St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-13
WILL OPEN SUNDAY.
Worlds Fair Gates to Be
Open on the Sabbath
Hereafter.
This Action Resolved Upon at
a Meeting Of the Local
Directors.
Buildings Not to Open. and
the Admission to Be rs
Cents.
Lack Of a Quorum Prevents
the Settlement Of the
Music Muddle.

CHICAGO, May 12.-The worlds fair
gates will be opened to the public and
the veXed question of Sunday opening
Is settled. Early last Sunday morning
crowds began to move on to Jackson
park, thinking that perhaps the gates of
The fair grounds would be opened, but
they were disappointed and fully 10000
people were turned away from
the gates of the fair proper and
spent their money with the side
shows surrounding the fair, fact
WEIGH the fair authorities we're not
slow to grasp. AS result, at the regu-
lar monthly meeting of local directors
of the worlds fair it was decided to
open the gates of Jackson park to the
public for one-half the sum of admit
tance to the fair during the week, viz.
% cents. This action has nothing to do
with the opening of the buildings. The
latter will remain closed as required
Under the Laws
passed by congress, and as agreed to
when the sum of 81, SOC, 600 was accepted
from the hands Of the Fifty-second con-
gress. The gate keepers will admit to
the grounds every one paying twenty
five cents. They can examine the
bulldings-on the outside-See every
thing there is to be seen, in fact, but
they cannot enter the buildings. The
action of the board will go into effect a
week from next Sunday, or the 2lst of
this month. The vote by which this
resolution was passed was 27 to Z. I'm
der the resolution Midway Plaisance
will also be thrown open.
Edwin Walker. attorney for the board,
submitted an opinion on the question,
and on the strength of this opinion the
board acted. No provision was made
for the return of any part of the $780,
coo given to the far under that act of
congress, but there was vague, tenta-
tive talk of Tefunding the money some
how some time-in the uncertain future.
The votes, as explanations made by di-
rectors revealed, by no means showed
the real convictions of each member.
Many voted in the affirmative for the
purpose of forcing a test Of the matter,
and others
Voted So with Reservations
and proYisos. Briefly, Mr.. Walker de-
cided that the exposition was one thing
and the exposition grounds distinct
and separate thing. On this the local
directory stands accordingly. Unless
the national commission acts vigorously
to prevent it, Jackson park will be open
on Sunday, the exposition buildings re-
naming closed.
The fact that an effort would be made
to cut the Gordian knot brought out a
large attendance of members, thiIty-
five of the forJy-fve members being
present. Long before the call for order
the directors sat about the room, impa-
tiently awaiting the appearance of
quorum. EX-PreSident Baker seemed
hardly able to brook the delay.
He repeatedly called upon the board
to get down to business. His
impatience, however, was not exactly
conspicuous, for everybody seemed to
feel the same way. The gravity of the
question which was to be dealt with ap-
parently caused the directors no little
anxiety, and the jocularity which usually
prefaced the meetings was absent. I'M
mediately after the roll call, President
Higinbotham recognized Attorney Ed
win Walker. who submitted the report
upon which the boards action was
taken,