Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-18

| llbllt iut dltHuHllCe is GROWING GullN.
now that the weather looks settled. Yes
terday l2,222 admission tickets were sold
| nj the gates. On the corresponding day at
the Centennial Exposition ll,O54 tickets
were sold
The Exposition managers believe that
| large share of the public is waiting for u
definite announcement that the Fair is
complete i'll every detail, and when This is
given out expect about a million people to
| make Chicago their temporary abiding
| place. Everything is budding and bloom.
| ing to-day under the effects of the suns
warm rays and work in every part nf the
Exposition is being pushed forward with
/ more rapidty than has been fashionable
| OF late among Worlds Fair workmen
More unpleasant things have been said
about the Exposition ON account Of the
| Chemical National Bank failure than have
been provoked by anything else except the
obnoxious anti-smoking order, now lie
tunct. The banks exhibit in Admins.
tratiOn Building continued to attract peo-
pie to-day, but they cursed the bank
officials and denounced the bank authori,
ties for not taking precautionary measures
i'll the interests of those who needed to do
business with a bank inside the grounds.
Among those most loud in their denuil-
Citations of the bank and its officers were
President tOhnrn of the Kansas State
Commission and III. IL. Kern, who is the
executive of the Kansas Building. The
bank held 81, l0Oof Kansas money in Com.
missioner kcrn's name. and he regrets the
day that lie did not resort To the methods
of the late Dalton gang VIXEN the bank
was open.
lie said If he did not get the money be.
longing TO Kansas from the bank he would
write To Kansas officially advising the pco.
pc to stay, away from the fair, because he
considered the Exposition authorities
morally responsible ter the money de-
| posted with the bank having indorscd it
practically hy allowing it 10 do business
on the grounds. Commissioner Cuhurn
Shli Bank President Curry had personally
solicited the business of all the commits.
Sioners and soliciting letters had been re.
tvlfed by all The national commissioners
! he deposits of the exhibitors and Of all
foreign commissioners involved III the fail
IRE Will, however, be guaranteed by the
the directors and private citizens Ncstrr.
/ day President lIiginuutham held cguslIl.
| tatlon with Secretary Edmouds and soon
after went out among the capitalists of the
tity. lie looked into the affairs OF the
bank and after Spending the entire after.
noon in the work, was able to mas,. tie
| announcement; tina; the deposits mentioned
would he guaranteed The names signed
70 the guaranty include most OF the lead
ing bankers Of tile city,
Vermont hAlldlus was dedicated AZ
noon to-day in the presence Of the GOV.
| ernor ana many citizens ana ex-cltizems Of
the Hreen Mountain state, among them
eN.Hovcrnor ". Il Dillingham;, ex-tioy.
| ernur Farnhab, Ex-Governor Piugrer
acknowledgement Stranahan, eN. Lieu
| nanLguyernor Wpolburv, Secretary II
| state Rruwnwel, eX. state Treasurer
| Dihuin State Senators Fish, Foster ana
| Circuit, State Treasurer Field Secretary 81
| Military Affairs Gould and James |,
| Martin.
The sudden change in the weather from
| winter chill To SKINNER warmth brought
| the musical features u the Far again to
| prominence this morning The oprn-alr
| concerts began ut pu'clock in Adminlstra
| ton Plaza and were continued bp the
Chicago and Cincinnati bands uHti
o'Giock ~ the evening before large crowds.
| The special committee of the National
F., Commission, which is investigating the
! musical troubles, called on President
| HiginbothaIu this morning and also ,iues.
4 toned the Council Of Administration in
! his room regarding the appointment 81
| Theodore Thomas, his relation To the
| director and the power of the commission
| to enforce his removal as leader OF the
| Exposition Orchestra. The answers given
! the committee We're not such as Il, en-.
| courage a radical report, ami it is probable
\ that the commission will receive the find.
| ing and recommendation Of its committee
| To curtall the power of MIR. Thomas as to
I
/ and If he does not like It ne can resign.
IN the National Commission TODAY A.
| L. Goshurn, director general Of the Zen,
4 tennial Exposition was invited To address
i the commission IN regard Ia the rules ami
regulations Of the Philadelphia exhibition.
4 Mr. Goshorn will appear 1T noon tO.luor.
| row,
The green flag of Ireland and the stars
and stripes ti0atcd from the battlcmcnts Of
| ltlarncN castle this afternoon on the uCga-
! sion 1T the opening OF the Irish village III
! the Midway Flalsancc, over which the
Earl and Countess OF Aberdeen presided.
/ The centre of attraction was the primitive
concert han where lord and Lady Aber.
/ deem addressed the asscmblHgCu On the phil.
aIthroplc object of the village enterprise
aud the comncbdahle purpose OF the Irish
Industrial Association.
ScCuud TO the E'rClCh exhibit in the Fine
Arts Building, the thuU>nu4s It people ut
! the Exposition tu.iav seemed a. coucpu.
tratc III the United state. section, whici,
was opened to the puulr The American
salons Mere crowded nearly AL day, and
nearly everybody Wa interested III the
works Of art sufficiently to have "a Ca,A.
lugur. There was no hurrying through
the dozen American salons already hung
and the praise bestowed npuu the works
of American painters, many of them
| pri1e-wlnners from Paris NuI London cX.
hibitions, WAS not undcsrrNrd.
GuleA"o, lii, May ll-A special TO the
hFr-0,cnt from Knoxville rcnn, saws
Waller DamroSch, the conductor of the
! New urk symphony Orchestra was krd
last hight if he had been rendered the
position Of musical director uf the Worlds
! Fair The response was No | have not
been given Any positive assurance that
would be acceptable III such a position"
We'll, Mr.. DamrnSch, would you accept
the management Of the Worlds Fair
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