Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1873, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: ' HURSDAY, sErr SMBISR 25, 1873. - EXPOSITION. Chicago’s Last and Most Magnificent En- terprise. A Grand industrial Palace Erected in Ninety Days. The Great Exposition Building Ready for Inauguration. The Dedicatory Exercises - to Occur This Evening. Senators Oglesby and Logan, Gov. Beveridge, and Others to Deliver Addresscs. History of the Future Home of the Arts and Manu- factures of the West, It Will Become the Focus and Centre of Northwest- ern Industry. Previous Atitempts at Fairs and Expositions in Chicago. The Inception and Growth of the Present Grand Scheme. The EBarly Mectings at the Gardner Jouso and “ Staats-Zei- tung” Building, Dificulties Experienced in Se- lecting a Site for the Palace The Lake-Front Chosen, the Stocfi Put on the Market, and the Contracts Awarded. Description of ihe Building, and Cata~ lozue of Articles on Exhibitione Ete., Ete., Ete., ‘Ete. The Grand Inter-State Exposition will be oponed this evening, and will be “formally in- augurated,” as the expression is, with the noiso of brass bands and iho rounded wontences of distinguished orators from abroad aund from homo. The great building, which has risen so stoadily snd ewiftly upon tho Lake Sbore, with loss rapidity than tho palaco the Slaves of tho Lamp built for Aladdin, but destined to be moro pormanont than that work of & night, will this evoning be thrown open to the happy holders of tickots, and the noxt day will be thrown open to tho world, it the world chiooses to come and pay its admission fos, This future homo of the arts and manufaotures of the West, whero followora of all trados and manufactures aro to moet, to teach and to bo tnught, and which will serve honcoforth aa .the vory focus and centre of the industrios of tho Northwest, hag boen but littlo visited by the publio while in courso of eroction, It Las beon from tho pa- pers alono that the majority havo beon kopt ac- quainted with ita daily progross, and havoloarned somowhat concorning its sizo and genoral ap- poaranco, The building is situated in a quiet part of the eity, exposed to the view of but few except those who paes and ropsss it upon sub- urban trains. Michigan avonue, in that part of it courso, is not oxplored by many, and honco this etately etructure, which for acouplaof wooks is to be the contro of tho city's life and activity, will bo fresh aud intoresting, without as wull aswithin, to its tona of thousands of visitors, for it ia not likely that its *infinito varioty” will grow stalo bofore it renchos its successful conclusion. It s time tho susponse of waiting was at an end. Tho oxcitoment on the subject of the Exposition, fuint at first, hins been growing woek by weoek, until it hoy come to be a consuming firo. Now it bas swallowed up ail losser things, It inspiros the advertisements, and monopolizes tho loeal columps, It busios the hotel mon, and incltos the morohants to bring out their freshest goods, 'Thora iy a remodeling of shop-windows, and an unwoutod oxtravagance in cards, Tho bill-poster prospers, and the sireots are full of boys with hund-biils, What are politioal con- vontions in the prosence of such a convoeation ? v, Hoslng drops tho roins of tho Now Depsr- ture for the time, and devotes himsolf to tho digohargo of moro important dutics as a Director of the Exposition. Tomperance and Anti-Tem- perance mon, Domocrats and Republicans, may moet In tholr wards and talk it out (i Uiz lm! & e e e = R g AL ot their leisuro, Nobody heeds thom now. | 0'Hara may have aepirations and MoAvoy may be pipe-laying, but evory boily olso is thinking of tho * cottago by tho sen’ '—the big Louso by ! the Iako—and the wondors it contains, For it has somothing which intorests ovory ono. It has jewels and cunningly-wronght work in gold and silver for tho Jadics, for there are nono of thom whioh those things domnot pleano. It has something for businesa-mon and somothing for idlors. Hero, too, even tho henvicst and moat practical machinory attracts, for it is ona thing t0 800 it in a gronsy, smoky eliop, and auother thing to view it in oporation in the splendid hall of the Exposition building. . The country peopls have nleo, in their sobor and deliberative way, boon moditating upon the Exposition, and have beon slowly coming to & conclusion that it was necessary for thom to pay it & visit. At firat, thoy gave the subject no thought, for if this grost anterpriso lacked any- thing it waspuffing; but afterwards, whon thoy saw how stondily tho mattor was followed up, when thoy eaw the namos of thoso who wero on- gaged In it, and bocamo convineed that it was no gsoap-bubble, bursting tho moment thoy touched it, thoy gravely made up their minds that thoy must find their way to Obiengo, secing at onco the robuilt city and the wonders of tho