The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-24
Continued from Fourth Pdge.)

scum Of European cities who migrate
to this country The best of them
seem to stay in the Eastern States and |
the others to come on here This does
not apply to the Germans, but to other |
nationatles. New York has quite a
respectable French quarter where one
can find ia vie Parsenne," but here
the place is essentially brutal The
people "have no manners and their
customs are beastly" There are a few
of the upper ten thousand from Europe
visiting the Fair, mostly second raters,
except the Duke of Veragua and his
party, Lord and Lady Aberdeen, and
some others 1t is intensely amusing
to see how the weather. people OF this
place bow down and worship before
any shoddy member of the arstoCraCy
of Europe. The men are not 50 bad
as the women, vino will go to any eX-
IRENE to attract the friendly attention
of "real live lord. As you know, |
have been in crowds in nearly every
part of the world and am not squeam-
ish, but Chicago crowd is the most
Objectionable | have ever been in.
You are likely to hear more obscene
and profane language in a Chicago
crowd in one day than you would if
you lived to be threescore and ten in
Europe.
The cost OF living is not so excess
sively dear as might be expected, con
sidering this is Chicago and Fair tine.
Some of the foreigners grumble good
deal among themselves but it is about
as much as your life is worth to hint
even in the most delicate way in the
world, that anything ever was or could
be better than what is provided for us
here. Chicago people require and eX.
peCt lndsCrlminate 1attery about every
thing connected with their city and
Fair, If you want to come over, come,
and | can meet you in New York, but
consider well before you start. You
remember Barnum & Railey's big show
at Olympia, and how you hated all Il e
yastness and crush of it, and how the
papers all wrote it up as the greatest
show London had ever seen. Well,
this Exhibition is the same sort of
thing, only more SO.
| shall get back as soon as | can.
We can run down to the Isle Of Wight
for few weeks then up to Scotland,
and spent the autumn in Brittany. The
difference between that and a visit to
Chicago will be much the same as a
visit to Barnum & Bailey at Olympia,
''the greatest show on EARTH" and a
comfortable evening at the opera or at
one of the comedy theaters. Make
your choice, but remember that | am
getting old and don't like to be jDsted
about, and overfcd, and crowded with
drink Chats an American world shall
soon be able to speak AmeriCan), all OF
which things are necessary unless you
wish to offend the good people e Chi
Cago who mean to be kind
There have been a number OF naval
officers here this week in a party, and
they stood it well and enjoyed it. The
younger men were especially successful
with the Chicago ladies', who don't
often see these gallant seafaring gentle
men, and swallowed all they said as
gospel. | heard one of them remark
to another, after being twenty, -four
hours here, that it was thine to go.
He had got into about half a dozen
flirtations, in which the ladies were in
earnest with a deadly Chicago intensity.
| think this is the very wickedest
city | have ever been in, judging by
what | read, see, hear and gather
around me. 1t is so repulsively wicked
that vice loses whatever charm it
might have. If one were to say that
to Chicago man or even women, he
or she would be quite offended, and
explain to you that, even in the ele
gance of its vices, Chicago is the first
place in the world. 1t is a curious
thing that if you tell Londoner OF
Partisan that you don't think much o.
his city, he accepts your statement witt
equanimty, and doesn't care a penny
whether you do or whether you don't
Tell Chicago man the same thing
and you make an enemy for life