The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-15

aud, Lunch Counters Now Getting
Some of the Usufruct.
Special conspond.nes Of@e 1anntQsncsr.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-only twicein Chi
cago in the last twenty-five years has
there been such long spell of remark
able dry weather as we hayeswitnessed
hero this season. Audit continues right
on from day to day thus far in septem-
Der. The "suu comes up and the sun
goes down." and still there is no cloud
on our horizon. We might write Ssnpsr
iism on the weather record sincethe 18th
Of July. People are beginning to regard
itkB something phenomenal. tits the
relieving, feature Of the situation this
yeapas regards favorable conditions for
the fair. Otherwise the conditions have
been untoward. The weather alone has
been all that could ihe,desiFe1.
OF course I mean the local condition.
when l speak OF the weather. Good
weather Is good thing for a fair-and
bad weather Is q very bad thing iorit.
u,know this fact full well at Wheel.
ing. at least the stockholders Of, the
West Virginia Fair Company do. Next
to a good show good weather Is i'm
portant; perhaps more important than
theshow itself. TheEewas plentYotp poor
and Indifferent weather here in the
opening month, and the daily attend
ance only1aperaged about $4,000 in May.
There was great improvement In the
weather in June and q heavy increase
in the attendance, running above $4,000
per day. In July the financial storm
bprst with new and Increased fury
upon the country, butFettll, thanks TO
the weather, the attendance did not
fall of Had the banks and The
weather suspended together there is no
telling what woud have come OF the,
fair.
GOOD FAIR WEATHER.
With the ending up of the financial
situation in August and the continuance
Of the superb weather the dailytattepd-
ance swelled afresh, reaching an aver
age Of 113, 900 per day. And thus far in
September, under the still tavoring for
bearance OF Jupiter Piuvius, it is show:
ing an average OF over 10000 per day.
Occasionally it takes. aspurt t.. 100000.
Thus you see that what has been the
bane of'the poor farmer has been the
blesaipg,ofsthesfair.
AS for the future Of the weather, this
month and next, let us not borrow
trouble concerning it by foreboding
change. '.tsing while We may, another
day will bring enough of sorrow" We
know that the autumnal equtuox'ia not
far off those days in September, when
"the clouds return after the rain" Still,
as the sailors say, stormy Hatteras is
not always stormy" andlthe equinoctlRl!
period does not always bring cold and
dreary rains. let ustheretore continue
to bet on the weather bureau, the one
goodgenins ,ofrthe:tair.
THE COOL NIGHTS.
We know, however, that the nights
must get cooler and cooler from this
time on, rain or no rain, and cool
nights wemust admit do not stimulate
an evening attendance at the fair. l
sometimes:think ,it.was real pity that
the whole aggregate of intending visi-
tors could not have been here in July
and August Iremember lady say
ing to me over q month ago, Tell your
friends who are coming to the fair to
come now in order to enjoy these match
less nights in August, for they will not
be repeated later on" And sit is;
they arc not being repeated, although
the temperature Is still not prohibitory
OF eveningsat thefair. You know, how
ever, how tbs in the Ohio valley, where
as here the rhargest moon" does not
repeat itself as respects the inviting
character OF Its nights. There were
nights herein July and August at the
fair grounds that rivalleh the moonlit
scenes Of Venice. There were here, as
there, gondolas and Rondoliers, and
also the sound of music and OF song;
and there were also swift gliding
launches and brilliant iluminations
such as Venice never saw. There were
nights when the electric lights aud the
light Of the full moon wed with each
other in shedding resplendence on the
scene. Those were the nights when
thousands OF people filed the seats in
the administration plaza and when other
thousands thronged the walks and the
waterways, and other vast numbers
filled the promenades, the cafes and the
shows Of the Midway. The same thing
on a diminished scale can still be seen,
but wraps and sentiment do not go as
well together as warm nights, ice
cream and cake and seats out of doors
There is in the present atmosphere the
.presage OF fast departing midsummer
night dreams" and scenes.
But this lei world Of compensations.
Those who miss the luxuriant nights of
July aud August aud those frat days OF
September will fall heir to those days
which the Chicagoese declare are really
the superbest days OF the year in this
climate, the days OF October; days des-
cribed by Tennyson as so "thin and
clear" that you can hear the "horns OF
Elland faulty blowing: days In which
the people Of this great live city know
better than at any other time that "life
is worth living"
RIDuoED RAILROAD RATES
Another compensation will be the re.
duced railroad rates The grand scoop
by the railroads for all there is in It as
respects possible patronage, will then
set in in . radical way, just as It did in
the wind up Of the Centennial in 10,
when Wheeling people were carried to
philadelphia and back for Ave dollars, q
diafanca of nanrIv 600 Tnilaa which