The Portland daily press., 1893-05-04
WORLDS FAIR JOKES.
The Thirsty People Who Searched
For Free Champagne.
A DEMAND THAT THE ART EX-
HIBIT BE CLOTHED.

1t Comes From Indignant Visitors Who
Object to the Nude in Art-Conces-
sionaires Say the Crowd Spreads Out
Pretty Thin-Plenty of the Germans
Favorite Beverage But Lack of the
Kentuckian's Tipple.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. May l3.-The ''conces-
sionaires," for so those gentlemen are
called who bought the privilege of sell
ing things to visitors to the great fair are
wondering whether they are going to
make money. The alleged 900, 900 who
visited the fair on the opening day
spread out very thin, and there were
never enough to give fair sized allot-
ment to each ''concessionaire."
1t does not seem possible that the fair
ever can become really crowded-as, for
instance, fair or bazaar at the Ameri-
can Institute would be, or one at the
Madison Square Garden, where some
times it is hard to get around at all.
Chicago's show is so vast that there is
room for every one. 1t is only when
some special function is going on at a
particular spot, that the crush is incon-
veniept.
So the most gouty can come here, and
the most timid as well, without running
much risk of having their corns hoped
upon or getting themselves elbowed in
the face. 1t was great disappointment
to the visitors from the agriculture al
states that the promised distribution of
sample and free things did not begin.
They went to the grounds expecting to
bring back their lunch baskets full of
printed matter and cough drops given
away for advertising purposes, but there
was none of that sort of thing. Califor-
MIA, it had been said, was preparing to
give away fifty thousand Quarts of
champagne in her state building, but the
thirsty old souls who went early to find
out about 1t discovered that all the CALI
fornians were on the root painting and
mending it, and they were unable to get
any satisfaction, alcoholic or otherwise.
The failure of the fair caterers to feed
the visitors yesterday created such great
distress, and in some cases suffering.
that today the wise went to the grounds
with sandwiches and pocket TASKS. Beer
is sold at the restaurants, but apparently
no whiskey. Some of the bills of fare
have the lower part Of them, containing
the beer list, torn off. 1t was said that
this was done by the walters before they
handed the cards to men with long hair
who looked like prohibitionists, but it
was reported today that the mutilation
was the work of prohibitionists who
wanted to save their brethren from temp
tation.
What a row there will be when the
Art Building opens. Every country has
senta good supply of nude pictures, and
n nc hA6t n$ 49, s~~1
tionists from interior points who are
lengthy beard attached to his chin by
very scant fastening waited around the
Service Building for an hour yesterday
| for permission to go into the art depart
mont and point out the pictures which
| in his estimation should not be seen by
any one under 40 years of age. Nothing
| like an art exhibit has ever been seen by
thousands of these people.
Less than Is, 900 people, it is said, paid
cash for admission the second day Of the
exposition, although.about 100000 peo-
pie were in the park. The paid admis-
sions at Philadelphia the second day
numbered 147,122. The revised official
| figures for the first days attendance are
315, 900, of which 141, 900 were paid. The
| ticket arrangements are found to be
4uiIo IAduoqudlc, udHy people pFeSSlnS =
past the limited force of guards, to say
nothing of the large number of agile
people who enter by jumping the fence.
| Gates May Open Sunday.
CHICAGO, May 3.-The worlds fair ju-
dietary committee has reported against
the adoption of the resolution providing
for Sunday closure and the question will
be referred to the local directory. A
large number of national commissioners
favor opening tho fair Sunday and there
is some talk that the local directory may
open the gates regardless of the rule for
bidding it. 1t is said that tickets are
ready for use on Sunday next and that all
| the preparations have been made to open
the gates without announcing shat fact
until it is too late for legal interference.
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