The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-03
4 Warning to the Visitors at the Co.
lumbian Exposition.
DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELVES.
vsrlous Ways In W hich You Can Take I'm
the Sights and stiii Not Be "Tircd to
Death Difficulties Attending Sight
Seeing In Groups.

out completely. There never was another
such temptation to overwork, and this Is
the thing which all visitors should be on
their guard about. 1t does not pay to be-
come too much fatigued. The visitor who
comes here determined to sec the whole
show in three or four days, and who. rushes
about from building to building, makes
serious mistake. Better not to enter many
of the buildings at all than to run through
and slight the contents of those which are
entered, wearying the body anu wearing
out the nerves. II Is mistake TO tumble
up the senses and to lose TO O certain ex-
tent the power of appreciation. Still many
people do go rushing through the fair as
if their lives depended upon their seeing
the inside of all the buildings in day or
two. Every day see people here who are
making labor, and labor of the hardest
kind, of that which should be pleasure.
Today, for instance, saw two or three
young women on one of the station plat
forms of the elevated electric railway
which runs through the grounds. There
are no seats on these platforms, as there
should be, for the trains are often ten or
fifteen minutes apart and waiting passen-
gers should have some place to sit. These
young women were, in their own way of
putting it, "tired clear to death, and not
finding any other place to sit and rest
themselves they deliberately sat down on
the floor Of the platform. 1t was dusty,
dirty floor, but they did not mind that.
They said it was a question of sitting
down or falling down with them, and they
preferred the former. Other passengers
looked at them in queer sort Of way, but
did not laugh. They were tired, too, or
the most Of them were, and though they
did not wish to follow the example of these
adventurous maidens they certainly had
warm sympathy with them. One elderly
and prim woman who was evidently very,
very weary, looked at the girls squat on
the floor with somewhat OF enviousness in
her glance, and said:
haven't"
While the young women sat ON the floor
they talked of the buildings they had been
in that day. They had had a run through
six or eight Of the great structures, and
then fell to planning how many more they
were to go in before calling it days
work. Evidently they had started. cut to
see the Worlds fair In one day, or N two
days at most, and they were willing to
commit suicide in crier to do It.
IL people viii rush through the grounds
and buildings at race-horse speed they
will find 1t to their advantages, and
economical in the long run, to hire roll
ing chair. These chairs with q man to
push them cost Is oents an hour, but are
worth the money If one is determined to
see all that may possibly be seen in
given time. A very good plan is to walk
about for an hour or two hours and then
hire chair for one hour. The chairs are
wheeled all through the buildings as well
as from one building to another, and one
may thus rest and see at the same time.
In fact, there is no better way to see than
while ensconced in one Of these comfort
able vehicles The only trouble which
ladies have with them is that their guides
persist in talking too much, or at least
some of them do. The average visitor to
the fair does not care to be talked to all
the time by any one, much less by . stran-
ger One wants to see and think for him.
self. II you come here and hire a chair and
the man who is employed to wheel it
about talks too much for your comfort 1t
would be perfectly right tog give him gen.
tie hint that you will ask for information
when you want 1t.
Men who come with their wives, mothers
or sisters find that one chair does very
well for two people. A hundred times a
day one sees 4 man sitting lazily in the
vehicle which . guide Is pushing while the
wife or sister walks along side. But it
would be rash to conclude that the man is
selfish and that he makes a business OF
riding while his wife or sister walks. That
il not the case. 1t Is simply his turn to
ride bit, and after a short time, when he
shall have become rested, he will get out
and the woman will have her inning at
the chair.
Many men do not hire guide at all, but
take a chair at 80 cents al hour aud push
their wife or woman companion them
selves. 1t is not hard work at all. The
chairs have rubber tires and are admirably
constructed in every way. They roll along
with very little pushing, and besides, one
is stopping every few seconds in order to
look at some exhibit. II q man is strong
and active he may in this way make sight
seeing an easy task for his wife or sister
and at comparatively small cost. Suppose
you are out altogether seven hours during
a day, which Is az much time as you
should attempt to put in. One hour OF
this you will probably pass at luncheon in
one of the many delightful restaurants,
Rnd that Will Do rest. VI tne remaining
Iix hours il you walk three and use wheel
chair at 80 ccnts an hour the other three,
IN hour al time, you will reach the end
of your days work but little wearied, and
without having spent much money. OF
course IL is harder on the man who must
do the pushing, but even he sit in the
chair once in while stopping before some
exhibit and thus gain few minutes rest.
1t is almost an ideal method Of seeing the
fair. The wife or sister in the chair likes
10 be wheeled about by one she loves, and
ohis method gives the two persons almost
precisely the same view point while on
their rounds
One Of the great difficulties of sight-see-
ing in couples, in trios or quartettes, on
foot, is that it rarely happens two persons
look at the s,mo thing at the Same instant.
One is little in advance or of To the right
or left; and about once in two minutes one
or another calls out to his companion, 80,
do come here and look st this--it Is the
prettiest thing In the world. Come and
see It," At that very moment the person
accosted may be much interested In an
other article, and the interruption is any