The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-07
IT rs INDIAN SUMNER.
THE WORLDS FAIR AVENUES ARE
GAY WITH FuRS AND NANTES.
Some UnseasonabIy Cold westher-Ths
Dahomeyans Looking Blue-The Bed
ouins Going home and Some of Them
Sick-Americans More Lively Than Ever.

WORLDS FAIR, Oct. 81 Especial =
Now is the time 70 see variety in the
crowds. People no longer lounge or linser
on the avenues ard grass plots--they go at
a Broadway gait aud occasionally break
into a run. for frost has got here away
ahead OF the almanac. Z seems that the
brilliant hues of Indian summer are re-
produced in the moving groups, for Amer
leans have put on their fall suits and
new overcoats, and all the far foreign ard
non-Arysn peoples are clad IN their heavi-
est. Even the Eskimos may be seen in
their fur jackets, padding their kayaks on
the lagoon, for the first cold weather makes
them skiver just as il does u.s. 1t Is great
mistake 20 suppose that northern people
who 60 south GO not feel tho cold. think
it chilis them even more than it does the
natives.
Pity For Dahociey.
Dahomey is 20 be pitied Even the mild
est Indian summer days. which are so de-
ightful and bracing, and which we by con-
trast call warm, are pinching TO thern. and
they are clamorous 10 60 home bUl the
authorities will not release Manager Pene
till the time set i'll his contract is I'D, and
the circuit court has decided that the sad
darkies cannot remove their traps. If there
Is any truth in that superstition held by
our own colored people, the bite of Da-
homeyan just now would be dangerous in
deed, for every one OF them IS blue
gummed niger" They pourdow whisky
and hot coffee and middle together on the
sunny side Of their huts, and when the
manager stirs them up TO get on the wall
and shout for customers every one appears
with red eyes. dead blue shade on his
face and a natural opal at the end of his
nose. The Bedouins Of the Wild East show
are in even worse fix, and several of them
have gone home, while others are sick. The
Turks, Algerians, Chinese and others seem
to stand it better
On the main avenues in the fair proper
the view is very gay, aud in the course Of
half an hour at any point one may see all
the races in their heavy clothes. Very
prominent are. the recently arrived Mexi-
cans, with their high winter sombreros and
heavy jackets and trousers lined with but
tons in the shape CT large plums and made
of pure silver. Over al they sometimes
wear rich and warmly lined mantle or
cloak. The South Americans dress In a
similar fashion and are equally striking
The Indians from Guatemala no longer play
the marimba On the; shore of the lagoon,
but sit wrapped in solitude and heavy
blankets most Of the time, and it is plain
to the eye that they sigh for other climes.
The Cingalese are especially sensitive to
cold, and even our own Californians COM
plain loudly Of this climate. 1t is not an
uncommon thing to have cold snap early,
but it is strange that SO many cold days
follow. On the evening OF the great storm
the mercury stood at 81. Five days later it
was at So On thatsiay the open air restau-
rants looked li4e banquet halls deserted,
and any one who should have suggested
sherbets and orange ice would have been
secuted as a malignant idiot.
Some Queer Contrasts.
AS I sit on the porch OF the Indiana
building, my overcoat nicely snuggled UP
around my neck, and see ladies 60 by with
fur jackets on end foreigners with blanket
coats, can bdt: contrast the scene with
that on Ohio day and wonder how this
place will look year hence. Could one
familiar with it as it now is return in Oc-
tober, 1894, he would find the lagoons and
bridges as they are. the lake shore and
promenade Of artificial tagging just the
same, but u vacancy where these great
stand, and how very odd it would
looki Americans in this vicinity will soon
have realizing sense. Of. ancient ruins"
for the buildings are to be sold at auction
and removed as rapidly rs possible. Man
haitian day, Oct. q, will probably be the |
first big day of consequence after Chicago's, |
and many think it Will be the last OF i'm
portance.
A singular fact in this connection is that |
Endeavor day came and went, and none of !
us knew of II. and row that it can do no |
harm the fact is published that the word !
was quietly passed among the Christian |
Endeavor societies for them not to recog- !
nize the day. And the original intention |
was to make it one OF the grandest days of /
Of the fair. On Aug. % notice was served on |
Director General Davis by General Secre-
tary Baer of the Endeavorers that the day /
must not be officially announced if the
gates were to remain open on Sundays, and /
now we are assured thst the Sunday open
ing was the main reason for the small al
tendance from New, England OF course
we caunot know what effect it had, but it
had some. The Christian En-
1eavor Hotel association also admits that
hat scheme was u failure comparatively,
and now IL appears that ali the schemes of
Joint stock and other organiZat ions to take
care of people here have amounted to very
little.
Distinguished Men at the Fair.
We still have many notabiiitiss with US
The princes from Inais. hurried away while
.he weather was warm, hut our own IN
lian princes, R&in-in-the-face Lone Dog, |
Chasing Fly, War Bonnet, Gray Eagle,
and Prairie Chicken, grow
weller with cool weather and nave given
is some war dances al Festival hail. On
he evening Of the II most OF the foreign
" orld's fair commissioners Left for St.
louis, where they are the guests CT the Au-
umnal Festival association. Congressman
md generals have been plenty Of late, and
Arcbduke Ferdinand of Austria is conspie-
Ious IN spite CT his endeavors TO remain
7ery much incog. He is = years old, q
Tery fine looking man, and positively de-
lines ANY reception and all public honors
whatever. He passed Tie last week OF
in Yellow stone PARK and came
hence direct 20 the fair.
The new Cciuu bian neil continues TO at
ract great crowds and is rune Oh ali sorts Q. |
On the sixtieth Anniversary |
4 the day when PoksgoB. the Ninaebago.
igned over 70 the government the land on
which Chicago stands il was -ung by Mrs.
/. u. Freeman, who was - years old that
ay and has lived in the city since iS3s- IL
ppears that SiIncn Pokago1, son OF the
id chief, Is now ia the city. but be weald /
ci ring. As his father sold the land for
cents an acre, Simon il probably Henry !
ieoggeite to tie extent q believing that |
oDeboGy has realized mighty big '-gu- I
armed Increment" TIE Nin-s1azoars.
owever, received 5.0oo. go acres en- THE I
iissoun river and IL the sutGrln electsoo ,