Exposi- tion, Harvest would be ovor; the weathor would be plessant, and they could find no botter time for following the. ndvico of the Socrotary of the State Association, and tako n littlorclazation, * cultivating a littlo moro brains and o little logs corn,” The villages and towns of the Northwest, naturally noarer to Chi- cogo than the country, which recolves its nowa Joss rapidly, havo all folt o growing interest in the Exposition. Graduslly oue after anothor of the manufacturers, who sre creating a homo markot in the flonrishing minor citics of Illinos 1 Ot o 4 O RESTAURANT auil adjoining States, havo decided that it was nocessary for them to be represonted here, and tho moment they made their olaims for spaco, and had those claims allowed, thoy became an activo element to awaken their rospective com- munitios to the importance of what was going on at Chicago, and the necosity of thoir attending, in order to soo that their townsmen had doue as woll as tho reprosentatives of rival places. To-day, thon, tho Exposition opens with the good wishes of our citizens, and of those of rival and compoting citios. Tor, In this strifo to sdvanco the causo of industry and manufac- tures, thero I8 no unworthy jealousy., Each gladly helps tho otbor, sinco ho thoreby helps himeelf, For many days to come, the columny of Tne Trinuse will bo filled with its chroniclo of tho progross of thoe Exposition, its history, day by day, from tho timo the curtain rises and tho mauager makes his opening spocoly, down to the moment when tha last act closos, the curtain falls, and tho plessed spoctators, wishing there woro more, go to thoir #evoral homes. Binco tho future, then, will bo so full of Iabor, thero Iy 1o better time than tho prosont in which to ro- 1ato in full the history of the Tixposition from it beginning down to tho presont duy, to put to- gothor in onu placo tho information acattored throngh scoras of papers, and to traco, from ity ahnort unknowa fountain-head, tho progress of the undertaking which is ofiiclally oponed to- day. For nothing 1y plensantor, in tho day of groat things, to look back to thelr obsouro boglunings, and to road over, concentrated ius singlo pogo, tho history of tho toil of months or yoars, But bofors beginning this fong narrativo, it Is but ftting to say onobriof word of ackuowl- ogmont of thoAorvicos of thoso who dovised the Exposition and enrried it through toa suc- cossful oponing. Evon if thoy had beon in- spired simply by hopea of porsoiial gain, still it would be propor to thonk thom, since the rosult of thoir Inbors will bo an an_ advancemont of the gonoral wealth and prospority of the city, quits indopondent of any iudividual profita of their own. But in this caso tho making of monoy was o mattor which was not thought of by tho activo workers. Thoy went into it, not since it soomod likely to bo a profitablo Investment, for it did not scom to bo anything of tho kind, but booauso it would bo somotbing croditable and ad- vantageous for Chicago. Bolf had no part fn i, They wore working for an ideal,—tho glory of the city in which theylived. And il /’f;i A ifl 4w Ll gt o [ to sponk of tho comparative fallure of tho ro- cont show at Vienns, and to deduce » moral thorofrom, s to tho incapacity of Germans to copo with Amorlcans in oxpositions of industry or in political contests. In fact, tharo s 4o much that could be done in this way, that It would take a column to merely catalogue it. Tho oxpositions of Beriptures which huve been mado by clergymon, aud numerous other axponitions, will lLove to go unnoticed. Any porson who is renlly anxions on these points can go to tho other papers for them. EALLY BHOWS IN OLICAGO. But, whilo it 19 unnccossary to ay anything concorning Assyrian, Egyptisn, or ovon Inttor- duy fairs and cxpositions, yot & moment moy bo devoted to the former exploits of Chicago in this lino—tbo first childish attompts in this line of business in which it is hereaftor to succeed so well. Theso early porformances are neithor creditable nor discreditablo. Thoy were proba~ bly s good a8 anything that could bo gotton up in their day, In 1855, tho Stato Fair was hold hero for tho first time, at Brighton. Tho Associn- RESTAU ® 6 6 GROUND PLAN OF INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION BUILDING. whilo othors did oxpoct to moke something out of this, and wore naturally stimulatad theroby, yot tho inciting nand animating impulse was tho thought * Chicago ought to have an Lxposition, and must not bo boaten in anything Ly Cincin- nati, Bt. Tonis, or any other city.” The mem- bors of tho Bonrd of Directors, and cspeelaliy of tho Exccutive and other Committees, gave not moroly thoir money in theshape of subsarip- tions, or, as somo thon thonght, of donations, but thoy gave what was infinitely moro valunble. their timo. One loft his hotel, another bis bank, auother bis atore, aud