Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-24
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
WHITE City DESERTED.
Everything About the Fair
/ Grounds Tightly Closed.
JEFFERSON NEAR DEATHS DOOR.
The Veteran Actor Has a
Cancerous Affection.
STABBED, LYaCHED AND R0lSTEa.
Quick Justice Melted Gut to
Lee Walker.
WHITE CITY DESERTED.

The sunday Closing OF the World.
Fair Was RigIdly Enforced - The
! Only Gates Opened We're for Pass
Holders.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Ths White City was
deserted to-day and the warm sun shone
| upon desolate thoroughfares, lonely Co.
lumbar Guards and a few Inhabitants on
Midway Plaisance who had left that quar-
ter early in the day to view the big build
ings in the park. The Sunday closing was
rigidly enforced, and any person who en-
tered the exposition grounds had to prove
that his presence there was absolutely neo-
essary.
ALI buildings were closed, and the sign
closed today" placed on the doors of q
few of the state houses were entirely un-
necessary, as there were no persons In the
park who cared to do any visiting or sight
seeing All the electric and steam launches
and gondolas were tied up, no fountain
was playing, the thousands of booths were
barren of wares, their handsome safes
women were absent, and altogether it wes
the most complete ''closed Sunday" the fair
has known.
Only two gates were open and these
were for pass holders. Many of the cater
ers endeavored to avail themselves of the
opportunity to clean up their restaurants
and put everything In condition for the
crowds of the coming week, but the gate
keepers were of the opinion that 1t was
not necessary to clean the eating places,
and with but one or two exceptions re-.
fused to allow the workmen to pass In.
There was no trouble of any kind from
persons wiehing to enter the grounds
The nearest approach to q disturbances was
at 9 O'Clock, when drink-fushed individ-
ual mounted box across the street from
the Fifty seventh street entrance and called
vociferously for one hundred volunteers to
aid him in tearing down a section of the
fence in order to allow poor lsbor.ng men
to see the fair free. A policeman stopped
the harangue, however. and took the old
man away in patrol wagon. The crowds |
outside the gates along Stony Island ave- |
nue. were small during the entire day and |
the numerous side shows did nothing.
Toward noon to-day man appeared at |
the Sixty fourth street gate and offered |
ticket for admission and was refused. He |
then took this numbers of the gatemen who |
refused to let him In. 1t is supposed he |
was securing evidence for prosecuting the |
exposition officials for contempt of court, |
Judge Stein having granted an injunction |
: LILO onoiais Iroin c'osinS the
fair on Sundays.
Hereafter fireworks will not be permitted |
on tn grounds or they will have to be set |
off away from the buildings Last night |
q bomb was sent up and before it had |
reached great height 1t exploded aud the |
she'll falling on the Manufactures building |
crashed through the tkylight and set FIRE |
to the cu1 tain stretch below. Had it not |
been for the prompt work of the fire de- |
partment the building and perhaps others |
would have been consumed. Two fremen
climbed 100 feet upon the big beams and |
tore down the burning cloth, extinguishing
the flames, which had obtained considera-
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