Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-08
FRED. w. HARRIS. Editor.
Il The South Dakota Press Association
EYETOCOMFORT
the Worlds Fair Manage
ment Has Done.
PLENTY OF SEATS TO REST UPON.

70 Expense Spared Whenever the Comfort
OF the People is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
Lies Published in Certain Papers About
the Fair-Sonaething About the Column
bian Guard.
| WORLDS FAIR, June g. [Speciall-
Sow that the glorious days of June are
ere and the number Of visitors to the ex-
~osition is Gaily increasing, the shady
cats to be found at various places
throughout the grounds are always occu.
Jed. In a letter written a couple OF
s-eeks ago I said there was seating ca
aclty on the grounds Tor 10000 people,
nd that this seemed to be enough. But
slmost Immediately it became apparent
1e sittings must be increased If the peo-
10 were TO have sufficient resting place.
Il must be said to the credit of the man
gers of the fair that just as soon as they
salized the necessity Of increasing these
accommodations they set about the work.
sttees enough to hold $4,000 more people
eere at once ordered. and day after day
ne contractors have placed wagonloads Of
enches all over the grounds. The man
gers Of the fair did this at considerable
Z rpense at a time when they scarcely
new which way to turn for money. They
lid exhausted their treasury In opening
he gate May LIST, and were In debt. For
kery dollar that was taken in at the gates
hundred hands were outstretched. Con-
actors, supply houses, officials and even
orkmen were unpaid. The attendance,
wing to ~unfavorable weather and high
tilroad rates was not as great as had
ben expected. Yet in the face of all these
ffficulties the managers, be 1t said to
aeir honor, did not hesitate to incur ex-
@snditure whenever the comfort of the
Sople was involved.
i do not intend to pose as a defender of
lie managers, nor as their ~apologist, but
s9ike to see Justice done. When one reads
eastern papers criticisms Of the man
cement of the fair that are VIGOROUSLY
Use and malicious 1t Is not easy to main
I'm silence concerning them. 1t is not
ne that the Worlds fair Ia q great
pney-making scheme. III 1t were the
rectors would have avoided millions of
liars of expenditure-would have kept
a their treasury vast sums that were ex-
@nded for adornment, for statuary, for
g.blic comfort, for elegance, thas could
I've been saved by a narrow and selfish
Icy. Why, these very directors, the
ist business men Of Chicago, have given
& I'd continue to give their time and ener-
ms to this enterprise without q dollar of
Larry or direct reward
They do NOT stint their expenditure in
~ worthy direction. Come ever now to
I'd fair and you win see long lines Of
gons waiting every evening to carry
sir loads of benches to various parts of
ss grounds. Other lines of wagons are
4 len with fresh sod, which is brought in
.nry day by trainloads, to be used in
shening the park. A huge street-clean-
I'M department waits also for the visitors
s leave the gates, and then works all
sht. BY morning every bit of dirt and
ssnbish, every particle of mud and refuse,
g been cleared away. When you come
sChicago make IN effort TO reach the ex-
ssition at least once or twice Curing your
ourn early in the morning. Then you
II see the fair at its best. Everything is
ght aud clean. There is asweetness, a
lshness everywhere which cannot be
lind In the afternoon, after the multi
lie has come.
The managers of the fair spent a small
tune for music. Without cost the Wis
Nsr may hear the finest bands and orches-
8 in the country. He may sit in the
de Of the palaces which surround the