People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-01
WORLDS FAIR CITY.
A Budget Of Information for the
Outside World.
Marked Changes in the Tide of Affairs
The Weather Bureau Service-A
Progressive BoOtblack-The
Water system.
Especial Chicago Correspondence

Inc worlds 1alr Is developing a
patois of its own. A party of electri-
clans went to Jackson park the other
day and, after going over the grounds,
came to the forestry building, which is
located near the south end of the park.
This building is being used temporarily
as modelling shop, where the statuary
for the buildings is made. The party
inspected the statues, many of which
are but half completed, others only
just begun. The guide explained what
each figure represented and where it
would be erected. He came to some
gigantic figures of which only part
could be seen. This, gentlemen" he
said, sis the lower half of religion, and
over there is the skeleton Of Justice"
1t must be a remarkably perfect sys-
tenn that succeeds in dividing religion
into an upper and lower half and
stripping justice of all its trappings so
as to leave only the skeleton.
Did you ever notice the change that
has developed in the last few years, and
especially since the worlds fair agita-
ton commenced, in the way people adj
dress mail matter to Chicago and the
style that travellers from this city
adopt in registering at hotels? 1t is
these little unconscious actions that be-
tray the drift of events and develop
ment more convincingly than legal en-
actments or great transactions. A few
years ago everybody addressed letters
simply to New York." or per-
haps New York city. In the
case of every other city in the
country the state was always
given, even so in registering at hotels.
Letters were sent to Chicago, H."
Travellers from this city registered
from Chicago, H." To-day they
register simply Chicago letters sent
here are addressed simply to
Chicago 1t is to this drift OF
events that can be attributed the
determined efforts of presidential candi-
dates of both parties who live in the
eastern states to secure the nominal
ton this year 1t is now or never, for
hereafter the center of gravity in
commerce and finance will shift west
ward, and politics must follow its
course as it ever does.
Speaking of preparations for the
worlds fair, it would be a good plan
to prepare the weather bureau OF
United States signal service so as tc
be of some use to visitors and the
management as well. 1t is a curious
thing, this weather bureau. They dc
not give any weather predictions on
holidays, for instance. As if naviga,
ton could stop on account of holidays
On Decoration day a party went
out on an excursion on Lake Michigan
They wanted to know how the
weather was going to be. 1--WE don't
issue forecasts on holidays" said the
weather man.
But more curious than this is the ap.
parent inability or neglect of the bu,
reau to take any account of local con.
ditions in predicting weather. Their
predictions, based upon the general
conditions of weather in the country,
are of little use to most people, as it re,
quires some study to apply them to the
locality, and local conditions are ap.
parently never considered.
For instance, June Is we had two
terrific squalls that did some damage ia
property and sent down a perfect del
uge. The day after the weather man
was reported in the papers as saying
that such thing would come SO
suddenly that it was impossible to
predict it. Of course, one cannot say
just how long in advance it could be
seen. But | know for a fact that sew.
eral people saw it at eight o'clock in the
morning, whereas the first squat did
not strike till four o'clock in the after.
noon. They saw it simply from looking
at the sky. They had no instruments
like the weather bureau and knew
nothing of the storms that swept over
the country to the west of here the day
before. used TO defend the weather
bureau, but such statements as that a
squat like that one would not be seen
in advance will simply be laughed at
by sailors. A little more practical ex.
perience, even if it should require some
sacrifice Of science, might be IN place
in bureau that is intended for prac.
teal work and for the benefit of the
people who have not the training to
Judge of the weather themselves.
The old saying that he who wants to
make money must appeal to the mil
lions and not to the millionaires, finds
exemplifcation again in the story of a
negro bootblack who has Just entered
on the high road to wealth. For some
years he conducted a shoe-blacking es.
Enlistment at the corner of Monroe
and State streets, in this city, and did
quite well. But he is extending his
operations. He has Just rented a store
on Jackson street, near the new North
ern hotel, one of our latest skyscrapers,
paying thirty-seven hundred dollars a
year rent. The store is gorgeously
fitted up, with marble floor and marble
platforms for the patrons to sit on
while the men operate on their shoes.
There are twenty-five of these seats.
Plate glass covers the walls around
and electric light illumines the place
The men are kept busy all day.
The charge is five cents for a shine,
one-half of which goes to the propri-
etor and the other half to the man who
does the job. The proprietor has about
five thousand customers. He issues
cards, good for twenty shines, at one