Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-06
THE EDITOR ABROAD
Writes of What He Secs in Chicago
and On His Trip to the
Worlds Fair.
Foreigners Seem to Be in the Major
ity Now, the American the
Exception.
Bismarckers of Old, Where They Are,
What They Do, and How
They Fare.
Interesting Epistle.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. $50 muCO mas
been written about the Worlds Fair l
am sure the TR1BUSE's readers will not
are particularly for further, or at least,
very extended notice from me. l wa
here in May and June last and took in
the fair quite thoroughly. I made a
study Of the faces I met at that time
and I think I mentioned in one Of my
letters how unexceptionally American
they were. Foreigners we're extremely
scarce. Gathering knowledge of the
character of the exposition from the
countenances predominating at that
time no one would have concluded that
q worlds fair Was in progress-unless he
took into consideration the various types
among the exhibitors. I have not been
out to the ground yet but how different
is the appearance of Chicago ''down
town." If the people OF the streets to.
day are a fair average an American at
the fair is the exception. The for
eigners as we'll as the grangers are here
now. In June last I didn't meet a man
in Chicago who would have been accused
of knowing a hayrake from a hoe.handle,
and now the streets of the city are
throrged with the yeomanry of all
nations.
The change is marvellous. The foreign
ers and the country people are now here
in force. They are in groups every
where. If I have seen one I have seen
a dozen parties of from five to twenty
persons, each provided with a guide.
The majority of these are Germans, but
l saw two French and one Italian party
to-day. The guide is an interpreter and
he explains the various points of interest
about the city.
Speaking of these foreign excursion
parties reminds me that in Minneapolis
I learned that DR.. Porter had left his
charming companions and returned to
Paris to remain during the winter.
After a while he will go down into Italy
and join another party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wetherby have
just moved to Minneapolis from Huron,
Wis, and by the way their old time
friends will be sorry to learn that their
youngest ~child-about Is months old
died recently.
I met Mrs. W. NJ. Pye, Jr., nee Miss
Belle johnson, on the street in st. Paul.
She was looking extremely we'll and says
Mr.. Pye is doing nicely. He is with
Field, Mailer & Co., leading dry goods
house in st. Paul.
I met O'Mulcahay. He tells me that
Capt. and Mrs. Mccormack r "tickled
to death" over the boy and have named
him-not Mike, after the captain, but
"Paul"-for whom OF why I do not know.
In St. Paul I also learned that Alder
man Patterson, who recently had a dan.
gerous operation performed at st. Luke's
hospital, is improving rapidly and will
return to Bismarck shortly.
Harry Douglas, the popular Fl. Yates
posttrader, now spends the most of his
time in Minneapolis. He is treasurer of
a big elevator company. And by the
way, he says wheat is coming in rather
slowly but it grades we'll. Very little
poor wheat this season.
l have been in Chicago but a few
hours; haven't met any of the old time
gossipers yet so am not qualified to
write extendedly at this time.
NJ. H, j.