The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-05-18
YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE! (!
Seems to be the Watchword
at Chicago.
Worlds Fair Visitors
are Robbed.

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Special correspondence.
There are sufficient number of Wis
itors already to register loud protests
against some of the ''expenses. The
toilet closet concession to Sanitation
company, when you are taxed five cents
for admission, give rise to much
grumbling. The company having the
concession was to put as many free
as pay closets in each building, but
they have not done so. In the Fine
Arts and Fisheries buildings they
could not find room for the free clos
cts, but you may be sure that there
was room for the ones where nickle
makes the turn-stiles go around.
Signs are conspicuous directing the
visitors to pay toilet rooms, but you
need search warrant to fine the free
ones. The Sanitation company was
to take care Of both free ard pay
stations but as matter Of fact they
only take care Of the latter, purposely
making the free ones repulsive.
This concession was an idea bor-
rowed from the Paris exposition but
in dong 80 the price was doubled.
French customs (of this description
at least are not destined to be popu-
lar in this country, but as matter of
personal comfort you had better keep
a stray nickle in your pocket after
yon get in the grounds.
There is also loud outcry against
retaurant charges at the Park and un
less there is an improvement you will
want to get your breakfast and din
ner on the outside and bring your
lunch in your inside pocket. City
restaurants have not advanced prices
but at the Exposition the concession
aries have evidently been coached by
reading the life of Robert Kidd
pirate. The imported English bar
maids at White Horse Inn barely al
low the visitor to escape with bis
life. Every thing on his person will
be required to settle the bill If he
orders drink.
A French restauranter evidently
supposes we are all Ward McAllisters
and handle our food with our finges,
as he charges ten cents extra for g
knife, fork and plate. The plate is
at that, but the people who pay the
ten cents are hot enough to equalizt
things when they discover the charge
{ But the price of pie-twentyfivt
cents CUTS the last hair. The
Columbian guard demands an advance
, in wages or q reduction in the pric,
of pie. Meantime the newspapers
advise the people to bring their lunch
r cons and sit on the steps Of the res
taurants and scatter the crumbs whel
they eat.
. But after all / do not blame th'
. concessionaries as much as the fai
3 managers. He had to pay a higl
! price to come into the game and one
fourth of his gross receipts 60 to tn
> fair besides. He must be a robbie
so that he can permit the fair to rol
p him. Nice game, is it not2
q A concessionaire will rent you
l little folding chair for ten cents day
, To make chair concession more valu
e able you are not allowed to bring
chair of any description through tn
1 gate. Even cripples who come il
e rolling chairs Of their own are ture'
4 back, unless they chang their ow
4 for one furnished by concessionarie
e One large exhibitor met with jus
q that experience today.
d q But the public sentiment is mos
powerful regulator. The fair man
ayers are wincing under. the criticism
and declare that they will stop e,
s tortions or cancel concessions. The
q can stop it very easily by relaxin
r their own grip on the concessionair
o sufficiently to allow him to be reason
d ably honest. ! predict that the pres
ent scale of rates for necessities witt
a in the park gronds will not be {
e long duration.
Finest Apples IN the Hall.