The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-29
ANOTHER FAIR TANILE.
IndlScreet Guards Bring About q Com
plication with Paraguay.
ITS EXHIBITS NOW COVERED UP.
And So They Will Remain Till the Guard
Who Arrested Commissioner Hassler
Is Discharged and the Insult wiped
Out-A Novel Obelisk.

CHICAGO, June 29.-The second inter
national clash with the exposition is on
exhibition in the Agricultural. Forestry,
chronological and Anthropological build
ings today. The exhibit is likely to remain
on view for several days, may be for the next
four months of the exhibition. Dark cloth
hangs across the entrances to the pavilions
of Paraguay, and in the center Of this is
fastened sheet of paper bearing these
words: "Closed by order Of the commits
sioner general"
And this Is all on account of the Colum-
bian guards again Commissioner Hassler
Is determined that the insult given him
In his official capacity, and therefore to his
country, by his outrageous arrest shall be
followed by reparation, apology and dis
charge of the offending guard. The Para
quay commissioner is also whiting for an
official assurance from President Higin-
botham and the director general that the
person of foreign commissioner Is free
from humiliating and unjustifiable arrest
by an ignorant and arrogant guard.
The plucky commissioner, who knocked
down the guard before being overpowered
by re-enforcements and arrested on triv-
ial charge, said today that he will remove
every article contributed by his govern
ment to the exposition and depart for home
with his attaches unless he is given the
satisfaction which he demands as his right
by all the forms Of international usage and
comfy. The people from Paraguay are
decidedly in earnest and much exercised
over the affair which occurred several days
ago at the entrance Of Professor Putnam's
building.
The Arrest and Assault.
Mr.. Hassler's assistant was going out of
the building with piece Of cloth belong
ing to the commission when he was
stopped by the guard, saying it was against
orders to allow anything to be taken from
the building. Mr.. Hassler then came up
and took the piece OF cloth from his assist
ant and told the guard it was his property,
whereupon the guard allowed him to pro-
ceed.
Mr.. Hassler had Just reached the foot of
the steps, however, when he was seized by
the guard, who said he could not allow
HIN to leave the building. Mr.. Hassler
turned round quickly and knocked the
guard down and was arrested n moment
later by two other guards who had seen
the affair. Mr.. Hassler was about to he
put into the patrol wagon when Chief Put
nam Of the Anthropological building ap
peared and stopped the affair.
The offending guard has after an absence
OF few days been returned to his old post,
and the Paraguayans take that feature of
the trouble as an attempt to blind the eyes
of the foreign officials in the belief that
the guard had been discharged. The dig
nifty of Paraguay has been trampled on,
and although It is little republic the
cause Of its representatives at the fair Is
being championed by the foreign commits
sioners as body.
Commissioner Letter of Sweden, the sec
retary Of the organization, has drawn upa
vigorous protest against the treatment OF
foreign commissioners by the guards, and
President Higinbotham will receive IL with
a similar request that orders be at once is-
sued to the guards to respect the person Of
every foreign commissioner in the park.
An Obelisk Of Souvenir Coins.
A wagon load of Columbian half dollars
will be rolled out of the safety deposit
vaults today and delivered in Manufac-
lures hall. They will be taken to the
center of the building and unloaded. Then
some men from one Of the offices will be
gin piling up the souvenirs until they have
a stack Is feet high and 2H feet wide at
the base. This silver obelisk is to be an
exact facsimile Of Washington monument.
A bright, clear sky and delightfully."- cool
weather greeted the visitors at the Worlds
fair today, aud tens of thousands of them
took advantage Of It, There was scarcely
a break In the streams of people that
poured in at the numerous gates from the
hour they opened. The chief Of the bureau
of admissions estimated that the paid ad-
missions alone for the day would not be
much under 10000 to 10000. There was
no special attraction at the fair to bring
the visitors out. They simply came to see
the permanent exhibits and the grandeur
of the exposition itself.
Representatives Of 10 states and terri
tories met in the Pennsylvania building
yesterday to discuss the question of cheaper
railroad rates from the west and northwest
to the Worlds fair. A committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the members of the
Western Passenger association at once.
Levi y. Morton In-ChfcaUo