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

railroads terminating in Chicago, at
various distant points from Jackson
Park, on the north, west aud south
sides OF the city, would bring their
loads OF Worlds Fair visitors direct to
the grounds instead Of diseharging
them ut their stations so many miles
away. But the unexpected thing hap
pened in this case, just rs 1t proYerbiatiy
does, and the railroads did not come TO
the grounds, They came to their sta
tons as usual and consequently paid
no toll on their deliveries to the fair
Worlds Fair visitors arriving ut night
did not, OF course, want to go to the
fair, nor did those arriving in the
morning. They preferred first to go to
a hotel or boarding heuse to rest awhile
or to make their toilets or to look
around and get their bearings. And
then 1t happened that for more than
two months after the opening OF the
fair not train arrived ut tho spacious
and costly and very inviting terminal.
Through May and June, and up to the
4th OF July 1t was "a quiet as grave
yard, At that date the Illinois Central
and the Baltimore 4 Ohio began to do
some suburban business inside the
grounds, and they still continue to do
so, especially the former, but with
these two exceptions, the terminal is
unused and its ample trackage covered
with rust, The twenty'tour mysterious
clocks tick away IN comparative soli'
tude, telling the hour OF prayer at
Constantinople to the haggy aud bare
legged followers OF tho Prophet who
may he passing that way.
This mistake, Us also that OF intro
ducing costly high-class music, was
natural enough, and ] am only sur
prised when 1 SEQ such innumerabie
miscalculations on the outside OF tho
grounds that even greater mistakes
were not made on the inside. All this
great work had to BIO done in hurry,
A sum OF money eQualling twice tho
assessed value OF all the real estate in
Wheeling was spent in two years, and
some mistakes had to be made in the
spending OF it. But where so much
has been done, and 80 wisely done;
where so much beauty aud utility have
been created; where nature and art
have been combined so exqulsitely,
like "apples Of gold in pictures OF sil'
ver." why lay stress on tho mistakes
made?
BEAUTIFUL WEATHER,
Speaking OF things golden and silvern
reminds me to say something OF the
golden daysIand silvern nights We have
here. Whoever or whatever else may
be opposed to the success OF the Worlds
Fair, the clerk OF the weather has shown
himself to be its steadfast friend. He
has done and is doing all in his power
to make it great success. The days
are golden and the nights are silvern,
and both are superb in point OF tenn
perature. Even at midday, when the
thermometer is at So In the shade,
which is not often, there Is cool breeze
always to be enjoyed along tho lake
front of the grounds, and everywhere
you 80 there is u sense OF ozone in the
atmosphere that keeps the heat from
being oppressive. As for rain, we have
ceased TO look for it since the gathering
OF the clouds one evening last week
and their speedy drifting away without
80 much as laying the dust. And yet
people come to the fair refreshed each
day by cool night and Il sound sleep,
aud thus they do not seem to care for
tho rain except as they hear OF the
urgent need OF it in the country round
about and in so many Of the far and
near crop regions Of the laud. In a
word, the weather since June has been
well nigh ideal. Every day seems u per-
feet day and scarcely night that is not
likewise perfect So far as in them lies
the days and nights have done their
best to boom this fair.
have never seen anywhere q pleas.
anter summer. The skies are blue and
tho air thin and pure and refreshing.
AS u summer resort the Jackson park
region is q great success. The new
hotels that abound therein make no
extra charge for their climatic advan-
tages. They are forbearing in this
respect. Whatever their original in
tention and expectation may have been.
their motto now is moderate rates and
no charge for their rus in urbe. "Sweet
are the uses OF adversely" A. VIC.