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Show POST GETS ARTISTIC RANGE Chicago Organization Acquires Use of Famous World's Fair Field Museum Building, The American Legion will soon huvo the u M' of a InilldliiK known to mil lions In Ameilca as thu embodiment of beauty In art and architecture, thu old Flue Arts bulldliiK of the lSD!) World's Fair. The crack of army rllle.s will he heard In the famous structure, for it has been turned ovei to the IIj tlu l'ark post, No. HI, of tho Legion In Chicago, as nil indoor rlllo range. The Inrjju edifice, known as the old Field museum after thu World's fair, wii" evacuated with the completion of tho now Field museum. Various or-KanlzaUons or-KanlzaUons of Chicago Immediately besieged the park commissioners for permission to use tne building, hut the Legion post's request alone was granted. Legionnaires now have n rlllo range de luxe, one that will tend to erase tho veteran's memories of sweltering days, shivering' days and cold, moist days spent in trying to locate the bullhoyo on the arniy'B outdoor tiring tir-ing points. The building' Is so largo that a 200-yard range was established without (imiculty, nlong with the shorter distances. |