The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-29

| anos OraVln8 the terrore OF the cable carl
trespsss upon the enormous territory wher
Csechs and slavs and Germans and Rouma
| mans and Scandinavians and Jutes and Rple
swarm in hundreds Of thousands. the territor
between the boundaries OF which you ma
pass day without hearing word OF Enclisl
There the babble OF a dozen unknown tongue
sustains increasingly a goddess pentecos
| There q suffocating. sulleu. discontepte
| horde OF human beings stews. rs Bismarc
said. in it's own gravy. Unable to understan
each others speech. each OF these dangerou
| and un-Am erican colonies shares the fret an
fume OF Its neighbors' dissatisfaction with tn
extant order Of things 1t Is not yet a fago
that blazes. but 1t Is none the less ominn,
| for being q mass OF loose driftwooj in an in
| cessant state Of smoke and shoulder.
Stray into the northwestern district o
Chicago and you have passed out OF Anglo
Saxon America into o polyglot pnndemoniun
where the devils are simply taking a nap I'll
they shall be awakened by IN effort to e1or
| else them.
When tho days work Is done and tho work
men stream baok again to their homes, a,
crows stroam back at nightiall to their rock
cries. in long. black. count .evading files, thu
review OF Thorn becomes fascinating AM al
alarming diversion. The hundreds OF thou
sands OF foreign mon and women and chill.
dren. dark aud sallow. boetle-browed. with
sullen. resentful faces. are as unpleasing as q
marchpast OF nightmare 1t 10 an apparently
unendinE procession of Hate and Wearinoss
and Angry Discomfort
The Halstead street bridge for examp le,
at shutdown. fairly Rroans under the heavy
foet OF this army OF irreconcllable. unasslmil.
able aliens.
Some OF them are short and squat and round.
n
huge and broad-chested. deep.eyed and
rough bearded and cruel OF visage. like the
men who ravished Italy with the Scourgs Of
God. Some are keen and slim and dan gorous,
ike loopards and pnnthers sinking back to
their Jungle. And others are stupid and brutal,
with dull. sad faces. the faces Of human cattle
ready to be stampodod in an instant into out
rage and revolution.
Magnificent material for an ultimate con-
Migration. all thesel a conflagratlon on which.
some day. Chicago will turn her garden hose
by fruitlessly hanging another half dozen of
them.
You can form no idea OF the savage boasts
who increase and multiply in this Am erican
Jungle unless you personally explore the
jungle. That done. your spontaneous ridlcule
OF Chicago gives place TO serious personal
alarm. for you realize imme dlately what sort
OF IN ill-managed menagerle it Is that is likely
at any moment to break loose and spread
slaughter and havoc over the country.
, vague. unfounded hope OF obtaining em-
ployment in the public works Of tho Worlds
FAR has impelled all manner OF men to invade
tho city. mono too hospttable In its most serene
moments and now sulky with u sense OF hay-
ing rashly undertaken the solution OF the in
soluble. The streets are full OF artisans and
mechanics and unskilled laborers. pondorine
malevo!cntly tho vital questions OF food and
shelter. There Is very little real work In hand
down ut tho Fair grounds. OF course an I'M
limited beating OF tom-toms and waving of
architects plans arc going on. but there are.
In fact, almost as many men employed upon
the airy palaces Of Kubla Khan as there are
upon tho potential structures OF the Columbian
Exposition.
A good many Of these disappointed and
hungry job hunters are sober. Intelligent
men who belong to various trades Unions md
therefore keep jealous and watchful eye on
tho way In which favor governs labor. good
many. also. are worthless drunken rogues,
who arc parted from actual tramph by an
almost invisible partition. These nll the air
with complaints and threats. and are eagerly
awaiting chance to break out in open tumult
sentiment
..o''a'AAAo' WIG Shopoy' so0uy, bull0n police,
al Germans or Swedes or aliens from else
where sit In reserve In their diney station
houses armed to tho teeth. equally ready to
e1tingush riot or to exasperate one.
Not that the unemployed are all workmen.
The persistent horn-blowIng Of the Fairs Eu.
ropean agents has impelled all sorts and con-
iitions OF queer and undesirable sdyen.
Jurors to gather round its opulont promise.
There are more couriers and Interpreters and
agents and guides and translators living |
N ambush for the unwary European voyaeer |
han he over dreamed Of Every language.
avery dialect spoken in the civilized world, and
half the jargons current within the boundaries |
81 barbarism. are even now represented In Chi !
,azo by some seedy. needy buocaneer. subsist-
ng principally on hope. Promising material |
IN 3" by the innumerable games" that will at |
tend the Fair, their present occupations are
limited and Improbable. and the life they sus-
ain by their wits is meagre and jejune
There is. for example. worthy Persian In
he rug trade here who complains that enough
Arabs and Nubians and Smyniotes and Moors
nave settled into dependence upon him to
nan very considerable caravan. A large
1oputation OF the Greeks Of Paris are already
n the field. unprosperous and dormant as yet.
~ tho first beams Of the ' expected BOOM oo"'o"
It is not unfair to the natives In control OF
his biggest OF all big schemes to say that
With characteristics American humor. they are
.frrontery. 1t Is hard for them to discuss the
iagrant unveracities Of the Fair without an
opening Of tho show has become AZ analogous rue
his time reached such a stage OF cynical
u OF F" oshssr Su to ''ia
hem with y copper"
30 long. OF course. as there remains the
aintest chance OF converting your credu!ity to
heir own personal profit. they agreo TO sus-
Ind that you, toe. are bent upon seeking a.
Onward with yon and tell you the truth,
For there are moments even in the lie Of
Worlds Fair boomer" when he finds 1t worth
while to DO exact
This cynical form Of honesty assumes quaint
shapes at times. For example, a. Chicago
Grand Columbian Fair Funeral Insurance
company has been organized. The purpose Of
his excellent corporation Is to provide conlns.
Ind. II preferred. interment In Chicago soil for
hs hundreds OF calculabe victims OF that
,ity's profoundly insanitary conditions. The |
European visitor fated to die. according to an
Ictuary -cs timated percentage. Of Chicago
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