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Show ON THE SITE OF FORT DEARBORN Chicago, June 3 Foil Dearborn or rather Ihe site where it once stood hns "changed hands." The deal j was consummated yesterday botweeu i the W. M. Hoyt company and Palmer C Coble. When srhocl children of the next generation come to tho chapter chap-ter in Chicago history where It tells about Fort Dearborn and the massa-cree massa-cree of Angmil 13. 1S1 2 - fifty soldiers were killed, and Chilians, Including I women and children then they will learn of the evacuation, the re-bul)d-Ing in 1V1G, abandonment of 1S37, the j destruction in the fire of '71. the purchase pur-chase by the HoM company and the sale yesterday to Mr. Goble. The present building and tablet are. one of the most familiar landmarks land-marks "of Chicago. The tablet whs presented by Mr. Hoyt In 1SS0. The building was erected In 1871-73 on the ashes of the old fort. |