The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-07-27
OUR WORlD'SFA LETTER.
INTERESTING GOSSIP ABOUT THE
GREAT EXPOSITION. .F

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INTERESTING GOSSIP ARoUT THE
GREAT EXPOSITION.
The Stories About Exorbitnnt Hotel
Rates UnfOunded-GOOd AccOmmO-
dations Can BE Had mt 81 Per Day
The Northwestern Dairy Exhibit.
jackson Park, Special Corresponds
ence.-There are good many kicks
to be made in propriety and decorum
with regard to the management of
this exposition. They are not to be
offered so much for faults of omission
as Of commission. These failings lie
mainly at the door Of that old, common
complaint Of too many cooks, who in
variably succeed in spelling the, broth.
Kate Field, the irrepressible, made a
very sage remark the other day to the
effect that if q man like the late Ia
mented p. r.. Barnum were running
this show, the wheels would move along
with far less friction and it would be
a bigger show in q good many ways.
they are continually getting in one ar
others way and treading upon one an
others heels. 1t is a remarkable thing
that matters have been carried out as
well as they have been under the cir
cumstances. In less than two years
Chicago has built up in q morass the
most colossal enterprise the world ever
saw and has done it without a ripple
fnnn nf
dustrial sea. 1t took France nine years
to complete her last exposition, which
covered no more ground than two OF
the largest buildings out of the thirteen
great ones on these exposition grounds.
The Paris exposition covered seventy
i've acres The manufacturers build
ing here alone covers forty-four acres,
a pretty fair sized farm in the land OF
the lilies and the frog. "The leakage,
here, however, if it may be so termed,
lies in the practical every day manage
1nent. The Columbian guard has az
rested several of the national COM
missioners, one or two Of the heads or
departments, a foreign commissioner
or two, one Of their own officers, ana
Gnally last week added insult to injury
by attempting to arrest the national
commissioner of Paraguay, thereby
creating tempest In Israel and causing
the commissioners of all the foreign
governments to unite in a formal pro-
test and in the closing up of the Fara-
guayan exhibit until suitable apology
is offered for the insult. The commits
sioner attempted to carry some pieces
of bunting from the anthopolOgical to
the forestry building to have it stitched
together upon a sewing machine. The
guard attempted to arrest him because
he said it was against the rules to carry
materials from one building to another.
The commissioner explained who he
was, but that would do no good. When
the guard laid his hand upon the Para
-uuayan's shoulder the latter promptly
knocked him down. The guard then
blew his whistle for help and several
other guards rushed to his assistance.
Finally the American superintendent
Of the building interfered and saved
the commissioner from arrest. The
guards allege in defense of their coll
duct that there are strict military or
ders which they are bound to obey.
SVho in the name of common sense
wants military discipline at the Column
bian exposition. Police discipline is
T:eeded-nothing more; and when all Of
fetal is attending to his business he
ought to be let alone. These blunders
are being made right along. There is
some talk now of hiring a thousand
special policemen and dis1nissing the
guards entirely,
The attendance at the worlds fair is
daily increasing, and it is expected
that during August, September and Oc-
tober it will reach 100000 a day. The
stockholders of the worlds fair in
some instances now claim that they
j never expect to get any money back
upon their stock, but recognized the
fact that they were making a vOlun
tary contribution for Chicago and the
glory of America when they sub
scribed. Chicago, however, will rear
rich harvest out of the fair. 1t is
safe to say that 100000 strangers will
come and go during the time that the
gates are Open Each one of these
will spend $50 on the average. This
aggregates $1OO,OOO,OOO poured into thu
lap of the Windy City. This viii
amount to $50 for every resident man
woman and child within her gates
& Money, however, is not pouring int
the Golfers of the hotel men in the full
stream that they anticipated, and it i!
now stated that twenty eight hotels
built for the accommodation of worlds
fair guests are in the hands OF re
ceiyers. The reason for this is potent
There is accommodation in the city TO
100000 strangers, and when there ar
!. only about 100000 somebody has go
to suffer. The early reports sent GU
about the extortion Of hotels and eat
ing houses have had their effect. Man,
people are patronizing private resi-
dences which have rooms to rent, an,
gre giving the new hotels wide berth
While the hotel men were little to-
cash at the opening in their independ
~ ellce and their prices, there is abse
sutely no complaint to be made nov
upon that score. Hotel accommoda
lions can now be had Oh the Europea
plan at any price right in the yicinit
OF the fair grounds from so cents t
So per diem per person.. No person Q
q ordinary taste would care for bette
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