The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-26
Some Rdvi(e Abouf
Going TO Buffalo
Special Correspondence to The Tribune.

Special Correspondence to The Tribune.
Buffalo. June %.
nEHOLD a letter of advice. Now
n 1t Is written that advice, like kicks
and medicine. is always better to
give than to receive. 1t is also ira
dition that If Il person asks you for
advice and you can f1nd out the sort
he wants you to give and act accord
ingly, you will make yourself popular.
I am endeavoring to become popular.
First I would express some sentiments
regarding wherewithal shall ye be
clothed.
BE sure to bring along short walk
irg skirt when you come to the expo
sition. that is If you are in the habit
Of wearing skirts at all. 1t is a neces-
sity at the Pan n-American and you
will see few trailing gowns on the
grounds. one days experience in en-
deavoring to hold up n skirt and carry
pnrasol, parcel of catalogues and
circulars which you are sure to ac-
quire, and collection of goodies from
thu Manufacturers and Liberal Arts
will convince you that while a train
may have It's place, say in your parlor
or on railroad track. it emphatically
isn't the place for it on the Midway or
these great thoroughfares. Particular
ly will you be convinced of this when
you discover that the rough surface of
tn" asphalt cuts holes in the hem OF
your garment and that some peculiar
allali ingredient in the earth here
abouts is apt to take the color out of
whatever it touches. A shirt waist
and a short skirt is the practical garb
for a woman who wants to enjoy the
exposition and go home without having
permanently lost the use of one arm.
Equipped with short skirt, an Off
Cial catalogue and a good conscience
you ought to be able to do" the ex-
position very comfortably and with
reasonable celebrity. You will see most
of the women who bear the mark of
style and position thus arrayed. But
whatever you do be sure to provide
yourself with a jacket as you set forth
every day. have reason to change
my opinion to some degree regarding
Buffalo as summer resort. 1t has
been very warm here for several days
and in the Art gallery it was simply
sizzling, but Just about o'clock IN
the evening the bottom seems to fall
out of the thermometer, and the rills
of perspilatioE CONCEAL into hailstones
on the brow. If everybody doesn't
take a tremendous cold here this week
it will be solely because kind and
beneticent Providence is looking out
for good Pan Americans. 1t will not
be for the reason that they have dis
played any perceptible forethought for
themselves, since they go shivering
about night after night on the Esplan-
ade with thin dotted swiss waists, and
no coats. while the men are often at
tired in the lightest of coats and wear
no vests. Another provision you should
make is to bring along all the shoes
you possess, particularly the old ones.
If you come without one pair of walk
ing shoes you will earnestly long to
die after the second day of afflictior,
and you will spend all you have saved
by taking good advice. in festive tours
in a rolling chair
These rolling charioteerS are a prob |
lem to themselves, especially. Many of
them are young men preparing for col
leGe, or already taking a collegiate
course. They came here with the
understanding that they We're to he
guaranteed at least dollar'a day by !
the concessionaires. Since their ar
rival this arrangement has been disle-
sarded and the poor chaps are allowed |
but fifteen cents an hour when they |
secure "A patron. The cOncessionaire |
gets fifty cents an hour. But this is |
not the worst The concesSionaires |
have introduced a swarm of chairs and |
and they find it hard in |
deed, to get patrons. If there We're less |
the ambitious young men would do |
better. Then the jinrikishas are novel |
and attract more of a clientele, as the |
idea of speeding about the grounds |
with swift paced Jap between the
shafts, instead of pony, holds much |
fascination for some people. One wo-
man has lost her enthusiasm for that |
mode of travel She was riding blithe-
ly away with a particularly interesting
and bias-eyed heather as a steed, when
d wheel went off and the fair occupant |
of the frail little cart took header,
which resulted in broken arm. The
Jap mourned in true Oriental fashion,
beating his breast and making prO-
found kOtOws, but the subsequent pro-
ceedinGS are not known to the writer
OF these lines. Riding in a jinrkisha is
just about as comfortable and COM
posing to the nerves as being perched
on an old fashioned hay rigging" or
a new-fangled training cart with red
wheels, bur is apparently new SEN
sation to many, and they yearn for it
accordingly.
Another piece of advice is that if you
do leave this exposition and this town
with any money, you see to it that it
isn't in Canadian quarters. There does
seem to be most alarming expansion
IN Canadian currency of that denomi-
nation just now. 1t is all right in Buff
falo. ! saw a woman offer one to a
street car conductor the other day with
the same sort of eQuanimity that she
would have presented him with a piece
OF counterfeit money or a dose of cold
poison, He must have thought her a
shoplifter at the very least, but as he
took the silver with no evident dis
turbance of mind, the look of amaze
ment and pity on her face was a study.
canadian quarters and dollars are legal
tender in Buffalo, but you'll be sure to
get supply of them on hand as you
are leaving for home, if you don't
watch out, and then there will be more
Or less unpleasantness.