The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-05-26
AT CHICAGO.
What is Going on at the
Great Exposition.
For the TrL.ralRAMI
CHICAGO. Ill. /.
May 25, 1898. (

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May 25. 1893.
Doubtless many of the depart
ment chiefs and executive officers
of this great exposition will be
glad when the morn of Novem.
Der 1stnext. dawns, for then at
least they will be free from fault.
finding. Those tenants of the
exposition who have reared their
homes and villages along Midway
plaisance, have some reason to
be dissatisfied with the mapner
IN which the officials have treated
them. They one and all paid
large sans of money for the
privileges granted, and many pay
a royalty or percentage on their
receipts. They were assured
that darkness should be made as
day, and yet up to the present
time, the plaisance is not lighted
at night and no one seems to
know when it will be. For the
most part, they who have builded
their towns and cities are for.
eigners, and speak in many
tongues, and should be treated
fairly in this matter, but some.
how the officials. after getting
the advance money, have forgot
ten that it takes at least two, to
make an agreement, the first and
second parts, in the fact that
they have ignored the second
party, and possibly legal meas
ures may be resorted to in order
to bring them to a realizing sense
OF their duty.
The question has many times
been asked, what does it cost,
and how far will so cents gos
You can make the cost what you
like, and so cents pays for adj
mission to the Fair proper, all
the State and expositionbuildlngs
and also the Midway plaisance,
which is a broad avenue connect
ing Jackson with Washington
park. Along this plaisance, many
foreigners live and work. just as
they do at home, and We who
cannot afford to visit these coun-
tries, can through this means,
get a correct idea of their habits
and industries. These people
make a charge of % cents to so
cents. With this exception the
admission fee of so cents admits
you to the fair, from 8 a. m. until
10 at night.
1t has been decided by the
local directors to keep ''open
house" on Sundays, even though
the board of directors repay the
government the s2,929, 900 do
mated them. This however, is
subject to ratification by the
national commission. Some re.
strictionshaye been incorporated
in the resolutions. such as re-
liev1ng the employees from work,
as far as possible, stopping the
dance of the belts and wheels in
machinery hall, and adding the
holding Of religious services and
singing of Moody AID Sankey
hymns. There is no question as
to the popularity, and good sound
horse sense in the stand thus
taken. Open fair Sundays, means
peace and quiet in Chicago, and
less recruits from the whisky
cure Institutes.
We hope that the visiting edi-
tors and publishers will take
back to their homes, kind
though is of Chicago. This will
be a year of Worlds Fair
congresses and conventions, to
be convened in this city and the
knights of the quill were about
the first to come amongus Many
of them have a taste of the ex-
position, and have gone home to
return with new recruits later on.
Canada's future governor.gen-
eral, Earl of Aberdeen, was
given an informal reception in
the Canadian building, which is
now complete. 1t is two stories
high, and built ofnative material.
The different provinces each have
a room. and are finished in the
woods of that particular prov
ince, The reception was held in