auother bhis office, todovoto to labor for the city's honor time which thoy could hsrdly afford to toko from their own businoss. Thoy gave up, also, hours which should have been given to recreation, and thus, from DMarch to Septomber, their tralned exporicnco and on- orgy hae beon at the sorvice of the Exposition. tion had been in existenco but for o fow years, and naturally soon found its way to this city with its prize pumpkius, its thon scanty show of ag- sicultural imploments, its livo stock, and ite | spocimens of the industry of farmors' dnughtors and wives, What shows preceded this, in the still earlior days of Chicago, would hardly be worth montioning, aven if tho momory of tho oldest inhnbitant could rocall thom. Thoro must hove been fairs and feativals, when the Firsl Presbyterinn and the First Baptist Churchos wera in their youth. Theymust have called in tho voung men to feast on strawberrics and ice- cream, and to purchase the cunuingly-wrought needle-work of the young women, The farmers of Caok County, not then os Gormanizod as at presont, must oceasionally have mustered from then distaut Cicoro, Hydo Park, and Luke, and had their show of garden-pauce and fruit, But theso meotings, hold in some building now long decayed, hinve mnothing in common with tho structure that adorns tho Lake Shore. Iu 1859, the Stato Fair was to bo held at Free- port. Doctor Kounicott, onco an agricultural MUBIG S TAND CHILAGO~ENG-CC GALLERY PLAN OF INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION BUILDING. Posldo tho entranco of the east wing of the Old Court-Honso,—& monument of ofticial folly and extravagnneo,—is o block of stone, on which aro cut tho nnmes of thoso Bupervisora who wero chiolly responsible for that wrock, whilo the sub- stantlal buildivg on the Lake Front nowhere boars tho name of the mon who built it, go rap- idly and 6o woll, with their own mouoy, and at the cost of so much porsonal sacrifico, Dut tho old Court-Housoe, with it carvan block, will soon bo ewept away, and the names of 1ts buildors consigned to forgetfulnoss, while, though this Exposition bullding may bo romoved, or mey orumblo to dust, yob succocding expositions, groater and botter than this one, Will keep alive tho memoryof the mon who, fighting against many obstacles, planned and executod tho fireb ono, lu 1873, PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS: TIHE ORDINARY PRELUDE, It would Le oboying precodent, and a time- Tionored custom, to devote, at this point, much spnca to the history of oxpositions in gonoral, boginning possibly with the World's Exposition of Awmuly, gatten up by Noah, and carried around by him for some timo in the Arl; o botter plan in somo 1oupcts thun the prosoat one, sinco it brought the Kxposition to the door of every dwoller on navigable waters, By resorting to tho Awerlean Cyclopedia, much Information conld bo obtalued touching the World's Fuir nenr London, and similar oxhibitions at Now York and Varls, togother with o briof account of tho imprisonment of Mr. Groolay, which grew out of tho former ong, It would also be propor zenlot, but who had, ns bo thought, boen un- Justly droppod from tho Bourd, organized a rival oxhibition, to bo held horo at neatly the samo time, and which he called THE UNITED ATATES FATR. It camo off in tho grove neartho Cbicago University, and was o groat success, notwith- standing tho rival at Froeport, It was s glant smong the oxbibitions of that day, and was 80 finaneially profitablo that it is o wonder it was not ropeuted, Slortly nfterward, tho Mo- ohnnies’ Instituto,—not, a8 now, & dofunct corpo- yation for whoso spolls tho Bchool Lund aud others are wraugling,—hold well-attondod and Intoresting exhibitions in Bmith & Nixon's Hall, ond in 1803, when W, W. Boyington was Prosi- dent, iold a vory successful one in tho old wig- wam on the corner of Market and Lake stroots, ‘Thenco came Boyingtou's strong and early in- terest in tho Exposition of 1873. In 1801, tho Btate Fair again came horo, with Jolm P, Roynolds as Seoretary. 1t was hold, as in 1861, in the mud at Brighton, und, owing lo tho bad wenthor, was vory near o faflure, In 1805 and 1866 it ogaln returned hero, and was hold at what was then a very romote poiut, tho corner of Btato and Thirty-necond streots, In October, 1803, the Northweutorn Sauitary Fair opouad In Bryun Hatl, and ocouplod the site now Deld by Tom Foloy, und in Juno, 1866, that of THE PANITARY COMMIHSION, hegan in o buildg in Douclorn ark, both of which wera well attended, profitablo, aud most olaborately deseribed, Bince that poriod, thiore Lavo hoon poultry shows in tho old Metropoli- tan Hall, with Long John Wentworth, from tho Summis, o8 an oxbibitor, whoro pouter pioons, gamocacks, and Muscovy drakos attracted the visitor, Dut these oxhibitions have ceased, and cock-fighting has bocomo o lost ark in this city. The Cook