Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-17

the entire duration OF the fair. Up to
date the attendance had Averaged
only about 10000 per day, SO II Is easy
70 explain the low price OF the tickets
Tho trSt accounts Of the Inaugural
ton as contaIned in the American pa
pcyS have Just reached here and some
OF The statements made are worthy OF
the imagination of the author of
Barren MuuChausen, For Instance.
the Chicago Times Herald, in its ac-
count Of the march Of the president
and party from the Sale dies Notes to
the river, says that on passing the u.
), guard the president cried "Ntve les
EnJs Cnl' in loud voice and then
gave three loud hur,Whs, This is
mostly Il dream, It Is true that ne
lifted his hat in response TO the salute
VI the guards but as far as any dis
play of enthusiasm such MS mentioned
IN the TlmeS-Ner is concerned,
there WAS none In smother place the
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guards are independent OF the wages
| they receive and that one guard paws
| sac per week for his room alone, This
is another piece OF pure fiction. OF
| course there are some ON the guard
| force who arc better OF than others,
bat up to date no one has been dis
covered who is paying -four times his
| whole salary for his room rent alone.
| Nine new guards were hired last week,
Some OF these had already applied
for the position and are still in the
! United States while others have beou
picked up in Paris, This raises the
number of guards to CO. whore II win
probably he kept during the entire
exposition, The number of Amori-
cans attending Is such that large
proportion OF the questions which
the guides are called on to answer are
in English
Tho opinions as 10 the relative
greatness Of the present exposition
and that at Chicago In 1898 differ con-
stderahly. Just at present the major
ity seems to think that the Chicago
fair greatly outclassed this one, hut
this opinion ts probably more or less
due to the general unfinished appear
ance of the present exposition The
aislcs in most of the buildings are
still without flooring. as there Is stlH
need for the railroad tracks which Is
underneath them, There is yet an
| "a H.. ~
cases and these do not seem To be iil,-
Ing up As rapidly as might he. In
machinery hall very Nbtle Of the heavy
machinery is running and from the
looks OF things It Will probably be
we'll along In June before everything
can be called comqleted The ChemIn
de Fer dc lOuest or the railroad of
! the west has offered It's electic light
ing current to the exposition author
tiles and this h Is hoped, viii hasten
the work Of installation by allowing
1t to he carried ON at night.
An instance of he generally club
footed way IN which the French
tackle simple propositions was shown
the other day at one of the entrances
| through which a teamster was bring
Ing n load OF stone, One of the stones
on the load caught ON The trostlc work
Of the elevated moving sidewalk, In
stold of backing up the wagon, re.
moving the STONE and allowing the
horse TO wander in Mt It's own sweet
viii, the teamater thrashed and beat
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finally found that one horse could not
sbIr the load caught on the trestle
work, he procured the use OF several
other teams of horses near by and
| finally succeeded In yantlng the load
| through the gate. In general the
work here Is done on the principle OF
seeking the greatest resistance.