Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30

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,ssgs, ~ orieai order as SI possible
| }S1H - with the help Of Lind
ley Murray's and Rich
Nt ard Grant Whites
-~.SsS.s>~- ghosts and you would
| not commence to ex-
! press that energy, that enterprise. that marvel
Gus aggregation of wonderful activity directed
to the common end of progress and pros
perity that men call Chicago. The seven
wonders OF the world and the McGarrahan
claim sink into utter insgnificance beside it.
When one has been absent from the place for
two years he finds himself almost stranger
when he returns. There have been such
changes in the mighty kaleidoscope. but they
have been all for the best. Twelve, fifteen and
eighteen-story buildings rise where we're for
merly the three four-story landmarks that
you used 10 steer by. But one thing
remains the same, and that is
tue Irresistible power that keeps moving it
forward with uncomfortable velocity over
whelming everything in its journey TO great
| ness except its board of aldermen and its
peculiarly decayed style of politics. A l00-tOn
trip hammer working as rapidly CEN
! trifugGl driving machine couldn't phase that
part CT Chicago III 4,OUO.OOO eternltes, and that
Is not exaSCeration either.
There are a good many Washingtonians here
and as was interested In the worlds fair and
wanted to examine the entire thing on the
ground floor. SO to speak. l visited the head
quarters of the exposition managers and sought
out Nessrs. Richard Lee Fearn and s. Chap
| man Simms. the secretary and assistant secrc-
tary of the foreign affairs division of the out
tit.
WELCOMED IN FOREIGN TONGUE.
Mr.. Fearn formerly the Washington cor
respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle and Mr.
Simms was connected with the Washington
EVENING STAR. Both gentlemen welcomed
their visitors with extreme corliality. as far as
| their facial expressions and digItal muscularty
went. but their words were beyond my ken
They scared far over my head as a queen
full towers above nine high flush. 10 be
in it I returned their greeting IN
choice Chinook that | had picked
up from watching Siwash Indians
gathering clans up on Puget sound. They
were evidently puzzled at my language, but
looked at each and then gaZed pityingly upon
me and came down into the vernac ular of News
paper Row. Their attempt. however. to reach
the level was sad. l Srieve to write it, but
both Messrs Fearn and Smns have been cor
| responding with the crowned heads of the
world much of late and have been
conversing SO frequently with repre-
sentatives of the foreign natious that
they cannot speak their mother tongue without
a pronounced accent. NJ. Fearn's accent is
French. like that which one runs across on the
bill OF fare in a Texas hotel, while Mr.. Simms
speaks with a soft CastiIan brosae, which he
attributes to lis diurual correspondence with
William L. Curtis, who is in charge of
the Latin American department and SEN
sibly remains in Washington. Meeting
however, on the common plane of
Nolapuk | was shortly supplied with the neces-
sary documents to investigate the progress of
the work out at Garfield Park i'll its most minute
details. Mr. Fearn also gave me n large col
lection Of foreign postage stamps in order that
might improve my linguistic standing on my
way out to the scene of the worlds
greatest exhibition, while Mr. ii. o.
Edmunds, also an old EVENING STAR
attache. who IL now secretary to the worlds
fair commissioners. burdened me with various
maps OF the site. interpreted with some of
Maj. Handy's excellent tracts. En- passan.
may mention that Mr.. Fearn has any 0,Iantity
OF foreign stamps i'll duplicates. which informa-
ton am sure will be welcome 20 many Young
stamp collectors in Washington whose albums
are incomplete.
or THE FAIR GROUNDS.
The trip to the fair grounds over the Illinois
Central Is short and rapid. The train is loaded
down with the same class of passengers which
will patroniZe all the roads. multiplied a thou
SAID times. year hence. Arriving at the park
you are overwhelmed There Is a clao. OF
everything in the building aid beautI-
flying line, out OF which an army
of busy mechanics and laborers are bring
d
thousand acres of ground the tOiers are pursu-
in., their allotted tasks. An entire issue OF TIE
STAR would not suffice to describe The thousand
and one wonders to be seen on every hand even
were the pen adequate to the task The early
Ph1nlclan happening to be on the banks Of the
Nile when Cheops was being built must have
felt something like the amazement that
nils one who the exposition
for the first time in its embryonic
state. 1t Is appalling. That is
n rnr Or 4 / dor 1vha Tnl
bus must think of it all in his wraith-,Ike state
Newspaper men generally do not experience
much difficulty in depicting in type the things
that they tor the reading public's benefit
The entire intellect of the profession concen-
trated in one great effort could not give but
the faintest idea of the present state of the
worlds Columbian exposition.
Whether the national Legislators give or
don't give the requested aid Chicago will fin
ish all the buildings and complete them in the
finest manner as we'll There will be nothing
ginserbreadish about it. The exposition will
be solid with the solidi;y which is the CHIEF
characteristic OF the windy city.
CITY FULL OF SCHEMES
One who has spent lifetime in Washington
and intimately mixed with the surface OF af-
fairs well their neither side
is necessarily familiar with schemes
OF all varieties from the Utopian
dreams of sellers to the more practical re-
1OfmS WHICH NcCu nut Il substantial apDrOpria-
ton to result in Euch pubic benefit such a
person. however, has not even passed the pri-
mary grade iii schemes until he has visited
Chicago. and now Is the accepted time for the
higher studies into the interesting subject TO be
prosecuted. The gray other colored matter
that occupies the head of every man. woman
and child over twelve years of aye IN this city
is cerrugatiny itself into ideas Of SCHEMES"
Chicago, is populated with nothing but
schemes. The grave and conservative
business man turns over and over
propositions of the most fanciful character
that give promise of profit during 1893 His
managers and his clerks, his Office boy and
his messengers, his pOrters and his Transfers
none the less full Of schemes and no less
interested because their ideas are humble
From the erection of mammonth hotels. thea
tiers and hppodromes to the sale of cheap pop
corn the gamut of schemes is run and the
fingers of all persons of all conditions and
classes. run over the keys. Nothing like it
was ever seen in the heavens above, or the earth
below. the waters under the EARTH 1t
wouldn't be surprising If company was
formed to remove Luray Caverns out here for
tcmporary sOiOurn durnD tho fair for soma ~