Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-11
THE MIDDLE CLASS
They We're to Visit the EXPOSE.
ton in June,
BUT AS YET HAVE NOT APPEARED,

w. AN 4NJA LAVA NVA hI1 JlIl(L
How People VIII" Expected To 10 IGn-
richcd by tho Exposition Have Been
Disappointed Some Financial Facts
Fairs-Sunday Closing.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. 8. - [Special.] -
When l arrived in Chicago in early June,
by the so-called coal road from Brazil,
Ind. l landed Mt Englcwood station and
rode leisurely through the two and IL half
miles of very new Chicago to my hotel
near the fair grounds. Nearly all the way
was through a city SO very new that I
could compare it to nothing but one of
those suddenly "slung up'' towns l used
to see on the Pacific railroad in 1865, or
later in the northwestern pincries. For
the last mile there was a constant success
sion of cheap hotels, saloons, restaurants
and structures which, in the railroad days
aforesaid, l should have taken for dance
halls.
In every third house the workmen were
still hammering away while "Rooms to
Let" adorned the front. Piles of waste
Uttered the streets, the smell of varnish
and new mortar was fragrant and the air
was sneeze provoking with lime and dust.
In many houses I saw that some of the
room already had dodgers while in other
rooms the painters were Mt work and
daubs of plaster still clouded the windows
houses in which 800 would have been
M ind r1pan,anf fo,, ~ IA elo,,, %1,,,, ,,ono
so very "green" and damp. And at every
house through all this region the pro-
p%rietors were asking, "Where are those
middle class people who were to rush us
in June? The very rich have come, the
very poor were already here, but where
are the middle millic:?"
Ihave walked around today and seen
those people again; but, alas, there is no
speculation in their eyes. Rooms which
We're then held Mt $3.50 are ncw offered
me, zen the quiet, y'know,:' at 81, and I
am urged to write lit is astonishing how
quickly these fellows recognize Il news
paper many, and assure the people that
living IS not very expensive here. Well, 1
can conscientiously do it, md I maintain
that it ought to be done, for all who miss
this show will never cease to regret it. I
am positive that the cost of living in all
this new region ncarthe fair grounds is at
the outside not more than 90 per cent.
higher than in ordinary times, and I doubt
if it is that.
How very strange it is that only a few
months ago everyone was saying, "There
is but one danger-the cholera-keep that
out and this will be the grandest financial
success Of the age" Well, the cholera
was kept out, the upper ten thousand
came early, went their way on summer
excursions and will return in the fall, the
very poor are pouring in from the west y
thousands daily, but the middle million
have not come. There are confident pre-
dictions that the farmers and villagers
will begin a mad rush in q few days. If
they don't, it will be a pity-O, such a
pity!-for Chicago has done nobly. Moth
ing even approaching the White City has
heretofore been seen On earth, and perhaps
nothing like it will be seen for a cent?
to come. When one attempts to descr
it he al only say, Wonderful! Wonder
full!
The lowest estimate by the managers
was for 81 $1,000, 900 paid admissions, or $780,
600 daily average, including Sunda, /. |
Well, the paid admissions for May av
aged but $1,000 daily and on the last /:
July the average for all had not been