The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-08
TT rs INDIAN SUMMER.
THE WORLDS FAIR AVENUES ARE
GAY WITH FuRS AND MANTLEs.

GUMS toing homo ana Some OF Them
Sick-Americnns Moro Lively Than Ever.
WORLDS FAIR, Oct. - Especial =
Now is the time to see variety in the
crowds. People no longer lounge or linger
on the avenues and grass plots-they go ut
n Broadway gait and occasionally break
into run, for frost has got here away
ahead of the almanac. 1t seems that the
brilliant hues of Indian summer are re-
produced in the moving groups, for Amer
leans have put on their fall suits and
new overcoats, and all the far foreign and
non-Aryan peoples are clad in their heavi-
est. Even the Eskimos may be seen in
their fur jackets, padding their kayaks on
the lagoon, for the first cold weather makes
them shiver just rs it does us. 1t is great
mistake to suppose that northern people
who go south do not feel the cold think
1t chills them even more than it does the
natives
Pity For Dahomcy.
Dahomey is to be ptied. Even the mild
est Indian summer days, which are so de-
hghtful and bracing, and which we by con-
trast call warm, are pinching to them, and
they are clamorous to go home but the
authorities will not release Manager Pene
till the time set in his contract is up, and
the circuit court has decided that the sad
darkies cannot remove their traps. If there
is any truth i'll that superstition held by
our own colored people, the bite of Da-
'homeyan just now would he dangerous in
deed, for every one of them is 'blue
gummed Niger" They pour down whisky
and hot coffee and huddlc together OH the
sunny side of their huts and when the
manager stirs them up to get on the wall
and shout for customers every one appears
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face and IL natural opal Mt the end of his
nose. Tho Bedouins of the Wild East show
are in even worse fix, and several of them
have gone home while others are sick. The
Turks, Algcrians, Chinese and others seem
to stand it better
On the main avenues in the fair proper
the view is very guy, and in the course of
half an hour ut any point one may see all
the races in their heavy clothes. Very
prominent are the recently arrived McNi-
cans, with their high winter sombrcros and
heavy jackets and trousers lined with but
tons i'll the shape of large plums and made
of pure silver, Oyer all they sometimes
wear rich and Warmly lined mantle or
CLOAK. The South Americans dress in
similar fashion and are equally striking.
Inc Indians from Guatemala no longer play
the marimba on the shore of the lagoon,
blankets most of the time, and it is plain
to the eye that they sigh for other chimes.
The CinGalesc arc especially sensitive to
cold, and even our own Californians COM
plain loudly of this climate. 1t is not an
uncommon thing to have u cold snap early,
but it is strange that so many cold DAYS
follow. On the evening of the great storm
the mercury stood ut 81. Five days later it
was ut 30. On that day tho open air restau-
rants looked like banquet halls deserted,
and any one who should have suggested
sherbets and orange ice would have been
secuted rs Il malignant idiot.
Some Queer Contrasts.
AS l sit on the porch of the Indiana
building, my ovcrcoat nicely Struggled up
around my neck, and sec ladies 90 by with
fur jackets on and foreigners with blanket
coats, L can but contrast the scene with
that on Ohio day and wonder how this
place will look year hence. Could one
familiar with it as it now is return in Oc-
tober, 1894, he would find the lagoons and
bridges rs they are the lake shore and
promenade of artificial tagging Just the
same, but vacancy where these great
structures stand, and how very odd it would
look! Americans in this vicinity will soon
have realizing sense of 'ancient ruins"
for the buildings are to be sold at auction
and removed as rapidly as possible Nam
hnttan day, Oct II, will probably DE tho
first big day of consequence after Chicago's,
and many think it Will be the last of i'm
portance.
y singular fact III this connection is that
Endc;tvor day came and went and none OF
us knew of it, and now that il can do no
harm the fact is published that the word
was quietly passed among the Christian
iAndeavor societies for them not to recog-
niZc the day. And the original intention
wa: TO make it one of the grandest days of
of the fair On Aug. 2S notice was served on
Director General Davis by General Secre
tary Baer OF the Endeavorcrs that the day
must not be officially announced if the
yates were to remain open on Sundays, and
now we are assured that the Sunday OPEN
ing was the main reason for the small at
tendance from New England. OF course
we cannot know what effect it had, but it
undoubtedly had some. The Christian En-
deavor Hotel association also admits that
that scheme was IL failure comparatively,
an / now 1T appears that all the schemes of
Joint stock and other organizations to take
care of people here have amounted to very
little.
Distinguished Men ut the Fair.
We still have many notabiiities with us
The princes from India hurried away while
the weather was warm, but our own In
dian princes. Northumberland Lone Dog,
Chasing Fly, War Bonnet. Gray Eagle,
Cottonwood and Prairie Chicken, grow
iiyclier with cool weather and have given
us some war dances at Festival hall. On
the evening of the I'd most of the foreign
Worlds fair commissioners left for St.
Louis, where they are the guests of the Au-
tumnal Festival association Conyress,nen
and generals have been plenty of late and
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is conspic-
rous in spite of his endeavors to remain
very much incog. lie is go years old a
ErrY fine looking mau and nnsitivnlr do