County Horticultural Saclety aleo tiad its exhibitions in Smith & Nixon's all, and the Btate Ilorticultural Soclety onco started to bo indopendent. and had a flower and fruit show hore, which resulted in financinl dienster. Lnet of all camo the Woolen Mauufacturors’ nnd Wool Growera' Exposltion, held in August of 1808, and which will bo roeferred to more fully horeafteor. THE YIRE OF 1871 o far a8 the most diligent inquiry and pro- foundest meditation ean make out, ono starting- point of the Exposition of 1873 was the fire of Octobor, 1871, whicl, as will appear hereafter, it was partly the original primary design of the Exposition, not exactly to colebrato, for the fire iu question is ouno uf thoso things which only & misguided fow take s pride in, sud which none, probably, want to sco repeated, but rather to commomorate tho anni- vorsary of that unfortunato ocenrronce, In- dosd, tho conncction Letweon the five and the Exposition is much plainor than that bo- RANT i} i oy ENTRANGE o® 006 twoon many parents and their childron. The firo, howevar, was prolific in its offapring, Wo owo to it extended fire-limits, hundreds of superb buildings, acres of mortgages, the Jubileo of July, tho Court-Tlouso plans, in- cluding * Burokn,” Mayor Modill, togother with tho lngor-beor Sunday excitement, ani the pros- ent deplorable condition of the Republican party in Chicago—nll mauncr of things, good, bad, and indifferont. The sufticient canso of nearly overything hero will, upon investigation, be found to ho that fire, which, owing to its thor- oughmess, comprehengiveness, and goneral com- pletencas in its lino, s called tho Great Fire, as John Wentworth is dietinguiehed from sl tho othor Johns in Chicago by boing called * Long John." And yet the dny after thi fire, suruamed the Great, tho peoplo of Chieago bad very little thought on the subject of oxpositions or any thing olke of & cheorful and instructivo nature. Thoir.ides was not so much to get peoplo into tho city as to urge thom to quit, sud pay briof visits to thoir rolatives in moro fortunate" citios, Nothing worth mentioning was thon uaid about the advantages of Chicngso as & water- ing-place, and we were not in a position to boast of our hotel fucilitios, The business men who have carried tho Exposition through were look- Ing ponsivoly at Bomo #moking hioaps of ruins, and wondering Low g0 littlo -could onco hnve beon o much. Any thoughts of an Exsmmliun thon would have beon of u_competitive show ot ruine; for those weta themolancholy timos whon Chicago and the Citics of the Plain were men- tioned in the wame breath, and when it was audgud likely that the wspidor would #pmher wob, and the owl rear hor young in tho dosorted hinlls of Lrado aud commerce, ‘Then it was that it was proposod that the city ho walled abont, and preserved intnck as a monument of wrath, while now, about tho only remuining momorisly are tho Court-Houso, "soon 1o be nwurz away, and the monument of ruined and fuithloss sufes, which is to go up on the Wost Bido Contyal Larlk, TILE JUMLEE IDEA, But aftor this brivr poriod of genoral dospond- ariey and downheurtodness, the work of recon striotion bogun, and was carried _ou more sue- cossfully thun in the Bouthern States, Money was borrowed from all quurters ; laborers poured in trom all dirsetions ; the winter monthh wore dovotad to the business of clonring away, and in tho fullowing spring the lenfless foress of dor- ricks roso, and aen hied to learn to dodge a now lorm of death. White this work was in its flist hout and forco, thoro was no timo to think of anythiug olwo,’ Al wiind, all onorgics, wora boiit to the singlo tagk of borrowing monoy and of spending it, of transmuting greenbucks iuto ik and stone, Nov had. m\\\\{, months elapsed beforo tho lust of tho oroukers bad totired to his holo, sl it bocame evident thut thoro need bo no fours ns to tho romurrection of tho city, hion {4 was that whilo mony kept on atu \vurl'«, whioh ls 5ot yot ended, wieulative sonls bogan o busy themsoives with something olxo, "I'iso tram of thought of thesw pooplo, sot down in black nnd whito, was somawhut as follows : Wo huve had grand fire, the admiration of tho world, and ruporlor to_anything of the kind, ovon to that of Rtome, which wan only n bea’hon afMuir after all, It bas oxcited genernl attention, and has givor our city & boltor advertikotuen! than dooponing tho eannl a dozen times, Wo have in o remarkably short poriod recov- orod to & groat extont rom that disnetor, and bave put up somo fine huildings, suporior to anything of the kind elsewhere, which the world will gladly soe. ‘Wo nlso rotain nninjured a flue selection of rulne, Including o Post-Ofico, one wing of & Conrt-Houso, oto., which the world will alsv like to oo, Now, sinco wo have recolved gront favors from outsidors, in the form of monoy, ol ciothos, ota,, for which wo aro natwrally