Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-05-05
WILL OPEN SUNDAY
That is the Opinion About
the Worlds Fair.
WOMEN ARE QUARRELLING.
Mrs. Potter Threatens to Withdraw
From the Ladies Board.

CHICAGO, May 4. -Ine one suDJect oil ais
russion in the Chicago newspapers and on
the fair ground is whether or not the fair
shall be kept open on Sundays.
Ii seems easy for even blind man to see
what the upshot will be. II will be open
on Sundays.
In the earliest calculations of the fair
builders, the % Sundays between now and
November were counted upon as worth
100000 from the sale of tickets. The
money was wanted even when 1t was sup
posed that 65,00o,OO0 Of people would be
pressing at the gates on the day the fair
was opened Fancy, then, how much that
money is needed, now that the fair has
opened out Of joint, and orly a measly Is, :
900 people a day are visiting the groundsi
The hitch about the final decision to
keep open on the holy day of the week is
due to the fact that IL is a
Doubled Headed Institution,
and neither of the heads wants to take the
responsibility for the so-called sacreligious
departure. The national commission does
not want to, neither does the local COM
mission. II looks as II nobody would do
anything, and the gates would simply re-
main open while the people file In on Sum
day.
The arguments by which the commits
sioners lead themselves into believing that
1t is right TO break their word with the
government by opening on Sunday are
somewhat ingenious. For instance, they
say that the government broke its word
first.
That was in this way: The local COM
v,,ioo 20 hi -. nd hrr uad
g., SOC, ,O0O on the ground that the sum was
necessary to finish the fair. Then the
national commission went to Washington
and asked for little less than 300, 900 for
salaries and the cost Of prize medals for
exhibitors.
At the Last Moment
congress awarded this sum, but declared
that it should be taken from the big
amount previously given to the local COM
mission.
The friends Of Sunday opening all agree
that by doing that the government broke
its contract, and that the law forbidding
the opening on Sunday IL nullified by
reason of this break.
1t should be remembered that the 81
100000 were given on condition that the
tair should be closed on Sunday.
The leading evening newspaper, The
Post, sums up the situation in these
words:
at is still seemingly impossible for any
one in authority to state positively whether
or not the Worlds fair will be opened on
Sunday next. The majority apparently
believe that it will be opened. The en-
ployes at the gates have received no orders
to close on Sunday. They have always
opened them every day, and unless they
are ordered to close them they will open
them on next Sunday. President Higgin-
botham says he is the only one likely to
issue such an order, and he does not know
whether he will issue 1t or let things take
their course"
The Troubles with the Walters
still continue, and are 10 general az to have
reached even the clubs In two of the
principal clubs yesterday old servants of
many years standing walked out almost
to a man.
Trouble Among the Ladies'.
Mrs. Potter Palmer yesterday threat
ened to resign from the board of lady
managers. 1t was the climax of the quar-
reling and lack Of harmony that has
characterized the meetings of the board
this spring. With each session it has in
creased until Mrs. Palmer, unable to bear
1t any longer, announced to the ladies that
she would ask to have her name stricken
from the rolls unless the quarreling
stopped Immediately and harmonious ac-
ton was restored to the deliberations of
the board.
Many Of the ladies were moved to tears
by Mrs. Palmer's appeal to them, and the
scene that followed her opening remarks
was distressing in the extreme. Some Of
the ladies even cried aloud, and speeches
In support OF the president were made in
broken voices, accompanied by expressions
of heartfelt sympathy for Mrs. Palmer
when she declared that she was utterly
discouraged with the action of certain
members Of the board.