The herald., 1893-05-13
GATES OPEN ON SUNDAY.
A Very Knotty Worlds Fair
Question Settled.
Admission to the Grounds on
Sunday for Half Fare.
But the Buildings win Be Kept
Scrupulously Closed.
The National Commission still wrange
ling Over the Music Investiga-
tion-Wheelmen to Have
Day ut the Fair.

By the Associated Pfess.1
CHICAGO, May 12.-The worlds fail-
gates will be opened to the public on
Sunday and the vexed question is set
tied.
Today, at the regular monthly meet,
ing of the local directory of the worlds
fair, it was decided to open the gates of
Jackson park to the public for half of
the sum of admittance to the fair during
the week, viz: rs cents. This action
has nothing to do with opening the
buildings. The latter will remain closed
as required under the laws passed by
congress, and as agreed to when the
sum of 81, 800, 900 was accepted from the
Fifty-second congress. The action Of
the board will 60 into effect on the 21st
Of this month. The vote by which the
resolution was passed was q to 2. I'm
der the resolution the midway plaisance
is also thrown open.
Edwin Walker, attorney for the board,
submitted an opinion on the question,
and on the strength of this opinion the
board acted. Briefly, Walker decided
that the exposition was one thing and
the exposition grounds an altogether
distinct and separate thing.
Unless the national commission acts
vigorously to prevent it Jackson park
will be open Sundays, the exposition
buildings remaining closed.
THE THOMAS INVESTIGATION.
| The national commissions session to-
day was spent in wrangling over the
report of the Theodore Thomas investi-
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musician have been maneuvering to de-
feat the object of the committee, which
was the adoption OF report practically
ordering the director general to
| discharge Mr.. Thomas. When
the commission met Chairman Lannan
moved the adoption of his report.
President Palmer called for the yeas
and nays, but St. Clair objected to the
vote proceeding, stating it was wrong,
morally and legally, for the commission
to take such action. By the time he
had finished speaking quorum had
disappeared and Chairman Lannan,
seeing it would be useless to attempt to
have the report adopted, moved that the
report be laid ON the table until a
quorum was aecured, which carried
without dissenting vote.
A resolution was adopted which, un-
less reconsidered tomorrow, will make
the commission take recess until May
| 31st.
MORTON INVITED TO LECTURE.
]. Sterling Morton, secretary of agri--
culture, was invited to deliver lecture
under the auspices of the department of
agriculture some time during the sum-
mer on the subject of forestry.
A wHEELMEN's DAY.
The propriety of having "wheel-
mems day" at the worlds fair, during
which mounted cyclists shall be admit
ted to the grounds and allowed to pa
rade during the morning and have a
torchlight procession during the even
ing, was brought to the attention of the
committee on ceremonies by Addison O.
Thomas. The committee recognized the
merit of the suggestion, and assigned
May 3lat for the day.
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
All nature smiled this morning and
extended welcome to the visitors who
passed through the turnstyles at the
fair grounds. The temperature was lust
right for moving round out of doors and
in the buildings. The attendance was
large.