Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-28
TIME GETTING SHORT
Great Rush to Get Ready at
the Fair by Monday.
EASTERN ROADS CUTTING RATES

Columbian Rolling Chairs Arrive-2OC
Boston Girl Walters Arrive at the Fail
Directors Do Not Want Their Pictures
on Their Passes-Rate War Bound &c
Come.
CHICAGO, April 29-Time has been
called for the opening of the Worlds Fair.
Director Davis having issued an order to
the exhibitors instructing them to stop all
unpacking of exhibits before 10 o'clock
Sunday night. in order that the buildings
may be put into presentable shape for
Monday.
A great force of sweepers and cleaners
will be put at work Immediately after the
unpacking has ceased and the big build
ings will be scrub bed and secured from
floor to roof.
Special arrangements are now being
made in the various buildings for the re-
ception of the Presidential party by the
department chiefs.
Sixteen hundred Columbian rolling
chairs reached jackson Park yesterday and
were instantly put in service The chairs
are comfortable, roomy affairs, and each
one is accompanied by a guide. The chairs
are intended for invalids and tired visitors
who can afford to be lugged about the fair
at 15 cents per hour. The rate for chair
and guide per day is So, and the chair alone
goes for SO. so.
Classic Boston has invaded the Worlds
Fair terminal station, and the building at
once assumed an unwonted interest, shell
tering over 200 young women, who in
vested it with halo, not of romance, but
of business. The girls have all come here
to act as mattresses and serve at lunch
counters during the Fair period, and as no
arrangement was made as to return trans
portation, it is presumed many will change
from eastern to western girls II their
Worlds Fair experience proves agreeable.
Judging from their appearance, a crowd
of Boston girls can present more different
styles of walk. talk and dress than a much
larger collection of feminity from any
other American city. For a considerable
time, traffic was practically at a stand
still in the terminal station and the lunch
girls held full sway.
The Worlds Fair National commission
met in full session with about fifty men,
bers present. President Palmer announced
the committee which he,,was directed to
appoint by a resolution adopted at a prev
ious meeting to investigate the music
trouble brought on by alleged favoritism,
shown by Theodore Thomas, musical
director, and Paderewski his assistant, to
piano manufacturers not making exhibits.
A long and at times somewhat acrimon-
ious discussion over the form of passes to
be issued to the Columbian commissioners
and the Board of Directors followed. The
discussion was brought about by a letter
from Edward B. Butler, chairman of the
Bureau of Admissions and collecting sug-
costing that the directors and commission
ers should conform to the rules like other
people.
When the communication had been
thoroughly discussed q resolution was
adopted calling for IA special committee of
four which is to consider the matter in
conjunction with the Judiciary committee.
The joint committee will report as to
| whether commissioners and directors
shall submit to having their photographs
pasted on their passes.
A committee to receive the liberty bell
| of which j. w. Woodsde, of Pennsylvania
is chairman was appointed.
The first gun in the expected battle in
| 0rd's Fair rates east of Chicago was
hred yesterday by the Nickel Plate. 1t
| came in the shape of the announcement
/ of cut in the round trip rate between
| Cleveland and Chicago from SIS to $13. 80.
The Baltimore & Ohio promptly met this,
and further trouble is looked for at once.
1t is rumored that rates from Detroit
and Buffalo, as we'll as other eastern
points, will be cut before many days
and some railroad men think that when
the crowds begin to come the trouble will
not stop this side of the seaboard
The Lake Erie & Western, also, has
started trouble in enother direction by an,
nouncing a rate from indianapolis to Chi.
cago, via Michigan City, of So. so. against
the present rate of So. This will undoubt
| eddy be met.