The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-08

'sThe exposition shall be open for
the admission of visitors until Oc-
tober 80, 1898, on each day of the
week, subject, however, to the fol-
lowing regulations for the manage
ment and conduct of the exposition
Sundays: On each and every Sunday
the operation of the machinery in Ma
chinery hall and elsewhere shall be
suspended as far as practicable Exhib-
itors and employees shall be relieved
from duty except far as their pres
ence is essential and necessary for the
protection of property and the public
peace, but all employees whose services
are required Sunday shall be given one
day of rest during the week. Religious
services may be held each Sunday in
Choral and Music halls Mt such hours rs
shall be designated and named by the
council of administration, and said
council shall have authority to arrange
for such services. The fee of admis-
sion on Sunday is fixed at fifty cents"
The board also voted to return the
partly retained gift of So, 500, 900 to the
government, and the decision was
placed in the form of a rule to be forth
with submitted to the national COM
mission. 1t is said that many of the
commissioners are pleased with the
boards action and the chances for a
seven days fair are increasing.
In the meant the people flock out
about as if they entertained hopes of
being by some special dispensation of
the fair officials permitted to enter
Finding the turnStiles immOvable they
wander off to the Aideshovvs and scatter
their small change among the one horse
vendors of creature comforts who ply
their callings on Sunday as we'll as any
other day. There are shows of various
kinds in the neigh borhood of the fair.
merry-go-rounds, roller-coasters and the
like. and these do thriving business
when the crowds rebound from the
barred entrances of the fair.
The work in the grounds still goes
on on Sunday, and the workmen are
doubtless glad that the people are kept
out one day in the week, SO that they
can work undisturbed for a few hours
at a stretch. The exhibits are all rapidly
nearing completion and in the course
of a few days the noise of the carpenters
will have entirely ceased in most OF the
buildings.
The restaurant question is not fully
settled as yet, and the lunch basket is
still a popular institution with the
people. They are bound to stick it out
and if things keep on as they are some
| of the restaurant keepers are going te
be bankrupted. There has been a grea'
| reduction in prices in some Of the eat
| ing houses, however, and with those
| who have made the reduction trade i:
| getting better, and by the time thu
| summer crowd commences to pour in
| this trouble will be practically settled
In consequence of the unheard-o
| weather we have been having there has
| been much discomfort among the for
eigners in Midway Plaisance. 1t doe
| seem as if the elements had conspires
| to show the people Of other lands yvha
a perfectly indispensable climate W.
| have in this part of the world. For
| few days there was sunshine. Not III
| warm and comfortable kind they hav
| in the sunny chimes from which man.
| of them came, but a wealkand water.
imitation of the real thing: This en-
| couraRed them to venture forth iron
| the seclusio.l into which the cold an
! rain had driven them. But they Woul'