Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-17
FAMOUS REUNIONS
Which Have Been Held in the
Worlds Fair City.
OTHER GATHERINGS YET TO COME

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Congresses of Various Sorts Cunning Every
Day at Which Important Subjects Are
Discussed-Some Of the Leading Curl
osities of the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition and Where They May BE Found.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. IT, Especial. -
The various reunions and class gatherings
OF n sort o. another deserve much more
attention thar they have yet received, but
4 suppose the main reason why the papers
In the interested sections do not announce
those in the future is that many of those
in the past miscarried. Since the first of
this month, however, every such event
has come off as advertised and now the ar
rangements for those to come are so com-
plete that nothing short of q cataclysm
can postpone or prevent.
Some of the reunions have been remark
ably pleasant affairs, though rery few
were present, and none more so than that
OF the '49-ers, or Argonauts of California.
OF course but few are now alive Of the So
900 Americans who went to California
forty-four years ago, and but few of these
could get here, but their gathering in the
state building was a sight to bring laugh
ter ana tears. All form was laid aside.
They shook hands, they Rugged each
other, sometimes they roared with laugh
ter and sometimes they sighed deeply and
wiped their eyes. Pretty soon they broke
up into little groups, each representing
some noted camp and composed of It's old
residents, and then they told stories Of
finding big nuggets and ''panning out"
big yields, of lynchings and fightings and
chasing of highwaymen, which made
Bret Harte's productions seem like a Sun
day school book. At 2 p. NJ. began the
merely formal exercises such as singing
and speech-making.
Various college classes have also az
ranged for quiet reunions here, and most
of these were lone with early in July as
commencement day rarely comes alter the
Fourth. A week ago today the Knights
with their display, and the next day
Louisiana dedicated her building with
some pomp and official ceremony. On
Monday, the 7th, Gilmore's band made its
first appearance. All this time the ia
nous congresses of every sort are running,
either in the great hall down town or in
some fair building, and discussing all
p%oetical things from the alleged unwhole-
someness of pork to the various systems of
sewerage, and all scientific subjects con-
ceivable, with law, religion and woman's
dress for themes on the side. These are
but n few of the s~pecialties, and those in
the future will no doubt increase in in
terest.
1t mas been suggested that the landlords
Of South Chicago hold a grand reunion a
few years hence, after they get well, and
may add that it might appropriately
open with the first of Aeneas' address to
Dido, 'Infandum jules, regina, renovare
dolorem." 1t will indeed be $50 renew a
monstrcus grief" for here are the figures
| to date: Capacity of the White City to en-
terrain without providing, 100000 people;
normal daily requirement, $50, 900; average
to date, away below 100000. Chicago de-
| clares with profane emphasis that one
third Of these are residents of the city and
another third live so near that they ride
in mornings and out home evenings. This
is al exaggeratiop, of course, but it is GER
tain that the daily demand for rooms is
not now more than 40, 900 above the sum
mer average and thatreally elegant rooms
can be had at rs cents or 81 a day. If it
were a laughing matter we might enjoy
reading those magnificent assurances pub
lished so widely last year, how committees
would meet women excursionists at traing