Show I 1 1 IIA f f E sensational I 1 1 warren leland of leland hotel fam raille il males makes serious charges I 1 A I big steil 11 II THE LIKE awl PARK PIKE 4 by 91 ibe the we or of which the ht manipulations of the buttil rine king rail pala lot lots CHICAGO june juno 0 20 A sensational charge is attributed to warren leland I 1 proprietor of the leland hotel I 1 in an interview published in an evening paper the ownership of the lake trout front park one thousand feet wide and nearly a mile long between michigan avenue and the lake shore baa has long been in di pate riparian Iti right is the bone of contention and claim is laid to it by the state of 0 Illi illinois illinois illinoi noi the city of chicago and the I 1 I 1 illinois ll 11 central railroad co leland lei I 1 I 1 as owner of the property abai ling park has been fighting I 1 all encroachments encroAch ments thereon and baa has I 1 declared his intention to fight the location thereon of the lV orld a fair I 1 in an interview today to day leland it I 1 quoted as saying that a year ago a bribe of 0 I 1 one million bollara d ol 01 isas wad wai I 1 offered him to cease bis his warfare in in ba I 1 half of the preservation of lake front I 1 park W and yet he added there ara are those who believe I 1 an am fighting a phantom and who ho ridicule the idea of 1 a big steal on foot why W hy there baa has been a steal on foot besida which the operations of the tweed ring pale into I 1 a insignificance if the steal wai was of such gigantic proportions a year ago before the proposition to extend the cark me k one no thousand feet more into the ike aa was made of w what hat size do yon you think it is now over two hundred million dol dollard larn who is back of the steal Is it the illinois central centra railroad on the city council 7 perhaps the one perhaps the other perhaps both A stretch of imagination I 1 may enable one to believe it ta to neither bat but as such a steal could I 1 not be accomplished without the con consent of the city council and as the A the illinois central railroad is is commercially merci ally more greatly interested in the disposition of this pro property perty than any one elee else the tile belief tha that tn neither either la is interested can be of but short life leland la is quoted in detail as to bis his effort to maintain the lake front free from buildings iric including luding the present I 1 2 exposition building build me and the opposition h has met from successive city governments for nine years past I 1 intimating that there were wera monetary influence back of their opposition I 1 leland refused to give the name of the man who came to him he ile eaid said I 1 he was a well known citizen who 1 ill came as a r representative e p re sen dative of other I 1 parties and s said a id ile leland land if ion I 1 will ill simply bother yourself no more A about lake front t aront park bat but remain passive aa as to what is donel done can let you in on a deal so you will get a million dollars th the iatter matter bids fair to create a tremendous sensation |