grateful, and wonit, to moko somo return, lot, us invite tlo world to como and oo s on tho nuniversary doy of our calamnily, and cbaorve what wo linvo one, It is understood, of course, thut nll who come will pay thoir own fare, aud thoir bills whilo horo, and that they will thus promoto the cireu- Intioh of monoy i this commiunty. Any siight outlay that they may be pub to they will ho mora than cnm[:mmutcd for by reoing our new build- ingn and the remains of tho old vnes ; now Chica- 0 looking down upon old_Chicago ; the sturdy chnld in bright attire standing by tho sido of tho decrepit mother, ‘THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL EXPORITION BOHEME, But, whilo this idea of & commemorative cole- bration was taking shapo and color, that of an Industrial Expogition was slgo takon undor con- sideration, tho laltor being, If auything, tho oarlior of tho tro, #o far ot lonst né auy public aunouncoments wore made, Tho two projects, while originating _ecparatolv, were, as will ho soon, curlously biended together at a Iater day, #0 that it would bo diffienltto kay which held the most prominent part in the minds of sume. Uno rojoct way omotiounl ; tho other bad a morg usiness-lke and money-making character, aud consoquently won Lhe day ; but tiero is no doubt that thiy ide of o Jubileo and n commentoration id much to stir up tho popular focling at tho outsot, “Lato inJune, 1872,0. 8. Tough, J. Y, Bearmon, 1. 1. Sidway, J. Proston, Jobn B, Drake, George 8. Bowon, aud John Irving Pearce, the st threo Joading members of the present enterpriso, got tholr license for o corporation * to ostablish & Jormanont Inscitution in the way of an Induntrial Fair, which shiall embrace nil the fontures of the permancut snnual exhibitions ot St. Louks and Cincipnati, including such new oncy s will givo it nmoro cosmopolitan charactor than cither of thoso.” ‘b capital ktock was fixed at $50,000, which amount would be casily taken, it was thought. If neceseary, it would gradually bo enlargod to tho sum of one, or even two, hundred thousnnd doliars. The first Exposition under the auspices of the Association would, it way hoped, tako place in Heptomber or October, 1873, —na good guoss. WHAT '* THE TRIBUNE " BUGGESTED, Tue Uinyse of July 14 epoke of this plan in tho following enconragiug terms: Thio question of having an aunual Exposition or Falr in thly elty, for the exiuvition of the meelnnical, ugri- cultural, énd manufacturing productions of the Nontli- west, iy been long cousidered, Tho tlmo buw now comd for sotion, Au uet of incorporation hias been obe falued sud measures huvo bevn adopied to. placo puck an ustitution on ermannt baeds, - Tho lnportanco of this work is g0 ovident thut it re- quircs no argument to susiuin it, uch things Mave been gencral all over Eurape for centurivs, T evory graud central polnt there fs an uunyal uwen- blago of yroducors, Tho offect i groatly benglcial, noconly to producers, but to thio murket {huw selected, Tu thin country, tutso thiugs Luve been too loug neglected ; und, n thoso cases whero they have beei escuulished, 1o sucecsn hos bean wouderfal, In New York tho ahnual expoaition of tho Americun Tustituto lus been of geoat bonelit to the whole country, A somewhnt stmilur Institute, in Philadelphin, mninly for mechanicat productions, hus nationol reputation. In St Louis tloy have lind for several years nn snnual fulr which ds mote comprehcusive than in tho Lusl States, 1t embraces u indusiry, %9 31, from ull Northwent, and Soutuwest, tho_agrletitural products, tho invenitions, muchincry, ond eversthing (it yarks the progress of hunu skill sud lubor. To tint Lalr onuuully ropair 300,000 visitors, In Cincinuutl, tho origluul Mechisuics’ Tnstitate b grown futo a mm- mails aunual expoufiion, Louisviie, not jusousiblo to thio advaulages of tucse fairs, will_opon, in Septembor of this yeor, o grand exposition 'of urls, iu- Yentlons, munufactures, oud products, Yor thia purposs’ thero hove . been provided exiensivo grounds, oud en jmmeuns rick fire-proof Dullding, When tho citizen of Chicago roflects that Ciucinuiuti, Loubsville, und St, Louis, with thelr it o means Of uctons, uid_comparativoly small sections of country of which they are th contres, Huvo been ubiu to tuake these grand siceesses, 1t will gt once occur to hlm that, of uli places in the country, Chicugo i tho beat addapted for wucl: a tafr, The wiolo Wert fs tributary Wrechy to Cuieago. ¥o ls ot o villaga whieh does not regurd tho rul couneedon with Cuicugo 48 un essontinl road to fis market, Within o cir- cuit of 100 mlies of this city, fhere aro now bundreds of manufucturing towns eud cies of whicli Chieago Is, of necesvity, tho muarket. Ta and from this poiut ‘i directed thg nuvignton of the lokes, Mither from ol parts como tho rank roflwose, beariug (o preductions of n vast country pencizaicd fu every dircetion