Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — The celebrated Minneapolis bind [ARTICLE]

The celebrated Minneapolis bind

ers are now sold by N. Warner & Sons. We are in receipt of samples of spring and summer clothing from the Globe Tailoring* Co. Guarantee perfect satisfaction at Fendigs Fair The rain of last Saturday night and Sunday morning was the biggest rain storm for more than a year, in this locality. It began early Saturday evening and rained at intervals all night. Some of the time it poured down in a deluge, while a few dashes of hail added variety to the storm. There was also plenty of thunder and lightning, there being almost a constant glow of the latter, the whole night long. Some persons Who had vessels standing out report that the rainfall was about 5 or 6 inches. There was none too much hoWever. The storm did some damage in beating down wheat and oats, but not n< arlj so much as was feared*

Present Aspect of Jackson Park. It is with more of sadness than pleasure that most people view the world’s fair grounds, at Chicago, now days. With the exception of our own Indiana State building, and that of Wisconsin, all the state buildings have been torn away. All that is now left of the once colossal California and Illinois state buildings is a heap of plaster, all of the other material having been taken away. Some money has been made by the persons who have bought the buildings. The Oregon building, the first story of which , as will be remembered, was made of redwood logs 120 feet long on the sides, was sold for SBOOO. The parties who bought it have made a profit of SBOOO by selling the logs and other material in its construction. - - The German government has donated to the city of Chicago the magnificent structure on the lake shore used as German headquarters during the fair. Nearly all of the large exhibit buildings are still intact, although all of them look battered and bruised, and are fast falling to ruins. The Women’s building is entirely gone; also the fisheries building. The otners have all been sold, but the work of removing them has not commenced. Midway Plaisance has entirely disappeared. Scarcely a vestige of the once popular resort remains. This nation owes a debt of gratitude to Marshall Field, which it can hardly repay, for the magnificent gift of a million dollars to establish the Columbian Museum. In no other way could the memories of the great fair have been recalled and perpetuated as well as by collecting from the various exhibits the things of greatest interests and placing them in the gallery of fine arts, os has been done. Every nation represented at the Exposition has contributed articles of interest to the “Field Columbian Museum.” In fact, nearly every exhibit excepting merchandise, and works of art, which attracted the great mass of visitors have been placed in the museum. From the Transportation Building have been taken the old locomotives and first appliances for the use of steam and motive power; the first passenger coach, and many other curiosities showing the crude beginning of the world’s developement in methods of transportation. The department of ethnology, ilustrating the peculiarities which characterize the different races of mankind, their customs, manners and habits, is especially interesting. Indeed, what may be seen now at Jackson Park is almost as interesting as the original show itself, and thousands of people avail themselves of the privileges afforded every week. The Park Commissioners are finishii g the Lake shore drive, extending along the lake front from the southern extremity of the park to a point north, intersecting one of the boulevards. When completed it will be one of the finest drives in the world. It is expected that the park will be restored by the first of next May, but it can not be changed so thoroughly that the visitor who saw it when the nations of the earth were represented there in 1893 will not be able to recognize many points whicn drew forth their admiration then The court of honor will be gone, but the beautiful lagoon,. at the head of which stood the Palace of Fine Arts, and now used as the Columbian Museum, will be there, with its shady walks and drives; and many other monuments to the memory of things and events that will thrill the soul of the lover of nature and art.