Show THE WORLDS PAIR FAIR it is high time the directors ol 01 the I 1 worlds fair at chicago did something beaida appoint committees lay off ground on piper paper make estimates etc ilia the big ebow show is a little more than two years off yet so stu penda ons will the work be found that tt it Is hardly probable there will ba a moment to spare indeed it will be a genuine wonder it ff those in charge do not find a great many things lag ging on heir their hands la ILL an unfinished condition a at the very last day when everything should be in p perfect r feet read 1 n ness mesa end and all concerned pro prepared pared for the reception ot of visitors 1 I 1 so far there has been no great dig dis feature 1 Bio illar to the eiffel 6 tower agreed upon and this part of V aba work alo nelt neif it ia is toba to be a thorough and masterly job something of which I 1 wo as a people may eastly feel proud ought to ba be underway under way now so that there may be no unnecessary crowd argand ing and thereby slighting alighting of any part of it it is claimed to be an assured I 1 fact that something that will greatly eclipse the stupendous french structure will be devised and carried out A number of designs for something extraordinarily grand la in the concep tim of the designers liva have bean been i handed in and duly considered and it is quite possible that others are even I 1 1 nw undergoing under goine the process of cincu bation b tion that eoma some great engineers are I 1 at work ard it ia is even hinted that r LI the e inventor of the french structure V mr cliffel himself may take a 1 bind band inthe inthe scheme schema this would make inake matters quite interesting but a zeal would be add I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 f 1 I 1 t I 1 9 I 1 I 1 I 1 ed to the interest by the knowledge that a design had been boon accepted A chicago authority caya says that in this direction there have been suggestions without number somo some favor great towers beside which that of kiffel eiffel would be a mere pi pigmy gIlly others great globes big herch hemispheres chores and mai mammoth ninoth domes the plans of the most elaborate scheme yet suggested and which is likely to be viewed with considerable favor by the responsible authorities may be bast best described by ming asking the reader to imagine a miniature of the main exposition building of ina 1876 located on the top of a big frame structure that resembles an ice house the main door floor feet above the level is to be reached by a carriage boulevard winding round and round until the pavilion is reached A k flower garden a mammoth rant and a P conceit concert at a height which will enable the via tore to survey tho the heaving bo bosom som of lake michigan and the ad adjacent country for miles around complete the preliminary details of a scheme which w will ill put al eiffel to his wita wits end to improve upon I 1 it is further announced that the suggestion in dav favor or of the international congress of musicians has met with hearty approval an and d it would not be surprising ising if t the he early months of next year were to find an american representative going to europe tor for the purpose of 0 visiting the principal musical aggregations there in that behalf the picture of what chicago would be with the brasa brass bands of the principal cities of ail all civilized nations and some that are not civilia ad pealing forth their blasts idof is of necessity left to the imagination the orchestras ch cb chestnas estras of the earth holding high carnival and it might be all together at times would ba be something to attract or repel it is hard to tell which it if is further said that the bands are to assemble in chicago simultaneously and each is given a week in which to produce its music in the worlds fair temple dedicated to the muses preliminary correspondence has tended toward indicating that at least twelve nations will be found willing to send their representative orchestras which would mean a gathering of not less than a thousand of the greatest musicians of the globe the musical temple moreover might be utilized for an exhibition of musical manufactures c combining om biang a museum of musical instruments st of all countries and ages and a complete and elaborate display of modern odera manufacture I 1 we all understand that chicago is not likely to be left on any matter which it takes bold hold of in earnest but it should also be borne in mind that never before his lim it undertaken anything of io so much magnitude or anything of so decidedly national a character we ire are all interested in the progress and outcome of the great work and all rant ant to see it a grand and unqualified success which no doubt it will ba be let the work proceed |