The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-17

CHICAGO, May 12-The worlds fair
gates will be swung wide open to the pub
lie and the question of Sunday opening is
settled. Early last Sunday morning
crowds began to move on to
Jackson park, thinking that per-
haps the gates of the fair grounds
would be opened. but they were disap-
pointed, and fully 10000 people were
turned away from the gates of the fair
proper and spent their money with the
side-shows surrounding the iair, fact
which the fair authorities were not slow
TO grasp.
No Buildings VIII BE Open.
Today as a result of the regular monthly
meeting of the local directors of the
worlds fair it was decided to open the
gates of jackson park to the public for
one-half the admittance to the fair during
the week, viz: p cents. This action has
nothing to do with the opening of the
buildings. The latter will remain closed
as directed under the laws passed by con-
Vress and as agreed TO when the sum of
s., 100000 was accepted from the hands of
the Fifty-second congress. The gate
keepers will admit to the grounds every
one paying % cents, thew can examine the
buildings-on the outside-see everything
there is to be seen, in fact. but they can
not enter the buildings. The action of
the board will 60 into effect week from
next Sunday or on the 31st of this month.
The vote by which the resolution was
passed was p to 7. Under the resolution
Midway plaisance will also be thrown
open.
On Attorney Walkers Opinion.
Mr.. Edwin Walker. attorney for the
board, submitted an opinion on the ques-
ton, and. on the strength of this opinion,
the board acted. No provision was made
for the return of any part of the
S2,5O0,000 given to the fair under
that act of congress, but there
were vague, tentative talk of refunding
the money some time in the uncertain fu-
ture. The votes. az explanations made
by the directors revealed, by no means
showed the real convictions of each men,
Der. Many voted in the affirmative
for the purpose OF forcing
q test OF the matter, and others
voted 90 with reservations and
provisos. Briefly Mr.. Walker decided
that the exposition was one thing and
the exposition grounds altogether a
distinct and separate thing. On this the
loca! directory stands accordingly. Unless
the national commission acts vigoro usly
to prevent it Jackson park will be open on
Sunday, the exposition buildings remain
ing closed.
The officials Nervous.
The fact that an effort would be made
to cut the Rordian knot brought out a
large attendance of members. thirty-fye
of the forty-fve members being present,
Long before the call for order the directors
sat about the room impatiently awaiting
the appearance of quorum. Ex-Presi-
dent Baker seemed hardly able to brook
the DELAY. He repeatedly called upon
the board to get down to business.
His impotence. however, was not exactly
conspicuous. as everybody seemed to feel
the same way. The gravity of the ques-
ton which was to be dealt with appar-
emily caused the directors no little anxi-
ETY., and the POPULARITY which usually pre-
faced the meetings WAS absent.
Thomas Friends Kicking.
The session of the worlds fair commits
sion today was spent in wrangling over
the reports of the Theodore Thomas in
vestigating committee. The friends oil
The musician had been maneuvering all
morning to defeat the object of the COM
mittee, viz. the adoption of the report.
which practically ordered the director
general OF the Columbian exposition to
discharge Thomas. Finally. after three
hours fruitless labor. Chairman Lannan.
seeing that it would be useless to attempt