The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31
The Worlds Fair.

Editor Waterman Perhaps it may be
well here and now to answer the many in
quries from the East, " What will be suit
able to wear at the Worlds Fair?" The
only suitable apparel would be coat of
mail, for there is nothing else known that
would be serviceable here amid all the dust,
dirt, filth, rough boards, boxes, projecting
timbers and nails. The sand is so deep at
the white City" one needs to wear boots
with heavy inhexible soles wide enough to
save the foot from the small stones which
abound. Unless one is a millionaire, she
will be unable to preserve her self-respect
with white underwear, as it cannot be worn
more than one day without laundering, and
have found it impossible to get work done
in less than five days. The best thing is at
least two combination suits of black silk
and wool union underwear, which are so
light weight they can be washed and dried
each night in ones own room. 1t is so very
warm that all wool should be worn, but it
shrnks so in washing the half silk is better.
A silk petticoat, China silk dress which
clears the ground, made with scant skirt
of not more than four yards round storm
garment and a small hat or bonnet, complete
a tolerably comfortable and inexpensive
outfit. One also needs suits for cold day.
1t is impossible to give any one who has not
been here any idea of the dust and dirt and
nice light suits are the most detected look
ing things after day or two OF wear. The
heat has been intoerabe to Fasteners for
the past week. but Westerners don't call it
even warm.
If one has relatives to cousin" or can
afford to pay about $40 day at some of the
really first-class established hotels, one is
all right; but if forced to be economical by
going to some of the cheap places from 81 to
$4 day, the nearer he locates to the fair
the better, as the houses are not only more
comfortable, and of brick or stone instead of
lath and damp plaster Gf any, and five-inch
| clapboards laid six inches to the weather,
which are veritable fire-traps. Owing to
| labor troubles, transportation is slow, te-
dious and uncertain matter 1t often takes
| one an hour and half to go five miles.
Now, when the strike is off two or three
hours a day is considerable to lose if one s
time is worth anything.
After having tried all but two of the res
| taurants on the grounds, | have found but
| one that is anything like reasonable, yet my
adherence of lunch baskets is such that
| prefer to eat in dirty room to the best OF
| lunches from basket. Each day more and
more are following the advice of the Chicago
papers and carrying their lunches to the
grounds and sitting on the packing-boxes
scattered around, and eating it, If concen-
trated and persistent action on the part OF
the Chicago press can avail anything in ex-
posing the tricks, extortion and frauds per
petrated by the restaurateurs, they will
mend their ways, or at least their cooking
| The Waukesha Hygeia water is the only
safely drink, before or after it has been
boiled.
The guards at the fair are uniformly
courteous and well-informed, and from the
amount of patience exhibited, would infel
| that they are lineal descendants of the late
Mr.. job The Chicago press and commits
sioners are doing everything in their power
to protect the visitors from frauds, anC
make their stay pleasant and profitable
while quill pens, one and all, consider the
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have around
The event of the past week was the
Woman's Congress. The WATCHMAN cor
respondent had no wrongs to be righted o
grievances to air, and did not attend, anC
judged from the past that if she was no
told, she might never find ont that she wa
down-trodden and oppressed, subjected
to thralldom more abject than the Afri
slave" While many of the women ar
worthy of the highest respect, many appar
emily were not contented with their pres
ent domestic relations, or lack of relations
They came here to agitate, not the rights o
humanity, but the individual dissatisfied
woman. As the Dispatch said, "they hat
overflow meetings and overhowed," tn
grand finale being hysterical weep. Whel
will all women discover that undisputet
possession of most of the rights and all tn
privileges of humanity is the long arm o
the love that moves the world?
Young Mr.. Kohlsaat, the editor and pro
prietor of the Inter Ocean, is also the pro
prietor of several fine restaurants in tn,
city, and every evening gratuitously dis
tributes enormous amounts of food to the
poor children in the city, and it is grea
sight to see scores of little tots gather
around the elegant entrance with baskets
almost as big as themselves, on tiptoe witt
excitement 10 get their generous por
tions of nice food 1t was not 80 man,
years ago that Mr.. Kohlsaat was poor boy
himself, and abundant prosperity has made
him kind benefactor to the poor and un
fortunate.
The talk of the town and country is thu
Sunday opening, and the warfare is wageC
with great bitterness between the two par
ties. Whichever way it is decided, it will
be in the future a subject of dispute and re
crimination. Chicago people may be gooC
enough TO resist the numberless open bar'
and nameless temptations that beset stran
gers on every hand, but the police reports
indicate that idle humanity falls into mos
OF the traps set for them. But, in spite o
the ruinous rates charged by hotel men
anybody who can come here and does no
will have great reason to regret not seeing
the greatest exhibition the world has eve
known, and seeing it as long as their none.
or relatives hold out. LILLIAN WRIGHT.