The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-08
GATES WERE BARRED.
People Who Went To The Great Fair
Went Home Again Mad.
ONLY THE DEAD HEADS SAW THE
SHOW ON SUNDAY.

Be Open But They Were Disappointed
The Courts May Be Asked To Decide
| Steps Have Been Taken in That Direc-
tion-Fair officials Think the Case Will
lie Dropped.
CHICAGO, May THE rule to close the
gates OF the worlds fair Sunday was
| rlgldly enforced today so far as the ticket
purchasing public was concerned. The
fortunate hundreds who hold passes
were admitted and allowed to wander
about the grounds at will. 1t was a
beautiful day and thousands of working
men some with their families, went to
the fair grounds under the apprehension
that the gates were to be opened. When
the tollers were turned away, they left
IN anything but good humor. The
validity of the action of Congress in
closing the gates will be tested in the
courts this week. Charles W. Clingman.
stockholder in the fair, has served
notice on Secretary Edmonds that he
Will appeal to the courts to open the fair
on Sunday. In his letter he, IN the in
terest OF the working people and as a
representative of other stockholders
demanded that the people be admitted
on Sunday the same as on other days In
the week
PRESIDENT Higginbotham saws: ssWe
snail be compelled to defend the suit if
brought, although nearly all the members
are IN favor of seven day fair. do not
Inlnk anything will come of this notice.
!! 1elleve Mr. Clingman can be convinced
is pet netGer to let matters rest as they are.''
OF the fair, the Midway Plaisance. where
the life of strange nations NAV be Oh
served, has begun to show more eyidenc-
es OF what it will be a week hence. The
GeTman village is practically completed.
and the people who like beer and good
music mixed can there enjoy themselves
to the content of stomach and delight of
ear. The Irish village, with it's pretty
peasant girls making lace and with its
ancient tower and chapel, is quite ready
for the Countess of Aberdeen to omen Il
this week. The black people from Da-
money have nearly completed their huts.
but the swarth, battle-scarred and re-
pulslye Amazons, fresh from the tropics.
40 not ENJOY the Chicago climate.
Most complete of all in the Midway
~ss%'esAASSst ~, oi1O uIhlSA village. where
you may attend Turkish theatre and
see Turkish play and oriental dances.
VI course these wicked heather have al
ready attracted the shocked attention of
missionaries, and the Musselmans are
overwhelmed every day by profuse dis
trlbution of Christian tracts.
| sIhese dancing dancing girls from the
Bosphorus put on their finery and danced
ON Republican soil for the first time YES
terday. Around the necks of all hung
long loops of goldon beads and Egyptian
coins, which jingled merry aecompani-
ment to the hoarse clanking of anlIets
and bracelets.
There are two edicts of the Worlds
FAIR managers which, nnless modified.
Will prove annoying to many visitors.
One OF these forbids smoking, not only
IN the buildings, which is of course
reasonable, proper and necessary. but
IN the grounds. The guards are instruc-
ted to arrest any one who persists in
smoking in the open air, and already
there have been several exhibitors and
persons OF prominence dragged away to
the guard house.
One Chicago paper, after interviewing
several lawyers, with true Western bold
ness advises visitors to ''shoot on the
spot any guard who presumes to quench
their cigars. Another rule forbids visit
ors to carry camp stools with them. The
purpose OF this is apparently to compel
the patronage by weary sightseers of the
foling chalrs at 70 cents an hour.