Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-10-10

A FEW rHusos THAT LEAVE a sPE-
clAL n1rRxsslox urox THE MIND
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"But," says my chicago friend, I'VE
haven't such devil Of lot Of uucom-
mon people here In Chicago, amer ALL" |
| Granted. Butthis fair draws its crowd
not from Chicago alone, but from al
over the land, 70 say nothing Of foreign
lands. And they come, not from the
moneyed class alone, or from the blue
FLOODED class alone, but from oil classes.
Out on tho lake front promenade the
millionaire, who has Just lunched ct the
''toniest" cafe on the grounds, lights his
| fragrant Havana, and its smoke mingles
with that from the EFT. D." Of the rustic
beside him, who perhaps never saw .
photograph or an electric light until this
week, and who has Just eaten the sand-
wich brought from home, and thrown
the paper bag upon the grass 70 make
work for the garbage gatherers. Il isa
democratic assemblage, and when you
look It over critically you viii see that
the bulk Of Il comes from the great mid
die class that ID the bone and sinew OF
the nation.
It IL also, a. has been often remarked,
q good-uaturcd, companlonable crowd.
IL you want to ask your nearest neighbor
question about the exhibit before
which you stand, 81 II you want to COM
ment upon II Ia his ear, you do It with
out any feeling Of being strangers. And
you get an answer 10 the same spirit.
1t IL ~ orderly crowd too, ~ you ever
see anywhere. The ever-present Colum-
blan guard may have something to do
with this fact, at any rate II 10 fact. In
the week we spent there I saw no dis
turbance Of any kind, and the only
drunken man who came under my OBJ
servation was one who came aboard the
train after We had boarded 1t TO leave
Chicago.
The temporary character Of the build
lngs was well exempllhed when one
evening was caught In one Of them |
during lively thunder shower, and the
rain came scattering through the roof 10 |
dozen places. Some Of the fine ex-
hibits had to be hastily covered with |
rubber cloths to protect them. A man |
who ID qualified to know says that II
would cost q million dollars to put |
permanent roof on the manufactures |
building. The more one looks at the |
matter, the more clearly he sees the |
utter impracticabllity of keeping the fair |
open later than the frst Of November.
What to do with these great buildings |
after the fair Is over Is getting TO be q |
serious question with the managers. At
first they supposed they were going to |
realize something from them; now II
begins to look the other way. II 10
stated upon good authority that II
man worth hundred thousand dollars
were to be made present Of the manu-
features building and required to take 1t
down, It would bankrupt him. The
management IL under o hundred thou
sand dollar bond to clear the park, and
II has been suggested that the cheapest
way out Of 1t Is to allow that bond to be
defaulted.
It takes greenhorn about month to
get full appreciation OF the magnificent
distances OF the White City. travelled
some less than five hundred miles In the
course Of . week, and was Just begin
ming to get 30 that could calculate time
and distance within about half an hour.
One day made an appointment to meet
the rest Of my party at certain point In
the manufactures building. Naturally
when II came time for me to start was
SHOWN In the Midway" and delayed to
hear magnificent orchestra In Old
Vienna play one of Strauss waltzes.
When finally started out realized that
I was behind time, but estimated that
had at most only about three-quarters of
a mile to travel, and that with what
lodging I should have to do ! could
easily make It In fifteen minutes. After
had walked mile and half or two
miles, I began to get within sight Of my
Journeys end, but discovered that had to
walk a quarter ola mile down the lagoon
and back again In order to get across.
Then wished that Mr.. Olmstead had
put few more bridges Into the ar
chitecture Of his worlds fair landscape.
Il was half an hour late when reached
my destination, and as It was very
warm day, I resembled Ia appearance,
and presume In feeling, . boiled lobster.
Even the alleged orchestra In front Of
the Turkish theatre, which rendered
the performance lnaudlble by the Infer
nal din they made, had picked up some.
thing resembling "After the Ball., aud
the red-iatted alleged musicians In
front of the Johore bungalow, who
didn't play anything else resembling
the music Of the Occident, made quite
successful attempt at the same popular
air.
One sight OF the grand central court |
Illuminated at night 10 enough to repay |
the visitor for all his time and trouble |
In getting to the fair. When from the |
cornices Of all the buildings around the
court CLEAN thousands Of incandescent
lights, and around the border of the |
grand basin nearly as many more, while |
the dome of the administration building |
stands out In lines Of fire against the |
sky; when half dozen search lights on
as many roofs are turning darkness Into |
day, and bringing out the beauties OF
the scene around you; and when the
electric fountains play liquid fire In |
ever.changlng shapes and shades, you
think Of the wonders Of magic you used |
to read Of In the Arabian Nights, and
realize that the marvellous nineteenth |
century has surpassed them all.
A party OF US thought that the best
thing we could do In the palace Of fine
arts, with the limited time at our dis
posal, was to employ q guide to show
as some OF the most noteworthy
paintings. Accordingly we made requi-
sltion for Paul Cheval, Q gentlemanly lit
tie fellow Of genuine artistic tempers-
ment, who loves art for arts sake,
and he spent two hours with Us amoug
the treasures of art 10 that building. He
called our attention to comparatively
few pictures, but he used them to illus
trate the most advanced Views of art.
must sadly confess that am 80 deficient
ln the artistic sense, and 90 Incapable OF
cultivation, that not only these
theories Of art, but the premises upon
which they are based, are very largely
nonsense to me.
For instance, one Of the latest dis
coveries In art Is that nature never
mixes colors, but uses only the three
primary colors, black, the absence OF all
color, and white, the presence Of all
color. So the artist simply places upon
his palette those five colors, and he lays
them on side by eide, but he never mixes
them. "Mlxed colors," says our critic
guide, "are simply mud" Paintings
produced by this process suppose are
artistic, but unfortunately they give me
the impression Of looking at q washed