Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-09

Inere VIII De one hundred anu twenty
of these Kiosks on the grounds
Very little progress has been made In
any of the other large buildings in the
arrangement OF the exhibits, but car
loads OF goods are rolling into the
grounds almost hourly. The only struc-
ture severely criticised by men OF art Is
the United States government building,
which is described by them as one OF
those "bullous conglomeration OF mater
ial forced upon long-sufering public
by the government architects" The
dome is out of proportion to the build
ing proper.
Among the State buildings the only
one now open to visitors is that OF KAN
sas, which has lot OF stuffed animals
placed very stifly and precisely over the
floor.
TIE WEST VIRGINIA STATE BUILDING.
Is we'll nigh completed, and
10 now practically receiving
the finishing touches. The mis-
hap that befell Caldwell &c Peterson by
the fire has caused some delay In the
metal work. Compared with some OF
the other State buildings that OF West
Virginia has nothing particularly strik-
ing to commend Ii other than location,
being on the corner OF an avenue and
right in the line OF travel. The con-
tractor informed the reporter that the
State was really getting SOS, 900 build
ing for $50, 900, but all contractors say
something like that.
The Fair grounds at night will be
brilliantly lighted by electricity. Visi-
tors at night will observe one fact which
perhaps not one In 10000 will discover
by day. There is uniform
cornice level on all the buildings
about sixty feet from the ground. This
line will be marked at night by lines OF
incsndescent light. The Administra-
ton Building, in particular, will be
studded with lamps from foundation TO
dome. All about the grand canal and
In the basin row OF lamps like living
line of light, set just above the water
surface, will lend splendor that no
dream could excel. Once on the
grounds the visitor will move in q blaze
OF radiance.
One Of the displays that has long
been open is tho Eskimo village, and
TO see these Inhabitants Of Labrador in
their huts and at their games
is one OF the most entertaining
features OF the fair at the present
time. The reporter spent two hours
studying their ways and habits, and came
out much benefited, ethnologically
speaking. There has just been some
new arrivals here in Chicago, 125 Japan
ese, all hot from Java. Just now they
are busily engaged mastering the help-
full but often treacherous knowledge OF
the value OF jacks and queens when ar
rayed against kings and aces. These
little men and women OF the Indian
Ocean have not yet begun work on
their village In midway plaisance.
Chicago weather. pleasant as II has
been, is still little too severe for the
islanders, who are accustomed TO tenn
perature ranging from 80 to 100 degrees
the year round. But they expect TO
get to work on their bamboo
houses next week, even IL they do have
to wear clothing. The orang-outang.
the bearded beast from Borneo, which
the Javanese brought with them, is still
Ia bond along with the rest OF their
freight.
An exhibit arrived for the Transpor-
tation Building yesterday which
CHANGED To see. II was a railroad train
that might have been packed in a
small trunk. The coach is two feet
long and the locomotive and baggage
car each two inches shorter. They
were made by r. w. Dunn. an old rail-
road man, most OF the work being done
with common pocket knife. Every
thing about the train is complete, even
TO the lamps, stoves, hat racks, etc.
The seats In the car are
upholstered, and the train is In charge
OF crew OF little wooden men, so that
the only thing that appears TO be lack
ing is q strike.
1t Is surprising how many people
EXPECT TO MAKE FORTUNES
out OF this Fair. Hotels, apartment
houses, boarding places, restaurants,
sandwich and peanut stands are going
up "like toadstools in the dewfall OF
fight" and they are taking all the fan
cIful names In history, from the Colum
blan Hotel, clear through. the Ferdi-
nand Flat, and Isabella Chop House TO
the Genoa saloon and Santa Maria cock
tail. In the space OF three blocks there
are now seven apartment houses in pro-
cess of construction.
There are four ways OF reaching the
Fair from the centre OF the city; by
boat, by steam railway, by cable line
and by special foot. The line most In
demand will likely be the the Illinois
Central, and the station at Van Buren,
street, nearly opposite the Leland and
Auditorium Hotels, and overlooking
Lake Michigan. From this station II
is nine miles TO the Fair, and it takes
an even half hour TO make the trip,
stations being located a. every few
streets.
BY some peculiar system the railway
company now charges twenty-five cents
for the round trip and twenty-three
cents one way. Several additional
tracks have been laid, and there
are now eight parallel lines over
the whole route. thus enabling the train
service TO be continuous.
But you should see the high-backed,
straight-laced, convict-Iooking observa-
ton cars that will be run during the
Fair. Long lines OF them are now on
the sidetracks waiting for the rush TO
begin. The seats are short and narrow,
and as attractive as the conventional
circus seat. There are no cushions, not
even rag, and the back Is tall and at
precisely a right angle with the seat.
They are arranged in compartments IN
the tete-a-tete fashion, and future mis-
cry is pictured on every seat. A jam OF
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