by countless branch roaé, Aroumd Chicaga, bnd _recog nuny millions of prud this polnt Js, thierefore, a matler uf novess dispensatio’ both to’ city wnd to eo Tebuikling of tho clly lad, of conr-e, cngroaul tho titue und attention of our people to the oxcliision of mauy otber things, It advisublo that, when we do opeu such un Exposition, i shall b dous ercditn: DIy, aud fn o permanent style. Wo shoul Liasty, jmproviced oxhilition, We should groutlds, wll_properly improved and provided, Bloly baye & proper buildiug, fire-proof, weathers proof, and of #tseif nffording o gusrantce ngmnat lose or fnjury by fire, or otherwlde, We do not want (o bice gin With a clreus tent or a barracls, = Wo st oxcludo every nppestanicd of temporiry ifldiug of grouud, aud’ muke Qut appearance, 83 wo can siford to do, fully ared in o overy way to watiafy' the count that tho Chicago Exposition ia to bo not only greator hau any other, bt L to be permanent, By nhnost universal conront and desire, Mr, George B, Bowen is regurded o8 the mout tiug yeron to tuke tho lead fu_this cuterprisc, "here are 1hose who, in thelr imputicnce, waut {o huve & “ shiow " withiu tho next few weckn or months, but it I8 o bu hoped that nothing of the kind will boat- templod thiy year, A catelipenny uliuir thie soason, instead of ndvaucing, would materinlly = in jute, thu fuluro suciess of tho Lxposition, Tt'fs not, lLowever, foo ewrly to take tho proper steps to organizo for & graud opening in 187, “Tucre must be money subscribed, snd w good deal of it3 o proper site suituble for the greatest amount of Tailwity fucllitios, nud not too remote from the contro of tho elty, Thoro must bo plims for proper bufld- ings, nud thowo uildings must Lo put up und Auikbed, To o all this requires tmo, and it will require active Jabor and cuterpriso fo buve this doue i v.. or to open in Septewber or October of 1875, In tu time, lot 1t bo considered that the Expositiou and {hereforo et it ba prosecuted wituout delay, TIIS PLAN ABANDONED, It was the intention of those goutlomen named a8 corporators to purchaso laud near the Juuc tion, whoro they would have botter ruilroad facil- itiod than could Le prooured at any ottior point, fucilitios which they specially necded, sinco it a tho inteution to includo the exbition of live stock on & grand scnle. Thoy intended to Livo permnuont buildings, and accommodutions of ull kluds for overghody, But tho limes wors unpropitious, __Nobody scomed to take nuy in- torest init. Monoy was not forthcoming, and the plun romalued i aboyauce, to e curried out, not improbavly, at some future duy. TIE UAAS" PARK BCHEME. A littlo later m tho year Richard Edwards got up & plan for an Exposition, which cuntempluted tue purchaso of & purtor the whols of Haus' Park, whick hus sinco boon turncd into & grave- ard. But the proposition scomed o littlo vis- onary ; tho location was too distant; none of tho persons to whom propositions wore mnde ;vum willing to pushi it; and it, too, proved fruit- GLTN THE GRAND WORLD'S JUSILCE. Thus ended the Industinl Expo-iion echome for tho tiue bomg,—uot dead, but sleoping, however, And now ithe plan for the commotmorative celobration comes forward, Who first concoived the itea, i8 unknown, but now 1stho time for the father of it to come forth, numask himsolf, and, standing no lonsor inthe shado, letus know who “X."or I'ro Bouo Publice” was, But it s moro likely that Wovornl persous Lit upon thus project at the aamo moiont, o i8 quite natural, and tust the above mvitation wonld lead to ns much quurrel- ing and wrangling ns tho most hotly coutested battlo ovor tf;u authorship of n pivee of poor pootry. But tho grand scliomo, tho one . hich ovortopped all othors, Iy ono sogreat that 1t Is questionuble whother oven Chieago would bo ablo to cwrry it out now. —This gontloman, whose namo i unfortunatoly unkuown, senl Tuw Triwuse, Sopt. 8L, 1872, tho folfowing oluborato programmo of foutivition, includiag also tho idon of au oxposition: Firat—That & weok bo ixed wpon, about the 0th of Octobor, 1674, which, by conunon convent of tho busi« Jicat counuuuity, shoull by o fostival weoks Second— That ol bustuess ehould bo muspended during tint week, Third=That 1 committes of thivteen bu selects ed to dsso 100,000 tekets for tho festival wewk, i cluding tho phuc entorusdnmonte, to i Aous, Citdes, town, umd organfzations which b w, art tho rellef of Caleugo, th—Tlat urraugeincms Lo nudo with oceatt steaniers, rallwagh, und ull dues of travel by woich fares should b commuted to the hoiders of tickets, FG—Tn0t rmilin arnigenons Lo mudo with i hotels und pluces of entortufuiuent i (ho elty, sieth—That tho ciue zens of Chlewgo genewly be requesied 1o open tholy doors w entertain us Uk giats was convend fur it to o, Secenth—Thutw serics O CLIBTAIIICHILE DO PVIdou, Aillil vig 10 L0 th (101, Eigntl—=Tbut the vit. talououts fidade b