Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-03
SEEING THE FAIR.
Warning to Visitors at the Co
Iumbian Exposition.
Do Not 0verwork Yourselves--There
Are Various Ways In Which
You Can See The Sights and Still MOI b
..Tirsd 10 DEATH"

You Can See The Sights and Still MOI b
..Tirsd 10 DEATH"
WoRID's Pam, June A. Especial ] -
This Is great place for firing ONES self
out completely. There mover was another
suoh temptation to overwork, and this Is
the thing which all visitors should b on
their guard about. 1t does not pay to be-
come too much fatigued- The visitor who
comes here determined to SEQ the whole
show in three or four days, and who rushes
about from building to building, makes q
serious mistake. Better not to enter many
| Of the buildings at all than to run through
and slight the contents of those which are
entered. wearying the body and wearing
| out the nerves. 1t is mistake to tumble
up the senses and to lose to . certain ex-
tent the power OF appreciation. Still many
people do go rushing through the fair as
if their lives depended upon their seeing
the inside of all the buildings in day or
two. Every day see people here who are
making labor, and labor of the hardest
kind, of that which should be pleasure.
Today, for instance, saw two or three
young women on one of the station plat
forms of the elevated electric railway
which runs through the grounds. There
are no seats on these platforms, as there
should be, for the trains are often ten or
fifteen minutes apart and waiting passen-
gers should have some place to sit. These
young women were, in their own way of
putting it, tired clear to DEATH" and not
finding any other place to sit and rest
themselves they deliberately sat down on
the floor of the platform. 1t was dusty,
dirty floor, but they did not mind that
They said it was q question Of sitting
down or falling down with them, and they
preferred the former. Other passengers
looked at them in queer sort Of way, but
did not laugh. They were tired, too, or
the most of them were, and though they
did not wish to follow the example Of these
adventurous maidens they certainly had a
warm sympathy with them. One elderly
and prim woman who was evidently very,
very weary, looked at the girls squat on
the floor with somewhat of enviousness in
her glance, and said:
~ wish had the nerve to do that, but
haven't"
While the young women sat on the floor
they talked of the buildings they had been
in that day. They had had run through
six or eight of the great structures, and
then fell to planning how many more they
were to go in before calling it days
work. Evidently they had started out to
see the Worlds fair in one day, or in two
days at most, and they were willing to
commit suicide in order to do 1t.
If people will rush through the grounds
and buildings at race-horse speed they
will find it to their advantage, and
economical in the long run, to hire roll
ing chair. These chairs with man to
push them cost 75 cents an hour, but are
worth the money If one is determined to
see all that may possibly be seen in a
given time. A very good plan is to walk
about for an hour or two hours and then
hire chair for one hour. The chairs are
wheeled all through the buildings as well
as from one building to another, and one
may thus rest and see at the same time.
In fact, there is no better way to see than
while ensconced in one of these comfort
able vehicles The only trouble which
ladies have with them is that their guides
persist in talking too much, or at least
some of them do. The average visitor to
the fair does not care to be talked to all
the time by any one, much less by stran-
ger One wants to see and think for him
self. If you come here and hire chair and
the man who is employed to wheel 1t
about talks too much for your comfort it
would be perfectly right to give him gen
tie hint that you will ask for information
when you want it.
Men who come with their wives, mothers
or sisters find that one chair does very
we'll for two people. A hundred times a
day one sees man sitting lazily in the
vehicle which a guide is pushing while the
wife or sister walks along side. But it
would be rash to conclude that the man is
selfish and that he makes business Of
riding while his wife or sister walks. That
is not the case. 1t is simply his turn to
ride bit, and after n short time, when he
shall have become rested, he will get out
and the woman will have her inning at
the chair.
Many men do not hire guide at all. but
take chair at 50 cents an hour and push
their wife or woman companion them
selves. 1t is not hard work at all. The
chairs have rubber tires and are admirably
constructed in every way. They roll along
with very little pushing, and besides, one
is stopping every few seconds in order to
look at some exhibit. If man is strong
and active he may in this way make sight
seeing an easy task for his wife or sister
and at comparatively small cost. Suppose
you are out altogether seven hours during
a day, which is as much time as you
should attempt to put in. One hour Of
this you will probably pass at luncheon in
one of the many delightful restaurants,
and that will be a rest. OF the remaining
six hours if you walk three and use wheel
shair at 80 cents an hour the other three,
an hour at time, you will reach the end
of your days work but little wearied, and
without having spent much money. OF
course it is harder on the man who must
do the pushing, but even he may sit in the
chair once in while stopping before some
exhibit and thus gain a few minutes rest.
1t is almost an ideal method Of seeing the
fair. The wife or sister in the chair likes
to be wheeled about by one she loves, and
this method gives the two persons almost
precisely the same view point while on
their rounds.
One Of the great difficulties Of sight-see-
ing in couples, in trios or quartettes, on
foot, is that it rarely happens two persons
look at the same thing at the same instant.
One is little in advance or off to the right
or left and about once in two minutes one
or another calls out to his companion, 20,
do come here and look at this-it is the
prettiest thing in the world. Come and
see it.'' At that very moment the person
accostdd may be much interested in an
other article, and the interruption is any
thing but welcome. The first or the fifth
or even the tenth interruption of this sort
does not matter much, but when it comes
to being accosted and led away a hundred
times In day the thing becomes rather
monot pnous. II you use the chairs, and
one of you rides while the other wheels,
you will as a rule see the Same articles at
the same moment.
The ideal way of seeing the World fair,
after all. is not with ones wife, sister,
Brother. sweetheart, mother or anybody.
1t Is alone. ! see this exempiified day
after day. Men and women who have
come here for good look through the
great exposition travel about together for
a few days, and then invent some excuse
or 9th er for sHeaking away by themselves.
In dky or two more they reach tacit
understanding. and arrange their pro-
granihe accordingly. Perhaps they go to
the fair together and enter one Of the big
buildings, having a rendezvous at a GER
tain point at certain hour. Then they
separate and each puts in ehe time accord
Ing TO his taste. The trouble about hunt
ing in pairs is that no two persons have
the same taste. and where one wants to
stop and look long time or perhaps ask
questions the other is for hurrying alonc-
This produces a certain spiritual friction
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