The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-12
NOT LARGE CROWDS
Go Out to See the Big Fair on Sun
days


CHICAGO. July s.-The attendance at
the worlds fair eoday was very light,
so light as to raiAe doubt in some minds
as to whether the open Sundays are to
prove the financial boom to the fair
that was expected. While the EXPOSE
ton officials express satisfaction over
the attendance, it is no secret that con-
cessionaries are generally greatly disap-
pointed at the lack of bustling multi
tudes that were fondly anticipated for
this period Of the fair.
AS nearly all the concessionaries are
compelled to pay 25 per cent of their
gross receipts into the expoSiti cof-
fers, they are, of course, the first to feel
the results of light attendance. The
Wellington catering company and near
~ all the other catering and restaurant
establishments are cutting down their
forces, and the Hygia water company.
the most enterprising institution on the
ground, has made radical reductions in
its working force until the attendance
shall become such as to justify previous
expectations.
Regular Sunday services were the
only special attraction at the park to-
day. and the now established facts that
many exhibits are entirely closed on
Sundays no doubt worked somewhat to
diminish the Sunday attendance. The
first of the Michigan Central industrial
excursions entered the grounds today. A
special train bore about 450 employees Of
the Michigan CentraPs shops of Detroit
All these employees and their families are
furnished with passes. 1t is expected
that the benefit that they will derive
from the unsurpassed exhibition of in
dustrial and decorative arts at the
worlds fair will be highly appreciated
by these workmen and will rebound TO
the interests of the company in the inn
provement of their technical skill, the
character Of their work and the training
Of their perceptive and inventive facul-
ties.
Commissioner General PaIitschek-
Palmforst of Austria says that he is in
favor of permitting the sale and i'm
mediate delivery of goods by exhibitors.
He said he was not asking more than had
been granted at previous international
expeditions, nor more than was allowed
present worlds fair. The latter. as was
becoming generally known, he said,
were selling goods quite openly, and he
had been informed that the guards had
been instructed to close their eyes to
the practice at least so far as a certain
few We're concerned The commissioner
insisted that it was only right that all
exhibitors should be put on the same
footing.
AT the Paris exposition such sales
amounted 10 100000 francs. There
were rules similar to those of the Column
bian exposition. but they had served
their purpose when they had shut out
those who would have come in with
gewgaws and fraudulent wares for the
mere sake of traffic. Foreign exhibitors,
or many Of them. did not care for the
doubtful reward of medals. Under the
present system of judging their only hope
of compensation for the trouble and
expense to which they had been put lay
in the direct sales which they could
make. There could be no possible harm
IN these legitimate sales, if all exhibitors
were given the same privilege.
Commissioner PalitSchk Palmforst
has written letter to Chief Allison of
the manufacturers and liberal arts
building complaining of the disorderly
conduct OF the Columbian guards on
duty at night i'm the Austrian section of
the manufacturers building. He said
the guards made free with all articles on
exhibition, using the choice Bohemian
glassware to drink beer from, forgetting
to replace it, Show cases had been
opened by guards. who had crawled in
side to find a comfortable place to sleep.
Two nights ago one had broken a fan
worth $3.50, apparently by stepping or ly-
ing upon IL. Drawers had been broken
open and other depredations committed.
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