The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
THE MIDDLE CLASS
They Were to Visit the EXPOSE
ton in June,
BUT AS YET FAVE not APPEARED

How People Who Expected To BE En-
Disappointed = Some Financial Facts
Concerning the Greatest OF Iii Worlds
Fairs-sunday Closing.
WORLDS FAIR, aug. s. - Especial l.
When arrived in Chicago in early Jcne,
by the so-called coal road from Brazil,
Ind. landed st Englewood station and
rode leisurely through the two and half
miles of very new Chicago to my hotel
near the fair grounds. Nearly all the way
was through city so very new that /
could compare il to nothing but one OF
those suddenly 'slung up' towns used
to see on the Pacific railroad II 1868, or
later in the northwestern pineries. For
the last mile there was a constant success
sion of cheap hotels, saloons, restaurants
and structures which, in the railroad days
aforesaid, I should have taken for dance
halls.
In every third house the workmen were
still hammering away while Rooms to
Let" adorned the front. Piles of waste
Uttered the streets, the smell of varnish
and new mortar was hagrant and the air
was sneeze provoking with lime and dust.
In many houses / saw that some of the
rooms already had dodgers while in other
rooms the painters were st work and
daubs of plaster still clouded the windows
houses in which 500 would have been
no indrcement for me 70 sleep, they were
SO very 'green" and damp. And at every
house through all this region the pro-
'prietors were asking, "Where are those
middle class people who were to rush us
in June9 The very rich have come, the
very poor were already here, but where
are the middle million?"
l have walked around today and seen
those people again; but, alas, there is no
speculation in their eyes. Rooms which
were then held at $50 are now offered
me, ION the quiet, y'know," at 81, and
am urged to write Git is astonishing how
quickly these fellows recognize a news
paper man), and assure the people that
living is not very expensive here. Well, l
can conscientiously do it, and l maintain
that it ought to be done, for all who miss
ILLS SLOW WAt hCNCi SSeASO "
am positive that the cost of living in all
this new region near the fair grounds is at
the outside not more than 90 per cent.
higher than in ordinary times, and doubt
if it is that.
How very strange it is that only few
months ago everyone was saying, There
is but one danger-the cholera-keep that
out and this will be the grandest financial
success of the age" Well, the cholera
was kept out, the upper ten thousand
came early, went their way on summer
excursions and viii return in the fall, tho
very poor are pouring in from the west by
thousands daily, but the middle million
have not come. There are confident pre-
dictions that the farmers and villagers
will begin mad rush in few days. If
they don't, it win be pity-O, such a
pity!-for Chicago has done nobly. Moth
ing even approaching the White City has
heretofore been seen on earth, and perhaps
nothing like it will be seen for a century
to come. When one attempts to describe
it he can only say, Wonderful! Wonder
full!
The lowest estimate by the managers
was for 81, coz, 600 paid admissions, or $780,
600 daily average, including Sundays.
Well, the paid admissions for May aver
aged but $1,000 daily and On the last OF
July the average for all had not been