including sir mr and ami mrs thomas assembled in the office of the american telephone company yesterday to watch the experiment mr thomas went into cone of the satin catin lined telephone coops connection was made with the com banys new york office and miss ler sitting in new york at her piano before a receiver attached to an immense funnel funi lel began to play classical compositions composition she played for some time and then asked mr thomas opinions lie ile told her lie he had enjoyed the performance for mance and would write to her about it after mr thomas had 0 gone one a group of people assembled around a table on which lay about fifty receivers and heard an all impromptu concert given in new york A well know vocalist sang a comic irish ballad and a banjo player changed 0 a tune A cabica chicago n o cor cornet D et player blew back ba c k some national airs in response As heard at this end of the wire tho tones of both instruments instrument and voices were remarkably distinct even the finer shadings of the piano being easily di distinguished islieb the experiment of testing 0 a music iane ability by telephone a thousand miles distant is to say tile the least unique NOTES prince roland bonaparte will be one of the most distinguished 1 notables in attendance at the fair ilis his wife who lied died not long ago left him a large fortune which dime came to her as the daughter of the owner of the monte carlo gambling 0 0 tables prince achilles murat of par paris another member of t the he bonaparte family will also open ft a few weeks in chicago during the summer pierrc lorillard will occupy a fine residence on one of tho the principal boulevards daring the fair months and royally ente entertain ertain distinguished millionaires |