The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

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careful nurses, where they will receive
good attention and be permitted to anrse
themselves IN a playroom on the roof with
all manner of toys contributed bv the ma
lions OF the earth, at small charge Der
hour.
The state buildings are sure to be a great
comfort to many thousands of visitors.
With two or three exceptions, all the
states and territories have handsome
buildings here. and only small number
of them are used for exhibits. They ara
all devoted to the entertainment of yisi-
sors from the states. If you are from
Ohio, for instance, in the Buckeye buiId-
ing you will find pleasant parlors, check
room at which your parcels may be left
without cost, lavatories and toilet rooms,
a spacious piazza outside, letter-writing
conveniences, tables at which you may eat
your luncheon, messengers, postal boxes,
and above all the opportunity to meet
friends from your own state and neighbour
hood. These state buildings are in other
words club houses for the visitors from
the commonwealth which erected them,
their friends from other states They are
not only handsome, but decidedly useful.
Uncle Sam has postoffice on the
grounds, with every department. in full
running order. There are about thirty
carriers, and more will be put on in few
days. People who intend coming to the
fair and who do not know their permanent
or hotel address, will do well to have their
mail sent to their state building At each
of the state buildings special efforts are
made to take good care Of mail delivered
into their hands and to see that it gets to
the rightful owners. OF course there are
telegraph offices all over the grounds, and
the charges are the same as in the city.
The express companies have Offices here,
also, and If a visitor buys articles which
are inconvenient to carry he may have
them wrapped up and sent home by ex-
press. There Is bank within the grounds,
and checks may be cashed or deposits
made. This is the bank which failed a
few weeks ago, but none Of the depositors
lost anything. Within few hours the
business men of Chicago raised enough
money to pay off all depositors, and the
bank has since been reorganized on what
appears to be a sound basis.
Now that the hot weather is coming on
for in Chicagos mysterious climate spring
seems to have been dropped rom the role
of seasons and a quick jump is made from
winter to summer-there will of course be
few cases of sunstroke as well as now
and then other sudden illness among the
throngs of visitors. For the care of such
who may be unfortunate enough to fall
ill ample arrangements have been made.
There is a complete hospital service, with
surgeons, physicians and ambulances, and
two hospitals which are model institutions
of their kind. While Chicago has it's hot
days in summer, as every city has, visitors
to the fair areto have the great advantage
of the lake breezes constantly blowing
upon them. They may ascend to the top
of the main building and cool off, or take
a ride out upon the lake in one of the
many steamers plying to and fro. In the
splendid rotunda Of the Administration
building, which is in some respects finer
and more impressive than the rotunda of
the national capitol at Washington, wish
tors will find a cool spot, for here the heat
of the sun finds it difficult to penetrate,
while the slightest movement Of air pro-
duces a circulation through the vast en-
closure.
For the preservation of order and pro-
lection Of exhibits and visitors the man
agement has provided force of guards
numbering 1900. You may have read in
the papers some complaints about these
guards; that they are stupid, insolent and
disagreeable. If you have, no doubt you
concluded not to trouble the blue-coated
gentry with your inquiries when you
reached Chicago. But in all the time I
have been here have met but one case of
insolence among the guards. Except in
this one instance have always had my in
quiries politely and in most cases intelli-
gently answered. Nor have / ever wit
aessed any act of insolence or brutality on
the part of q guard. Therefore am not
10 be blamed if take with many grains
of allowance the stories which read in
the newspapers about the dreadful tyranny
Of the Columbian guards The whole case
seems to be like the tradition that goes
round to the effect that all policemen are
ignorant and brutal, and yet out Of a hun
dred officers you may have asked for direo-
ton in the city not one failed to treat you
with respect and courtesy.
The exposition managers have a bureau
Of public comfort, with large number of
employees, and it's duties are to see that
visitors are afforded conveniences and that
they are not imposed upon in any way.
Complaints will be promptly investigated,
and the offenders punished whenever the
evidence warrants.
Finally, there is music's sweet comfort.
1t may be had without cost. Two or three
times day the great bandstands are oo-
cupied by splendid orchestras which fill
the grand court with their harmonious
echoes while thousands upon thousands of
delighted people sit or walk about in this
most beautiful Of spots.
WALTER WELLMAN.
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