The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-03
CHICAGO WORLDS FAIR.
It's Nature and Purposes as Ex-
pounded by Terence Murphy,
IIOd Carrier.

KS fdtuLc ana purposes as Il.
pounded by Terence Murphy
Eod Carrier.
1t was high noon, and in tn
basement Of the building in cours
of construction the men had lai
aside their hods, and after dispos
ing of the contents of their Dime
pals were smoking the clay pipe Q
contentment. Terence Murphy tool
his short pipe from his mouth q
he addressed Dennis Finn.
Say, Dinny, would yer be afthe
goin' to the WORLDS Fair?"
ITO tn WORLDS Fair is it, "
say? And fwhat moight that be
tn WORLDS Fair?"
| "Sure, an haven't yer hear spake
o tn WORLDS Colombian Exp'z'
sim, as they say?"
Come off, nov, Terry Come
away! Git out o. that wild thin
dude words. Fwhat's tn plain
English av' TIL barney ye're givin
me?"
Faith, man, it's no blarney Pm
givin' ye. Don't yer read fwhat
they tells in tn newspapers,
Dinny?"
"Y'know dom we'll I don't read
tn stuff I have me work. to do.
tell We Ive heard of no fair"
'Well, there's to be a fair"
''In fWhat county is il, Mike?"
In no county, bejabbers. They'd
be afther havin' it in Ch'kawgy."
In Ch'kawgy is it You say? An
will it be loike tn good fairs in the
ould country? Arrah, now, an if
it is, you'll see me in the very midst
of itp'
"No, no; but you are ign'r'at,
Dinny, me man. This great Gloom
bian Exp'z'shn's goin' to be tn
divvil of a institootion, tn loikes
av which no one ever saw before,
before. P'haps we've hear tell of
tn stock yards in Ch'kawgy?"
eth place where they kill tn
pigs, is it?"
9TH same place. tt moiles an
moiles in tn circumforation.
can is it there they'd be for
holdin' tn fair?"
'Indade it is. Every fair has
pigs, Dinny, and tn Ch'kawgy fair,
as bein' tn greatest in tn woorld,
must have more pigs than any
other fair before. So they said as
t'would be cheaper to take tn fair
to tn pigs than tn pigs to tn fair,
an they built tn fair grounds all
round tn pigs. They're buildin'
yet, Dinny."
can will they have nothin' but
pigs in Ch'kawgy?"
mo, indade but they'll have a
piece of everything in the woorld.
They'll have lagoonys an gon-
doolys an piazzys an porticoolys
an men an women from all over
The earth"
Faith, but where did We get the
Frinch lingo about tn lagoonys?" |
''Sure it's ell in tn noospapars."
can phwat tn divvil's Ia
yoony?"
"You don't know phwat's a la
5oony? Did ye never hear O. pat
,houli?"
"Pat Shooley? Sure, never did.
An is he bossin th' fair?"
'No, We choomp,he amt a bossin'
h fair. Ye have no eddycashun,
)inny. TIL stuff they call pat
;houli's a perfume. The old
oman uses it av a Sunday fwhen
he goes to tn choorch."
ga perfume is it? An is tn
AGONY perrfume?"
Faith, an they tell me it is
lot. But av yez go to tn fair We
an see for yerself, Dinny.'
"Well, 1 don't care much for tn
AGONY. 1 much prefer tn pigs.
hey say tn Ch'kawgy pigs a
pine class O. pig"
True, Dinny, it is. 1t has a
pine chance"
can fwhen is tn fair to be?"
ooh, not till tn comm sum-
ler."
"An' is it now ye'd be botherin'
le wild tn WORLDS Fair, that
int to be till tn next SUMMER"
at is that"
swell, I'd have we t. under
tand, wild yer talk about exp'z'-
Inns an lagoonys, that fwen We be
talkin' to Dinny Finn, yez might
est confine your oratorations to
A. present day. An there goes
n whistle now. l want to hear
o more of your WORLDS Fair" -
y. Y. Sun.