Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-05
NO HALE PRICE.
1t WIN Cost Round Half Dollar to Get
Into the Fair.
Especial Correspondence. !


CHICAGO, Aug. lS.-It will cost a genu-
ine bright, silver half dollar to get within
the gates of the Worlds fair grounds in
1893. Nor will it be any good for the
"koniakers" to attempt to pile up a stock
Of spurious coins for the event, for the
men who will take in the cash and hand
The tickets out through the apertures of
their little booths will be selected with es-
pecial regard to their ability to pounce
upon counterfeit, not only by it's weight
or its feeling, but by the looks of it yard
off. Nor, again, will it be any use for
Aunt Maria or Grandmother Lizzie to
bring their little brood of children or
grandchildren from the country and ex-
pect to have them passed through the
turnstiles at half price. There will be no
occasion for big impatient crowd to wait
at the gates while the ticket ta5er is in
sisting that this boy or that girl is long
past ten and while Aunt Maria in her
shrill tones is asserting her dignity and
declaring that the little one has only just
turned eight. For this much relief the
prospective ticket takers may be truly
grateful.
In Wabash avenue car the other day
heard a woman, who probably expects to
some day get to heaven, argue until she
was hoarse that the boy that accompanied
her, and who was thirteen If he was day,
had but just turned six, and the conductor
told me that he had enough of similar ex-
periences each succeeding week to turn his
hair gray. There will be no necessity for
any such departures from the strict line
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grounds, simply because there will be no
half price admissions The smallest tot
that is able to toddle will have to pay her
way, and, outside of those who may be
entitled to complimentary tickets only
babies in arms will succeed in getting
through the gates without money and
without price, and if the visiting mothers
are sensible-and most mothers are now
adays-they will leave their babies at home
when they start on the journey to jackson
park. Some people have been inclined to
criticise the idea of making the little ones
pay the same price as the graybeards, but
the ultima5um of the directorate has been
signed and sealed and from it there is no
appeal. Moreover, those who know say
that it will resemble the laws of the Medes
and Persians, in that it is very unlikely
that it will be either altered or amended
Once inside the gates, however, there
will be no occasion for the visitor to be
diving into his pockets every few minutes
for additional coins with which to secure
admittance to some particular exhibit or
show that wasn't included in the original
price of admission. No circus tent side
show business will be tolerated. If the fat
woman, the man with the monster per-
forming snakes, or the bowling dervishes
manage to get their tents within the in
closure they will have to perform for moth
ing. The management does not propose to
have the visitors ''held up" Only one ex-
ception will be made to this rule. The
natives from India, Egypt, Russia and
Corea may possibly be permitted to
give entertainments peculiar to their own
countries in some one room of their own
houses, but at the same time all the re-
naming portions of the structure will have
to be kept open, in order that the ordinary
visitor who may not care about taking in
the show can wander about at will and
study the people and their costumes with
out extra charge. HENRY M. HUNT.