The construction for the World's Fair continued but they realized that if they were going to build a building that was designed to be 500 feet taller than the Eiffel tower then they wouldn't make the deadline and they would go over their budget. Also many workers were cut off besides the additional cuts they had to make in costs. As usual Holmes was also in this pursuit for money so he went to Dwight, IL to find the cure of alcoholism in order to cure Pitezel and to recreate it to then resell it. Pitezel met Emeline and Holmes wrote to her to offer her a job. She was obsessed with him and was going to move into his apartment building. Olmsted was putting 300% of what he had in him in order to work on the construction but it was still behind schedule. Burnham also was pushing the pace to speed up construction in order to make the dedication day deadline by making the workers double their shift at night. Since the pace was so fast and they kept having set backs they are leaving small flaws behind. Pittsburg the young engineer proposed the idea to build an Eiffel like structure and that he had raised enough money to fund it and got it approved. On the other hand Holmes was still getting himself into suspicious activities as he proposed to marry but her family continued to question it. She left her family in Indiana to come live with Holmes which from then on she had disappeared. Continuing his progress on his financial scale Holmes now owned a portion of a company that produced machines for duplicating documents, he had also established a alcohol-treatment company. He had progressed and had carefully disposed Emeline's body. With all of the business he needed help to administer such as a secretary. He hired Minnie R. Williams in March, just like all other women who worked for him she too fell in love with him. He promised her many things in exchange for her land that would gain him the biggest profit. The World's Fair date came closer and everyone in Chicago was preparing for it. In the city something else also increased, the deaths. There had been multiple deaths of workers from different reasons while working on the World's Fair. After carpenters began going on strike, Burnham in fear of them destroying the fair compromised with them. After they got back to work it began raining everyday.
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" As the buildings rose, the architects spotted flaws in their design but found the forward crush of work so overwhelming, it threatened to leave the flaws locked on stone.(Larson 176)"
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From this quote I am inferring that the structure itself is going to cause huge problems at the World's Fair. When I read this quote I only thought about further flaws being left behind and just building up. If they do not solve them it is going to create dangerous circumstances for all of the visitors.
interesting how both men are looking for better designs, for good and for evil
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