Show THE FAIR the site ilaa has lot vet yet cen been selected though architects AM ire at ito wok k STANDARD special F 2 chronicle service aug II 11 washington a fi park as an a bito bite for A portion 0 of t the be worlds fair ia is increasing in favor the directors prefer it to jackson park lecause it can be not got ready for or their UBO tor a tithe of 0 what it will cost to prepare for buildings build aga on the band sand lunes dunes of the lake shore engineer olmstead has declared bia his pret areace ere ice for washington park and this week will doubtless witness anat an attempt t to secure it for the exposition the south park commissioners will not willingly give e u ap p this park tor for which nature h haa as done 0 as 0 much along ita its eastern line la Is a narrow strip of natural forest and through it r runs uns a splendid drive leading to flower gar gardens dene artificial lakes and mo mounds u ads and expensive buildings on the grove isa ia a broad level meadow 0 given n to baseball and ath athletic leti 0 on a the north and south are more thrifty h r if t trees tress and greensward the brouny ground is blab high easily drained and improved and an all ail the board it 0 ard h ba a 0 to do to turn the entire territory I 1 into n to a fine park ia is to construct a few drives and walks and set to work gome some more lawn mowers the board does not want to expend the I 1 the legislature authorized to raise in improving proving a park already in an advanced state tato 0 of improvement jackson park needs all this money and three times as much more to put it in a condition equal to that in which washington park now is the corn earn missioners ners want to take advantage of the fair and the to advance the improvement of the sand heaps bes ps and swampy grounds south of the improved portion of jackson park they object to depriving he the people of the south side of their most available park grounds and at the same time giving ving them nothing in return on the fake lake shore mr NIT olmstead said that washington park was the place for the fair as it could be prepared at a trifling trilling expense and the grounds could ld be put in as good condition as ch they oey are now within a year after the park no lasting in injury ury would result to the park to prepare jackson park would cost a great deal of money and it would take a longtime to make the tile preliminary improvements A number of architects have begun to a make nake plans for the worlds fair buildings among them is eugene colibert a fren frenchman man who pre prepared area I 1 plans for or the madrid exposition MIT buildings in 1874 I 1 and who restored the bastile and hue rue st antoine at t the he last years paris exposition ho ile will offer the directors plans for some of the buildings and perhaps ho he may i propose to reproduce the bastile on the lake front in 1883 |