Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-01
THESPELL BROKEN
Attendance at the Fair on the
Increase.
LANDLORDS ARE MUCH PLEASED.

Sights To BE Seen Outside and Inside the
Exposition Tile Washington
Building and the Wonderful Things TO
BE Seen i'll 1.-THE States Exhibit of
Forestry.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. "a [Special.] -
The ''hoodoo' is lifted. The spell is
broken. The evil spirit Of unbelief is ex-
orcised and the people are coming to the
fair. 1t is noted that on each special state
or race day thecrowd is much bigger than
on the preceding one and at noon today it
begins to look as if all Illinois were here
to celebrate her day. Two weeks ago the
general talk was that 100, 600 a day aver
age was a big paid attendance. Then it
began to rise rapidly and soon ran up to
ITO, GOO or more, and now the sanguine be-
gin to talk of an average of $50, 900 a day.
The landlords of the Hyde Park annex
smile once more, for the baggage wagons
roll through the streets piled high with
trunks and the jingle of the daddy dollar
is heard in the trousers of the incoming
farmer.
call this region the Hyde Park nnex
to the fair, and a queer creation it is.
There is an east and west street through
it, south of which it is illegal to sell
whisky, and north of it. l might almost
say it is illegal to sell anything else. Now
if this were on the line between Kansas
and Missouri, or anywhere else hat state
sovereignty comes in, or even if it We're a
county line, these small hotels and cheap
show fellows would probably have some
respect for it, but in the same cosmopoli-
tan city they look on it as foolishness and
violate the law many a time and oft. So
there is a storm center ~hereabouts. Mrs.
Ellen Foster has been lecturing us about
it. The law and order leagues and the
moral purity leagues and divers other
leagues are at work among us, while "Old
Subscriber "Veritas," "Pro Bono Pub
ico' and the rest of that gang entertain
cs in the newspapers.
Now it is a fact oft commented on that
there is as little drunkenness and disorder
here as one ever saw in so large a crowd,
and as I walk home of evenings through
that tangled wilderness of pine sheds
Called halls and hotels by courtesy I
often have to laugh at the careless secur-
ity of ladies and other strangers to the
sunny side of life. The American woman
is not here for her health. She came to
see the entire show and she is seeing it re-
CARELESS. l stepped into a concert hall
about $50 the other evening (my hotel is
on the north side of the street above men
.tioned), and sat down near the door when
! was greeted with a merry laugh from
the next table. There sat a matron and
w young ladies of my acquaintance from
an inland town. 1--WE take in the play
zance tomorrow said the mat IN, "and
decided on a preliminary lesson tonight"
"You must be careful there" I remarked,
"for it is reported that some of the shows
are bad" IF there's anything one bit i'm
proper" was the retort, well tell the
folks at B. all about it, for we shall quail
fy ourselves to testify."
The only danger l can imagine in this
pinewood and plaster village is of fire.
Nearly all the buildings are low and there
are open spaces in plenty, but if fire should
once get started l fear that this new and
oily pine would go in a fash and before a
man could get wide awake and jump out
of a second story window. From Sixtieth
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the outside is thick set with every kind of
cheap show and open air games. Buffalo
Bill is there of course. A small party Of
the Esquimaux have seeded from the
main body and set up an independent
show there. In short, it is Il "Coney isl.
and crowd' all through. The Manitoba
building too is outside, the more's the
pity, for it has a really fine exhibit and
yet few people think of looking outside
the grounds fer a state. or provincial build
ing.
~.
Washington's state building is a wonder
in itself-an immense structure of stone
and staff and cedar, resting on a founda-
ton of mammoth logs, and almost
crammed with every curious and useful
product of the state. Everything is on a
gigantic scale from the flagstaff in front.
a single trunk of fir 207 feet long, to the
great skeleton mammoth in the hall, the
largest ever dug up outside of Siberia.
Everything in the structure is from
Washington except the glass and the
paint. The ground plan is that of a modi-
fed Greek cross, 22Sx125 feet in extent,
and there is a floor space of $4,000 square
feet. In the main hall is that represen-
tative model of a Washington grain farm
of which so much has been said. While
not so artistic as the famous grain-and-
grass picture in the Illinois building
that is on the wall while this is on the
foor-it is still a faithful and curious re-
production.
W~ashington's day is to be in September,
but the time cannot be set till Governor
John w. McGraw can state positively
the time he can be here. Commissioner
George V. Calhoun, in charge of the
building, adds that the size of the crowd
depends a good deal on how the railroads
behave. "You see Washington is a long
ways off and most of our 10000 people
are pretty busy and have not made their
fortunes yet, and SO we could not expect
many thousands here on any one day."
The fir logs forming the foundation are
1925 feet long and average 40 inches in
diameter, and a much longer flag pole
could have been secured but could not be
transported over the crooked mountain
railways.
One great curiosity is a vase six feet
high and four feet across the top, turned
on a lathe from a single red cedar log and
claimed to be the largest piece of turned
wood ever made on a lathe. The lathe, by
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