New-York tribune., 1901-05-05
EXPOSITION SIDE LIGHTS
SOME OF THE PLACES IN WHICH THE
VISITORS WILL BE LODGED AND FED.

Buffalo. May 4.
II looks as though even the sourest tempered man
alive would be compelled to enjoy himself at the
exposition He'c certain OF diversion in the Mid
way II he goes there and his faculties will be
none the less engaged If he's a manufacturer
amid the wonders OF the machinery exhibit or
farmer turned loose on the exposition dairy
farm. Even in it's unfinished condition the fair
is great attraction. The story is told OF a
Buffalo minister who on Thursday fully expected
to %send meeting e t I sr S or s5daV 70 e cot
into the grotto Of a Midway show. where the
lecturer showed him number of illusory ideas
on hell up to date The minister didn't get TO
the meeting.
The visitor these days has a distinct advantage in
watching the assembling OF the statuary- The rude
In which the casts Of old Greek gods and
goddesses tumbled about is jarring to the be-
holder unless he has strain Of rhinoceros about
him. Mike" said an Irish workman TO his part
ner. as he picked up piece OF satyr' Just git
of the side of his neck where it ines on This
gint is four tOusand years old. but he didn't know
enough to go In whin It rained Be aisy wild him,
Mike. It's bad luck to hurt fool
as this the department where they take the raw
product and it comes out pair of finished shoes?'
asked young in the Machinery Building
of a carpenter who there to drive nails and
saw things instead of to questions.
Reckon II is. maam.' said he. winkng to an
other carpenter. They tell me that they run
live calf into that first machine down there an
when he comes he's changed into three pairs
of ladies' French kid shoes. marked down: oout
fifteen pounds o potted veal. while the bones an
blood is made up into pants buttons to be sewed on
TO any one that comes along while they wait
That's lovely" said the girl. reddening and
when you come along they'll have bell on you;
suppose to prevent you with accent on the
you) from becoming shoes potted veal and trousers
buttons" After saying which. In an unforgiving
way, she shifted contemptuously and passed on
The trolley cars now being rapidly added to the
rfa Ifr,A hvr
young Canadian farmers. The railway people say
they make better help than almost any other kind.
They are red checked bright eyed and exception
gether' was the way one of them In a bass voice
put II yesterday when a fat woman entered the car
A NewYork City who earned the admira-
ton of his friends by finding what he declared was
ideal restaurant with low prices had his feelings
jolted Thursday after plotting three friends TO
the place. in Main-st. The prices had been raised
SS per cent overnight. When he reproached the
manager the latter said: Yes, We had TO move up
the prices little on the rhings you mention. but
Strawberries are 10 cents cheaper than they We're
creased size of the check deeply wounded the
apostle of economy as he slowly walked 10 the
Frederick B Robbins. a prominent real estate
man. says that the attendance is going to be phe-
nomenally large. From the way houses are being
engaged in advance / don't believe shall be able
handle the crowds said AIr. Robbins 1T strikes
that fifteen thousand twenty thousand peo-
pie will exhaust the accommodation of the hotels
proper and after that limit is passed II Is hard TO
say what will become OF the visitors or course
thousands OF private house owners viii take Iodg-
ers but look for average daily attendance OF
$50 600 In July August and September think that
this is a modest estimate. because the people nave
got the money this year to spend on sightseeing
Hundreds OF thousa nds were kept away from the
Chicago Worlds Fair because of the hard times.
H F. McGarvie the Streets of Mexico man. says
the crowds will take care of themselves. I've
been connected with expositions for fourteen
years. said Mr. McGarvie, "and II is my expert
ence that people always can find food and a place
10 sleep in IL they've got the money. They wedge
in somehow At the Omaha Exposition there was
an Attendance OF one hundred thousand on several
davs The hotels couldn't accommodate all these
people OF course. but they were taken care OF Just
the same.
The Civil War veteran will look with more than
ordinary interest at the log cabins of Abraham
Lincoln and jefferson Davis The cabins sheltered
the two when they were born They singularly
alike in style and rudeness. their tinlbers worm
eaten and in places badly rotted Looking at them