Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-03
Our WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
INTERVENING GOSSIP ABoUT THE
GREAT EXPOSITION.
me stories About Exorbitant Hotel
mates tnfounded-Good
dntions Can BE Had al 81 Per Day
The N~orthwestern Dairy Exhibit.

To be made in propriety and decorum
with regard To the management of
this exposition. They are not TO be
offered so much for faults of omission
as OF commission. These failings lie
mainly At the door of that old, common
complaint Of too many cooks, who in
yariably succeed in spelling the broth.
Kate Field, the irrepreSsible, made a
very sage rcmark the other day TO the
effect that if 4 man like the late Ia
mented +. L. Barnum We're running
this show, the wheels would move along
with far less friction and it would be
a bigger show in a good many ways.
There are SO many commissioners that
they are continually getting IL one an
others way and treading upon II an
others heels. 1t Is a remarkable thing
that matters have been carried out as
well as they have been under the cir
cumStanceS. In less than two years
Chicago has built up in a morass the
most colossal enterprise the world yer
saw and has done it without a ripple
or a murmur on the surface of the in
duStrial sea. 1t took France nine years
to complete her last exposition, which
covered no more ground than W of
the largest buildings out of the thirteen
great ones on these exposition grounds.
The Paris exposition covered seventy
five acres. The manufacturers build
ing here alone covers forty-four acres,
a pretty fair sized farm in the land of
the lilies ard the frog. The leakage"
harn hnv.at~nn &c u y,a In 90 farunnl
lies i'll the practical every day manage
ment. The Columbian guard has ar
rested several of the national com
miSSiOners, One or two Of the heads of
departments, n foreign commissioner
or two, n of their w officers, and
finally last week added insult TO injury
by attempting TO arrest the national
commissioner OF Paraguay, thereby
creating a tempest In Israel and causing
the commissioners of all the foreign
governments to unite in a formal pro-
test and in the closing up of the Para
guayan exhibit until a suitable apology
is offered for the insult. The commits
SiOner attempted 10 carry some pieces
of bunting from the a~nthopOlogical TO
the forestry building 10 have II stitched
together upon Il sewing machine. The
guard attempted to arrest him because
he said il was against the rules TO carry
materials from one building to another.
The commissioner explained who he
was. but that would do no good. When
the guard laid his hand upon the Para
~uuayan'S shoulder the latter promptly
knocked him down. The guard then
blew his whistle for help and several
other guards rushed TO his assistance.
finally the American superintendent
Of the building interfered and saved
the commissioner from arrest, The
guards allege in defense of their con-
duct that there are strict military or
ders which they are bound 10 obey.
Who In the name OF common
wants military discipline NJ the Colum-
bian exposition. Police discipline is
reeded-nOthing more; and when an af-
fetal is attending TO his business he
ought to be let alone. These biunders
are being made right along. There is
some talk now of hiring a thousand
special policemen and dismissing the
guards entirely,
The attendance at the worlds fair is
daily increasing, and ii is expected
that during August, September and De-
tober it will reach 100000 a day. The
stockholders of the worlds fair in
some instances now claim that they
never expect TO get any money back
upOn their stock, but recognized the
fact that they We're making q volun-
tary contribution for Chicago and the
glory of America when they sub
scribed. Chicago, however, will reap
q rich harvest out Of the fair. 1t Is
safe to say that 100000 strangers will
come and go during the time that the
gates are open. Each II OF these
will spend $50 on the average. This
aggregates 800. 100000 poured into the
Ian of the Windy City. This will
amount TO $50 for every resident man,
woman and child within her gates.
Money, however, is not pouring into
the Golfers OF the hotel men IL the full
stream that they anticipated, and IL is
now stated that twenty-eight hotels
built for the accommodation OF worlds
fair guests are in the hands of re-
ceiyers. The reason for this is potent.
Their is accommodation in the city for
10000 strangers, and when there are
only about 100000 somebody has got
tG suffer. The early reports sent out
about the eXtortion of hcteIs and cat
ms houses have had their enoct. Mary
people are ~patroniZing private resi-
dences which have rooms to rent, and
gre giving the new hotels Il wide berth.
While the hotel men were n little too
rash at the opening in their independ-
cnce and their prices, there is abso-
lutely no complaint to be made now
upon that score. Hotel accommodate
tions can now be had on the European
plan at any price right in the Vicinity
of the fair grounds from 80 cents 10
So per diem per person. No person of
ordinary taste would care for better
accommodations than he can get for
81 per day. There are plenty of rooms
10 be had 1t that figure. There is no
reason for avoiding n hotel especially
since there are many accommodations
TO be secured az a hotel which cannot
be had ut n private residence. Very
fair board and room at this time will
rot cost to exceed $3.50 per diem.
July is a very good month TO come
here in order to avoid the general rush
and crash Of humanity which is sure 20
be here later In the season. One can
live here now fairly comfortable at
So per diem. not reckoning the cost of