Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17

one hundredth yeu Of the Yankee Re.
public We can take bat .
GLANCE
at it, for time on that day was precious,
and if there had been an abundance of
leisure to particularize on one thing,
the crowd was so great and rushing in
its inclination that one would have been
elbowed too much to look minutely.
Can it be, that within the triangular
shaped enclosure Of two hundred and
thirty acres, dotted over by some
enc hundred and eighty buildings Of all
shapes and sizes. the whole of the civil
lized world Is exhibiting its present
stage Of progress in mechanics arts, fine
arts, and all things tina: relate TO the COM
fort, wealth, and general well-being Of
the people generally. Such is the case.
The world in miniature lies in your
presence when you stand on Georges
Hill, all enclosed within 236 acres.
1t was a place on which We could
have spent the day, looking and listen
ing; but We hurried down, around to
the main entrance, where troups of
men ard boys we're mingIing with the
crowd, shouting, "Here's your Fifty
cent note for sixty cents. You must
have Fifty cent note to get into the
grounds. Two twenty-five cent notes
won't let you in, and they make no
change at the gates" 1t was true, as
the 10y. said, people who sought ad-
mission bad to have an even half dol
lar paper or silver piece to get in. The
management would not take two twenty
five cent pieces or make change. Loud,
long and frequent were the sayings
against the management for such course
of action, and louder and longer and
more frequent was the condemnation of
the management for allowing q crowd
of fellows to offer publicly to shave the
people at the rate of 20 per cent for
changing their money so that they could
get into the enclosure. We had been
informed of the fifty cent rule Of ad-
mission, and were prepared with Fifty
cent note, which left us inside the place
of civilized wonders, without trouble.
There we're two powerful restraints on
an individual within the enclosure to
keep him from going where he pleased ::
6rs,, the crowd, and second, the closed
buildings, the opening of which only
awaited the conclusion of the opening
ceremony that was going on in front of
Memorial Hall. Here again the kind
tender Of the Board of Finance might
have a'ailed Us IN getting into the
closed buildings, but We desired to be
outside till the throng went in, and
then pass through on its rushing cur
rent. We did not raunter about the
grounds, but we're pushed around by
the crowd till we found ourseif in front
of handsome restaurant, and entered
it. There was popularity about it
that did not seem American. How
ever, we took a seat at table, aud
soon a man came to US, dressed in what
certain people call society clothes, in a
a swallow-tail coat, white neck tie, &C.,
and pefore he addressed US we did not
feel quite certain that be was not q
French dancing master. lie said, "Vot
you have do eat .'' The bill of fare
being in French, we could not read 1t,
and answered, "What have you 2" ave
gets you vot you won't, if you vait."
We told the polite man, for we were
much pleased with him, or rather with
his ways, that We could not wait, but
were tired enough to sleep II we had a
lounge, when he chorussed in, ave got
no lounge, but We got someting do eat."
We both understood the situation BY
and By, and be brought us piece of
veal, a potato, done in peculiar way,
bread and butter, and coffee. The po-
tato vas tough, the veal was done bet
ter than any that We ever ate before,
and the coffee wac only such as a
Frenchman can make, and the bread
and butter was cf the best Pennsylva-
MIA quality. When the repast was par
taken of, We asked for the bill. Our
waiter took out lead pencil and fig /
ured it out On the white table CLOTH
that was close enough in its texture to
make fguring on it practicable-on a
space as large as mans hand, ejscu-
lating as be dId it, thus, " Won veal,
Won botato, Won bread and buttah, Won
coffee, no vine-S0 cents.
An American, who, perhaps, halls
from New England, saw our waiter fig
uring on the table cloth, and was SO
struck with it that he shouted to q COM
panion, "Look. Look Heavens, how
that fellow Is See now
he writes on the table cover, These
marks will never wash out" The
Frenchman had manners enough to not
mind the observation of the American.
A number of States have buildings
there. Mississippi has building near
the foot of Georges Hill, within the
enclosure, of course, that attracts, per-
haps, more attention for people that
walk that way than any other of the
State buildings. 1t is built of bark
brought from the woods of that State,
in pleasant style of architecture. The
inside is lined with pine boards also
from the woods of Mississippi. The
cornice, windows snd doors we're fes-
tooned with Southern moss but every
third msn who came along was booI
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