Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-16
THRONGS AT THE,EXpOSITION
A Daily Average of $4,000 for the
First wesk.e
REGULATING THE I" ROBBERS
Rapacious Rcstauratcdrs Limited
as to Price-Two California Girls
Create Sensation in the
Operatic Line.


| Although by no means complete, never
before has an exposition proved SO
| great success. On Sunday the 18th OF
May the number of visitors was 1907
who paid to enter, and there were
81, ,2S3 gratuitous admissions, making o
total of 2ls, ,227, without counting the
numerous attendants. On the opening
day there had been 1888 ,ss4 tickets col
lected at the door, but this represented
only 1l2,24 paying visitors. During
the week after The opening day the pay
ing admissions have been about $4,000
per day; the total for the first five DAYS
During the first ten days of the univer-
sal exhibition of 1878 there were 2S6. .2ll
entrances, so that In the first five days
of the present exhibition there has
be ap 24T, ,i7S more visitors than at the
asst exhibition in its first ten days.
The total number of one franc admis-
sion tickets gathered in by the eXhibi-
tiou during the first week counting
Sun day ana the opening day amounted
to 1856 ,562; aud If to this we add
the gratuitous entrances and
the alton ndants, IT is safe to con-
clude that a million people have
bsen to the exhibition during the first
week. AT first the culinary and sani-
tary arrangements were quite INSULT
cient to meet the necessities of such q
crowd. On the opening day after feed
ing about one hundred thousand people
the restaurants ran short of provisions
and small bit of bread brought easily
two francs. The administration have
now regulated matters so that no eXtor-
tion can be practiced, since the price Of
each kind must be plainly printed, and
only a fixed amountcan be charged, and
no one need go ahungercd. Seventeen
thousand extra seats have been pro-
vided which can be hired at 10 centimes
each, and there are extra benches free
for 5000 persons.
TWO CALIFORNIA GIRLS MAKE A SEN
sATION.
To be invited to q matinee musicale
by Madame LAGRANGE is an honor much
sought after. AS dramatic soprano
she has never been eqpalled and tn ere
are those yet living, who remem-
ber the tremendous hit she
mado in the Prophet" To be
her pupil is pretty sure passport to
future greatness. Just nov she is
greatly iutercsteo in d youn g lady from
Los Angeles. who has also been heard
in Omaha. Miss Fuller has IL voice of
phenomenal strength and sweetness,
and critics predict that her debut in The
not distant future, will give he an
unique position us the grca test dramatic
soprano of her day. She has II com
manding presence and admirable
health. She goes to the west this sum
mer to give few concerts, Gna / am
-, ,k.x. ,i..N . H..
same impression among her country
men as she has made in Europe.
Miss Sunderson, in Massenet's new
opera Of Esclarmonde, has created
u furore. She has pure soprano,
highly cultivated with II wonderful
range. Not for years has Paris been SO
occupied with any debutunte, and San
Francisco may well be proud of her.
Miss Benjamin, of Ohio, is all ready
for her forthcoming debut in Italy, and
her rich, sympathetic contralto is sure
to command attention. [ predict for
these three American girls a very ex-
ceptional future. They have earned
it too. The life of IL student is not one
of roses. The road to success is not
without it's rough stones and its slough
of despond. 1t takes patience-an
abundance OF it-and money in plenty.
Only the other day an American girl
in Berlin, who was studying the piano,
found herself paralyzed in the left
hand, and became hopelessly insane.
Her means of livelihood were taken
away without warming.
KAMPONG, A VILLAGE OF JAVA.
The Netherlands. desirous of exhibit
ing practical view of the manners
and customs Of the inhabitants OF Java,
| as well as to show forth the numerous
industries of the island, have built a
village on the Esplanade des In
valides, containing population
of sixty men and twenty women.
indispensable of this Indian Archi-
pelago, is bambon, and in Kampong
one sees the many ways IN which it is
| used. The women of Djoka, make out
of it the Batik, which goes to fashion
the wearing apparel of the people.
Others are making hats out of rice
straw. The musicians form with il the
gamelang, which is II series Of instru-
ments combined in one, concert which
has the merit of being unique at all
events. Then there are the representa-
tions OF the Waiang, in which, with
wonderful dexterity, marionnettes are
made to represent the ancient legends
and the prowers of their heros. The
dancing girls from Diogiakarta are
extremely good. In little bambon
cottage, the Kokki, are engaged in
cooking rice, to which many, even
thousands, of spectators are attracted.
Kampong is one of the most interesting
hits of the exposition.
THE EIFFEL TOWER.
The Eiffel tower-c has mt last been
thrown open to thetpublic. Thirty
six stories up, 70 that is on
the second platform, the Figaro has
opened its publishing and printing
office, with 735 steps tomount, one must
pity the poor devils and reporters. To
build this tower 7,000,0 600 holes were
pierced and 2,500,000 iriyets used. In
tracings the error Of the tenth of II
millimetre in selecting the spot to
pierce for the introducing of Il rivet was
a most serious matter. 1t has also been
calculated that, whereas, M. Eiffel him
self, when sitting in his armchair be-
fore his desk, exercised pressure on
the floor of equal to, four kilogrammes
per square centimetre, the tower,
though it is 29S.30 metres taller than M.
Eiffel, weighs uponj the earth only
two kilogrammes per square centimetre.
On the first platform Is the brassene and
Restaurant Brebant, where fatigue is
banished by the comforting attentions
of p0maIv madame NJ oil N pafions m hort