The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-06-20

There are no extOrtiOnate charges.
Fifty cents general admission admits
to every government exhibit, state,
national and foreign on the grounds,
and gives free access to the thorough.
fare known as Midway Plaisance.
There are many side attractions con.
Quoted as private enterprises but there
Is nothing done to 5eguile the visitor
or to mislead him. The price of admis.
sion is printed in large letters on the
door. As for eating, the visitor has
an unrestricted privilege of taking his
own provisions upon the grounds, and
Of eating anywhere, in any place he
chooses, and possibly fully two-thirds
Of the people do this. But the charges
In the restaurants
ARE NOT UNREAsONABLY HIGH,
and We dismiss this discussion of rates
with the statement that, although the
ignorant or stupid may part with his
money in Chicago as elsewhere, there
is no unreasonable demand or induce
ment that renders it impossible for a
poor person to see the fair.
The papers have been filled for
months past with excellent pictures
OF the grounds and buildings and no
description of them will be attempted
here. 1t is sufficient to say that the
space allotted to exhibits is four times
greater than was ever occupied bv any
previous Worlds fair, excepting the
last one held at Paris, and it is three
times greater than that. In appear
ance the buildings are splendid speci-
mems of architectural skill, and the
whole arrangement is so admirably
adjusted that the appearance is efiec-
lively pleasing, it matters not from
what point the observation is made.
1t seems unfortunate that the mighty
structures are but temporary.
it would not have been bet
ter to have built two or three great
structures on the plan of the Crystal !
Palace at Sydenham, England, must |
remain an open question, but it is too |
ate to discuss it now.
AS TO THE EXHIBITS THEMSELVES.
All the known countries of the
world, nearly, have sent their very
'est. Far away India makes a
plendid display. Japan is scarcely
'ehind any other power in extent Of
but it must be confessed
nat in all departments Ger
many surpasses; and next comes
rance. The latter country outranks
II others in display, but the German
xhibit is more solid and valuable.
The great Krupp gun may be taken
s type Of German genius and enter
rise in all departments of industry
n which German people are inter-
sted. 1t is the masterpiece, the
effort, beyond which nothing ,
as yet gone. High. towering over
he exhibit in the great manufacturer ,
uilding, is that magnificent group Of ,
atuary known as 'Germania, which
irs other hearts than those of Ger
'ans, and which fittingly represents
he splendid strength and endurance
{ thatRighty empire. I
THE SUNDAY OPENING. n
We will not close without reference
a subject that has attracted wide
'read attention throughout the ma
On, namely, Sunday opening. We Y
,lieve in a strict observance of the
abbath, on moral, religious, and sani-
ry grounds. We do not believe
at there is any real necessity for the j.,
ighty rush of business that goes on =
needing this day. We believe in =
e recognition of this principle by =
ltion, state and individual, but we .
mot ignore the fact that this is not u
e controlling principle anywhere. =
usiness is suspended on Sunday only :
far as to allow those who wish to at 9
nd church to do 60. uninterrupted g !,
: anything outside, and even this is q q
t conceded everywhere. In the n
mediate neighborhood where most ..
the visitors to the Worlds fair 81
lge outside the grounds, every
ominable temptation to Sunday v
exists. Circumstances in E
measure, compel the visitors to re- NJ
hin in that neighborhood. On moral st
ounds, which is the better, to re- is
lin there, or 60 inside where every. B