The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-07

CHICAGO, August 6.-The Worlds Fair
joys on at the July rate OF $4,000 to s5,-
600 per day, paid admissions, about 90
per cent Of which ara children at %
cents per head. There ia a class OF
younger children who 60 In free, viz;
children in arms and children just out
OF arms, and in order to encourage the
coming OF parents who cannot leave
these young children behind there Is
a chiIdren's building where they can be
checked aud left, like so many parcels,
in responsible hands, and carefully at
tended to all day long (for u consldera-
ton OF course} and returned as good ia
new in the evening when the parents
have done the fair land done them
selves) for the day, and are ready to go
to their quarters outside tho gate, This
is a feature Of the fair not generally
known, and | therefore publish 1t abroad
through the columns OF the INTELLIGEN-
GER tor the benefit of all whom it may
concern. This convenient manner
OF disposing Of the small urchiRs
can be repeated from day to day, us
long US the parents are visiting the fair,
aud inasmuch az the arrangement is on
.quite u liberal and complete scale, un-
der the auspices Of the fair manage
ment, no fond mother need have any
hesitation about what will become OF
her baby or juvenile in case she visits
tho fair. She can rely on the fact that
1t will be taken good care OF ut this
foundling establishment, if l may so
call 1t, 1t Is q particularly good placeto
leave u boy who is just a little too
juvenile to catch on To the show aud
who therefore would be apt to become
bored as he trudged along with his
parents and to bore them in turn. He
can be corralled in the gymnasium OF
tho children's building and in company
with a lot Of youngsters like himself,
can have a high old time in q b c
athletics. 1t Is located near the Sixtieth
street entrance to the fair and conven.
lent to the woman's building,
Speaking Of the wotnan's building l
am reminded to remark, as q passing
observation, that when Abram Hewitt,
OF New York, was here the other day
he told q newspaper interviewer that
that was about the only feature Of the
fair that iell below his expectations.
Taking the exhibits therein contained
az u whole he did not think that they
put woman aud her achievements in
art, literature aud science on a very
high pedestal. After reading this opin-
ion OF Peter Cooper's son.ir .law, who is
also ex-mayor OF New York and an ex-
member OF Congress and q great iron
manufactures as swell, Thought l would
20 over the ground again myself at the
woman's building and file u dissenting
opinion in my next letter to the INTEL
LidENcER, l have since concluded to
delay my opinion until 1 am better pre-
pared to express one. There are WISH
tors to that building uugallant enough
to say it is mostly a dry goods bazaar.
There are others unkind enough to call
it q gladitorium of the lady managers,
because the din Of their wranglea occa-
sionally breaks through the key holes
Of the council chamber therein con-
tanned and falls harshIy upon the ears
Of the visiting public. 1t is said that
scenes have occurred there that would
have sutfused the face OF the venerable
Gladstone almost as much as those that
occurred the other night in the house
Of commons. The presiding genius OF
this council chamber is Mrs. Bertha
Honore Palmer, wife of the well known
publican who owns and runs the Palmer
house at the corner of State and Mon
roe streets, u native OF Louisville, KY,
somewhat gifted asian executive woman
and also tho handsomest matron In Chi
cago. But for her magnetic qualities as
a woman, q parli0mentNriau and u
society leader it is a matter Of doubt II
even the Cohesive powerof public plum.
dor, in the shape of So per day and mile
aye, would have held the discordant
element in that multitudinous board OF
her'sin subsection. At the very outset
Of the organization the combative
Phoebe Couzins, OF st. Louis, had to DO
fred out Of the s%ecretaryship because it
became q choice between her ambition
and tho moro %congenial g%eneralship OF
Mrs. Palmer. The French SaVoir fare
in the make up Of the latter, backed by
her husbands wealth, proved too much
for Phoebe and she was success.
fully squelched. / saw the ia.
nous st. Louisian the other
day V Q at the headquarters OF
the rival masculine organization that
holds Its session on the third floor OF
pavilion A, administration building.
Her name ia not so Huguenotish as that
Of Mrs. 'Palmer's original, but her up.
pearance is quite aa much so, and1opine
that when they collided 1t must have
been q sort OF q Gallo affair. Iwasov
there ut pavilion A TO attend a session
OF that rival organization which goes by
the name OF tho National Commission,
consisting, like the woman's board, OF
two members from each state and ter
ritory, all under pay mt six dollars per
day when in session, and OF course in
session pretty much all tho time. You
remember that in tho early part OF the
French revolution OF 1880 France was
run bya convention that became known
as "Me convention en- permdncnce." SO
with this fair and tho two boards no.
ferred to-tho malo and female wings Of
tho govcrnment-they constituted "con.
yention en- permanonco." That To-, the.
orctically thoy do. For purposes Of per
diem and travelling expenses they
aro the Convention Of government ala
France, but the real government hero,
ns thcro, is lodged In n junta Thoe.
Joaorsou suid tho world 10 govornedtoo
muoh,n but no Ind no referenco OF
course TO tho Worlds Fair, The NOM.
bers Of tho Convention on porma.
nance" with d Rteady eye on tho gov.
.ernmSnt appropriation that Is not yet
Sxhnusted, regard tho fair as In con.
ptnnt nood Of tho laying IN Of hands Of
tho whole congregation and have no no.
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