procession of to Toprcontative gests OF et WAton or organie zntfo, with tho colors thorvof, Auth—That a grd bauquit b given durig tho week, 0 the Feproseiia- tivo guest, fuu bultdiug solocted for the purpose, Tenth—Thit an oxbibition of the Iudustey and ree ources of (ho comiry triutary fo Ohicago Lo organtzed, to sbow the friends ons condii.on at the prosont, tlme, und the prozpocts for the fuire, Bleventh="Thit commiiteo of thiviecn citizony b appolnted 10 contrivo waga and mieaus to e Festivaln iy it the DISCOURAGING MEMARRS, Fascinating an this plan wos feom ita broadih naud gonaral comprohonstverers, 1t dld not meot with the approval of Cne 'I'nisue, ot leaut o far ns auy porformanco of tho kind ‘in 1872 was concorncd, It eeid ¢ “Tho pracessfon hits lll'rlpl‘lnlu, I out of tin the tracts, wh which ara to rebuilk tisoment of rebuflt C) , oven shovld It over b Tl i« ronm tho i enr lienee, to look upon tho_city whicl i no slgun of tho great destruction, ~When Chie S0 ehmil. havo Voo robnlty - and ler strects freed from (o derlcky and stono wid brickn smd ofhwer mnforiuls 3 when avery lot shall he reaccupled, and tho wwholo burnt district covored with new habitafions rn warchouses, then nn_fnvitation to the world to como il lookat tho Now Chicago mny possibly L consid- erad an uppropriato Jucldent of romo ofior holiday, hut not of an anniversary of the fire, Tho susponsfuit of Iabor for ono day, nuder_ thy sounclera pretext of celobrating that anufversary shoull he trautad 83 m outrogo wyion the commnity and an insult to popuiar intelligence, MAYOR MEDILL'S VIEWS. In thoro peaceful days beforo thers weso Commitice of Seventy, and whils Mr. Hesing was atill in good standing in tho Lopublican party, it was customary wlon sny ono proposed anything, which in tlio romotest dogren con- cerued tha city, to start off at onco, and ask tho opinion of the Mayor regarding it, and bis con- cluslons were very gonerally taken as finnl. So the question of holding a commemorative Jubilea in Octobor was snbmitted to him for his juds- ment, aud bo pronounced himsoll emphaticatly againet it; firatly, sinco tho cily was too poor's socondly, beenuso It was not ready, and thirdly, outsider wera pretty gonerally aware of there facts, and did not expoct anything of the kind from Cliieago. ‘Lho onergy of hiet eitizons wns strained to the utmest Lo hurry up the stored wlich they wore erecting, and “thay could nob turn aside from that neeowenry lnbor to blow thelr trumpets, and invito the world to come nad soo_thiom, Lho monoy which wonld bo required could hardly bo obtained, It waediflicult enougi to got what was pecded for othor purposes, niud the city could not thereforo afford to give & din- nor-party so soon, The streots wero s flled with rubbirh as to by almost impassable, Tl sidewallis wore not_reconstructed, aud while L amount of robuilding doue wne somethimg wonderful, yet tho show would have Leen fir bottor mext year. There wora too many bk spaces on the South Side, while tho North Di ion still had a close rosnblanco to o desort, Then, tao, there were no lhotels in ‘which to gholter tho _multitudes, Tn 1873, thero would bo an abundance, but in_1872, there would bo o searcity. No; tho peopla ui Chicago ed hetter atick to thelr work that year; build up and elear away, and thon, in 187, whon {ho Atroots wern elea, hotels in abundance, tho work of recon- wtruction fairly over, and_ovorvthing in running ordor, they could fnvite ali those whio lad ro- Tioved thom to como aud teo tho good work they had helped forwatd, “Thio matter-of-fact view of the case met with goneral favor, nud_thouo emotional peopla wha yearned for some dizplay on the 9th of October, oven i it wore morely & little procession, hiad to satisfy thompolves with the remoyal of the Board of "I'rado to its new buildiug, which was the only great colebration of tho dny. No mora strangers than usual camo_to the @iy, and there was no spocial ronson to complain of the insuflicioucy of the stroots. EARLY MOVEMENTS IN 1873, No steps had boen tukon towards holding this Jubiloe of 1872, and the matter wisely onded in talk, A city fillad with insccuro, rnd acension- ay falling, dorriclis, was certainly not the proper placo to which toinvito persons in whom one took any portieular intevest. Octobor, November, and December went by, aad nothing was sn'd nd to what should be doue in 1873. Still, while nothing was eaid, sovernl gentlemen had bean onrnostly thinking over tho matter, and, in Fob- ruary of this year, the subject was brought be- fora tho publio again, 1ot 18 1 commomorative Jubileo, but as an Exposition. THE WOOLEN MANUFACTURERS, The primo mover in the mutter was George . Bowen, one of the carporators in the plan of the preceding yoar, and who had for years beou dooply interosted m the matter, from biv sicuins convietion of the grent advautnses which wonld result to