The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-17
DON'T paociAsrINATE.
intending Exhibitors at the werld's Fair
should Take Time by the foreloek-


should Take Time by the foreloek-
Especial Correspondence.l
CHICAGO. Feb. 2-when the doors Of the
several buildings which in the aggregate
will make up the Worlds Columbian ex-
position are officially declared open ON the
first day Of May of the coming year, every
exhibit must be in its place and every at
tendant must be 1t his or her exhibit So
says the director general. and be means
what he says. for his administration up 10
date has indicated that his rules, decisions
and ultimatums, like the laws Of the Medes
and PersiSns, ara framed. made and issued
TO be literally obeyed and not TO be altered
with every change OF the wind He does
not propose that the visitors OF the first
few weeks shall be compelled to be content
with a skeleton show-with quarter. q
half or even a three-quarter display. The
visitors Of May viii b a. much entitled "a
see all that there j. 10 be seen as the Wis
itors OF August or september. and Direetnr
General Davis proposes 70 see 10 il that
their title Is respected
To put of everything until the last mo-
ment Is characteristic Of far too large a
proportion of human kind. And in this
connection | remember that for weeks
after the Centennial exposition OF Phila-
elphia had become an accomplished fact
many Of our friends from the Old World,
and notably those of England. were still
engaged in the construction or fitting up ct
their buildings; that In that vast structurs
known 10 history a. the Main building
the din of countless hammers and saws
sometimes drowned the music OF the biz
organ, while the scrapbook in which Is re-
served the remnants of my correspondents
Of that period TO other lands bears mute
testimony TO the fact that many of thu
English and French exhibits were left
without attendants until the exposition
was month or more old. These reminis.
cences are indulged in, not - much by
way of indicating that Chicago proposes
to do considerably better in this regard.
but simply TO emphasize TO intending ex-
hibitors, domestic - well as those abroad,
the old adage that pTocrastination in the
thief Of time. Better be ready n month
earlier than necessary than be q week late
and then find yourself out IN the cold
Here are few facts that those interest
ed in particular and in general may read,
mark, learn and inwardly digest. As early
as the first day Of the coming November
the officials charged with the duties Of in
stallatiOn will be prepared 10 receive ex-
hibits at the fair grounds At midnight
on the tenth day OF the following April the
bars viii be put up, and all conAguments
not within the gates will be returned
whence they came. BY the first day OF
April, moreover, each exhibitor must In
some manner or another take possession OF
the space assigned him or her The exhibit
need not be in place. but there must be =
sort Of "squRtter sovereignty" claiming
and taking possession Of allotted rights.
Those who can get ready by Nov. would
do we'll 20 be up and doing. Don't reason
that because there are FIVE months between
the last DAYS of October and of March thas
you can afford TO take things easy. Start
now or maybe you will not be able 20 stan
at all, and somebody else's business will 10
handed down in history rs the occupant Of
the space within which you nov fondly
hope 10 display your giOries In the great
days OF 1893 HESRY NJ Hunt.