Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-15
THE sMALL.

The ATTENDANCE SMALL.
As to the attendance, it is as yet very
small, many Of those who came from
the vicinage having gone back after
the opening to return later on. But
it is well for the enterprise that there
is at the outset no great, crushing
crowd, for the first corners would then
have gone away dissatisfied at the in
convenience and discomfort they
would necessarily have sustained, and
thus deter others from coming. At.
lanta needed a little practice in her
experiment of huge entertainment.
This she has now had, and her people
will be able to give more substantial
comfort to $1,000 visitors three weeks
hence than to half that number on
the opening day.
INCONVENIENCE TO EXHIBITORS.
Although the feeling is one of grow
ing confidence and the number OF the
disgruntled is much smaller than at
first, yet there can be no question but
that the delays in the completion Of
the annexes are causing no little in
convenience to many exhibitors, who
are being compelled-and some Of
them with numbers Of employes--to
wait here at expense, with storage ia
c%ilities none of the best, until room is
provided for their displays. However,
unusual patience is being exercised by
these walters, who realize the fact
that no human wisdom could, under
the circumstances, have foreseen the
immense rush Of applications for space
in time to have all these extra build
ings in readiness at the start, for who
would have thought that 1867 q get
these figures from the official register)
separate grants of space would be
wanted at any fair OF less importance
than one resulting from the combined
action Of the nations of the civilized
world? Yet this is the true number
Of exhibits now in place and in pre-
paration.
YANKEE ANSWER.
This morning, finding a New Eng
lander adjoining his space with moth
ing but his own m~uscularly- Christian
person, l asked him why he was no
busy preparing his paraphernalia. II,
only answered by asking another Ques
!, ton DO you know the Englisl
|, recipe for cooking a hare2 FRS
catch the hare" He is but on
| among many who, on the other hand
{ instead Of waiting for space have 90
space waiting for them, many ship
ments, either through accident, negli
gence or otherwise, being very late il
arriving.
THE CHARACTER OF THE DISPLAY
Nothing to be e impresses tn
looker.on so f~ayorably as the eharac
ter of the displays. There is n
Cheap John" work here in any dc
partment. Everything is the very be,
z America may as well say III
world-produces iu its particular linz
/ There are twenty concerns her
" whom this special display has eos
U $4,000 each half as many mere
y will cost from $20, 600 to $25, 00O.whil
9 one, | am told, will have to foot
u cotton exposition bill of S35,O0I
There is nowhere a disposition
: even among the smallest exhibor
to save money at the expense of meri
all having come with the idea of eJ
tering into the keenest eompetitiC
u with the very best of their rival
y expecting justice to be dealt to eaC
le under the close scrutiny Of all Il
worlds intelligent criticism. Sa
U the representative Of perhaps Il
~ leading shoe mandatory Of all Ne
~ England: What we showed at d
e Centennial was good, we had the be
q in our line at Paris, but our Allan
u display will far exceed them both
D. Apropos ~ofcOstly and dignifiedt thin
at exhibitions, it may be mention,
q that those ordinary marplots, sid
IS shows, with hand-Organ attachment
e will there be conspicuous only
q their absence. But the irrepressib
q Flying Dutchman has managed
d slip in somehow suppose he can
G disguised as a female from his callir
himself in these parts la Ca
rousel."
: WORK ON TIE BUILDINGS.
I. There are $50 carpenters at wor
q this morning on the annexes, besid.
. others on buildings being constructs
/ by exhibitors in different parts OF II
park for their own exclusive ~,
! Many of these will be q show With
themselves.