Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-14

the IrSL l1NI-ErlnJ tlllTOai III tue NOilus
The Baltic Is $50 miles long and 100 10
200 miles wide and its area 1874 900 miles; 1T
is 44 tathoms deep and one-quarter as salt
rs the sea: II Is closed by ice three TO fve
months in the year. and Il drains one.tfth
of Europe or 7l7,000 square miles. By
ship canal 10 the mouth of the Elbe, only
81 miles long, to cost $4,000 OOO. German
vessels can pass into the North Sea, draw
inc 26 feet of water. with II feet width OF
bottom. and save 800 miles of navigation
around Denmark. though TWO canals were
there before.
INWARD DEVELOPMENT.
These figures disclose the future devel-
opment Of America to be inward, while IN
terror Europe is digging her way west
ward. THIS exhibition will turn out the
first European class III cosmopolitan
geography. Herodotus and Columbus
Still are the spirits of the future. The
mock ship of war called the ILLINOIS,
which seems to be moored in Lake Mlchi-
gan by the exhibition grounds. is per
haps tho Trojan horse OF the next
Homer. In 1925 De Witt Clinton dug his
way T. the Great Lakes. and the centre OF
American population Is but eight hours
| southwest of Chicago. Tho Secretary OF
/ the treasury VINO first eDunciated the fact
! that the Great Lakes had more commerce
/ through their canals than the SueZ Canal
! fell dead, a. ii to make his utterance IN
pressive He came from 500 miles north
/ west OF Chicago. nearer TO Duluth, and
/ lived on the upper MISSISSIPPI.
WORKS ART.
| hear that it will cost $40 to S2j to see
all he shows here upon what Is called the
| Midway Plalsance-well named. That IL
! no reason why a person should enter every
/ one OF them. II wall not cost YOU cent
4 IL a
t ulays with your wife and see paintings on
| vases and tiles which are matchlesS. 1
| locked at a single Dutch exhibit yesterday
/ of blue tlle-wAre, large paintings OF Hem-
! brandt. Van der Halst and others copied
and burned in parts and squares, so that
/ set together they make taDleauX a. large
/ as your great mantel mirror.
| What Is the price OF that olue tile DC
| ture. "a it stands framed?' | asked OF the
! custodian.
/ Excited at the unwonted sound of a
query IN that sanctum OF the unknown
/ the Illinois nation began 10 crowd around
/ US. nn,r.
The man examined the picture-all Delft
| blue. about 3 feet by or larger-and SAID
That Is cl26."
had supposed it was hundred dollars
! or more, and said TO my lady
"If the CnlcagOaps expect 10 10 all the
/ selling here they Will be mistaken. Mil
! lions of dollars worth OF fine European
( art wares will be sold here, or until we
! follow art more and copying less. Art
Lis the last stronghold OF Europe, aud
/ never was better than now. II IS fed
from the superior galleries OF art III
every country and by the sympathetic
spirit there. Our most lavish art Is
3 counterlcitinC In colors for mercenary
I advertisements the original WORKS OF Eu-
! rope. We cry out against the Nude like
! Boss Peabody, breeches-maker 10 Leda
and the Swan, yet steal the naked Bougou-
rcau for a tobacco sign and grin CHRISTIAN
{ grin at the smart theft. TO know Is not
/ Tho best way to be an artist. but TO feel,
and art and honor have 0 certain relation
4 shin. The pirate III the American Constl-
/ trfIOn is the enemy OF tina; culture winch
/ Teines.
HOrEL-CAgLIAGE CHARGES.
/ stoD AZ the Virginia Hotel. q costly
construction of the last surviving McCor-
( mick brothers. who bought out the reap
/ INC machine and intermarried thelr chli-
! don with the Blaines, Medllls, and other
men of affairs. Said the manager Oh thls
hotel To me. az we looked across the way
r at tine noble mansion oi Lambert lree'
who married real estate heiress
Some few people seem 10 have gone
3 crazy. One of our old guests IN the Eas;
/ wrote TO me that he thought he wousu
/ come ont here during the fair and stay
I nino weeks. and told me TO ask our car
rage man what he would charge TOR car,
I riage for thoss nine weeks. l asked. ahq
/ the carr age-man sad Sl,OOO-tue sally n =
would charge for suit OF rooms ana Iuii
! board"
/ Ianalyzed this proposition. ana 1ounu
nine weeks TO be sixty-three days. or ~
| day. Now. as | pay when sometimes
7 drive in Central Park, New YORK, ~ ior
J about four hours or less, the carria.e-nan
I was charging tins prospective VISITOR lot
eli the day about twice that amount. mna'
does "a man want with q carriage every usy y
/ when he eau 90 10 the exhibition ior hNe
/ cents and must needs he most OF the t'ine
| within the enclosure carriageless! >,
told the above % Sol Smlth russell;
who is PLAYING here in one OF the mo.ai
dramas like THE Old Homestead" called
Peaceful Valley" and be said
II do not have that Inconvenience. i
bring my carriage aud driver here from
my house in Minneapolis" 80,
How long do you mean TO play mere
Five months. After that three months
In New York"
The theatres in Chicago arc about
twenty IN number, only exceeded By those
/ OF New YORK. The Worlds Fair calls for
many legs. As the sculpture around the
grounds is strong and numerous IN tne
nude tho theatres are bursting out IN
1 The Black Crook " and great Amazon
tableaux. such as America" at the Au-
ditorium. The latter Is said TO be the
only hotel here full. Raising prices has
almost emptied the hotels of the thrifty
family population, which in Chicago
knows the cost OF dollar and scatters 10
the many sylvan suburbs.
oHEAP RESTAURANTS.
This Ia n cheap as well as O dear city. II
has O multitude OF cheap and clean and
perfect restaurants, where q good meal
| seldom costs above % cents. ] think IT -