The Devil In The White City

This next section explained the dreams each of the architects had. Its called "Convocation" and this is one where they talk about Olmsted's ideas which iI think are great despite that they have very little time to dream. They only have two years. Hunt has gotten very sick but he still participates in the meetings. All the descriptions talk about people being in bad shape and that is stressful to hear about because it makes me think that the fair isn't going to be a sucess like they all think it'll be. I was wondering why the architects all feel pretty awkward to talk at the moment. The way they described the buildings they seem to be huge but I'm afraid they won't finish in time. I wish I was around to see them build it and complete it. Burhnam seemed to get pretty bossy about how he wants things instead of giving them the right to choose how thye want it. It bugged me that all the architects eemed to have this strange tension between them and its frustrating. The banker completely put them down telling them that their presentation is only a dream and that only half of what they are presenting in the meeteing is going to come true. Everybody is always putting them down there is no support what so ever. Olmsted is thinking of having a little more fun with the design s because he says that a fair is supposed to be fun and not just a whole bunch of buildings. Olmsted is afraid to share his ideas about the fair and I think his contribution to will help the fair so much. Everything seems like its going to be huge and I don't know how they are going to fit all those building and attractions into a one and half mile park. They have very little time which makes the story more rushed. I think that Olmsted is obsessed with getting boats involved with the fair. Thats the only bad thing about his ideas, they all involve getting a boat. All the descriptions of the landscape sound so beautiful. All the union workers attacked once they found out they found they were hiring people. They were thirsty for work. They hired a woman architect and they payed her nine thousand less than the men, which i thought was horrible. She's supposed to design the Woman's Building. There was this guy that Burhnam was going to hire but he was too scary looking that he told him he would think about it but then he had followed him back to Chicago. I thought that that was pretty creepy, but supposedly he was addicted to opium so that affected his appearance. I thought he shouldn't hire him because he might not have good work ethic because of his addiction. I am getting tired of those stupid critics they offer no support to the team of architects all they do is make everything worse why can't they just get a life! They said that the unions got stronger and i wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. They police department says that the fair in this particular area would be the cause of all the crime during the time of the fair. I think that Holmes is going to be the only one expecting the fair as an opportunity.