St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-19
WORKERS WERE OUT.
Chicago's Toilers Spend a
Day to Advantage In the
White City.
Owing to the Great Heat the
Crowd Was Not a Large
One.
The Great Ferris Wheel Is to
Be Formally Opened on
Thursday.
Over Ten Thousand Engineers
and Others Invited to
Be Present.

CHICAGO, June 1S.-There was not a
wild rush of people to the worlds fair
this morning. The Sunday going crowd
made no unusuak haste. 1t took its
usual Sunday morning nap, ate its usual
Sunday breakfast when the sun was
high in the heavens, and that glowing
orb had begun to settle towards the
West before the Sunday crowd began
to pour in the gates of the White City
in Jackson park. in its makeup
it differed little from the crowd that at
tended the fair last Sunday and the
Sunday before. There were thousands
of workingmen, some of them alone
and many of them with their wives and
families, including the babies and din
ner baskets. They strolled about the
grounds, through the buildings, and
took solid comfort in the wondrous
sights there placed on exhibition, and
if any man imagines that the wage
worker does not appreciate fine paint
ings and works OF art he should have
seen the
Multitude Of Artisans
that fingered in the halls of the fine
arts building throughout the afternoon
and far into the evening. And when
evening came thousands of families
crowded the benches on the administra-
ton plaza and listened to the music Of
the bands in the paviliOns and ate the
lunches they had brought out from their
homes. They enjoyed it, too, and when
the closing hour came they went home,
appearing, at least, to have spent a
profitable and happy day. But the art
galleries and buildings containing
works of skill and science were not the
only places patronized. The inhabit-
ants OF Darkest Africa. Asia, and the
isles of the sea, temporarily quartered
on the M idway Plaisance, drew crowds
of people to witness their wild, fantastic
dancing and hear their strange, monot-
onous songs and their strange music.
The fortunetellers, magicians, the
camel drivers and dancers of the Cairo
street, the South Sea islanders, the AL
gerians aud the Chinese all
Entertained Thousands
upon thousands of people. And thou
sands thronged about the wonderful
Ferris wheel, and all day long the
captive balloon carried visitors skyward
and let them see the fair and Chicago
and the surrounding towns from the
altitude of 1000 feet. And thus another
Sunday at the Worlds Columbian ex-
position passed. The great Ferris
wheel, the Eiffel tower Of the worlds
fair, is to be formally opened to the
public next Wednesday afternoon.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the event. Over 10000 invitations
have been issued. and incladed in the
list are about all the prominent engin-
GERS in the country. Excursion trains
are to be run from PittSburg, CIeve-
land, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and other
large cities. Speeches will be made by
prominent engineers, and by Mr.. Ferris,
the inventor of the great wheel. Mayor
Harrison Will make the address Of wei
come and Director General Davis will
speak in behalf of the worlds fair.
Admissions to the worlds fair today:
Adults, 54,6S2; children. 1904; en-
pl0yes, exhibitors and other tree admis-
SionS Ia S3f total "a 512