Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-25
REUNIONS
Which Have Been Held in the
Worlds Fair City.
OTHER GATHERINGS YET TO COME.

congresses Of Various Sorts Running Every
Day at Which Important Subjects Are
Discussed-SOme of the Leading Curl
ositfes of the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition and Where They May BE Found.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. IL Especial -
me various reunions and class gatherings
OF one sort or another deserve much more
attention than they have yet received, but
l suppose the main reason why the papers
IN the interested sections do not announce
those in the future is that many of those
in the past miscarried. Since the first of
this mouth, however, every such event
has come off as advertised and now the ar
engagements for those to come are SO COM
plete that nothing short of a cataclysm
can postpone or prevent.
some of the reunions have been remark
ably pleasant affairs, though very few
were present, and none more so than that
OF the '49-ers, or Argonauts of California.
W course but few are now alive of the So.
wv Americans who went to California
1orty-four years ago, and but few of these
u get here, but their gathering in the
state building was a sight to bring laugh
ter and tears. All form was laid aside.
They shook hands, they Rugged each
other, sometimes they roared with laugh
ter and sometimes they sighed deeply and
wiped their eyes. Pretty soon they broke
up into little groups, each representing
some noted camp and composed of its old
residents, and then they told stories of
hndlng big nuggets and "panning OUT
big yields, of lynchings and ightings and
chasing OF highwaymen, which made
Bret Harte's productions seem like a Sun.
day school book. At 2 p. IN. began the
merely formal exercises such as singing
and speech-making.
Various college classes have also ar
ranged for quiet reunions here, and most
Of these were done with early in July as
commencement day rarely comes after the
Fourth. A week ago today the knights
Of Pythias made the main avenue gay
with their display, and the mex day
Louisiana dedicated her building with
some pomp and official ceremony. On
Monday, the eth, Gilmore's band made its
first appearance. All this time the IA
nous congresses of every sort are running,
either in the great hall down town or in
some fair building, and discussing all
poetical things from the alleged unwhole-
someness of pork to the various systems of
sewerage, and all scientific subjects con-
celvable, with law, religion and woman's
dress for themes on the side. These are
but a few of the specialties, and those in
the future will no doubt increase in in
terest.
1t has been suggested that the landlords
OF South Chicago hold a grand reunion a
few years hence, after they get well, and
l may add that it might appropriately
open with the first of Aeneas' address to
Dido, "1nfandum jubes, regina, renovare
dolorem." 1t will indeed lie ito renew e.
monstrous grief" for here are the figures
to date: Capacity of the White City to en-
terrain without crowding, 100000 people;
normal daily requirement, ESQ, 900; average
to date, away below 100,O GOO. Chicago de-
clares with profane emphasis that one
third of these are residents of the city and
another third live SO near that they ride
in mornings and out home evenings. This
is an exaggeration, of course, but it is GER
tain that the daily demand for rooms is
not now more than 10000 above the sum-
mer average and that really elegant rooms
can be had at Is cents or 81 a day. If it
were a laughing matter we might enjoy
reading those magnificent assurances pub
llshed SO widely last year; how committees
would meet women excursionists at trains