The herald., 1894-08-03

were totally untitled for places given
them; nevertheless, the result was 60
unapproachably splendid and stupend-
GUS that the overjoyed visitor did not
know OF or care for the chickering's of the
builders. He saw the greatest exhibi-
tion the world has ever known, and it is
mattered little to him how much Higin-
botham was making out of the photo
graphic concession, or whether certain
commissioners from West Virginia and
other states feathered their nests or not.
He got his moneys worth thousand
times over. and saw a score or more
nationalities than he could have seen
in direct trip around the world.
However it may be elsewhere, the
depression in Chicago is simply appal-
ling, and the army of unemployed
amounts to nearly $4,000. More than
2O,000 families get the bulk of their liv-
ing from single loaf OF bread dav and
the garbage boxes. Pauper labor and
pauper wages are at the bottom of our
troubles The coal barons who are en-
riching themselves off Of the very blood
OF the poor creatures they have i'm
ported to take the place of honest work
men are now getting it in the neck
hoist by their own petard.' This coun-
try cannot be prosperous 30 long as it
pays European wages.
ION the first day of January, 1898. r.
]. Dun & Co. said: The past year has
been one OF the most prosperous ever
known What did they say on the 1st
OF January. 1894? The past year has
been the most unfortunate in our his
tory Hard times Well, l should
murmur. 1t is matter of the very rich
getting richer and the very poor getting
poorer. One of the Vanderbilts 10 build.
ing s7,000,000 residence in North
Carolina, and three squares away from
his Fifth avenue mansion little children
starved last winter and were frozsn to
death. Pullman, who has lately spent
$l00, 600 on single apartment, and who
conducts the most d&mnable all-round
monopoly in the world. has go ground
down the men and women who work for
him at his model town near Chicago that
they look like a lot OF diseased skeletons.
He acted so UNANIMOUSLY that his
from home, and it is not now known
where the tyrsnt is hiding. The people
OF this country are at the mercy of four
may be traced and to which all other
L
mean the insurance companies, the
railroads, the Western Union Telegraph
company and the national banks.
''These control the people and the
government, upon which they fatten,
and I'd like to know what you are going
to do about it. But there will be an
awful uprising some day, although 1
may net live to see it. I'm not bit
communicate, but have not read for
eign history and watched closely and
steadily the condition OF my own coun-
try for 40 years not to be aware that
there 10 destructive social cyclone to
come. When the senators who were
receiving hundreds of thousands OF dol.
lars from sugar trust which was to rob
the people of the United States of $780,
100000 annually looked through the
windows OF their chamber and saw Cox
ey and his Common( (s) wealers being
dubbed and lacerated for being on the
grass, and shouted Send them to jail =
it is slight commencement of the end.
Revolutions repeat themselves, you
know.
''Speaking of the great fair" said the
major, II took look at the grounds q
few days before I left. My gracious
What transformation The work of
demolition had already commenced on
the terminal, fisheries and transporta-
tion buildings, and they look like COB
Inns of gaunt architecture in their grim
ekeetonship. The women's building is
pretty nearly unrecognizable. Nearly
all the state buildings have been taken
down or away: Not timber remains Of
the California building. where Frank
Virgins put in such patient, energetic.
effective work. And the plasance-all
is gone but Dne.half the great Ferris
wheel. The handsome women ''from all
nations" of the beauty show, selected
with great care chiefly from the West
Side (Chicago), have seen their most
halcyon days; the "Aztecs" have re-
turn6d to their Gila river homes; the
pretty Javanese vanished during the ides
of November, and the "New England"
dinner girls, whose doughnutp would
have served for base balls, have returned
to their homes, not among the hills Of
Vermont and New Hampshire, but to
the prairies of Iowa and Illinois. The
music of hundred bands. which envel-
oped that plaisance in dulcet sounds,
has ceased to exist, and not even she
chirp OF bird or the croak of frog can
now be heard where there was such a
jubilee of mirth ana babel OF tongues
one short year ago. But nearly 100 men
are ct work upon the Ferris
wheel, and in q few weeks it's great
irons and timbsrs and bolts will be pas
eengerg IN 15l cars, composing five spe-
cial trains, on their way to New York.
Only one man was killed in its erection.
but none have been hurt thus far during
it's taking down. There ere more than
5000 tons of iron and steel in this struct-
ure. and it contained 5000 electric lights.
1t went around 0,04S times from first to
last, and carried 2,000.S68 passengers.
Its largest load was 1853 people and it's
biggest days work 3S,062. 1t cost rising
$400, 900, made 100000 clear, and paid
the exposition managers 800, ,00U more.
1t will cost sl50,000 to take it down,
transport it and rebuild it in New York.
Two couples werS married in it, one Of
whom has been divarced. No one died
in IL. although numbers tainted or be-
came frightened. and many others at
tempted to get out at the wrong time.
Its axle weighs 70 tons, and will be taken
east on the car constructed Tor the trans
portation of the monster Krupp gun. 1t
seems only dream--but mustn't talk
you to death.
ONLY A MATTER OF A "V."
Caueed y Loss.