The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-05-25
Editorial correspondence.
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
CmcAao. Ill. Nav Is. 1893.

All the world Is In commotion
with the mighty locomotlon.
OF this rushing. stenmingagc
From the giant steamers snortlng.
And the rail cars Wild cavorting,
To the rattlng country stage
All is rumblng, tumbng dashlng,
Snortlng, pu1ing hcaying, splashlng.
And In wonderful qui rirc-
Walking, shaking au creation
IN this tarnal Yankee nation.
Making huge the ulu4,cptlon.
or thcagc Ia which We live!
This is the spirit in which Chicago
must strike the traveller rs he ap-
proaches the city, smells the smoke
from the thousands of manulactor-
les, hears the hum of business and
sees it's endless rush of humanity
which like Tennyson's book seems
to "go on forever / came here inn
pressed with the idea that Chicago
was tho Sodom of America, that the
only way TO get away alive and with
penny in your pocket was to have
one hand on your purse and the
other on your revolver. To say that
l have been happily disappointed is
putting it mildly. have been in
Chicago probably Il dozen times in
former years and / find it no differ
ent from what | had always found
1t before until ! approached Jackson
Park where the dark lines of men,
women and children remind one very
much of a colony of ants invading a
hollow log. OF course the compar-
ison may be odious to compare the
Worlds Exposition to a hollow log
but you would not think so il you
were here with me to-day. 1t is just
as well that the truth be told, for /
came here TO lind out how to see the
I!..sost for the least money and tell il
to you that you might benefit by my
experience, and if | were TO advise
any one to come now / would most
flagrantly violate the confidence in
which / hope am held at home.
In order that you may the better
understand what mean | will say
that there is not n single building on
the ground that j have visited in
which you do not hear the sound of
the carpenters saw and hammer and
scraping of the plasterer's trowel.
The disappointment this causes Is
better appreciated when you remem-
Der that the Worlds Fair buildings
cover 100 acres of ground, and the
extent of your disappointment may
be better appreciated than describ-
ed to find yourself walking half a
mile to get into building and then
be confronted at the door with a
pine board nailed across it with the
words mo admittance.' But, per
haps you had read of this particular
building and are anxious to see its
interior, and you press your face
against the window only to find the
inside of the pane so splashed with
whitewash that you can't see twenty
feet ahead of you. / make partic-
ular note of this fact so that none of
you may be so badly disappointed
as have been by coming SO early.
for there is no possibility of the ex.
hibits being placed in order before
the end of June. You may think
am talking through my hat but
wait and see.
/ have also found Chicago far diff
ferent from what / expected in the
way of prices for provisions. To
the reader of our New York and
Philadelphia papers it would appear
as if it required II mint of money to
live in Chicago for day. This is
true to some extent here as it is any
whore else, for the fool and his
money are easily parted = but there
is no necessity for any one spending
more money here now than it was u
year ago this 18th of May.
Good lodging can bo had at a
dollar n day near the grounds and
good meals right on the grounds for
30 cents, and l am of the opinion
that somo Of the hotels will go beg
ging for guests before tho season is
over, On the other hand there are
plenty of places whore eytortion, or
in other words, high handed rob
berry is praeticod, For instance at
tho Auditorium Hotel, whore paid
e2,5O u day last year for boarding
mad lodging, they now charge from
ton to fifteen dollors per day for
lodging alone, while their bar fees