The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-07

streets. There were four or five, and
even six, cars attached TO the grip car,
and, then, all the cars were loaded to
their very fullest extent. People hung on
the platforms and fell out of the win
dows. They stood on the little bar,
which runs along side the grip car, and
they hung on behind in school-boy fash
Ion as they had not done in years-any-
thing TO get out to the Fair Grounds.
which are fully eight miles south of Chi
cago.
1t was funny to see how the women
braced up, buckled on an armor of
nerve and tussled with the men for right
of place. Women, so timid that they
had not spoken above whisper for years,
yelled themselves hoarse trying to stop
over-laden cars, and the gentlest of them
did not hesitate to elbow her way on
10 the platform and there hold her place
against Ill dispute.
The conductors were powerless to pre-
vent TINS awful running into danger.
Early in the day they gave "p warning
Seopie. and, as they said, they LET 'em
5ke their own resks."
ii tell we that yell git killed II a car
comes up and bitches on the back of
@lis one" said cable car conductor TO
q little woman In sailor hat, who had
hitohed the end of her shawl strap over
the back end Of the platform rail- and
was hanging on to it, willie she balanced
herself on the tiniest corner of the step.
81 don't care if / do get killed." said
the woman. II might as well die as not
get TO the Fair. while things are all fresh
and amt been looked at till they amt nice
any more"
"But II you do get killed, I'll get ar
rested and lose my pay" growled the
conductor, as he passed on TO tell a man
who was hanging to one of the windows
that he could not get out TO the fair that
way.
The railroad which runs between Chi
cago and the Fair does fine business,
and is really the easiest and most COM
Portable way Of getting there. besides
being the quickest. But II is a little out
of the way. being over the Lake Shore
and the railroad company will not let
II be too crowded. And as for the ele-
waited, well everybody knows the pros
and cons of elevated travel.
This week has been the claimants mil
lennium. In his widest moments, and
while indulging In his brightest dreams
of bllssful cab service. he never imagined
anything quite as golden as the last week
has been. The law allows him 81 an
hour for his work, II he drives only one
horse. but during the last week he has
allowed himself at least s. more an hour,
so that the aggregate has been something
like Sc an hour 1t Is really fact, that
AZ YOU are a defenseless female and want
cab TO take you to the Fair Grounds.
YOU must pay the cabman something
like 81 to take you there, and 81 for his
time in returning. The only way to get
even with him is 10 take all your trunks
in the cab with you and gather together
all your friends and relatives and give
them a ride out TO the Fair in your cab.
1t will not cost you a cent more, because
fr H. ma L.,
ne takes much or little. and then. when
your trunks are out there you can en-
gage board near the Fair Grounds and
be on hand for the daily excursions.
Although the Fair had been open SO
long before the opening day there was
a great deal of excitement last Monday
morning. Everybody was on tiptoe with
expectation. The Woman's Building
designed by the beautiful Miss Sophie
Hayden. OF Boston. had all It's doors hos.
pitably thrown open, and in the bic
reception room was Mrs. Potter Palmer
receiving in mate with Vice Presidents
Mrs Henrotn, Troutman Price and tn.
entire Board of Lady Managers from IN,
different States. All were magniicenily
dressed, and the occasion could not hav.
been more elaborate one. IL each lady
had been I'm her home giving a reception
to the Queen of England. Upon Tn
less relics sent by woman all over tn,
world and guarded by fair attendants
and in a conspicuous place lay the sive
hammer, sent by the women of Nebraska
at the suggestion II Mrs. Langworthy
so that Mrs. Potter Palmer could driv.
the last nail in the Woman's Building II
suitable state. Mrs. Palmers opening
address was brief, as was Lady Aber
deems. as both felt that the Fair had beer
opened before.
III feel just like beginning again, nov
have got all through" sighed an ole
lady from Vermont. who had come on
ten days before the Fair, in order TO Sc
the thing at its opening. ~ never knew
what there was TO see until ] got hol,
OF one Of these Columbian guides. An,
now I want 10 stay and can't, becaus,
my two weeks are up"
And It is the Columbian guide whoa,
praises must be sounded 10 all who ar,
going to see the Fair. and whose praises
VIII long resound from the iips Of ~,