Show FLAGS FOR THE FAIR Aili Jb thousands of launora ing ina othor other nations interesting sig sights 1 1 aits to io ile acen tan at tile the imposition 1081 position tion grounds tho dangerous work of if tilo tho painters Paint cra the flags flag for the poles which stud every building on the worlds fair grou grounds nels ire aro coming in last fast and tile the order chii h has been placed nith N w ith a freddi firm of flag makers will soon bo be completed at pr present cent nine hundred lla ilag 0 pole are arc in position before tho the fair opens the number will run into the thousands 11 lien licci each polo pole displays a aln flag tho the decorative effect will vill bo be ono one of th the c striking features of the ne fair tho the hags flan gs represent tile the colors of forty uvo firc natio nationalities ciali ties the storehouse for tho the department is the south hall of vic the horticultural ti building where sample flags of every nationality ire are han hanging 0 ing a pretty and interesting 51 C ht which is is worth the attention ot of a A dozen nervy painters ave i commenced the task of painting L the roof and girders of the manufacture building not a few visitors tois pass under them each day and pa ga c upward with breathless interest for five minutes until having assured themselves that no 10 one is go going I 1 to fa 1 l just yet they pass on in search of greater in onders it ia 13 not so the fact that tho the men are arc v work krhin ing 0 at an elevation of f j many feet that c causes ases astonishment sto lini ont Ps as the daring heedlessness of their art actions ions V v ith a catlike activity they alido alon steel 1 rods ho 0 o narrow all that lt tho their heels project on one side whilo while their toes can be sen n on the other they seat scat themselves on nine inch planks which arc simply placed not tied across these same rods and ply their brush Lrus hs s with as much speed as if there were no drop of one hundred feet beneath with suldon sulden death at the end A hasty move or a melne moments jtb vertigo orti 0 cro and there would N bu bo one painter less ernp employed loyed by tho the decoration department of the columbian exposition irn im expecting 0 a call to tho the manufactures fac tures building 1 every everyday day and I 1 know what irwill it will mean is the way patrol sergeant king tersely expresses it when tho the painters have covered tho the roof with an artistic coat of light blue color another set pet of men will commence in an equally and dann daring task I 1 the Oi director roctor of works vv orl has said t that hat under every glass roof in the exposition i must be placed an awning ca to moderate the heat of next summer bummers s gaii C 11 II i wiggins ila has chang bof of the claw men who v will ill do this work and lie he call i it the most awkward job lie has yet undertaken foreman Wig in girs speairs iti authority for he has painted church steeples and fla flag 0 posts in ill every sute state of the union the men who hang the awning 0 will have nothing to aid them but their own hands and feet the quickness of their eyes and the steadiness of their heads they must r proad one undred li and forty thousand yards of canvas tin under the roof of the manufactures building alone |