Chicago Herald
May 1/ 93
TWO CENTS.
LOVING CUP QUAFFED.
MR. BURNHAM'S JOLLY BREAKFAST.
Those Whose Deft Wits and Hands Created
Them Turn Over the Fair Buildings to
Those Who Control - They Smoke
Pipes and Hear Thomas' Music.
At a breakfast given in music hall
yesterday morning Director of Works (World's Fair)
Burnham, representing the designers and
artists of the fair, delivered the great
buildings at Jackson part to their owners,
the directors of the exposition.
The ceremony brought together, on the
eve of the Inauguration, the men who
created and those who control the fair.
America's most eminent artists were
there. Chicago business men, who juggle
with millions, sat at table with them,
and after the breakfast and wine artist
and millionaire lighted corncob pipes and
blew clouds of smoke across the frosted
linen. The affair was refreshingly informal.
The guests sat about the boards
without removing their hats or overcoats.
Some of them wore newly ironed tiles,
others came in the kind of hats affected
by politicians in southern Illinois, while
still others tramped through the rain in
jaunty yachting caps.
Buffalo Bill, the only man there who
was neither artist nor official of the fair,
sat under a white sombrero of enormous
size and told Banker Odell and Architect
Cobb all about his wild life on the plains.
Once he raise the wide sombrero. It was
when the massive loving cup given to Mr.
Burnham by New York artists was passed
to th eold scout by Mr. Odell. Bill dropped
his hat on the floor and shook his long
locks defiantly as he rose to salute Mr.
Burnham. He received an ovation as he
raised the cup to his lips that was only
equaled by the enthusiasm that greeted
Frederick L. Olmsted, the landscape gardener,
who had a seat at Mr. Burnham's right.
