The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-23
WHEN TO VISIT CHICAGO.
a Bright Letter From an Old-Time Con
tributor About the Worlds Fair.

! In eight days after tins appears IN YOU
columns Mrs. Cleveland will have touch
ed the button 100 miles away tina
will not only put in motion all the vas
machinery incident to Worlds far
such as the " world has hitherto never
dreampt of, but will announce to the
whole civilized world that the show has
! opened Oh time according to program
In the sense that man builds house
and completes il TO the smallest detail
including Il smooth lawn, a green house
with flowers from every cline pl eparine
to bud and blossom, to say nothing of a
well appointed billiard hall on the third
floor back: the exposition is not ready
for the reception of guests. Nor will il
| be for three weeks after the formal open
| ing. Who ever heard of great enter
prise Of a similar character, with floors
swept and garnished, ready to receive
the invited guests when the appointed
hour had arrived l have had some.
thing to do with fairs (much do | regret
il in my time, and / have never known
a solitary one TO open up with all the ar
rangement perfect. In tins case what
matters it.
A party may arrive here on the open
ing day with the intention of remaining
week and seeing the sights, and what
matters it if a few buildings in the mid
way plaisance. or auxillery to the fair
are incomplete. What matters it if this
or that display from Peru or Norway is
not III place. there is more to see and
a5similate right now than the average
To all who can afford to come. would
say, come first IN the month of May
''when the bloom is on the rye" and the
cholera bacillus lies dormant: then later
on when the leaves grow sallow and
nature puts on its vermlliion, when Sec
reiary Morton, who great as he is will
never till Jerry Rusk's shoes, assumes to
stand for all the glory of the display in
animal industry here to be exhibited in
October, then make second visit. The
guiding on the administration building
will not glitter as it does in May, the
''staff," cousin german to ''stucco''
will not be so CHASTITY il its original
wilderness, the one thousand lunch
counter girls will have lost something of
their freshness, crispness and coyness,
the Arabs and Turks in the midway
plaisance may have discarded the baggy
trousers, the turban or The fez, the
Esuuimaux may have put on linen
buster and the Javanese an overcoa..
but for all that, let me give you 4
pointer: come twice. Don't expect 10
take it all in the first time, you can't DO
il. Come when the flower is in full
bloom, if you can only come once. that
is from June TO Oct 1, and then come
prepared to stay two weeks. If You have
10 camp out and live on bareback and
5. b. But whatever you do. don't start
with the intention OF doing il all IN two
days. This Is a chance OF a life time
| would rather my boy should see this
than visit all the attractions of CONT
mental Europe. From an educational
point OF view no student, and certainly
no teacher from our beloved state of
Kansas. besruirched and blackened as
she is at present in the eyes OF outsiders.
should fail to grasp the lever which IS
here held out 10 them 10 obtain the
great object lesson IN the arts and
sciences ever. in the history of the world.
offered 70 mortals. In the month OF
October. the great agricultural and live
stock growing state Of Hans IS should
come to the front at tie
worlds fair. She should have horses
on exhibition as well bred. and
possessing all the traits in the highest
degree demanded by the stud books of
the English Coach, the Clydesdale or the
Norman. There has been money enough
expended in the purchase OF the bluest
blood of al the families OF the Short
Horn breed in the state Of Kansas 10 de-
mand 4 creditable show at the world
fair. VIII the Hon. W. 4. Harris an
swer TO roll cal: In the black ''Doddies,
tie white fee cattle. al beef breeds,
money without stint has been lavishej
bv the Kansas breeders. Tue Holsteins
and the Jerseys, in tine milk breeds. have
helped 10 bankrupt many an over-zealous
advocate. Now, gentlemen. here is
your chance to get even Put up or
shut UP"
Did you say anything about hogs: The
mere mention OF the uncleaG beast has q
familiar sound 20 my ears--iike the notes
% the baanIne. IS Ii were, 10 a Scotch
man IN 4 lar of land. TO my mind
thsv hare alvIa leen q Kan ASK