Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-05-10
WILL ROB YOU BLIND
Villages on Midway Piai:ance Pull
the Dollars
RAPIDLY FROM YOUR POCKET
IL Costs . Qsarsee % Enter One and .
Mint ca So the Various faAcs
Exhibited

Ii has been given out by the worlds
fair people and the managers u the side
shows that pay tribute Ia the exposition
proper that visitors could obtain entrance
to any Of the villages along the Midway
Plsisance for - cents. and that the total
amount necessary for admittance ~ the
twenty one so-calied towns and the fair
itself will he Esa The person who
takes the worlds fair boomers word for
il and goes Ia the grounds with ea75 In
his pocket will have TO leave before he
gets half way around. For the purpose
IL illustrating tho way in which money
is lured FROM the grasp Of the sight eer
who strolls down Midway Plaissncc. let
US take the Turkish quarter. where
"Hadji Ephrism Bengsnt's father deals
In decorations articles." Ii cost 25cents
Ia get inside the Mohammedan portals.
and after that one il taxed all tho way
way from 10 cents to 81 every time he
looks at anything il the Musselmen
catch him at II. and they generally do.
Chinese Extortion.
The Chinese village 10 another in
which the visitor may he certain 10 pay
for everything that he sees After he
relinquishes his ~ cents at the main en-
trance. he finds himself inside . court.
from which he can see little or nothing
but few almond eyed heathens, who
can hardly lee termed curiosities in this
country. lie soon learns. however. that
there is a Chinese theater somew here
around the first corner. and when he
finds il he discovers that he can take
in n part q the performance (which
lasts about five months at q stretchl
for - cents. IL no isn't too
inquistive he may get out Of the Chi
nese village without having spent more
than sl.jo. For a little change the in
vestigator may next turn toward the
Algerian and Tunisian village and watch
dozen or two Of Othello's fellow
countrymen" work and shiver The adj
mission fee 10 their village il the Gus
tomary quarter. but il will cot extra 10
see the Nautch girls dance. 1t 10 pretty
safe 10 say that every able bodied man
who comes to sce the fair will feel that
his trip has been failure il his financial
standing becomes impaired before he
has watched the Nautch girls caper and
yelled for more at the conclusion III
their act.
Other Attractions.
At the Japanese and South Sea
Island villages there are more Nautch
girls who think they can dance. but no
man will he likely Ia want to take their
word for il. lie will want to judge for
himself. and i'm order to do ~ il will cost
him about half dollar in addition 20
the - cents he paid TO get into the
village.
There are. when things get running at
full blast. To be twenty one Of these
villages. Nominally the expense attend
ant upon a trip through each village il
Ia be - cents. but in reality il will he
not lees than 81. and in many instances
AZ high IA E.. IL one wishes Ia see all that
lis la be- seen. In addition TO the villages
on Midway Plaisance there are the
| Geological garden. the big erris wheel.
the captive balloon. the panorama III the
volcano IL Kilauea and the panorama II
the Bernese Overland. which cost 80
cents each tn see or ascend. There are
many other places Ia spend money on
/ Midway Plaisance: and il is not too
much Ia say that in order In see every
thing on exhibition there the visitor will
have To part company forever with from
eco To ESQ.
| In summing up il may be eaid that
the person who can see all that there 10
| to he seen at the worlds fair and in the
side shows thereunto appcrtaining for
| less than 80 deserves to take high rank
IA a iinancier. Az a matter 81 fact il
will bc more likely 10 cost him S]O or
| 81. and IL he brings his family with him
he should not neglect. before starting.
! 10 mortgage his worldly possessions for
all that he can get upon them.