The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-31

Special Correspondence Of he ~Lltaligancr.
CuIcAdo, July 2a,-one Of the inter.
esting incidents OF daily life on the part
OF visitors to the Worlds Fair Is got
ting safely and comfortably to the
grounds lin the morning and getting
away in like manner in the evening,
This 10 not so small o matter as the I'M
initiated and inexperienced reader Of
the ISTELLIaRNoER might suppose, The
daily movement to and from the White
City OF 10000 people il q matter OF mo-
ment and concern to all interests in
YolYed, to the movers and the moved,
to the t%ransportera aud tho trans
portees, Ninety thousand persona make
large army OF people, 1t was always
apIoblem during the late war to move
that many soldiers by rail or water in
several days time. II Is quite a prob
lem here to get that many moved on
time each morning and evening,
/ have spoken OF 10000 visitors to BIO
moved. There are in addition 25,0OO to
10000 other people (many Of whom are
to- BIO likewise moved) in tho persons OF
exhibitors aud their help, and the null
titudinous people connected with the
fair. Altogether there is an army of at
least 100000 persons to be moved sever
al miles on water or land twice every
day. The remainder, or say $4,000,
move on foot 1--WE will assume) 10 and
from points adjacent 10 tho grounds.
h.,,n hoo u,tkLTn tho ,rnupI,
and only 80 in aud out for their meals,
or on errands, or for n change in their
routine of life. Therefore | limit the
number TO be actually moved twice
each day, by the various common car.
riers doing business with the fair, to
100000.
10 move this number to the grounds
in the forenoon hours ia not 80 much OF
aproblom us to get them speedily and
safely away at night Three times
each week, viz: Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evenings, there is an illumina.
ton and u display Of fireworks at tho
grounds. There are many who remain
inside for this entertainment OH those
evenings aud others who come after
business hours specially to enjoy it..
On gala days and fete nights the number
ia vastly swelled.
II GREATEST CRUSH.
On the night OF the Fourth of July,
for instance, there must have been a
quarter OF u million Of people to be
moved away from tho grounds between
8and II p. tn, the most OF them all at
once, or just as DOR as the programme
wal over. 1t was o memorable sight to
see ono hundred thousand people that
night moving en- massO over the plaza
that fronts the Terminal building and
the Elevated railway station ut theSixty.
fourth street entrance to the fair, all
eager TO get on ono one OF the Illinois
Central trains or on the Elevated as soon
as possible. The eye could take In at q
glance more people in that immediate
part OF the grounds than fought under
Napoleon at Waterloo. | was escorting
some Wheeling friends to the Terminal
station in the hope that they would DO
among the frst to got of, but no o
had We got away from the Administra-
ton plaza to the plaza l have de-
scribed than our eyes met that one hun.
dredthousand people, sweeping forward
llhd thG uOdt VI ScuhGllGAlgt WI ~ Gakot
and determined as We were to get on the
first trains Out. In despair Of competing
with that sweeping and multitudinous
avalanche we changed u course and
made for the w~ide.opened wagon gates
at Sixty-fourth street and thence on out
TO the regular suburban station outside
the grounds Of the Illinois Central, two
blocks away, and 80 got away without
being jammed In the crush.
DANGER IN TIL CRUSH
On the night when the special ova.
ton was given to the Spanish infanta
there was the same sort Of a rush and
crush to got away, only not 80 over.
whelmiug in numbers, but the gate
keepers and railroads did not handle
the crowd go well as on the night OF the
Fourth. Women went into Mysteries
and tainted at the turnStlles that night
in consequence Of the delay aud Of the
Jam, and two or three people were
killed on the Illinois Central. At the
present time the various lines OF cur.
rlers have got good control OF the situa-
tion and they can handle large muses.
Of people with great rapidity. The
p(lnClphl CuIElCC 40 tHG 4lllhUIS SouNTUl1
and next to It the elevated, and after
these the electric lines that connect
with the cable cars on Cottage Grove
avenue and State etreot, while last come
the boats OF the Worlds Fair Transpor.
tation Company, that land theit loads
at the great pier at the southeast sido
Of the grounds. The Illinois Central
claims TO DO able to move $4,000 people
un hour, the elevated perhaps half as
many, and the electric lines and the
boats the remainder, while q multitude
Of nearby dodgers trudge homo on foot.
In this way the night visitors to the fair
are taken caro- OF. Most people get
enough OF that kind OF amusement in
two nights, and eomo In one; their curl.
oOlty 10 then satisfied. Generally speak.
ing, the average fair visitor who
has ..bOon on tho grounds all
day, ID. ripe for bed soon after
supper. They want to sit down or
Ito down and remain quiesCOnt as soon
90 they got homo. This 10 especially
their condition after tho Grst day or
two at the fair. They have ovcrdono
themselves In tho matter Of walking
and standing around. The latter 10 per-
haps more wearing and woarisomc to
the average visitor than walking Walk.
ing has It's reftcfs but standing has
none, and few persons who become In.
torested in tho exhibits are conscious
Of tho length Of time they stand on
their feet while Blowly pefambulalinR
tho aisloa. In the 6fst days Of tho fair,
when there were nc seats, and whom
tho Roller Chair monopoly had such q