Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-25
The White City.
MORE SIGHTS TO BE SEEN AT
THE WORLDS FAIR THAN
ANY PLACE IN THE
WORLD.
Keep Out Of the Clutches OF the
Wiley COncessi0naire and Don't
Look Too Long at the
Statuary - Worlds
Fair Facts and
Fancies.

MECCA HOTEL, CHICAGO, Ill. May
1.-THE Worlds Fair is a success.
This may not be news, but it is a
fact. While it is not yet hardly wide
open and in full blast it far exceeds
description. Come and see it. No
matter if it does cost time, money
and annoyance, it will pay you well.
You will see more here than you
would in any town of the world and
there are many things here besides
the "concessionaire" which you
could not see in all of his glory any,
where else. The price of admission,
fifty cents, is cheap. Nowhere else
and perhaps at no other time will
you have such an opportunity.
Chicago is great city and "worth
coming miles to see," and, blythe
way, you are many miles away from
it when you see it, since the limits
have been so extended. But the
"White City. is a marvel and you
will always regret it if you fail to
spend week at least seeing its ex-
hibits. You must not fall into the
hands Of thugs or concessionaires.
The hotels and restaurants down
town have reasonable rates. You
can take lunch to the fair with
you. You can see the fair for so
cents and don't have to pay $50 to
see the sideshows. You can come
here and see the fair and live in
first class style for from five to ten
dollars per day. OF course this
does not include any lunches at the
Fair Grounds or any transactions at
all with any of the concessionaires.
There are, of course, many attrac-
tons down town and in Midway
Plaisance, which adioins the Fair
Grounds, worthy of a visit, but you
can pay your money and take your
choice. You have no choice up
here without money. The foreign
buildings are attracting great deal
of attention.
They have a semicircular location
of their own in the northeast corner,
fronting the lake on the east and
north, the Art Galleries and North
Pond on the south and west and the
Government plaza and Fisheries
Building on the west. There are Is
Of them, representing Great Britain,
Germany, Sweden, Columbia, Hayti,
Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Ecuador, Turkey, Norway,
Austria, Ceylon, France and Japan.
The "Victoria House," as the
building which represents Great
Britain is called, is located directly
on the lake, at the North Inlet, the
landing place for yachts. Its ar
chitecture Is fashioned after the
British manor house and it has
every possible appointment for COM
fort and convenience.
Germany's building is just back
of this, and will attract much atten-
ton. 1t is a commingling Of the
Gothic and Renaissance, ,and its gild-
ed towers and many colored tiles
make it resplendent. 1t will be re-
membered that the German Emper-
or presented to this building chime
of bells which ring out the hours
and half-hours with deep-toned
music.
The Sweden and Norway Build
ing is somewhat imposing and
its ornamental press brick work
presents very pretty picture.
The Hayti Building Is made Of
mahogany and other tropical wood
and is we'll worth a brief study.
France is represented by large,
open pavilion, directly on the lake
shore, and the rich ornamentation
of its fretwork indicates the charac'
ter of its ownership.
Ceylon also has a. pavilion on the
LakeFront containing detailed illus
trations of the tea industry. Here are
polite attendants, in native costume
serving out the delicious tea of theil
country.
| The Spanish Building is a grea
curiosity, and near it is that of New
South Wales.
Some of the foreign building
have not as ye: been completed. Th'
guide book scheme is worked her,
to perfection. You buy guild
book and suppose you are fixed 70
the day. On examination you fine
it is a catalogue for only one build
ing or exhibit. You keep on buyini
all day and at night you have
library. The art exhibit is not ye
complete, although it is not the in
tention to clothe the figures no mat
ter how much some OF us Nigh
think they should be. A writer, re
ferring to this display or exhibit
and it is both, says:
"All around the lower end G
the magnificent Court OF Hon
or, the roofs OF the Casino
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