Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21

the people time enough to sleep Sundays,
and rest 50 they could start in fresh again
Monday. tell you as matter of fact we
are to have great exposition, but I want
| you to make it sure.
What do you think of introducing the
ballet? Do you imagine that Punch and
Judy can candidly be considered chest.
nut? What are the drawing powers of Sam
Jones and Sara Bernhard and Allcock'
you think the Siamese twins could be re-
stored with success or a galvanic battery?
What do you think of ex-senator Blair, of
old New Hampshire, in an Grafton of 80
days duration? How would he compare
with DR.. Tanner on fast for that period of
timer Could they hold the crowd, or would
we have to lock the people in? Provided I
battened down the matches, locked every
thing up and oiled the burglar alarms, do
you believe Jay Gould in the act of shear
ing coupons would draw crowd or an
inference?
Watterson's Letter That Never Came.
What will remove ink from the letter
that never came from Henry Watterson to
D. B. Hill? Can you furnish me, for franz
ing, copy of the law preventing David B.
Hill from running for Mayor of New York
in addition to Governor of and Senator
from the Empire State? Can you send me
for the art gallery certified portrait of Annie
Rooney, deceased? Should ensilage be
cut often, and if so, in what quarter of the
moon should the abridgment take place?
May safely introduce into the restaurant
of the exposition gumquats as side dish?
Do you think it good idea to fix special
days, such as press day, dog days, or would
you leave it to your next almanac? Do you
think that the free coinage of silver will in
terfere with the counterfeiting industry; if
so, in what respect? Could I successfully
use the resultant in the fat stock showP If
not, why not? Do you think John L. Sui.
lvan would be out of place in the chamber
Of horrors which propose introducing in
the exposition?
These are simply details, but If you have
any general ideas upon the conduct of an
exposition, showing how it should be run,
I would like to have few sacks of the early
~ 'N'' Nv r ". MITCHELL
Secretary and Superintendent
Plenty of Information on Tap.
To this frank ayowal Of Ignorance, an
swered as follows:
DEAR RoBERT-I am glad to know that
you are to have great industrial exposition
in Portland worthy of the wonderful country
came to be the Superintendent and Secre-
tary do not know. The Oregonians are
humor loving people, and like to put up jobs
on their neighbors. Possibly that has some
thing to do with 1t. Expositions should
have, in the first place, spinal column of
worthy and valuable exhibits sort of hat
rack, if you please, upon which to hang the
popcorn privileges and other features which
are of minor importance.
warn you first of all, as Superintendent,
against the American commercial spirit,
which crops out at all times, but especially
in an exposition. A sausage stufing ma
chine is one of the most beautiful sights,
from utilitarian standpoint, that 1 ever
saw, but it will not bring people from dis
tance. You nust have something of art and
beauty, and an element of the wonderful.
Africa had an exhibit that ought to put
big blush, as wide as Swiss sunset, ON the
face of the great civilized Republic which
does so much to send missionaries to the
Kongo. The diamond exhibit of that god
less continent, and the methods of working
this somewhat expensive stone, attracted
more attention in one day than all our oat-
meal and atmospheric pressure.
Must Have Something Unusual.
I am an American, Mr.. Superintendent,
and proud of the land which gave me birth
after which it had long spell of extreme
mental depression-but foreign nations will I
not put up luncheon and come to see the
Portland exposition unless you give them |
instructive and unusual.
You ask about the ballet. am not the |