The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-27

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him bad to pay 81 piece to go to his
concerts. Ii took me several months to
/ get nd OF him. Think of i'll Eighteen
hundred dollars day Why II costs only
VI 20 day TO run the great buildings of
8 fhe exposition. We are reducing right
dong. Our next cut will be as to the
ntes. which cost as 81. 800 day, aud We
xill cut also in other quarters.
What does IL now cost TO run the ex-
POSITION 7' said 1.
ut costs lust about SIS, 600 a day now.
bat an average in the past has been far
above that. When we were building We
spsnt $4,000 and more day for weeks.
and money had to flow like water. We
have lahored under great disadvantages
All the work has been done under the
slght-hour Law, and that law has inereasd
The expenditures sof the fair over 81 200, :
n1 The trades unions have regulated
our prices. and We paid double wages for
the work We had TO have done on sunday
In order TO get ready in time. Some OF
our contracts were made for the entire
period OF the iaiF, when they should have
been made for short time. and the ex.
pense OF the whole has been materially in
creased through the haste we have had 20
make -
where does this $4,000 day that IL
requires 60 run the exposition GOT"
asked.
1T is spent in all sorts of ways" was
The reply. large amount haste be paid
out for guards police aud detectives. We
have about 20 detectives and 800 guards.
The number of guards has been
criticised as being too large. but
We need them to provide against FIRE.
The statue Fire Controlled above this
eailding IL typical Of our work. We
have here one Of the most iutiammabIe
cities OF the world. and one of the most
dangerous as regards loss of life. Suppose
bse should break out in the Manufactures
building Machinery hall or the Eiec.
srieaty building and should gain headway
THINK of the electric wires charged With
hnndreds upon hundreds % volts of cleo
theity that might iiy about as wild wires.
- were not prepared for them lhey
seald deal death at every touch. Why.
soHae OF those wires are charged up TO
IR1 voltage. One of them broke the
oihef day aud fell into a pond covering
hsarly an acre Of ground, A man was
Sanding in the waters of this pond good
usstsAee from the wire. He Is nov lald up
Win sore leg coming from the electric
snoek be got at that time. | have IL now
arranged 50 that these wires can all be
asadeaed 81 once. If Il were not so and a
) Etc should break out the results would he
mere terrible than any coniiagFstion of his
ihsy have been pat out 50 promptly that
ne people have never heard OF them As
rs, oar fatalities have been very lew. We
nase had ia round numbers 700 90
fsope on these grounds. We have butt
These great buildings with the men ciinch-
aag The bolts ON some OF these great iron
structures as they were pGt together. hang
sag onto lhe beams y hile' they we're NOV
sas. and all told only fifty men have been
Killed, anN not rnort. than ~FN1 UnaaAasf
Ia otaeF words, including visitors. only one
nsa ~ every ten Thousand. 50 far con-
efsted With the fair, has met with an ac-
saent The oniy building burned has
teen TIE storage building, and Tor this We
ssfs no. responsible.
Ion must also remember that these
EseAs buildings are not ike ordinary struc-
safss They are fragile, and solid as they
oA, you could Alex hoie into them at
snacss any pojat
WHAT'S g. become o, these buildings -
asssd. VIII there be fair next
No. replied Director General Davis
- TAR seNt year With these haiidings is
~ lmposslhslity They would not last
- Aihter Through, The glass roofs are
constructed that thew would he broken
81 the ice, and the buildings wogld fall 10
pseSrs knoN there Is some talk of an
ai@esss'on nexs year, bat IL - out OF the
preston"
hew about the extending 81 the ex.
Fs,saoh on into NovcmherF"
can { say whether IL all he extended
aol | think it might be a gcasi thlng
rs 1t We ooaid have ten DAYS. two
49, 49, OF even more ~ November. and Il
seasa help US oaI Whether eanrrexs Mil
Asksa Tor this. ard whether IL will he
.Aaasea, caanos say Row, bat il il very
vaoss iAat some such movement wtll
- Undertaken" 'sf
~ ~ sae psnie burt the faigs" / asked.
rs replied t'en. Davis, III has re-
- oar Attendance AZ least IS 90 aay
- W receipts PROFESSIONALLY lar More.
y ira men OF the country are not eon.