Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-06
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Interesting Insights into the Great
Exposition.

has commenced and we have still an
incomplete fair. It's badly behind,
too. When the officials the first of
May said everything would be finish
ed June l, people believed them.
They had no cause to do otherwise.
But now they see that it win be weeks
yet before they will get all they pay
for. Not but that apersOn cannot get
a half-dollars' worth out of what is
now,finished, but we don't like to ex-
pect one thing and get another OF
course people say the directors knew
the work would not be done and that
the truth had to be stretched to Sc
cure attendance. 1t has that appear
ance. We are promised that the
whole thing will soon be complete.
"Soon" is long way ahead, if past
progress be taken as a criterion.
There are people who say the exposi-
tion never will be finished
The officials claim that May has far
exceeded their expectations. Perhaps
it has. Nobody outside knows what
their expectations were. They have
taken the attendance at the Centennial
as standard, and have appeared hap
Ply because they exceeded it. They
did not go very far beyond it, how
ever. AS the Columbian show cost
several times as much as the Centen-
nial and as its operating expenses are
proportionate, it would seem that the
comparison is weak. The fact remains
that there were not as many admis-
sions i'll May as there ought to have
been.
There is a section of the California
building that is going to be mighty
popular, unless all signs fail 1t is
said that certain part of the struc-
ture win be given to the free distribu-
ton of California wines. The asser-
ton by connoiseurs that man can't
get jag ON California wine will
doubtless come up for animated test.
Visitors to the fair should not fail
to see the Dahomey village. Ofcourse
there are many other interesting eX-
hibits on Midway, but it is doubtful if
any is more so than this from the
kingdom of Behahtin. Their enter
tainment is unique. They have a
monkey dancer named Boost who
knows moro than the whole village
combined. He wears pants, carries a
cane, scratches his nose and picks his
teeth. The Dahomeyans wear pants
-sometimes-but are hardly up to
the monkeys other accomplishments.
These black people have sleepy-eyed
king who sits on bucket and looks
tired while they dance around and
howl and swing their clubs. The
king wears headpiece with feathers
in it and a necklace of animals teeth
tbut his other garments are Of no inn
portance. When these people first
came here they insisted on wearing
their home costume, which consisted
of a glad, sweet smile. They have
been persuaded to don necklaces and
other warm articles of apparel, how
ever, and are presentabe enough to
attend full dress society bail. One
of their houses is full of snakes, which
glide about as they please. Other
pleasing things they show visitors are
skulls and thigh bones.
Kentucky dedicated her building
last Thursday, and people from the
blue grass state unveiled statue of
Daniel Boone, in addition, The
statue is in the rotunda of the build
ing and is in plaster of paris. After
the exposition it will be carefully re-
cast in bronze and transferred TO
Louisville. Governor Brown made
the dedicatory address.
Fair people are going to put 6-foot
addition on their fence. Chicago
folks are too athletic to suit their
fancy and insist VI shining up and
dropping off accidentally on the in
side. A south-sider remarked that
the attendance would be divided by
two if they build up that fence.
A scheme is on foot to take the
cream of the exhibits to California for
a midwinter exposition, after the
Columbian show closes. A large
sum of money has already been SUBJ
scribed and it is not beyond the
range Of possibilities that the plan
will succeed Editor M. II. DeYoung
is the originator Of the enterprise.
Eualia (pronounces II A-oo-lah-lee-
ah,) infanta, of Spain, is in Chicago,
accompanied by her husband, Prince
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