Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-05-04
NOT BEFORE MAY 10Th
Will the Worlds Fair be Com.
plete and all Exhibits in
n Position.
North Dakota's Display a Good
oney and Ready for
Visitors.
EmigrantS at Winnipeg Raw
aged by SmalIpox.--Facts
Suppressed.

JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO, May g.
The gates of the great Worlds fair
have been set ajar, the exposition for
mally opened by the president of the
United States, the ponderous Allis en-
glne started in motion by touch on an
electric button, and the public is sup
posed u march up with it's half dollars
and pay to see the show. The more one
sees ofsthe great buildings and the at
tractiy4 displays that are being placed in
them, he more grand becomes the char
acter OF the fair. But "just formally"
opened are the best words to use at this
time. 1T will be several weeks before at
least amajority Of the displays will be in
position. Yet enough is shown to we'll
repay bne for a visit to jackson Park at
this Z 3me. The foreign and state ex-
hibitots are the ones behind hand. All
clasodo OF workmen have been overrun.
Twenty five thousand men have been en-
ployed night and day. Every exhibitor
is working on a different line and all
these lines are converging to one center
that q completeness, and about the Goth
Of May or lst of June will see the state
and foreign exhibits in position. The
management claims the Worlds far was
much more nearly completed on the
opening day than was the Paris exposi-
tlon.s The wet weather has hindered the
fair very much, indeed. Freight has been
coming in at the rate of 800 carloads a
day. and almost every entrance to the
grounds is hourly crowded with heavily
loaded drays, containing furniture and
other supplies for the buildings.
North Dakotans will not be disap-
pol3ted with their display. 1t is good
oncs 70 say the least, in every department.
Our state building is not so large as some
others, but it surely compares favorably
with those surrounding it, especially
with Arkansas and Kansas. 1t is larger
than the headquarters Of half dozen
other states, and very much more con-
venieptly located. The legislature spec-
ificslly named the amount that should be
expended in constructing state build
ing here, and the disgruntled individuals
who call 1t shack, have doubtless never
seen the building, and are consequently
not prepared to give an opinion.
The general reception room in the state
building is being furnished by the ladies
Of Jamestown, and very artistically and
appropriately are they doing it, as they
do everything they undertake. The
ladies' of jamestown will also make aa
especially fine exhibit of preserved fruits,
probably the most attractive Of any from
North Dakota, besides the pictures fur
nished by these ladies will add much to
the appearance of the interior OF the state
building.
If other sections of the state had
paid as much attention to details
when photographs were being taken for
the state exhibit here as did the James
river valley people, much more CON-
prehensive idea could be formed of the
conditions as they actually exist IN North
Dakota. As it Is. two or three Red river
valley counties and the James river
section will receive the benefit to be
derived from this kind of advertising at
| the Worlds fair. After the fair is half
over really think our people will begin
to appreciate the importance of the
occasion, and wish they had made more
united effort to take advantage Of an
opportunity which will never come again
in their lives. They will make mistake
who fail to come to the fair, but those
who do come will coulmit no error if
they complete all arrangements for their
accommodation here before they start
for Chicago. Locate somewhere near
the grounds and remain right there until
you get through sightseeing, but don't
come here and then begin to look about
for some place to live while you take in
the fair. You'll make mistake if you
do. You can't have all the comforts of
home while on trip of this character,
but you can come very near it il you
only know how. Living expenses will
be higher than at home, but not proper
tionately 80, If you locate with the right
people. Write to someone here aad
complete definite arrangements; know
how much 1t is going to cost per day to
take in the fair, and then take it IN. I,a
DeCamp, who formerly managed the
Columbia at Fargo, is here in charge Of
the Hayes house, four blocks from the
main entrance, and ought to be q good
person for North Dakotans to stop with
while At the fair. His is permanent