Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-15
WONDERS OF THEWHITE CITY
Never Before Was Such an Aggregatios
Of Architectural Effects.
nut the Attendance at the Fair 10 Nos whss
".s Expectsd-No Cause to oompisa.
Of Prices at This Time.
stan Correspondents Of The Evening STA,

over the railroads. They are inclined a. b,.,ns
the railroads because people are not rushing "a
tne worlds fair In numbers that viii make 1,
financial success The agitation Of the oues-
''on OF reduced rates and the possibiiity that
rates "iii be reduced undoubtedly has tke ef.
iec' Just now OF keeping people away-peopls
VINO are waiting for cheaper fares A CONNER
ciai traveller whose business takes hiu q,
Journeys through Illinois, Indiana and the ada
cent states told me this morning that folls who
lived within two or three hour y,ds ~ 1s,o.,.
are holding back, expecting every day Feduc-
uon on rairosd ratea OF course thoss VII,
hss thousand miles or more distant are even
more deeply. Interested In the matter
OF rates. IL must not be assumed.
however, that there are no people here.
The trains fromevery direction are loaded down
ana JUST nov an average OF about 100 900 people
oay pay their way at the gates of the eipoe5-
non If this were the average for the sbols
Peiioo OF the fsir the receipts from admissions
wonid be about %, GOO, 0O0 The estimsteS cos1
" tne exposition up TO the winding up 81 its
analr szzoOO.0o0. The exposition wiz. Of
certs, receive considerable money paid In per-
oentages oy concessionsires, but unless the
average attendance is largely increased ID lcoks
fair itself VI
AbRieHr VIEW OF TEE SITUATION.
President Higinbothsm and hi, ..sor..x..
however, take very bright via, -
The situs.ion. They speak Of N. .,,.,s.
ence Of the centennial .xno.;,,,.
oasing their expectations on thss 49,
euiate mat the average Attendance Nil
conunue TO increase at the cIo~. A.
ID; ". hdmunds. the secretary of The exr,os,sio,,
cen,en v tnis morning that the business az the
open was greater than during All N. -
months together, and he believed THAI x..,i
De the case here. Mr.. Edmunds ,s . W.sA;.-
tonian and began his business career "a ~
counting room OF The EVENING srAn. Anv
one VINO thinks there is no work about ruy.pips
ole falr Ike this would change his opini., h
he spent half an hour or 90 around ths CO..
IN Ine Administration building
Inc president and secretary are kept husv
al midnight They have bed rooms n ~
building, and stay at night on The gronnA e
a 70 be ready early In the morning.
THE QUESTION OF ArrrxDAxcx.
Inc question Of Attendance Is a matter Of In
porfance to others than the expedition ofsosrS
ohicago Is ready for q much bigger crowd sba,
II has seen yet II Is not, I am sure. q via -
ams'e 70 say that the city ie ready 70 aco,~-
mooste comfortably over half million yfsfsovv
a Gay. i mean BY that that every one OF he
nan mnnon could have comfortable slsspdne
place, get reasonably good meals without u.,ch
DELAY and find ample facilities for tr.nsno-s..
non TO the lair. When preparatScns have -,
made for throng like that and ouly shoas .
hundred thousand a day come il IL essv 10 -
Una some where good deal Of money has been
,aia ou' nom wnlcn no returns are being re-
ceiveo. In many cases this has caused
assignments. About thirty of the Car.
hotels erected near the fair eroupds -
oeen closed, the spectators Who tpvesss6
money on them having either made sulop- A,
mens or concluded to draw out before thew
gos 700 deep into the hoief Some If tI.scs
large hotel buildings have been sofa. ana II,
be, II rs said, turned into tenement houses a.
cheap apartment house, large A.. H..
been built up under the stimulus given by a.
worlds flair with more or lese fiyesv
suucturee: here and there b . hotel buildine
them or their owners after the fair 10 ever 4
matter OF conjecture, for il Il hardly e,o-
ceivAb1e that Chicago, even AZ c-eat - n.
growth has been, viii have need fer CO
buildings Tor long time TO come.
WONDERS or THr WHITE CITE
This is the gloomy side Of the fair from q,
Chicago standpoint 1t is but fair 10 sa, q
Ford In praise Of the exposition. Words s.u
me In trying to convey the suppression ei,rp
'y the nrst visit to the fair rrounds rbs
rorid never before produced al one tina 81
'iace such an aggregation Of architecsursI
meets Even a Washington man, yhose etes
.re someshst accustomed to noble vistas snd
rand buildings, lie sstouaded by the WONDER
y what the chicago papers love to caf ne
Fhite city. The location on the LAKE, frs,rs
. an ideal one. and the visitor vhen -
ooks down through . magnificent colon
i inas. or perystyie, seeminsly Of tss
inland sea thinks Of the classic shorss ~ -
aediterranean. II he were ever there or Il ~
ver read about Athens or Oarthas~. Iya
ever was there aad never did read much he n
nevertheless deeplyimpressed with the splendse
4 the scene. Then the inmeasity Of the e..
ew days to do" it in. some peop,e -
etued here for the summer, and DO not en-
ect IN that time to see all that ID TO be seen.
great many beautiful pictures OF bufldinsy
nd scenes In the fair grounds have beso
rinIeo ana circulated through the country,
u' no SET OF pictures do justice to the subjsol
NO cAusE TO COMPLAIN or pnrcEa
1t might be IL the great thines that vets
'oked for were here that prices would 10 mn.
at at present there u no good cause for snv
ompiaint by vistora At ordinary street CO
.tes one can travel from any part Of the city V
ne fair grounds. Good board and lodcine.
tner AZ hotels or In smaller houses. can be had
as low rates in Chicago today ss In sny large
'ty In the country. Houses that started Qua
} charge - Ia day are glad TO get o. day.
peak OF houses thst were opened expressly fcs
ne exposition. The old and regular hotes
barge their usual rates One can spend Q good
cal OF money in the exposition grounds and
s interesting amer, the Midway Pinisancs. II h.
aoosee and has IL 20 spend, but be
IN come In for half q dollar and
eed not spend cent more He viii get for
is 30 cents the most magnificent entertainmeps
7er offered for that or any other sum. he Cas-
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