The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-16

spEetlE Correspondence Of me Inte1gCNcT.
CHICAGO, August l4,-It occurred to
me- the other day, IS l was stTolIing
through the fair grounds to propose a
conundrum to the INTELLIdENcER in
my next letter. Why is it that day by
day You meet at a given hour just about
the same number OF people at q given
placer Ii there are seventy-6Ve thous-
aud people on the grounds about 80
many OF them will DO in each OF the
respective exposition buildings. AT
the outset OF the day, or at any other
gwen hour, and II the attendance rises
to one hundred thousand the proper
ton to the whole will be preserved,
Every place from the first hour OF the
day has apparently its regular quota Of
patrons, seemingly under tho law OF
averages. Go where you will at any
hour OF the day you find the great
crowd distributed throughout the var
ious buildings and along the various
walks as il it had been assigned to duty
al the gates us 1t came in
have never gone anywhere yot that
l did not find in the same building
about the same number oil people at
about the same hour in the day. There
never seems to be too many OF them in
any one building at any one time. II
is always comfortable getting about, no
matter how many are on tho grounds,
The point that puzzles me Is as to how
In a GO mn n
people should prefer to be, for instance,
in the transportation building ut 10 a.
H., so many in tho mining or horticul'
turaI buildings near by az the same
hour, and so many more in the agricul-
tural and electrical or tho manufactures
and arts building. Even the Krupp
gun building, the forestry building. the
leather building and the great anthrop.
illogical museum have their early as
we'll as their midday and mid.after.
noon assignments, and to this rule oil
averages the big man-of-war that lies at
tho naval pier at the north inlet OF the
lake, and the convent OF La Rabid0, ait
uated on the peninsula ut the south
inlet, aro no exceptions. And 80 like
wise may also say Of the fishery build.
ing and the United States government
building and each OF the state build
ings. They are sure to have their reg
ular trade from hour to hour through
out the day. They all have their aver
ages OF the whole attendance ut stated
times. What is the explanation OF this
apparently curious circumstance?
MANY TAKE THEIR EASE.
Going up the winding way that leads
to the West Virginia headquarters from
the Fitty-ninth street entrance, l FREE
uuently notice tho crowds that seem to
fill the chairs aud the porches of such
state buildings as those of Michigan,
Indiana and Wisconsin, those three be-
ing tandem with each other on the right
hand side Of the winding way. From 10
o'clock on throughout the day those
chairs and porches seem to be always
full, and sometimes wonder ii it is the
came crowd all dny long, and whether
they have come to the fair simply to
"take their ease in their inn" It often
looks to me rs II there must DO many
people who prefer chair in the shade
or u seat Mt the restaurant table to all
tho attractions OF the exposition build
ings, for there arc such seeming multi.
tudes always sitting in the shade or eat
ing and drinking under the awnings.
1t seems to confirm that paragraph
furnished in my letter OF the 18th
from the Chicago Herald, to the
effect that tho masses do not come to
the fair for instruction but for recrea.
ton, aud that tho pleasures of the
senses in the shape OF shade, chairs, boat
riding and gastronomics count for much
more than the exertion, patience and
intelligence necessary TO see md ap-
preciate the fair. Therefore, said the
Herald, in tho paragraph alluded to,
don't try TO educate them into the mys-
tories OF Wagner's music, US interpreted
by Theodore Thomas, ut such expense
to tho fair, but give them plenty OF
hoop-de-doOden.do brass band music
ut the kiosks or band stands in the
plazas, where they can sit in the shade
and relapse into dolce far nicntc as
they listen to national airs and other
popular music Don't bother them
with lectures on even popular subjects
in tho various assembly halls Of the OK.
position buildings, but give them OUT
door spectacular and sensational amuse.
ments.
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