Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-08-01
At the Pan-American.

bUFFAi.o, N. July -, lJul.-
Whatever else may be said of
the city OF buffalo one thing can
be placed to its credit. That is
that while the heat has been al
most unhearahle i'm all other east
ern cities there have been very few
excessively hot days here. Yes
terday tn maximum temperature
WAS IS While a, ali other ,,oinis
rom North Platte Nebraska to
to New York AMI Boston tile Their
n,ometor reglst red all the WAY
from 100 10 log. The only other
places on the continent noted as
maintaining q uniformly cooler at
mosphere all summer thus far is
Tampa, Florida aud Pacific coast
points.
For some cause the daily atten-
dance at the exposition remains
within the 40, 900 limit. The
show merits a daily average Of
100, 900 from the thickly popu-
lated section around it; for within
a radius OF 600 miles either way
dwell nearly, or quite, one half Of
the $4,000, 1000 population of the
United States. Even Buffalo it's
self is not giving the exposition the,
patronage Philadelphia did the
Centennial, Chicago did the Worlds
Fair or Omaha did the Trans
Mississippi exposition. The only
way this can be accounted for is
that the average Buffaloan is wait
ing till the heat of the summer
season is over. The families of
wealth have shut up and gone on
their summer vacation as usual.
A gentleman where your cores
pendent trades explains it in this
way. He says, Gan Buffalo is in
terested in the dollar end of the
exposition, we have been waiting
two long years to make money out
of the thing and are now trying to
consumate our anticipations, we
are not expecting to spend money
on the show but to make it-and
make all we can While this
was said, facetiously, / think it is
an acurate expression Of a mighty
solid fact. Hotel rates were
showed up double room rents all
over the city were rolled up to one
dollar and many families charged
two dollars for an ordinary sleep
ing room with breakfast and
O'Clock dinner. Then the people
did not come, that were expected.
The railroads refused to make low
excursion rates and the pigeons
could not be plucked. Then somt
houses put down rates and tipped
the patrollmen to send custo ners
their way. That riled the heads
of departments and the city author
tiles were sent after the "measlyn
patrollmen who were helping t.,
boom the cheaper houses for small
commissions. This raised merry
war on the inside but prices once
broken the sliding scale hit the
whole town and now comfortabl.
rooms can be had at so cents ant
IS cents a day and the Statlel
Hotel today is down in its price I,
rooms at 81. 90 and up and rooms
with breakfast and 6 O'Clock din
ner at $500 a day. My jndg
ment is that if the American pub
lie is determined to have decen
rates or stay at home, and refuse,
) to bulge until such rates are es
tablished the end will show tina
they will get what they want
!. The judgment Of men here VIII
have represented their states at a
; the great exposition is that n
future fair will be granted any dt
cent notice or patronage unless TIL
cupidity and extortion of the hot'
and lodging house keepers and a
:. those who eater to public CONVEX
fence is crushed and ordinaril
reasonable rates maintained frol
the start and fair aaithentivr trntl
: full publication made and GOO
: faith kept.
As it is. as | have said in the
letters, the Pan American is OF
of the three really great expos
= tions of modern times. 1t is
magnificent expression of all that
best in the products of the Amer
can continent, and shows for &
first time in one matchless swe
:, what American prowess and ge
- Jus are from the productive,
=. ventive and artistic stand poll
- and the real genius of husint
" Buffalo is seeing it and mendi
matters, tardily, it is granted, /
before it is too late, to allow
masses to see and appreciate
80 The exposition deserves all
DO success that can come to it a
~ the exposition management,
ei' railroads and the people the
selves by staying away are to
congratulated that the rapaoity
Id. the interests above referred to
being curbed. Then too, the h
ticultural end of the exposit
- with the floral and agricultural
~ - much better now and will impr
80 right along as the new fruit gro
Vegetables and flowers are com
. . in, all vacant space is being fill