Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — LOOKS LIKE A FROST. [ARTICLE]

LOOKS LIKE A FROST.

The Chicago Fall Festival May Be Abandoned. A Chicago correspondent declares that it is thought by those on the inside of the fall festival management that the entire affair will have to bo abandoned. Whether the labor trouble will prevent the Federal corner stone exercises on Chicago day is problematical. The corner stone committee proposes to be able to arrange matters so the Chicago day exercises will be carried out on the grand scale designed, and it is thought this can be done. But whether the corner stone exercises’ come off or not it is generally admitted that the fall festival is dead. The labor interests made the demand that Mr. Truax withdraw as the head of the celebration. His withdrawal and the cutting of a new stone by union labor are the conditions which the unions made to the discontinuance of their opposition to the festival, They declared that if Mr. Truax would resign aud a new coiner stone was cut and placed by union labor, they would hold in abeyance their fight on Contractor Peirce ns to future stone work on the Government building until after the corner stone aud festival celebrations are concluded.