The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
The Chicago Exposition.
HOTEL ENDEAvoR, Chicago,
MAY 3, 1893.


ASSOCIATION has come and gone. Good luck
aCCenueu tne expedition from its meeting in
the central Vermont restaurant at st, AL
Dans, May b, to the present time. The good
not alcoholic), and thanks to the untrinp ef.
lorts OF the executive committee of the Press
Association and S. w. CUMMINGS general
passenger agent Of the Central Vermont,
Inc traln service was absolutely perfect
Inc time passed most enioyably on the train
lor the Vermonters were all good fellows
ana good tempered. A fine spread awaited
thcm at Ontario Branch, Sunday morning.
the only dissatisfaction being with the man
VINO hlled up on biscuits before he found
ouc une iruIt course was but the first of fivs
courses: The next stop was at Niagara,
winch has too often been the theme of
penny-a-liners to leave any new adiectives
or combinations of adjectives for the WATcH.
MAN gun pen to use. Everybody went
the,Sy wnere, ate everything set before
1mein ana had the best time Imaginable
!. 4 ne AFTERNOON route lay much of the time
tnrough the Provence of Ontario. AS was
REMARKED, most of the time on the train
Wasspent IN eating, drinking Equinox spring
wafer, ana having the berths made up.
ms was the first party of any size at
hotel Endeavor, which is one of the largest
OF the new hotels, and owing to labor diff
cultles, was not quite ready for the hungry
horde OF Vermonters, but Manager A. l.. r.
OespeauX ulu MS best to give every one the
'SD' tNONh' tihh a. competent "A man been
in charge of the dining room, the service
would have been better. When the warm
weather comes the fresh breezes of Michi-
gan VIII be appreciated by all guests of
Hotel EndeavOr.
Tuesday evening the Vermonters were
given banquet in the Endeavor dining
room by the Illinois society of Vermonters
The post-prandial speeches were very fine.
The Orleans county contingent was very
proud of Editor Theophlus CIRCUITS felicitous
a N fIa.
The Imperial quartette brought down the
house with its selections. Most of the time
was spent at the fair. Six months would
not be too much to see exhibits now in
place, but after going in every building we
have not seen or heard of one department
that is yet complete Those who come a
month or six weeks later will be plenty
early for the exhibition. The commission
ers have been subjected to numberless an
noyances and deserve the sympathy, not the
censure, of excursionists. The only wonder
Is they have got so much done One in
position TO know told the WATCHMAN rep
resentative Friday that strike had followed
strike in rapid succession that for several
weeks common laborers had been paid
$3.50 for a day of eight hours and ninety-
five cents an hour for over hours. One
man had received SIG for one weeks work
But" said the informant "probably he
did not do over four hours actual work
1t just makes me sick to see those men
take maps between driving nails Staff
makes very fine looking buildings at practi-
cally no expense. The "white city D." is
marvelously beautiful from the dome of the
administration building. The heroic statues
seem more heroic from a little distance.
Everything is so interesting it is hard to
mention any one in particular. The histo-
rlan will spend some hours in the reproduce
ton OF the Convent of La Rabida, where
Columbus found a refuge during his vari-
GUS tribulations incident to discovering u.s.
The transportation building is probably
more complete than any other and is ex-
tremely interesting. The English compart-
ment train attracts great deal of attention
from those who have never been abroad,
but after all the elegant exclusiveness of
compartment trains, our American drawing
room cars are good enough for Americans
the best people on the globe
1t is the general Impression that the
Esqumaux village is savage fraud, and
not worth the extra quarter demanded to
see the bark huts and inhale the various
unsavory odors. A very good view may be
had of it (the village, not the smelD from
the elevated road. One of the many pic
turesque features of the Exposition is the
steam launches and gondolas on the lagoon.
The effect in the evening is wonderfully
beautiful. OF the state buildings, Iowa has
as fine an exhibit as any we have seen.
The decorations are almost entirely OF corns
and grains, and are a revelation to rural
committees on harvest suppers. The crit
les of the Vermont house should bear in
mind that it is disadvantage to a SIS 900
house to be placed between great structures
costing eight and ten times as much. How
ever, the little place is complete in its de-
sign, and only Greek design would admit
of one story in height; and, as Governor
Fuller said in his excellent dedicatory adj
dress, it is simple and chaste in design
like Vermont, unpretentious and just what
it attempts to be.
or the many pictures loaned the very
fine canvas of Senator Morrill,, loaned by
the artist Thomas w. Wood, A. NJ. A, is
not only far and away the best in ITSELF
but appeals most strongly to the loyalty
OF Vermonters. At the dedication, the
canvas Senator Morrill,, stood where the
man would have stood had he been present
beside Governor Fuller.
The Vermont is the first press association
to visit the fair and from first to last has
been the recipient of many courtesies from
the Nermonters in Chicago, the Worlds
Fair commissioners, and people generally.
From first to last the party has had pleasant
experiences. There were no delays or rail-
way accidents, and while the weather has
been alternately delightful, terribly cold,
terribly hot, torrents of rain, the press were
out for good time and had it, and it is
reflection on the mental capacity of the in
dividual who does not feel he has got his
moneys worth on this excursion. About
fifty of the party stay over a few weeks.
Whatever success has come is due to good
judgment and hard work of the executive
committee in arranging so pleasant pro-
gram, which has been carried out without
single failure. But the middle of June is
as early as .there is any probability of the
exhibition being practically complete.
LILLIAN WRIGHT.