The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-16
FOR zIGNR2s AT TIE FAIR.
Picturesque Figures in the jackson
Park Show.

/ than anything else ct the fair will be the
people in it. 1 might say the people who
are already here for not only have the for
| eign commissioners been in Chicago in
| many cases for over year, but the work
| men representing the various governments
| have been hanimering, tinkering and
! hustlng, each In their native and peculiar
| way, for many months. The japanese have
! just arrived, 30 be sure, but the Japanese
! are old inhabitants.
or all the foreign commissioners at the
| fair his excellency from Brazil has cut the
most dashing figure. Marshal Jose Simeao
| de OlveirR came to Chicago over seven
months ago with big staff. He took rooms
at the Metropole and begun at once to make
an impression. HIS entertainments were
| lavish. The moguls OF Chicago of the fair
| management 49, they are identical-and
| members of other commissions have been
| dined aud wined without stint. l believe
| Brazil put something like $40, 900 in Chi
| CagO bank for the marshal to cut a swath
with. Since then the new and ambitious
South American republic has added $40 900
more to the allowance. Perhaps there is
something left, perhaps not; but the mar
shall has eclipsed everything else in sight.
An indication of Brazil's determination
TO win the affection of the North Ameri-
cans is furnished by the fact that this was
| almost the only commission that came &C
| companied by ladies. The ladies of other
lands may come to join other commissions
after the fair starts. But the Brazilian
| beauties accompanied their husbands from
| the outset
The ladies from Brazil have made great
| hit And no wonder. Beauty and cham
| payne Is a great combination.
The special popularity of the French
commission is that it is made up Of pro-
| fessional exposition men. These men from
| France have set the pace for the fair. They
| know just what to do and how to do it.
| Everybody else watches to see what the
| Frenohmen will do next and how they will
| 90 about it. They work without haste, yet
without rest. With them exposition max
ing is an exact science When things get
| in to running order the Parisians will know
| how to Joy themselves. They do know
already and are popular In such society as
they are able to find and are willing to
enter
Germany, which wants to make an i'm
| posing show, and which has a pompous
rather than an impressive building on the
lake front, sent big staff, with six COM
missioners mechanical and electrical en-
| gineers, ETC., but the men have made no
| great personal impression. They are here
| on business and are spending money on
lumber rather than on lunoheons.
Nobody has fallen violently in love with
| Sir Henry Trueman Wood, who leads the
! British commission. Sir Henry is, in fact,
| rather q light weight. He was secretary Of
the Society of Arts. which made so good a
| show at Paris that they knghted the in
oumbent OF purely clerical position. Sir
| Henry has been at the Victoria house, and
has entertained little now and then.
There are obvious reasons why Italy
should be modestly represented at the show.
| Az the time commissioners we're being APP
pointed Italy was not feeling very friendly
| toward U.s. Sig. ZeggiO came to us all
alone. Since then Italy has stopped sulk-
ing and is really kissing and making up ia
| quite brilliant way.
The Greeks are inconspicuous, personally,
though as everybody has been told by this
time, the show this country will make is to
be rendered notable by the presence Of i'm
| portant artistic government loans.
| When we come TO the Japanese we get
| down TO real p1cturesqueness. On Wooded
| Island, at the heart of the tair the Japs are
still at work on the finishing touches to the
| Holden, which you may call the palace OF
the Phenix If you like.
l watched the Japs at work here yester-
| day. Everybody watches the Japs 1t is
| one OF the things the 1000 people who paid
! 30 cents at the gate the other day came in Co
| do. The Japanese colony includes sixty
people, with the Hon. s. Tegima at their
head. They live in small groups in various
parts of South Chicago, near the fair
grounds. The houses they have hired are
modest but sufficient. A native guards the
| door, but the servants are such as may be
hired In Chicago.
The Japs adhere strictly TO their native
uniform. Their sandaled feet looked very
cold Yesterday at a time when there was
ice in the corners of the pond. The work.
men oil have guild uniform, the laborers,
! carpenters finisheTs each having a distinct
i've coat. A Swiss form of cross ia the mid
die of the back is the most frequent em bem,
| Sometimes the cross is white on the blue
coat; again it is red in white circle or white
in red circle.
OF course they are all little men, never
much over five feet high. Yet they seem
to be wonderfully strong Working on the
Holden, in the department. buildings, in the
fine arts building, where they are going to
make show of Japanese painting and
sculpture, they are seen to move method
ically, cautiously, unhurriedly with what
they have TO do. The European or Ameri-
can spectator is puzzled TO see them making
shavlngs by drawing the plane toward
them, and saving with an instrument con-
structed on the same trauSposed plan-that
is. with tho teeth turned toward the work.
men, and thus putting the chief muscular
strain on the biceps instead of the triceps.
The little Jeps verify their reputation for
being the politest, kindliest people in the
world. As they trcdge in out of the grounds
they always seem to be in cheerful humor,
and while always reserved are always read 7
with friendly smile.
The bulk OF the party from Java is only
just getting here. The fact that there are
ladies-not to mention an oraug outang-
in the party, adds not little zest TO this
arrival The truth is that the JGvanese
party is mostly in the side show line Of
trade and will be seen in the PolYnesian
village, at the great Midway plaisauce
where the girls who have seldom danced
before anybody who was not prince royal
or at least duke, will show our benightsd
pale-faced, cold-bl0oded civilization that
Lottie Collins and the French quadrille
pluugers are simDly not in it.
The arrival of the Ceylon contingent
made a sensation. Rooms had been en-
gagged in a certain Hyde Park South Chi
cago Hat house, aud board at Il certain res
taurant, whose respective proprietors made
profitable contracts for the season. But
when the Ceylon party came-whioh it did
very late at night--the fiat house man
almost had u convulsiou.
my Cod" he gaspod, II mover knew they
were niggers.'
After swearing that 1t was impossible 10
take In the dusky Ceylon party the fiat
house man thought better, took buck his
disagresaSle descriptive word, and found
bis visitors a handsome and even distin-
guished looking body of men. The row was
repeated at the restaurant when the Ceylon
band walked in to breakfast, There was q