Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-03
QUE WGRLDSFAIR LETTER.
iNiInEs1ING GOSSIP ABOUT THE
GREAT EXPOSITION.
= stories About Exorbitant Hotel
Rates unfounded-Good Acconmo-
dntiens Can He Hnd at 81 Per Day
The Northwestern Dairy Exhibit.

Y" VIC Haue IN proprlety and uecorum
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
Var1ably succeed in spelling the broth.
Kate Field, the irrepressible, made a
very sage remark the other day to the
ELECT that If Il man like the late Ia
mented 7. T. Barnum were running
this show, the wheels would move along
with far less friction and it would be
Il bigger show in n good many ways.
Ihere are so many commissioners that
they are continually getting in one an
others way ana treading upon one IN
others heels. 1t is a remarkable thing
mat matters have been carried ont as
well as they have been under the cir
c~ulnStanCeS. In less than two years
Chicago has built up in a morasS the
most colossal enterprise the world ever
saw and has done it without a ripple
or Il murmur IN the surface of the in
NNANA IL We IL lOoh i llliNt I'LL NtulS
TO complete her last exposition, which
covered no more ground than two of
the largest buildings out Of the thirteen
great ones OF 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 and the frog. The leakage"
here, however, if it may be so termed,
lies in the practical every day manage
ment. The Columbian guard has ar
rested several of the national COM
~missiOners, II or two of the heads Of
departments, Il foreign commissioner
or two, n of their own 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 to carry some pieces
of bunting from the anthopological to
the forestry building TO have it stitched
together upon a sewing machine. The
guard attempted to arrest him because
he said it 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
~Guayan's shoulder the latter promptly
knocked him down. The guard then
blew his whistle for help and several
other guards rushed to his assistance.
Iinally 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 TO obey.
Who in the name Of common n
wants military discipline at the Column
bian exposition. Police discipline is
reeded-nothing more; and when ali Of
fetal is attending TO his business he
ought to be let alone. These blunders
are being made right along. There is
some talk now of hiring a thousand
speciaI policemen and dismissing the
guards entirely,
The attendance at the worlds fair is
daily increasing, and 1t Is expected
that during August, September ana DC
tOber it will reach GOO 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 a yolun-
tary contribution for Chicago and the
glory of America when they sub
scribed. Chicago, however, will reap
n 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 IL of these
will spend $40 on the average. This
aggregates 1O0,0O0,000 poured into the
lap 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 in the full
stream hat they anticipated, and ii 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.
There is accommodation In the city for
0 1000 strangers, and when there are
only about 10000 somebody has got
to suffer. The early reports sent out
about the extortion of ffctess and eat
inc houses have had their enoct. Many
people are patronizing private resi-
denccs which have DON to rent, and
are giving the new hotels a wide berth.
While the hotel men were 4 little too
rash at the opening in their ~independ-
ence and their prices, there is abso-
lutely no complaint to be made now
upon that score. Hotel accommoda-
tions can now be had on the European
plan at any price right in the vicinity
of the fair grounds from so cents to
So per diem per person. No person of
ordinary taste would are for better
accommodations than he can get for
81 per day. There are plenty OF rooms
10 be had at that figure. There is no
reason for avoiding n hotel, especially
since there are many accommodations
to be secured at Il hotel which cannot
be had at a 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 10
be here later In the season. One can
live here now fairly comfortable az
81 per diem, not reckoning the cost of
r.,;nr tho fair In eithar of these eSti-