Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-09
L0UNSBBRRY WRITES,
The Gallant Colonel Writes From
the Worlds Fair City, And
Interestingly.
By the Way, He Was Married Yes.
terday, and Congratulations
Are In Order.
The City Council Does Not Connect
Last Evening, tho "Antis"
Being Absent.
DOings At the Fair.


JACKSON. PARK, CHICAGO, June g.
Especial Correspondence 1.-The attend.
ance at the Worlds Fair was light for
May, because it was so generally repre-.
sented as the result of the experience of
visitors on the first day, that nothing
was ready. There were other reasons.
The fakirs and extortioners came to the
front on that day as they do at the
country circus, and there seemed to be
a disposition to make all there was in it
and to make it then. The idea of short
change and other forms of swindlinp
was suggested by the greed or rapacity
OF the men struggling for pennies, dimes
or dollars. There was not a seat or
stool to be had on the grounds except
for a consideration. Invalids with roll.
ing chairs, without which it was i'm
possible for them to be moved we're
stopped at the gates by the greedy con.
cessionar'es and compelled to pay so
cents an hour for the use of their chairs.
The use of a water closet cost S cents.
and at some of the restaurants it cost
5 cents for the privilege of washing.
The charges at the restaurants varied
with the within of the waiter, in many
instances, and there was a feeling that
the whole affair was one big scheme for
money grabbing. The hotels in the
face of cards posted on the columns in
the corridors that there would be no adj
vance in prices, doubled their prices for
nearly all desirable rooms, and in many
cases, there was insolence and inatten.
ton instead of the cordial greeting which
should be extended to all guests.
The charges and extortions and un.
reasonable exactions have been cor.
rected. The fakirs did not gain rich re.
turns sufficient to encourage the loudest
of them. Closets free to guests and
their visitors and free at all state build.
ing, 10000 seats are being provided.
Lighted cigars do not seem to trouble
the noble guards when INDUCED in the
open air. Lunches may be eaten TO-
on the grounds or be carried in without
fear of being searched and have them
taken from you as if they were smuggled
goods and the guards customs inspectors.
l c don't mean to say that there was any
danger of that being done, but there
was so many unreasonable things done
that this was expected at the next thing
that would be attempted.
And so many felt outraged by the ex-
cesslve charges that on Decoration Day
the grounds were strewn with lunch
fragments and wrappings until the litter
almost became a nuisance. Lunches
were eaten in the state buildings in the
face of signs mo lunches to be eaten on
these premises" Lunch parties were
made up everywhere on the open air
seats and benches which have become
the rule. and from now on guests may
expect attention to their comfort rather
than special protection to the interests
of those engaged in money grabbing.
At many of the foreign booths there
is a great deal of money grabbing going
on. I took a stroll through the streets
of Algiers yesterday. The shopkeepers
were usually French Jews, and while I
do not want to cast a reflection on the
race, generally, there were specimens
here that in their natural state could be
used to represent any character of greed
you wished to present. Their wares
were interesting, but goods offered at
the first booth for SO cents were offered
at others at 81, coupled with the "what
you give?" expression so often heard in
Chatham street. Goods offered in one
booth at IS cents, in the next, not ten
feet away, were priced at SO cents.
In the Indian and Chinese quarters
where the traders were natives, the
prices were reasonable and the goods all
that could be expected or desired. But
it is a pretty good scheme to buy your
souvenirs of Americans, unless you
know what prices ought to be. In me-
chanics' hall the..work of American work.
men, goods being manufactured under
your own eye by American methods can
be had at much less prices than are
being asked for these foreign trinkets.
I heard the outlandish racket
and internal din in the Chinese
theatre as I passed into the Joss house
and wandered about alone among it's
relics and treasures for nearly an hour
before any II came to instruct me in
the mysteries of the Chinese religion.
The big dragon and numerous little
dragons were there in their gay attire,
and representations Of the dragon were
present in almost every group presented.
The god Of heaven had a happy throng
around HIM, and l was glad to see that
the women and the children were given
first place ever there, and the only per.
CONS in tears and who appeared to want
to get out of there were henpecked hus-
bands and old bachelors. Other groups