Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-09-28
THEB BIG FAIR.
WORLDS FAIR GROUND.
CHICAGO, SEPrEMDER %, 1893.

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Jffs CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER %, 1888.
.L4 (FrOm our Special oorrespOndent.)
1t is now settled beyond all hope Of altera-
tion that the fair will be shut for good at
midnight Oct. 80. This decision wss
reached at the executive committee meeting
Monday evening. There was not diss ent-
ing voice when the question was put to a
vote. Too many obstacles lay in the way of
a prolongation of the fair. Foreigners are
anxious to go home and it would have been
almost impossible to hold them or their ex-
hibits after the natural expiration of the ex-
position period. The uncertainty of the
matter, too, was another ruling element.
No provisions have been made for keeping
the immense buildings heated during the
winter season. At the first heavy cold snap
they would have been uninhabitable. These
and many otaer reasons induced the execu-
tive committee not to extend the fair period!
There is no doubt the action of the commit
tee will be endorsed by the local directory.
This has been another gala week OF cele-
bration. Iowa took two days to do the
thing properly and thousands of Hawkeyes
came to attend the exercises. A picturesque
feature Of the celebration was the giving
away of carloads of golden rod by Iowans to
visitors. reception was held in the even
ing at the Iowa state building attended by
Gov. Boies and his entire staff.
Director General Davis order to stou the
"barking" of Piaisance fakes was prolific of
lmany humorous Incidents, bat the shouting
has been stopped. At first the "barkers'I
we're inclined to rebel, also the concession-
aires, but they were called down. One of
the men thought that If his barkers couldn't
| talk outside their show they would inside
and he started one at it, but a, Columbian
guard came along and took the orator to the
station, where he was lectured and let 90.
After that lesson the news spread among
the side-show men that it would not be safe
to talk out loud, so they started in on a new
tack. Mounting chair outside they began
to 60 through series of gesticulation. that
would do credit to a Dutch windmill in a
gale. Arms were. flung around, canes
waved, umbrellas, opened. but not a word
was spoken. The crowd did not knowswhat
to make of it. The silence order was. un-
known to them. They Razed on the men
and wondered If they we're lunatics or wild
men. Many comments we're made, and the
Columbian guards were pestered with aues-
tIons. They became the advertisers them
selves, for every second man asked them
what allied the gesticulating individualsand.
according to their instructions to answer all
Iquestions civilly, they had to tell. A Plai-
sance crowd soon accommodates itself to
anything new, and the gesticulators became
as successful as the deposed shouters.
/ A collection of musical Instruments said
tofhespeak the origin and the gradual devel-
/ opment of the modern musical instruments,
is eneased in a long row of cabinets in a
Liittle room to the left of the south entrance
to the government building. In this room
and the one across the vestibule, neglected
by the most sight-seers, are some OF the
rarest treasures,of the Smithsonian institu-
i ton. Trophies of science, literature and the
arts are mingled together.
The little room, on the left, beside the COL
lection of instruments typifying the devel-
Opment of music, contains an exhibit ILLUS.
trating the progress of the graphic arts from
the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
From a musical standpoint the babies of
today rate with old and hoary Egyptian der
II wishes, who took delight in the rattle. The
4 ancient Hlndoos had rattles made of gourds,
Enthusiastically decorated with NEUROLOGICAL
II Hindoo beings. The cultured Syrians made
theirs of wood and SO did the African tribes
of the lower Congo. Gourds were used by
the Mojaves and the other tribes of Ameri-
san Indians from the Haidas Of British CO.
lumbia to the Mokis, who lived in the ado be
! pueblo of Tesuque in New Merico Some OF
the Soudanese made rattles of bones, and af-
ter awhile some of the tribes of Mexico
learned from the Aztecs to make them OF
metals. And from this lesson the bell was
evolved. s5 &
About the time of the italian inquisition q
widely known instrument of music was the
capelo, dubbed the ''Tingling JOHNNIE" by