Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-19
CHICAGO'S BONANZA.
TIE LATE FAIR VISITORS FAVE MON
EY TO SPEND.

Don't Like Rider Haggard.
WORLDS FAIR. Oct. 1o.- Especial. -
The city is full of country people, rs it
never was before, and has been for 10 days.
Not long ago I noted that of the daily
visitors to the fair 10000 or so, at least
two-thirtls were of the farm and village
class, and | supposed they were all vino
had come here. but every day there are quite
~ many down town and in public resorts.
All the parks are crowded whenever the
weather admits: at every matinee, regard
less of the grade Of the theGtt", many are
turned away. and all the popular price
stores are thronged. 1t is estimated by
the best informed retailers that 2OO,GOO
country people per day are spending on m
average $40 each, and when see the big
bundles carried away by all who leave
our hotel | cannot doubt il. If our folks
arc poor, they have a queer way of showing
it, but the country merchants say it will be
mighty hard on them for the next three
months
Thc Financial Problem.
All the visitors | talk with, especially IN
the Mining building, and all the exhibitors
there are intensely interested in the gold
mining news. The smallest item in the
papers j. eagerly scanned. My talks are
chiefly with men in the Indiana and Kan
sas buildings and at a hotel patronized al
most entirely by Indiana and Ohio people,
and it seems to me that Americans now
understand financial questions better than
ever before. When DR.. Matthews OF Cape
Town reached the Mining building few
days ago, he was beset for the very latest
news almost rs eagerly rs the president
would be for offices or views, as he is a sci
p,oII III, nn I'M
interest | have had u talk with a Mr..
Mllerton of Port Natal who came direct
from the new goldiieid and says that al
though the British arc Oh the eve probably
/ of the worst African war in their history,
IL is oyershudowed by interest in the mines.
| 1t is, ~ ne says, n great pity C'bloody
shame he called it, ttat the Transvaal
| las no exhibit here. as it is the center of SO
many interests. "Of course the first re-
ports are gross eXaggelatiOn5,' says Mr..
| Millertcn, but unless all the practical
| miners and all the men of science are mis-
taken there is cold enough in reach to over
supply the world. It's the bloody Malta.
| belle that worry us now and your blessed
! Rider IIaegard sort of scratchhards who
make everybody suspect that every writing
about Africa is a lie. The kaffirs down at
| Kimberley are good workers, keep the drink
away from them, but up farther the mig
gers are the hardest fighters in the world.
And then your romances - And here, l
regret to add, the gentleman used some
! language he evidently did not learn in Sun
day school.
Late, Ofiicial and Interesting.
Mr. s. Berlner. secretary of the Cape Of
/ Good Hope commission, has just received the
latest report from the new mines and kindly
| allows ne to copy. So, as Il matter of inter
est to miners, take the official statement
for one company's workings. In the month
ending early in September there Were taken
from the Henry Nourse claim 1,9Sl tons oil
quartz, which yielded 45,SSl As. sd. in gold.
Mining and reduction cost Il lSs. 3 3od.
per ton. Adding Incidental cost, the clear
profit for the month was &, 139, or $3.50. "a.
This is q new mine. THE kaffirs," said
Mr. Berliner, get from 4 to 4 shillings d
day and work splendidly. 'kattir' you
know, is only nickname and means some
thing like servant. They are of the same
stock as the Zulus"
And are the blacks down there like otlr
cOored Americans?'
"Oh, bless your soul, no. None of them
was enslaved. You can't find a negro in
both Americas 't.lo traces his descent TO q
kalflr, much less Zulu. They don't know
what fear is Here's the morning paper
says the ! 600 British soldiers are advanc
ing from Fort Salisbury, and if one of them
gets out Of Matabce land alive he may
call himself lucky chap. Lo Bengula has
about $1,000 men, and they'll fight any
thing. They aren't a bit afraid of a lion OF
any other beast, and Tor fighting in that
country they are as well drilled as tht
British Now, among those low niggers O
the west coast we can go in and knock en
about anyhow, but these felies are fight
ers. And there was no need of interfering
anyhow. A prime set OF British boys ar,
to be knocked on the head for d quarrel be
tween two chartered companies and tw,
sets Of dashed niggers," And here again
must add that extreme terms were used
And as he talked the crowd rapidly grew
! deuser around the diamond working,
though the fair gates had been opened bu
a few minutes. As the pale blue or grayisf
rock lies in stacks, the rough diamonds cal
be seen projecting from the broken edge
here and there ard looking much Xix.
7 nodules OF lead ore-no brightness, nothn.
to indicate their value. Al the stairs lead
ing to the narrow platform from which OIL
can look down on the big washer n lonl
cue is already formed, and 100 or more peo
SO it goes all day, with contiuuing choru
of "Ohs.' and "Ahs!' Now, who woult
think that was a diamondY and SO on. Oh
the othersiCe, and behind heavy plate glass
the skilled lupidaries cut and polish tn
diamonds, and really it is no wonder tn
crowd is great, for the sight is well WORT
seeing. And as the stalwart Zulus com
and 90 even the ladies express admiration
and occasionally an ola soldier says: "Ior
can bet there's good stuff in EN-. lwouldn'
be il q hurry t 0 fight them fellows
No More Country Jays"
When this exposition began, the witt
photographers OF Chicago took it for granite
that the blunders and ignorant remarks {
the country greenhorns' would furnis
: material for no emu Of fun. But it has nc
proved so The ruralists have taken yer
= good care OF, themselves. Not one Of theI
has been kilid or seriously injured by til
u cable cars though Chicago's unwary COZ
tinue to suffer. Visitors who want info
. nation usually ask the guards in a lo'
3 tone, and in the presence of wonders an