Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-11-05
CLOSE OF The FAIR.
CHICAGO Turns LOOSE IN THE
MIDWAY.
The White City About TO Vanish
Forever.

ercises and the big WorlG's Fair Ill
soon be but a memory. To those
who visited 1T it will be memory to
last life time. The youngest child
who visited it will when it becomes a
grand parent look back on this the
grandest exhibition the world has
ever witnessed and quote it as
never to be forgotten episode.
But as matter of fact no one has
ever really seen the Fair | doubt
if a single person IN the world has
really seen half of it. The world
had been ransacked for treasures of
art, invention and manufacture and
billions of dollars worth Of the best
and costliest of the worlds products
mad been gathered in one place.
The six months allotted for the fair
was too short time for any one per-
son to see half of these exhibits.
Think of one building twenty acres
in extent with mile track on the
top; well when you had spent a
month in the building you were only
lust beginning to see the Fair.
How they are going to clear the
buildings of their contents, clear the
grounds Of the buildings and deliver
the grounds again to the Park Conn
m1ssioners is what is puzzling the
people.
understand that an offer has
been made of a million and a quarter
to take down the buildings, but no
one wants the contract at those fig
ures.
Trey are talking now of burning
the buildings and charging admission
to the grounds when the great con
migration IS goinI on, They could
fire one building every night and
give a series of great shows.
On account of the death of Mayor
Harrison the FAIR closed with no
demo stration and the flags at half
mast. But on the Midway it was
different and all barriers were broken
down.
Men and women alike seemed un-
mindful Of deco UNI; bedlam was let
loose and riot ran unlicensed from one
end of the thoroughfare to the other.
1t vas a mad carnival. Regiments
of men were formed and marched up
and down the plaisance, every man
footing tin horn or shouting.
Women grouped, footed horns, and
did high kicking to the delight of
the spectators. Men and women
mixed swept everything before them.
Trey took people off their feet and
t-amped over them unconcernedly.
protestations were met with laughter
and were drowned in the blast of
horns Squads of jewellers ran over
the Plaisance, surrounding groups of
people sedately viewing the sights
and circling around them, danced,
shouted and deafened them with the
noise of horns, horse rattles and the
beating of Impoverished gongs and
cymbals. Rolling chairs were ap-
propriated and rushed along on the
gallop. Wheelbarrows were secured
from somewhere, and half a dozen
women were wheeled around in the
crowds by their escorts. A portly
woman trotted along, tagged on each
side by boys in knee pants. She
blew 4 tin horn Justify, and the in
fants kept their mamma company
with two baby's crying balloons.
As the night grew the fun became
more furious. Signs were torn down
and used as banners. Awnings were
ripped from rafters and formed into
robes, with which men and women
draped themselves. The red, white,
unI blue paper that decorated the
buildings were torn down and wom-
EN- made bows and scarfs Of their
plumber. The horns were blown
franticaIly all the time. The men
shouted and the women screamed.
From end to end If Midway the tu-
mutt was the widest ever known
there The shows closed early, as
the crowd afforded in its saturnalia a
greater sight than any housed freak
on the street. All the shows closed
but the Oriental dancing acad emies.
The Nautch girls became imbued
with the abandon of American W ON
en- and men, threw aside a lot of
their clothes, and came out in front
Of the theater to lure patrons III by