THE WORLD FAIR CHICAGO CELEBRATES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7

THE WORLD FAIR

CHICAGO CELEBRATES

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS

GIANT EXHIBITION

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CHICAGO, May 27. The Postmaster-General (Mr. James Farley), acting for President Koosevelt, who is detained at Washington due to the press of official business, today officially opened the Chicago World's Fair, "Ceatury of Progress Exposition," commemorating 100 years of the city's history. l Elaborate buildings have been built on several hundred acres of reclaimed land by Lake Michigan at an expenditure of about 37,000,000 dollars. In addition to the exhibits showing the commercial and industrial growth of the city, there are buildings representing practically every foreign nation. The Chicago World Fair, commemorating a century of progress, has been financed by the issue of 5 dollar certificates of membership of the World's Fair Legion, membership fees at 1000 dollars each and a 10,000,000 dollar issue of gold bonds secured against the gato receipts and against guarantees given by corporations and wealthy individuals. By June of last year the fair association had raised over 7,000,000 dollars by this means. Contracts were let which obliged the concessionaries to spend 20,000,000 dollars, and the Government appropriated 1,000,000 for its exhibit. Main buildings in the fair include the Administration Building, which is built in modernist style, and has Scienco and Industry, two herculean figures in aluminium, dominating its entrance, a littlo log fortress reproducing Old Fort Dearborn, the forerunner of the modern city of Chicago, the Hall of Science, built in a massive U, the arms of which reach down to the lagooil on which the exhibition stands and embrace a series of terraces, a Lincoln group of buildings symbolising the life of the great American, a vast amusement park known as tho Midway, a great electrical group of buildings with Kadio Hall, Communication Hall, and a reproduction of tho gardens of the. Villa D'Este at Borne, the Golden Temple of Jehol, which has been bnilt under the supervision of Dr. Sven Hcdin, an agricultural building, dairy building, travel and transport building, general exhibits bunding, Federal and States buildings, as well as many structures belonging to giant corporations in the automobile industry, oil, tires, and the mail-order business. Also there are the home and industrial arts building, and social science erection. There is a museum of Science and Industry, and a Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, as well as the famous. Soldiers' Field Stadium, which is related to the exhibition, and in which many events will be held. Admiral Byrd's Antarctic ship the City of New York rides on the lake, filled with curios. The famous artist Joseph Urban, -was appointed art director, and the buildings, erected on modernist lines, are a riot of colour.