1) Why were the buildings so easily destroyed by bad weather? Wouldn't they have fixed natural disasters such as those by this time period?
Although natural disasters had happened before, never had they happened on such a scale, to where the fair planners would have needed to plan for them. The same is true of the buildings in San Francisco before the earthquake in 1906; They could not have possibly made the buildings to withstand it if it had never happened before.
2) Why did they house workers in expensive living conditions and give them food? When the head of the fair's creations could have just taken those luxuries away or lowered the pay of the workers.
This is how they kept the workers around. Burnham only turned to less hospitable methods of housing and treatment when the construction of the fair entered a critical time crunch, and he had to spur them to work faster. He wouldn't be cruel to the workers on purpose. He likes and respects them, and appreciates what they are doing for the fair.
3) Why is Ferris's wheel rejected the first two times but finally accepted the last? Even though the concept was exactly the same.
Despite the concept being the same, Ferris had elaborated more on the design and refined it by the third go-around (haha ferris wheel puns) so that it was a matter of construction rather than planning. Not only that, but Sol Bloom was the only guy crazy enough to give the wheel a space in the fair.
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