New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-05-03
ROASTING THE BIG FAIR,
A Warning From Chicago As to the Way
in Which Things VIII "li BE- earned on.
Room Rents Are out of Sigh: and So also
is the Price of Food.


reads as follows: ~s
To those creduloIs parties who con-
template attending the opening services
Of the worlds fair next week, in the
laconic adjuration of Sidney Smith.
''Don't.''
Nothing is ready for exhibition. Moth
ing is arranged for comfort. Those who
will be inveigled into the much adver-
tised Midway Plaisance will find it
stocked with ungainly packing cases and
bales of foreign luggage, with at present
anything but an attractive appearance.
Possibly, for the price paid for admission,
they may obtain Il glimpse of President
Cleveland in his great act of starting a
portion of the big show, but the chances
are ali against them.
4 recent tour over the grounds reveals
a sad lack of system and order. Six inch
es of water covered Il large portion of
the grounds yesterday, and muddy foot
wear is the prevailing style and Will be
for more than a week to come. even
with the best of weather. As to any
systematic arrangement OF exhibits there
is none. All is confusion worse con-
founded, and the long-vaunted glorious
opening of the Columbian exposition
bids talr to become national scandal
and disgrace. For more than month
there has prevailed continual pickering
and wrangling among those upon whom
devolved the duties of arranging exhibits
and appordoning space. There is seri-
Gus lack of railway trackage. This in
itself has served wonderfully we'll in
making confusion worse confounded-
Time has been called on exhibitors.
An order has been issued by Director
Davis to the exhibitors instructing
them to clear up their exhibits
before 1 O'Clock Sunday night
in order that some semblance of order
may be brought out of chaos for Monday.
What does this means Simply this, that
the worlds fair will be opened with
about 40 per cent of the exhibits un-
packed. Is this swindle? The people
who attend thc alleged opening of the
worlds fair here in Chicago must answer
this question on their return. The special
CORES spondent Of s:rhe Daily News
would he derelict IN his duty did he not
contribute these facts which have been
Suppressed by Chicago papers
Upon all the errors of management,
lack of system. disorderly arrangement
and general disposition to swindle the
public on all hands the Chicago press has
been strangely and eulpably silent. One
paper alone in this big city has dared to
point out the scandalous increase IN price
of the commonest articles of food in
Chicago restaurants. The Daily News
has secured and recently published a
schedule of the increase. BUT no paper
has seen fit, or deemed it wise financial
policy, to allude to the rack-rentine Gus
toms of landlords and keepers of rooms
for sleeping purposes. This is something
awful when price is considered. Only
those who have tried in the city to Sc
cure rooms at Il moderate price can just
II appreciate the force of this a1lusion.
The entire Northwest has suffered from
the worlds fair. Chicago, like leecll,
has for fully eighteen months sucked all
enterprise and energy. all loose funds and
misdirected interest to the great absorb
ing, rapacious maw of 1.-The exposition"
Other localities III the Unio1, have felt it
If course in measure, but the Northwest
has been the greatest sufferer. The pros
pective fair In Chicago has paralyzed to
adegree Northwestern enterprises True,
the people of the Northwest have been
generous contributors to the exposition.
And now, at the very threshold of the
opening of the event those people stand
confronted with one of the grandest
sWindles Of the century. From the day
of the opening until the final act.of this
picturesque burlesque and fake imposi-
ton on patriotic people. these words,
and the sentiment of this article will
come home to worlds fair visitors with
greater force. Chicago is sowing the
wind, but in due time she will reap the
whirIwind
Her infamous rapacity will not be for
gotten long after the lights are out IN the
Midway PIaisance, and the last flare of
the brazen trumpet has died into an
echo. People think and people remem-
ber. The greed for gold is not confined