The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-02
The WORLDS FAIR.

With some it is question of finance,
with others OF time taken from business,
difficulty of leaving home, or one of ply
sical endurance, There will be discom-
forts, fatigue, vexations, delays; but de-
termination to make the best OF things,
and have a good time, to keep sweet"
under all circumstances will bring its
certain reward. The worlds fair is such
a wonderful achievement, such rare
privilege, a liberal education in so many
directions, such superior investment, 1t
would be great mistake not TO avail
ones self Of It's advantages when It is so
near.
As cannot be described, or appreci-
ated in advance, those who fail to see it
will not know what they have missed; so
it is only fair to urge that every reason
able effort should be made to 60 even If
one has to make sacrifices In other direc-
tions for some time to come.
Most people haye to elect in what they
shall economize, and in what be indul-
gent. The essentials of clean, well
ventilated room, neat and good bed,
toilet conveniences and wholesome
and appetizing table are not difficult to
obtain at moderate rates, because Chicago
expected great part Of the world to come
to the fair, and new hotels with immacu-
lately fresh furnishings have been put
up everywhere just outside of jackson
Park and In all the neighborhoods near.
Most people take their meals upon the
European plan of selecting from the
printed bill of fare and paying for what
they order.
If meat is desired or many things in the
home fare not counted as luxuries, each
meal may be made to count up as high as
the Irregular dinner or breakfasts" but
beyond the necessary daily variety TO keep
ones physical condition at its best one
may in hot weather omit some of the
vegetables. fruit or made dishes safely
eaten at home, but not without risk, under
the greater fatigue and changed condi'
tions of summer life at Chicago.
Down town in Chicago one may get a
we'll seryed lurch of good variety for %
cents, but on the fair grounds where tea
or coffee is 10 cents cup, rolls and but
ter as much more, and almost everything
else above that, one may not fare sumptu-
ously on a small sum. Yet, if one cares
, more for what may be seen and LEANED
by more days at the fair than one cares
for lengthy bill OF fare, here is an oppor'
: tunity for self.denial in one direction for
indulgence In another, Fresh eggs dain-
tily cooked, good bread and butter or
rolls, milk, good coffee and cream, pie OF
cake and ice cream can be had and one
a can live awhile on these.
At the Epworth hotel where we spen
{ q week, they set an excellent table, ant
. their dining rooms include both the regu
, lar meal and the European plan. Twenty
FIVE hundred guests eat at this hotel daily
many coming in from neighboring lodg
r Ing houses. Parenthetically, the writer ha
v no stock or interest IN the hotels name'
and paid inll fare for entertainment there
"a IN.
Il This hotel is at the side of Midwa.
Plaisance, corner of Fifty-ninth stree
and Monroe avenue. II has about 90
I. rooms and applications for them are s
" great that they have refused 300 in day
!. A better class Of people than fills thos
R dining halls one need not look for any
where. The building is one Of those COY
cred with "s,afT, a." plastcred and sometime
,e tinted in the inner walls, the furnishing
}. all new and good enough for tempoIa ar
re use. There is no fire or matches In tn
building, which is lighted by eleclricit.
The cooking is done by steam and III
at coal and engine room is outside. Th
building is five stories high and has fiji
90 escapes outside and FIRE extinguishers
all the halls.
The dining room girls and chambe
to maids are, judged, mostly young peop
IS who are doing this for the privilege
It attendance at the fair, which this metbo
of paying expenses affords.
The chambers on Fifty-ninth stree
he overlook the German village in the Pla
IN. sance and one could always see the QUITO
IT. doors lunch under the trees and the II
of the beer garden in full sway.
There Is no doubt that many an EN-
er grant from the fatherland found amor
,rs his countryman there and itsfamiliar Gu
toms temporary balm for any homeslc
ness. The music Of its concert gard'
was always rising to our windows OF {
CT evening, and the matched roofs, plat,
walls and wicker enclosures Of the Java
ese village, a stones throw away. was su
IVY gestive OF an easy confiagration. Tn
raj such dwellings can survive all the dan
ers from cigar stdmps and matches al
continue for six months will be proof
eV' either extreme carefulness or good fC
"n tune.
The Eiffel tower and Ferris wheel q
!, in view of the Epworth hotel, which
LIB within easy walking distance OF Jacks
Park. entering opposite the womel
- building.
:" have somewhere read that one COT
proftably skip the Plaisance, seei