The morning call., 1894-07-16

-.
~. :.Sunset City looked like the ghost of its
> foTn}er self yesterday. The Haunting flags
j: gere gone, the great courtyard was almost
deserted and weeds were beginning to
. spring up in front of the closed and silent
. AgriCulturai and Mechanical Arts build
g.
4: Lt1S after midnight, however. that those
WHO femain on guard realize the full
gRQstfness Of the deserted Midwlnter Fair
i Gums tant watch is necessary, as tramps
aTe-khown to be proving around waiting
for :a.chauce to burrOw under the fence
ard make away with plumber. Some OF
the guards. however, as they keep lonely
: vigil in the dismantled buildings would
: hall even their worst enemies with delight
and might be tempted to fall upon a tramp's
g neck and weep with JOY at the sight of a
: :~HUnan face. so oppressed do they become
during the long night watches with the
i. : presence of the spoofs and spooks that
: ii aunt the deserted halls.
=. Strange weird sounds are heard after
'-nigntfall. GhOstiy footsteps are said to
. patter along in front of a man on DUTY.
and when he hurries to overtake the in
-. -tIiider the noise dies away In shrin de-
=: m0niacal laughter or in grOans and cries.
-"Don't think that the guards are not a
spltlcky set of fellows" sid a man who
sDerds his nights as we'll as his days at
e Tie exposition to q CALL representative
yesterday. The guards are as brave as
need be, but it would take all of any mans
courage to stand those lonely vlgils. Right
here in the daytime the place is sort Of
EhpStly, but it's after nightfal that 1t gets
CREEPY.
.-:;"The noises exist sure enough, though
f7y.r.gf tI,nr- Trn ha
WIND whistles through the tower and the
.iifl roofs in a minor key; it shrieks round
=ibe corners of the buildings and makes
= u{lGanuy noises in the rafters. We had the
wifidmIs oiled to-day, but they groaned
last. nj ht like man in agony"
:: md do people really imagine that
some OF those noises are made by spooks /"
was asked
=. Wei, admitted the man who knows
:: what night at the dismanted fair
means. u must own that many people
really think the Liberal Arts building is
haunted. Perhaps the noises come from
something 10 the roof, but the guards
= DON like TO say there after uiCbtfaIL.
- :AHother cause of great deal OF disturb
: once IS the rats, great big fellows that
swarm all over the fair. They used to get
=: plenty OF food IN the restaurants, but now
that they are closed down, the rats are
growing tame with hunger and go about
iH bands Of ten or dozen together. They
are; not organized enough to be any
menace to the guards. but if those rats
Only. band, together into trades union
they are big enough and the place swarms
-eh1Ugh with them TO make short work of
aIht6e men around the exposition.
ITS general feeling Of desertion and
gboStiiness that Expresses everyone al
night here" concluded the speaker, "and
that sets them TO imagining there are
ghosts round. Anyone who does not be-
lleRa- I had better come and spend night
at the exposition"
.If.the fair was practically deserted the
park certainly was not. The crowds Of
people who have for some months been
wont to gather round the bandstand out
side the Administration building returned