The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-12
WORLDS FAa GOSSIP.
Preparations Being Made for the Crowd.
Cheap Admission-Notes.
Especial Correspondence

of the Worlds fair grounds. For mile af-
| ter mile there is hardly block in which
one does not encounter big piles of bricks,
! heaps of sand and tubs brimming full with
! lime or mortar, while the air is filed with
! the scrape, scrape of the bricklayer's trow-
ell and the echoes of the carpenters ham
mer. All this is by way of preparation for
the great event of two years hence.
On Cottage Grove avenue, which will be
the leading cable car thoroughfare TO the
| exposition, the rustic cottages that have
| stood for years amid groves of trees, al
most hidden from sight by wealth of
foliage, are giving way TO apartment build
ings four, five, six. eight and ten stories in
! height. These signs of the times are a
guarantee that there viii be shelter under
q roof for everybody that comes to Chicago
! in 1893, even though they come in their hun
| dreds of thousands on single day. In Phil
adelphia, in 1876 it was no unusual thing
| to see hundreds of country visitors who
could not afford TO stop at the high priced
hotels, and had failed in the effort to find
| rooms within their means, catching what
sleep they could o. nights j. Paramount
and the smaller parks, even on door
steps and in doorways. will be no
necessity for such scenes as 10 be dupli-
Gated in Chicago.
| lam not talking now about the capacity
| Of the hotels, concerning which the depart
ment of promotion and publicity has lately
| been doing some elaborate figuring and
| bringing forth some startling statistics,
| but of places within the reach of the
| masses and Of the masses purses, where a
man who wants to bring his wife, and may
| be his little ones, can be assured of at least
place where they can rest their weary
| bones and sleep the sleep of the Just after
hard day of sightseeing, without having
TO spend week earnings for the accom-
mediation. BY AMI by the card and sign
painters whose artistic genius is devoted
to getting out the old familiar legends,
FURNISHED Rooms" and Rooms 10 Let, !"
will reap a harvest, and the apartment
buildings, large and small now going up
on the avenues in question will be album
dainty decorated with notices TO the way
farer that within be or she can find rest,
while boarding house keepers and landla-
dies viii blossom out like rose bush under
the influence of a genial June san. There
are plenty of parks in Chicago with nice
soft green lawns and comfortable benches
in abundance, but it will not be necessary
to turn them into sleeping quarters in 1888.
1t is understood that the idea of twenty
five cent rate of admission to the grounds
is gaining new adherents in the board of
directors with each successive day. This
Is as it should be. 1t was originally in
tended to charge a round half dollar for
the little square of engraved pasteboard
that will enable the holder to view all the
wonders of the Nineteenth century, but
the arguments and reasonings Of those who
believe that there Will be just as much
money in the long run land probably a
good deal more) by placing the admission
charge at one-half that figure have carried
weight, and although no definite action
has yet been had, it is taken for granted
that a twenty-five cent rate will prevail
AS Inventor Edison said TO some of the
officials the other day in that jerky, blunt
style that he has, 90 per cent. of the attend
ance viii come from the poorer classes,
and these cannot afford to pay half dol
lar every time they want to pass through
the gates. Crowds are what is wanted, |
and crowds-tremendous crowds-the ex-
position will have to have If the account |
books are to make good showing, and
twenty-five cent rate would bring them.
Under the able dictatorship of Professor
Putnam, of Harvard university, the de-
partment of ethnology of the exposition
promises to contain one of the most i'm
portant collections that has ever been
brought together in the world. The Har-
ward professor is an eminent authority on
this science, and he will give pretty much |
his entire time for the next two years TO |
his department. Not only are antiquities /
of this country TO be thoroughly illus |
trated, but advantage is being taken of sew
eral important expeditions which will |
shortly leave for FOREIGN lands. }
BeadIe in the Coke Region
SCoTTsDALE, Pa, May 25.-One seldom /
finds lovelier region than this. Far away 4
on the horizon some blue mountains show; |
but in the coke region proper there is con-
slant succession of low ridges and narrow
valleys, narrow strips of timber alternat-
ing with rich green meadows and the bare,
trampled spots about the ovens and ada
cent villages Of laborers. Above the level
at which the main seam of coal is opened
many rivulets gush from the hills as clear
as alcohol, and once all the streams were
the delight Of the tourist and sportsman
Now all below the above level seem as IL
with blood and iron, and reflect a
baleful light in the bright sunshine; there
Is not living thing in all their red and
yellow waters, and the wild fowl shun their
banks. But, strange 20 say, when work
ceases for while. and general rain swellsi
tie streams and sweeps out the poisoned
water. the fowl at once begin 70 return 10
hocks, and by their chatter seem 70 testify
their delight at natures restoration And
equally do they seem to know when the
trouble Is 70 begin again. for they are al
gone before the water X re-poisoned Old
sportsmen who have noted these move
ments aver that the birds have scouts on
the lookout, IL not medical ducks. and
quacking board Of health, who report when
the water il safe for the community.
II so. the b 81 certainly understand each
other better an the human creatures. for
! more com tie and heterogeneous popu-
alton / never saw outside Of New YORK or |
San Francisco. Before ne as I write. seat 1
erred over the space between the hotel aud ,
he station, are some 5oO men, and per !
aaps fifty women, aad cannot certainly !
assign more than twenty Of them 70 any
)ne nation IL Is one OF their tricks 20 add
o this confusion BY refusing 20 understand
stranger. no matter what language hs
addreSses them In One group - talking
.xcstsdlT IN language the Scstssials folks
all French, but Il certainly would not -
UNDERWOOD in PaTiA Tie Italians slso
ak with CREST animation. bot IN. Poles ,
md S~edes discuss the Eaost exciting topics
n sort q low. dHlI n3oRotsns. Ike tirnsd ,
hiloreu recitinz The estschisn- TIE Hun ,
.Erians ~ u be proper % call them such.
s they are really Siavsj are rather The
aost mysterious Of ali The Eaflyes say
ksy ga 81 jsrks''-shst -, one Eeyef
-no~s th&E anything l. aHiss III t5ey
aaze cut IA sudfs8 wrath. AID thsr oas