Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-30
THE FAIR BOOM.
100000 Mark in Daily Admis-
sions Occasionally Passed.
Indiana, the Irish and Knights Of
Honor Have Big Days.


wosLp's FAN. Sep. es.-(specisil =
And stlIl we ilnger. There was time we
didn't think we should, but now we know
that we have a real boom The alleged mel
ancholy days have come, but they are the
EyeIiest Of the year, for the great storm the
Iowans brought with them was follow ed
By clear. cool and braeing weather. ard
though every third day may be considered
bad the people continue to crowd all the
buildings The total Of paid admissions
for last week was ,i33, ,432, and this week .
will eridentiy beat il, for Indiana aston
ishel herself and Chicago, while the Irish
took the city. and there was great multi
ruie In the grounds, probably equal TO or
exceeding that OF Illinois day. On Sports
mems day the paid admissions were la9. III;
on State CoaialissieDeF day they fell to
10. $50, bat on Knights of Houor day they
bounded up to 2l3. +52. Indiana has since
done SO well, and Ireland did so very much
better that once more Chicago is betting on
a total of y. 900 900 paid admissions for the
entire fair.
IL was thought that Irish enthusiasm had
far outrun probability when they promised
1000 men in line and 5000 paid admis-
sions for the day, but when Lord Mayor
Snanks Of Dublin. with the lady mayoress
and many other dignitaries. including
two members Of parliament, arrived, and
when I. was made certain that all the orators
promised were here, we accepted the draft
an our faith and figured the total aimis-
sions with unusual interest. The lord
mayor and party will remain here nearly IL
week longer. and many special affairs in
their homer are arranged.
Nobility an Everyday Affair.
Professor Thomas Moore, director of the
Jesuit choir Of Chicago, has been for some
time drilling his little army Of singers,
made up Of volunteers from many musical
societies, for that occasion, and the fire.
works were OF course Irish from start to
finish. There were brilliant portraits Of
Grattan, OiConnell. Emmet. Wolfe Tone,
Marshals Nugent Of Austria, MacMahon
of France and O'ponnell Of Spain, Charles
Carroll, Barry Sullivan, Shields. Meagher.
Sheridan. John Boyle O'Reilly and Colonel
Mulligan. The French also are making
quite display of late, as 81 artisans were
sent by the government and 30 by the
municipality of Paris to study the indus
trial and artistic features Of the fair AMI
city. They are regular laborcrs, too, not
mere agitators, and lock as little Ike tie
alleged erratics Of Paris as one can imaE-
ine. Last Of all, Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Of Austria is said to be on the grounds, bus
il he is very few Americans know him. We
have had 50 many princes and such soT-
geous ones that we don't mind Il few dukes.
Chicago continues to add to her many at
fractions for the 9th, and half a million
l. l.
insists that she, too, will be in it on that
day, though few people will know it, Bat
in one respect she holds over Chicago-she
has O real live tribe Of her original aboriE-
ines, and at their head As-se-he-ho-lar, or
Black Drink, their chief, commonly called
Osceola and grandson OF the great Osceola,
who was truly a noble Indian, though Cap
tain Mayne Reid has almost reduced him
to mere romantic myth. In the proess-
sion will be representations Of De Soto and
Ponce dc Leon on their march, the mayor
of Jacksonville will crate, and Professor
King will make balloon ascension. In the
aborigine line Chicago seems to have fouad
no live Iroquois, or even Winnebago. in
reach, but the lroqGo!s club has aG,ncge! TO
do its best on warwnoop. OF the great
Miami Nation. which but 100 years ago oc-
cupied all the region from Chicago river t3
Mad river in Ohio. the latest report is that
only 20 families remain Chat is, Of pure In
dams, and it is likely that their presence
here would be mournful rather than i'll
spring.
Dahomey May Dance.
cannot learn that any great prepara-
tions are made fer other special days in
October. Of which the most importaI, are
Mexieo's, On the 9Th; Rhode Islands sta;
Polish, 1th; North Dakota's I9th; Con
necticut's, iith; Minnesota's, 18Th. and
Ancient Order of United Workinen, 2seh
All this time the far foreign folks Of the
plaisanee continue to amuse US with the
squabbles and reconciliations and threats
to leave and break up the show. The Da-
honey folks shut their gate and pacacl
their goods to leave, but Manager Pene
was lrmly told that he couid not remove
anything till after 10 p m. Oct. 20. Director
General Davis then granted a special per-
NIT for the negroes to dance and howl on
the wall to attract attention, and each If
the s. is to have medal at the close. They
have forced their manager to pay higher
wages, and among the additions to theii
daily rutions are IL gallons OF cI8ret. Z,
cases of Chicago beer and ~ gallons Of
whisky. They use il all and as much more
a. they can smuegIe in, and il may judge
froEl their bowling it operates On them
much the same as ON our own natives.
A Few Oiogies.
And speaking Of natives, observe that
the Palace Of Anthro?ology is recently at
tracing much In0re attention. its loc,:-
ton IN the southeast corner OF the Groanis
probably CAUSED many to miss il who hal
bat d few days to stay, but it il now crowd
el. The great Siberian mammoth, 're-
stored according to Waterhouse Hawkins
IS oddly enough the subject of most criti-
cisin and skepiieisLa, ALL az least half the
visitors regard it as fake" Oddly
enough, | say, for it 50 happetis that that
famous mammoth Is almost the only one cf
which there can be uo possible doubt, for
1t was t-iAen from the frozen EARN uf the
Lena delta entire in bone, flesh. SKIN and
bair, as it had lived The .'cold storage
system cf that region was so great sue
cess that the meat of the mammoth was
eaten BY the dogs when uncovered. The
title Of the builiiiaS is not comprehensive
enough, for it contains the exhibits in an
thropolegy. geology, ethnology and pale
tntOiOgy. Next TO the mammoth and
uasso,ions in popular interest are he sLel-
eton of the whale-aud it is the real bone
and the limitations or reproductions Of the
hadrosaurus, neglotlen robustus and 9TH
er grim monsters of that dreadfal time
when, apparently the Infinite allowed na-
ture to run at random and all creation was
in chronic state Of deilrum tremeas.
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