Gunnison Valley News | 1921-05-20 | Page 2 | The American Legion

It -v .''it .o -. O -S A 4'.; . t i Xi U A IfcdtUfo (Copy for This ippa rt mnt SuppltPi . by the Atnpriran Lfe'on News Service.) POST GETS ARTISTIC RANGE Chicago Organization Acquires Use of Famous World's Fair Field Museum Building. The American Legion will soon have the use of a building known to millions mil-lions in America as the embodiment of beauty in art and architecture, the old Fine Arts building of the 1S03 World's Fair. The crack of army rifles will be beard in the famous structure, for it has been turned ovet to the Hyde Park post, No. 34, of. the Legion in Chicago, as an indoor rifle range. The large edifice, luiown as the old Field museum after the World's fair, was evacuated with the completion of the new Field museum. Various organizations or-ganizations of Chicago immediately besieged the park commissioners for permission to use tne building, but the Legion post's request alone was granted. Legionnaires now have a rifle range de luxe, one that will tend to erase the veteran's memories of sweltering days, shivering days and cold, moist days spent in trying to locate the bullseye on the army's outdoor firing fir-ing points. The building is so large that a 200-yard range was established without difficulty, along with the shorter distances.