The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-29
HESPELL BROKEN
Attendance at the Fair on the
Increase.
LANDLORDS AEE MUCH PLEASED.

Sights To Be Seen Outside and Inside the
Exposition Crcunds-The Washington
Building and the v-onderfcl Things 70
BE Seen IN 1.-THE States Exhibit of
Forestry.
WORRIES FAIB, Aug. "a [special,l =
The ''hoosIoo'' Is Etcci The spell Is
broken. The evil spirit OF unbelief is ex-
oreised and the people are coming to TIE
fair. 1t is noted that on each special state
or race day ecroyvd is much hiEver than
on the preceding one and az neon today il
begins to look IS If al Illinois were here
70 celebrate her day. Two weeks so the
general talk vas that 10000 day aver
age was a big paid attendance. Then It
began to rise rapidly and soon ran up TO
Ito, 000 or more. and now the s2nguine he
gin to talk of an average of I50, 600 day.
The landlords of the Hyde Park annex
smile once more, for the baggage wagons
roll through the streets piled high with
trunks and the jingle of the daddy dollar
is heard in the trousers OF the incoming
farmer.
call this region the Hyde Park annex
to the fair, and queer creation it is.
There is an east and west street through
it, south Of which it is Illegal to sell
whisky, and north of it, l might almost
say it is illegal to sell anything else. Now
if this were on the line between Kansas
and Missouri, or anywhere else that state
sovereignty comes in, or even ii 1t were a
county line, these small hotels and cheap
show fellows would probably have some
respect for it, but in the same cosmopoli.
tan city they look On It as foolishness and
violate the law many time and oft. So
there is a storm center hereabouts. Mrs.
Ellen Foster has been lecturing us about
it. The law and order leagues and the
moral purity leagues and divers other
leagues are at work among Us, while 'Old
Subscriber" "Veritas." '.Pro Bono Pub
ico'' and the rest of that gang entertain
Us in the newspapers.
Now it is q fact oft commented on that
there is as little drunkenness and disorder
here as one ever saw in so large crowd,
and as walk home of evenings through
that tangled wilderness of pine sheds
Called halls and hotels by courtesy
often have to laugh at the careless sCcur-
ity of ladies and other strangers to the
sunny side of life. The American woman
is not here for her health. She came TO
see the entire show and she is seeing it re-
gardless. I stepped into a concert hall
about $50 the other evening (my hotel is
On the north side of the street above meri-
tioned), and sat down near the door when
l was greeted with a merry laugh from
the next table. There sat a matron and
two young ladies OF my acquaintance from
an inland town. I'VE take in the play
zance tomorrow" said the matron, land
decided on preliminary lesson tonight"
You must be careful there" | remarked,
''for it is reported that some of the shows
are bad" eff there's anything one bit inn
proper" was the retort, well tell the
folks at 3. all about it, for we shall quail
fly ourselves to testify"
The only danger can imagine in this
pinewood and plaster village is Of fire.
Nearly all the buildings are low and there
are open spaces in plenty, but if fire should
once get started ] fear that this lew and
oily pine would go in fash and before a
man could get wide awake and jump out
of q second story window. From Sixtieth
street TO the south end of the grounds all
the outside is thick set with every kind of
cheap show and open air games. Buffalo
Bill is there OF course. A small party of
the Esqumaux have seeded from the
main body and set up an Independent
show there. In short, it is ii "COney isl
and crowd all through. The Manitoba
building too is outside, the more's the
nitv for IL has a really fine exhibit and
yet few people think Of locking outside
the grounds for state or provincial build
ing.
Washington's state building is wonder
in itself-an immense structure of stone
and staff and cedar. resting on founda-