Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — WRECKAGE OF THE FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WRECKAGE OF THE FAIR.

Sad Scene* in Jackson Park Exhibit* Being Removed. Officials of the Exposition have the blues. It is hard to give up the muchloved and universally admired White City. Thursday the exhibits were being carried >ut fast. The Midway was closed. Sixteen thousand people visited the grounds, Wednesday. The Columbus caravals sailed jut into the lake, Wednesday, and cast mchor off Van Buren street. On Saturlay they will proceed up the lakes to Erie, Pa., where they will remain until spring. In May they will be taken to Washington. The matchless Court of Honor at the World’s Fair, with its wealth of sculptureind brilliant electric effects, is to be repro-

luced in South Kensington, London, and with it a theater is to be built where “America,” the theatrical sensation of the Exposition season, will be given. A company of rich Englishmen who visited the Fair furnishes money for the enterprise. They have called to their assistance several gentlemen formerly in high positions with the Exposition. The projectors of this amusement venture expect to have all their buildings up and be ready for business on May 1,1894. The stockholders of the Fair who have holdings representing *5,000,000, upon which they scarcely expected to realize anything, will be paid 50 cents on the dollar. Most of them, however, are expected to be generous, and contribute their stock to the Columbian Museum. It is believed that *1,500,000 of this stock wilf be so donated, and this, with the onemillion dollar gift to the museum by Marshall. Field, the *100,009 by George M. Pullman, and between *soo,oooand *1,000,-. 000 more that is expected from others,will give the museum a working capital of over *3,C00,C00. Marshall Field, who made the great aonation. is the merchant prince of Chicago, where he has been in business since 1860. His success has been remarkable, and he is now worth many millions. He Is a very public spirited citizen, and has done much for charity, besides being known as a just and generous employer, ■ '

MARSHAL FIELD.