Show in ta epim of on age dh 0 11 A oto t 77 10 T A A 4 az V M A L A t by ELMO SCOTT WATSON N TIIE THE city of chicago preparations are going coln forward rapidly for th the worlds fair which it will hold in 1033 it Is to be called the century of progress and the keynote keynon of the exposition will be a visualization of the part that the marvelous ma nelous at advance of science in the past century lua has played in industrial progress and in human welfare lu in the w way a y this Is done the exposition will be unlike apy any worlds fair that has ever eer before been held accordingly the exhibition buildings wad ch are now in the process of construction will be different from any others thit that h have av e ever before been erected they will wil I 1 represent not only the architecture of today but the architecture of the future they will be modernistic to the last ast degree that is all of them will be except one along the lake front where the exposition will be held there already lus has been built a little structure of roughhewn logs fort dearborn of tragic memory risen phoenix llie Illie from the ashes of more than a century ago and visitors to 0 o the worlds fair in 1033 cun can look upon upon it against its background of skyscraper lined michigan avenue and in it surrounded by the modernistic model architecture buildings see not only nn an ceplo we ne of the history of chicago but also an epitome of the history of the whole united states canelous Ma Alar nelous as has been this transformation of a lonely frontier outpost with less than a white inbae inhabitants to a metropolis of more thrill than three thre e million the fourth largest city in the world there remains one amazing fact to make he story of Chi cagos growth sound like a scarcely bellev able fairy tole tale for nil all of this has taken place within the span of one roans mans lifetime 1 that man Is nan nah nee num iskuhi a one hundred and twenty one year old pottawatomie indian living on q a reservation near 1 kan who caos born in an indian village on the present site of chicago in 1809 since he was only three years old at the time of the fort dearborn massacre and the burning of the fort he does not have any reco recollection of that tragedy but ut dedoes he doca remember the he fe F establishment af fletr a military y p post estat at chicago when he e second 1 fort t dour dear 1 A photograph taken at night which illustrates vividly the contrast between the old and the now new in the foreground is one of the blockhouses of the replica of the first fort dearborn built for the ahe worlds fair of 1933 in the background is the famous 1 chicago skyline as seen from lake michigan with its towering skyscrapers and its myriad of lights 2 nah nee num one hundred and twenty one cearold year old pottawatomie I 1 born inan in an indian village on the present sito site of chicago still living on an an indian reservation at mayetta kan 3 A century of mall transportation progress was dramatized in chicago recently when a message was borne from the replica of the first fort dearborn to Ao new york by horse automobile and airplane in the photograph john manson a great grandson grandion of the builder of fort dearborn is shown receiving the message addressed to the postmaster of new york from coljohn col john sewall he carried it to the chicago post office where it was placed with other mall mail in an automobile truck and taken to the municipal airport where it was placed on an air mail plane born was built baut in 1810 1816 and the departure of the pott froni from their i ancestral lands for a new home in the west a few years later it Is problematical lema whether nah nee num will still belll be alive when the worlds fair Is held in 1933 and whether he will tie be able to come back to the scene of his birth if lie he Is still alive at that time kut but the fact remains that today there lives a man who could stand to in a city of teeming millions and recall recal the time when this spot little changed from what it must have been when the car caravell caravels avels of columbus first touched tou clied the shores of the new world but the survival of this one hun tired and twenty one year old native of chicago Is not the only evidence of the amazing transformation that has taken place on the shores of lake michigan recently there took place in chicago an incident which afforded a dramatic contrast between the old and the new through the gates of toe the rebuilt fort dearborn one morning tode rode john manson blanson dressed in n the ifie military tary uniform of the style worn py by his breut greut grandfather the he builder bullmer of lot th the original nal fort dear dearborn P or P pe he was wa carrying aletter a lotter addressed S to the epst aste of liew lew york city ahr through 0 kgb the maze of automobile traffic on michigan avenue he made his way to the chicago post office filere anere his letter was dropped into a mall sack which was tossed into an automobile I 1 truck and rushed out to the municipal airport there it was taken aboard nn an air mull mall plane and that evening the letter was placed in the hands of the new york postmaster less than 12 hours from the time it had left fort dearborn had such a letter been dispatched from the fort dearborn of a century ago it would have been feelis and possibly months before it was delivered 0 in new york F for or as one historian has put it from november until mav alay fort dearborn was as isolated from the outside 0 world as though it were on another planet we have in epitome the story of the failure oi of one attempt made by captain whistler in december 1809 1800 to break this isolation ile he obtained a months leave of ab sence to journey to cincinnati today the round trip may be made and a fair days business transacted in 21 24 hours whistler er left chicago the anit of november and readied reached F fort ort wayne ind december 10 much fatigued after 11 days das of balry travel through rain and snow as he tells it in a letter the water was so high that his further progress was prevented finding it impossible should he proceed to be back at his post by the end of the month he prepared to return to fort dearborn grateful to his superior for the opportunity accorded him as though lie he had succeeded in mal making ing the journey the historian quoted in the foregoing in Is aillo al quaife in his book chicago and the old northwest that thai book was published only IS 18 years ago but how soon in these modern times may a statement be out of date I 1 I 1 today the round trip may bo be made and a fair days business transacted in 0 24 4 hours bour s writes the historian in 1913 but ut the he historian of 1931 after consulting the timetables time tables of the air transport companies which now carr carry y passengers to all parts of the fhe states would write it today the round trip may be made and a fair days business transacted in 12 hours and it if you would retrace captain whistlers journey to ri fort ort wayne and do it in on an airplane air pane you could cover in a little i over nn an hour h PF the distance it took him 11 days ao to I 1 make EX 1931 volon 1 tl |