Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-07
OUR Big WORLDS FAIR
wHAT SOME WHEELING PEOPLE THINK
ABOUT IT.
he Talk About High Prices for Food Said to be
Unwarrantsd-Tbs Bss. Tina to Go.
How to See the Show.

prices on the Worl0S 4alr SIOuuuS -
very largely mOOnshinef" said Mr.. b.
w. Peterson, who hasl just returned
from Chicago, where be has been sup
erintendlng the placing bf the Caldwell
& Peterson metal ceilings 10 the West
Virginia State Building. "Of course
EXPENSIVE dinners can be obtained ON
the grounds. but there is no necessity
for anyone submitting TO extortlonate
prices. l got an excellent dinner Tor
two for a dollar aud q half, and found
no cause for complaint. The same thing
IA true of the talk about outrageous
hotel rates. l secured accommodations
myself at extremely reasonable rates
and compared notes with MIR. w. d..
Woodward, who had a suit OF two rooms
with bath, TO accommodate four people,
for Eve dollars per day. There will be
plenty OF room for every one. IL Is a
great big show, no mistake about that,
At the opening / saw the President,
and obtained an excellent idea OF the
entire ceremonies"
~ have been through the Worlds
Fair" said II. b. Wheat, "and the
stories you see about high prices are ro-
mances I was with a party OF four,
and we obtained a splendid dinner In
the Casino for the entire party for $50.
We purchased lunches at different
places, Bass ale, bottled beer, etc., TO
get a correct idea Of the charges, and
found them about as usual. Bass ale
was thirty cents, which is about what
you'll pay for IL usually, and beer at tt-
teen cents for a small bottle was not eX-
tortionate. Other drinks and cigars
seemed 20 be sold at reasonable rates.
! fancy the yarns about a quarter for a
piece OF pie, ten cents for the use OF a
plate, etc, come from the japanese res
taurant, the Italian restaurants, or
some others Of the foreigners, who are
accustomed to make charges for things
furnished free here in America. At all
events l saw nothing Of the sort, aud we
were all over the place. As for hotel
accommodations 1 had a room in the
Great Northern. on Jackson street, for
So day. That isn't far wrong, cOnsid-
ering the accommatiCnS. Later W OF
US got a big room, with " beds, for
$3.50 per day each.
''It's a magnificent show. 1 think
there is little doubt but that II will last
over this year. It's too big a thing 70
run for but six months. A great many
people in Chicago have that idea, and
believe II will be closed up in NOvem-
Der, and opened again mex May, per-
haps with additional attractions and
exhibits. A great many Of the foreign
~exhibits-in fact most OF those outside
OF Germany-are not ready 70 be shown.
The Russians and Swedish, for example,
have a lot of their stuff ice bound In the
Baltic sea, and 10 won't all be on hand
for six weeks 70 come, The German
exhibit, however, is out Of sight. It's
immense. Ihad some exceptional facil-
tiles, aud went behind the scenes in the
French department and some other, and
they're fine, or will be. We looked over
everything without acrOwd 10 bother
Us, and thus had a big advantage.
''CharIey VanKeuren has his reStsur-
ant with the Wild West show running
full tilt, and Is doing q good business
for a start. l think he's safe for a
three hundred dollar a day trade as soon
as things get fairly started. He took
all his help from this city, and they're
good people. Two Of the Salada boys
are cashlering for him. The Wild West
people are giving a great show, and
they will DO a big card"
at think the best time TO see the Fair
will be about the fifteenth Of June, -
said Commissioner John 5. Naylor, yes
terday. Il know there is a good deal
OF talk about its not being ready, but
there will be as much Of IL ready as any
man can see to advantage by the first
Of June, and il the visitor who wants
TO see things gets in by the first week
or by the middle Of June he'll see the
whole show without having to look
over the shoulders Of q dozen other
people. Everybody is putting of the
trip until the last Of August or the first
OF September when the weather will be
nice, and al that sort OF thing, and as
q result the hotels will be full, the
transportation facilities blocked, and
crowd in the grounds so big that there
will be no comfort, and when a fellow
gets In an avenue or an aisle where
there is something 70 see he'll have 70
keep moving with the crowd without
seeing IL as much as he wants 10.
About the first Of June everything will
be in place, il will look fresh, there
will not be such a mob, and if a fellow
wants to watch au engine run or follow
the gyrationS Of a star fish. he can do
IL without being iostled. Go early and
avoid the rush, is my motto
Il spent FIVE days In Chicago this
week looking at the Fair" said a gen
tleman who got OF the late b. Il o.
train last night 'and while il don't
seem TO be more than half ready. there
is about four times as much as any man
can see In a month, let alone a week.
Those folks who are talking about do
ing the Fair in three or four days or s
week or in ten days are talking through
their hats. l believe II q man stayed
there until the gates close on the last
day, and spent eight hours a day, he'd
come away az the end without seeing a
good many interesting and curious
things. The trouble is. that after a
man works eight hours q day for a few
days at seeing things his brain becomes
saturated with paintings, and taxtile
fabrics, and machinery, and prize stock
and manufactured articles, and exhibits,
no matter how merit9riOUS, make no
impression upon a mA. Try looking
at pictures for a day, dnd see how your
brain gives out, until the most splendid
examples OF art make no more impress
sion upon one than 4 teh store chrome.
That's the trouble with\all departments
OF the exhibits. A mari may have the
industry and endurance TO do thirty