New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-10

silk umbrellas. They are talking and laughing
and they look as fresh as II they could never b
weary Perhaps they never do get weary. They
give the most positive opinions about the Fair.
This thing Is absolutely awful; the other thing
Is too perfectly lovely for anything" They do
not discriminate any farther than that and that
surely is far enough There are six OF these girls
crowded on TO o seat near US. To look at the seat
you would not suppose that II would be possible
for 1t to hold as many people. but 1t does and
they ggeling with delight In the fact. Ger
trude looks at them, and then announces that she
Is so sorry that she has not had note book and
put down the number of Elton jackets she has
seen. and then make an average of how many
there would be In day. My friend has a weak
for statistics
AS the afternoon wanes the crowd Increases
We have given up conversing and are only waltz
ing. 1t is at such times that is quite likely to
decide that 1t Is better never to see anything than
to wait In crowd. But the throng is good ma
tured 1t smiles and Is patient. The air Is getting
somewhat electrical now with the coming of the
Rajah 1t is after the time. Somebody has SAID
that they have started from the landing at the
Art Gallery. that they actually on their way
through the agoens. We all expectantly.
1t Is true that the Exposition authorities are fully
able to organize and carry out magnificent pa
geants here, and here Is the setting for any sump-
tuous ceremonial that be imagined. Fancy
Cleopatra coming along the water down there
by tho Peristyle. Gertrude says that she should
not be bit ashamed of the surroundings II that
Egyptian woman rowed along the basin here.
and she adds that what is good enough for Cleo
patra is good enough for anybody
Of Kings. They certainly do know how to decorate
in the gorgeous style; those East Indians never
all Of US there is lurking love OF splendor. rich
ness and profuse magnihcence We like to assert
l suppose we do. In the long run" but have "a
confess that | was quite thoroughly taken by
all har
the water to the front of the Administration
An excellent time for adjectyes," said my
friend In a moment she Informed me that she
had never before known how she loved Nourma:
hal. Now l have always known how l loved
weakness for opuence and all Such enervatins
temptations. / mean that | should have to guard
against opulence II 1t ever came walking along
within my reach.
II woman en- make the worst Wilderness dear.
Think think what heaven she must make OF Cashmeret
1t was Gertrude who quoted the above lines az
more Brilliant. Ny friend had evidently cast an
was repeating poetry that had only general NJ.
ness Here were the CARPETS shaWs ana gb smSros.
Ginning on cushions in the barge thus decorated.
There was an d En- sn state Debe BENZ
what think is called a regal umbrella with
s lot OF peacock ta in uPSn me- but
you only think of that later. DO not let me forges
another sns sttendant Waved near the Rajsh
The ruler of Kapurthala is truly fne-looking
man, and | could not help wondering as | gazed
regal umbrella and the ostrich wand were. Ordi-
narily he pursued his travels In what might be
imagine how he could travel much in the fun
the barge Finally he disembsrks and he walks
the red carpet which has been spread for his
chobdar. who runs before for some mysterious
purpose not at all evident. But it is all very
Eastern. We conscious of a decided sense OF
pleasure derived from the privilege OF seeing z
chobdar running before Maharajah. BY and BY
administrator Building, for there is where His
review the troops. And then the troops began to
come. There were marines OF the United states
and soldiers of the Gned sats Ssn but we ,s sd aos
Bedouins and Russian and Spanish men In uni.
form, and many strange beings from the Plais
sance?
Yes II has certainly been gorgeous spectacle
and | suppose that never in all our lives shall We
see many Cashmere shaws. and SO much gola
we shall chObdar again. Ii was quite
distressing when we came out upon PLAIN Uniteo
was especially shabby and embarrassing. and as we
walked to our room we looked back upon tno
towers Of the Fair buildings and fe naf IRE a verr
little more than a void. We should then be telling
ourselves that. matter what happened hereafter.
Have the chair-pushers been living on 81 day
and a small percentage of their receipts, with the
not struck before? Or. rather. why did they make
such an engagement? Now a greater number than
usual the chairs idle. and the pretty girls who
find so frequently that they walk another step
are obliged to walk and keep on walking. Ths
sedan-ch rather more In use. An alert
when seen In of those un-Amerfcan sedan.
,hars. Those baggy-uousered Turks should carry
tack and look out at US through half-shnt eyes,