Chicago. In Jauunry of 1863, the Woolen Manufacturers’ Association of the North- wost wag_organized ot a_moeling held at thi ‘Promont Houso, and Mr. Bowen was chosen ity flvst Prosident, and has since romnined one of it most nctive memiicrs. Not o manufacturor himsolf, he wns an urdent friend of homo in- dustry and American munufactures, and henea his_specinl zonl in the matter, Tho sdvisability of holding an Exposition ek Chicogo that spring was favorably considared, and the Aswogintion ndjourncd till Februnry, when it was decided to hoid tho Lxposition in Augnst. Tt was formally opened on the morning of tho 4tly of Angust, in Ar. Scnmumon's buiki= ing, on Randolph siroot, opposito Donrborn Parle, and was really a_great succers, thaat- tendanco was_ excellont, nud fully 1,600 lots of toods woro eshibited, hesidos which' Ciot and Statford's looms and other muchines weroin oporation, ‘Pho following year the Exposition was held in Cincinnati, and then afterwards ul Indiaunpolis and St. Louly. Bat tho attendanco fell off, aid tho iuterest sluckened. ‘The meuufuciurers wanted to go to Chieago. Thoy liked tho vity, and it botfer suited tho convonionce of the greator numbor of thom, This fact was appa- rent to Mr, Bowen, aad lie wanted to ot them pormanontly located hero, and vexed Lin brain 28 to tho ways and means of bringing about this desirable result. Tho firo temporarily divorted his attontion frow this subject to moro important matters, and, while he always kept it in mind, yoi he wos unablo io do anything, But when tho time drew near for tho aunual meotg of tho Woolen men townrds the clowo of Febrnary of this year, ho felt the nocorsity for doing something, niid Jooked around for auxilinyios, THE PRESENT EXPOSITION, THE NONTUWESTERN MECHANIOAL ASSOCIATION. : As far back ns 1869, an orgauization bad been formed under the name of the Northwostern Mochanieal and Agricultural Association, baving in ultimate view tho holding of au Intor-Btato Fair, which would be a State Fair magnified. It was found, howover, that nothung could be done in the ci at that timo, sud the project was temporaily passed over. Couflicting real estate intorosty mado it their proy to a dogroo which soriously contributed to its abandonment. Quite a large amount of stock was subscribed for previous ta tho entranco of the Association into a conntora state. Milton 8, Patrick was its firat Prosident, When Mr. Patrick went to Californie, George W. Goge wns olocted his succeswor, Under Mr. Gago's admuistration tho concern full into do- cline. John B. Drake, David A. Gago, Goors 8. Bowen, and several athor oqually prowincit gontlomen wero nctivo in the old movonici:t. Mr. Bowon talled over tho wmattor with Homs of thio participants in theso old proccoding: Awong thom was James Nowlan,whoso nauio wiil appoar quite frequontly heronftor. Finully, ut M. Bowon's suggostion, Nowlan sontout u civou- lur to thie Cliongo manufacturers, with tho hape, on Bowou's part, that ho could gei thom and the woolon mon fo take sowo joint action, and that the Lwo combiniug foress would Lo strong onough to carry out hla pet projeoct of m Exposition, and of permanently ostablishing thot woulon oxhibitions in Chicago, That circului was 08 follows ¢ Oisoao, Fub, 21, 1873,—Thero will be 8 meetin, the munufucturers of Culugo, at the Gardner 1 on Monday evening, Feb, 24, to couslier the nutir o Tolding an Exposition In'our city this year, in cow tow with tho Exposition of the Wouka Manufactitr Assoclution, Munufucturers receiving this el Wil pleaso foply ut once, wid my suggestions they v liava in reforence to the importance of holding ui position s yesr, which will embraco ull clugees of i Quatry, The mesting will consider the ospedianc of chianging tho nusmo of the Arsoclution ¥o thit it way ombrace munufacturons of not only lextile fabrics m tho West and South, but of all elises of tho mann turing Intereats, - 'Tho quostion of having Wenter Soutliern textile prodiuctions reprosonted fn tho fu coming Contounul at bulladelphls ; ulso, whethor It practicablo or desirablo for manufucturers wie 4 sumples to the Vienna Exposition, 13y ardir of thy Gommitteo, Jastes NowLas, o TIE WERVONHE. Tho reaponso o this olentar was a vory poorly wttended weoting. 'Lho wenther waw wormy, and the fow who were provent folt disinelined o ko ony nction, They talled for half an it 48 to tho fnportance Cf i Ezpasition, sud the.t adjonrned, to meet the fofweving afternoo 2% tho West Sido Snormuu [lours, wheio tho ¢ tondanco was decldedly improved, Amoug present at this, really tho Nest, maoting wers ! ', Opano, David Ihudioy, Euos Liown, Geor, 8. Bowon, % G, Wolch, Jumes Nowlan, 3, M viman, Moo Kerr, and Mr, Wobb. Mr, It Orano noted as Chalvinan, Tho moeting Wik 1~ portod In Lne Tuinuse the nest morwing wa follows M, dames Nowlan stated e obleet of tho mo-tis g to ko't form somo plia el ISk