The herald., 1893-06-05
NO ROBBERY THERE.
A VISITOR TO CHICAGO VINO SAYS
PRIZES ARE Low.
Rooms within Easy Access 20 tho Fair
TO BE Had at Very Reasonable
Rates and Meals in the
Same Proportion,
corresronaence . the HrnAIp.

Correspondence 10 the HERALD
CmcAoo, May 29.--We have now been
here one week, and feel able to answer
few Of the many questions asked of US
before leaving home.
No one need be swindled on the prices
of board and lodgings. We are located
on Fifty-6rst etreet, two hundred feet
from the Stete-etreet cable road, giving
| easy access to the grounds, or what ia
better, four blocks from the elevated
road, running from the center OF the
city directly into the grounds with trains
Of four TO six cars each, every FIVE min
utee, time from the house into the fair
gtounds twenty minutes. So we fear
no trouble whatever about getting to or
from the fair at any time during the
day or evening.
Rooms twelve feet square in two-story
brick ilata, front and back parlors, well
furnished, rent for IS each per week.
When two persons can get good room
in a good neighborhood for lees than 36
cents per day each, there is no cauee for
complaint and / know OF six ouch
rooms being rented in this immediate
vicinity to our party, who left Los
Angeles on the 18th instant. For
our meals we 90 across the street
to restaurant where we get good sub
stan tial food we'll cooked, for which we
pay % cents each, or we can pay DO
cen te or more If we wish. So l would
request the newspapers OF Los Angeles
to stop harping about no one but capi-
talists being able to remain in Chicago
for a'few weeks, whore as Bernum used
10 advertise can be seen "the greatest
show on earth"
We have spent five days inside the
gates, and while we have seen great
deal and enjoyed it all, it will take us
ct lesst four weeks yet to go over it all.
| said we had enjoyed all we have seen,
but allow mo to qualify that remark.
The backwardness of many Of many
of the exhibits, and especially of Cali
fofnia, after nearly month has gone by
since the opening, is notifying to us
all. We are told by those who came
here to do the work, that for three weeks
all they could do was to move valuable
goods which had como 1000 miles from
one place to another, then perhaps the
next day move them back, then on the
third day to the center or anywhere to
keep them out OF the wet; and all be-
cause the commissioners did not have q
contract that would require the build
ing to be completed on certain
date. Some of the workmen de-
serve credit for the interest they
take in getting thinga in shape,
but not so with all. If some of those in
authority would spend less time in re-
quiring workman to put on his coat
every time he appeared in the august
presence of the Official, more work might
be accomplished. Californians dom +
like ruch SnoDbery.
1t will be three or four woeks yet be-
fore oil things will be ready
Mr.. Virgins deserves great credit for
getting the citrus exhibit Of Southern
Cslifornia in SO good shape as it is. I
am told by these who know what he has
had to contend with, that no one could
have done better.
Mrs. Bancroft of Los Angeles, Mrs.
Wheeler's able assistant in the woman'a
building, is the right person in the right
place, ard 10 appreciated.
Our worthy councilman of the First
ward tells me he will return home in a
week. His presence no doubt is needed
there to keep things straight in that big
sewer, which he seems very capable of
doing. ]. N. STEWART.