The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-05-12
AMERICAS BIG SHOW.
The Final Strokes Of Preparation-Ar-
range ments for the Convenience and
Comfort Of Visitors.

ing the simple truth, that nj no former
worlds fair was there any thing like the
provision for the comfort and eonve-
nience of visitors which is 10 be made at
the Centennial Exhibition, one need not
be understood as promising immunity
from annoyance. Far from il. Those
who go to the Big Show will meet
crowd, and must be prepared for yicis-
STUDIES. But il is right 10 credit the
management with the original and APP
parently excellent devices they have
adopted to reduce friction and discom-
fort below the minimum.
/. The most prominent and novel
feature is the Department of Public
Comfort, of which Mr. NJ. Kasson is the
head. This department originated with
the Committee on Concessions, and is
intended 10 meet several wants It,
main Office will be nearly opposite the
entrance on Belmont Avenue. Branch
stations will be established AZ the prin-
cipal entrances of all the Exhibition
buildings and connected with each other
and with headquarters by telegraph.
The main Office will be commodious.
IL will include free reading room, IA
cilitieS for writing and correspondence
/ with an Office where letters can be sent
and delivered), lavatories and closets,
boot-blacking and clothes. brushing
room and several other conveniences
On the flat roof a promenade and lOung-
mg-place will be laid out under an avn
ing. where visitors can have "A fine view,
order simple refreshments and cool
themselves.
This department will undertake the
care OF eloaks, shawls, umbrellas and
other hindrances brought by visitors.
For example. when man arrives at
the show, with light overcoat or an
umbrella which he doesn't want To be
bothered with on his long tour through
the Exhibition, he delivers it, receives
= check for il, designates any station in
the Exhibition grounds at which he
wants 10 find it, and, presto! il is trans
ported there by a sprite in uniform and
delivered TO him AT any hour.
The health and facilities throughout
the grounds and buildings are in charge
of the department, and are, with eN-
ceptional instances, 10 be entirely free
from charge. Although they are vast
ly more extensive than those at Paris
and Vienna (where. indeed, an almost
brutal Indifference was shown by the
authorities 10 the public necessity in
this respecD. they are not. as at present
devised, nearly commensurate with the
expected attendance at the show.
,. Another enterprise which concerns
the comfort of visitors, especially Of la
dies. is that of the Centennial Rolling
Chair Company According To the lat
est estimate the aisles Of the principal
exhibition buildings will make up
walk 40 miles long, which. with the de-
lays for the examination of articles.
would occupy the most eager pedestrian
five or six DAYS The device of rolling
chairs, moderately adopted abroad,
will be tried here extensively. The
company have already ordered So
chairs, which will be elevated on wheel
rs noiseless a possible, and will be
broad enough for one person or two
children. Chairmen in uniform, in
formed of the chief places Of interest,
are to be in service, and chairs may be
engaged by note cor telegraph, at any
hour, at any entrance to any one Of the
buildings. One who comes with lady,
his wife or his children, may engage "A
chair and roll it himself il he likes As
at present understood the charge will
be 30 or 40 cents an hour.
3. The telegraph and messenger IA
cilities promise 10 be thorough. The
wires Of the American District Tele-
graph Company will spread themselves
in every direction through the buildings
and grounds, so that there will be 81
miles Of telegraph wire. Headquarters
will be established near the entrance To
the main building, and stationed at vari-
Gus convenient points. Exhibitors and
visitors will thus, by prearrangement.
be enabled To communicate when apart
from each other, at all times, or to send
dispatches from all parts of the Exhib-
ition TO any point in the country and
receive answers. Uniformed guides .
and interpreters, speaking collectively 4
most Of the living languages, and who
are now being Systematically educated
in the location and characteristic fea- 4
lures of the departments Of the Big .
Show, will take charge of visitors who 4
may stand in need, or think they are in .
need, of such escort. Swarms Of the .
bright messenger-boys, with whose \
promptitude the people Of New York,
Philadelphia. Chicago, Boston and Buff H
falo are familiar, will be ready at hail. 1
BY an ingenious contrivance Of Mr.. \
w. ;. Philips, Superintendent Of the .
Telegraph, every one of the 80 turn 4
stiles set at the several entrances Of the I
grounds will be connected by wire with .
a dial in the main office Of the Centen- \
NAL Commission. When person en-
tiers through turnstile he is instantane-
ously registered on this dial. At any
instant OF the day, therefore, ii will be \
possible TO know, by CHANGING at the I
dial, the exact number of people who \
haNn rnssnd tho ,rnfna nnI arc within, L