Show lories tie worlds fair biard mw muse to t stajl St jl to further with committees CHICAGO my may 8 the worlds fair directory thia this after afternoon n oon took action on the question of the minimum scale of wages demanded by the labor by discharging the I 1 1 conference committee and adopting a resolution to have no more neg negotiations otla r I 1 on the subject one of the directors mid said this evening that the m of eight hours and the arbitration made by the former directory I 1 ought to the men that t there here ia is no question ol 01 wa wages wase se 0 or anything I 1 else that cannot be covered al by y I 1 arbitration the committee did not se gee q why so 60 important a departure 1 r e m the established usage as the fl 11 x ing of a minimum ecale scale should ba be ZA made 7 the appointment of prof I 1 0 ives ivea ol 01 st loins louis as us chief of the department of fine flue arta arts was unanimously 0 can in firmed I 1 the appointment of walter S maxwell I 1 of california as chief of the I 1 horticulture department was referred 1 to a special committee to investigate JA charges of incompetency preferred 1 azain it him and to repart to the next J meeting several hotti horticultural cultural late I 1 including john corpe of new york were at tho the in meeting eating today to day it allowed I 1 to speak in opposition to max e I 1 wells wello confirmation boya boys playing with matches in a shed in the southwestern portion of the city this evell evening started a fire which rendered a dozen oz an families 4 homeless and destroyed fifteen two 1 I etory story buildings the tenants are all poor people and lost all their poses along five hundred emIo employees of the rolling stock company struck today to day for I 1 I 1 six weeks back pay tha company hasteen baa been in the handa of a receiver sometime some time and a committee ol 01 men 1 1 was appointed to lay their grievance ari evanca before united slates states jaje judge blodgett Blod gatt |