Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-24

CAPT. H. c. KANE, OF DE snow WILL not
 H. M. s. CALLIoPE. be 0 bad thing for this capital, for most of the visitors tarry for days or weeks.
 As to the exhibition I am under tho impression there has been some mis- management or rather lack of manage ment The whole staff of the University of Commerce and the immense number of special agents appointed for the exhi- bition devoted themselves to the erec- ton and organization of this show for months. or rather for years. Time, money, Intelligence, zeal-nothlng seemed to pe wanting. Yet. when the opening day came, the exhibition was not ready. Every paper and letter relating to this gigantic work was beyond doubt written, sent, received, noted, answered, indorsed and filed. but the object for which all this Ink and energy had been expended was not attained. The ceremony of opening had been worked out with equal minuteness on paper and with a similar result. Tho program broke down at every point where strain came. It was simple ceremony but 1t could not be carried through. The organizers of 1t allowed for everything but human na- ture. They dealt with human beings as if they were 30 many machines. The president, his stafi his ministers, the delegates of the senate and other great bodies of state were to walk in process sion through the exhibition or part of 1t. The public were to stand and look on. The public declined to do anything of the sort As soon as they saw that the | paper program was of paper only they tore 1t to pieces, broke up the procession, joined it and laughed in the mortified faces of the solemn ushers, whose silver | chains were the disregarded symbols of | public order.
 That shows one weak side of the ad- ministrative system. as applied to this single day of organized pageantry. Others were not less visible. It will be agreed that an exhibition without exhibitors | would hardly be greater success than Thier's republic without Republicans. But 80 great was the desire for symmetry In the official mind that on the opening day 1t was not found possible to distin- general public. The doors of bis own ex- hibition were closed in his face. The whole .ed-tape system was summed up all unconsciously in tho answer of q po- | liceman to an innocent exhibitor va1nly seeking admission to look after his own goods. "On n expose pas auiourd' hui. '" These gentlemen were not thought en- titled to any courtesy they came within a in property was left at the mercy of an OK cited multitude in no way concerned the officials responsible for regulating the details of the ceremony. Up to the time of opening exhibitors had passes. Then these passes ceased to be valid. In the case of American exhibitors, applica- tion had been made by the American | commission to the proper authorities, and 1t Is supposed that tickets for the open ing of the exhibition will be sent before the time comes to close it. Meantime, the feeling among exhibitors Ia that they have been treated with scant courtesy. They have suffered in their feelings, and suffered as they think, in their business interests. It is not to be supposed that the officials of the University of Com merce or of the exhibition itself meant them to suffer In either The fault Is not in the men 1t Is in the system they ad- minister. which does not permit tn em to turn to the right or left; which has no 6exibility, no power of adaptation; makes no allowance for circumstances; expects l circumstances to make allowance for 1t,