Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-07-13
WRITES OF ST. LOUIS FAIR.
Dr.. Porter Says Week Can be sp mt tn, 2 a,a
Nominal Cost.

EDITOR CENSOR: It is week ton -
row since | arrived here in st. Louis |
have spent four days in the fair on
the great democratic convention and
two in visiting the city.
This is indeed a great fair, not yet
complete, but somehow seem to do lie
big buildings quicker and easier than
those in the Chicago fair. There a.,
more buildings to visit, however, and
they are spread out too far apart and
ones view of them is cut off by trees III
the enclosure. The landscape gardener
is not yet through with his work and
has two hundred men improving the
grounds
/ find ST. Louis is quite a clean city,
although saw two dead dogs in the
streets in day. The water supply is
river water is and considered safe by
the residents. The street car sys-
tenn Is adequate, so far, for all demands
made on it. Iroom on jefferson avenue
and ride up in half an hour or while
read the morning paper, which costs on
ly q cent and contains the daily pro-
gram of the fair. Some people claim
that extortionate prices prevail here for
board and rooms l suppose Dave Hill
and Croker are paying thirty dollars
day for rooms down town. On the 9TH
er hand many are paying not more than
three or four dollars week for good
rooms. As for board there are hun-
dreds of nice restaurants where for fif-
teen, twenty or twenty-five cents you
can get good meal One will be sur
prised at the low price he pays for
nice lunch here. Inside the grounds
you get a good-sized sandwich, glass Of
milk and piece of pi for thirty cents, or
about double the price it is outside.
There is almost everything to see at
the fair. Today, / visited the Indian
school and saw the line work the gov
ernment schools are turning out. OH
Geronimo was the~e framing his PIC
ture in leather The old fellow will
give his authograph for dime. He
comes from Fort Sill end Is captive
since Gen Miles corraled him. In tepees
sod huts, matched huts, etc, are Chey-
ennes, Sioux and go or 20 other kinds of
Indians from Canada, United States and
Mexico. There are black pigmies, giant
Patagonians, and nine Ainus or hairy
aboriginal inhabitants of Japan. All
these can be seen free as well as large
part of the Philippine exhibit which is
very interesting and is prepared by our
government. To enter the Visayan viii
lage or to see the Igorrotes You pay
quarter dollar for each exhibit. visit
ed the Igorrote village. The men wear
only q breech clout, but the ladies have
native dress. The men dance and
play on tom toms and the women
weave. | visited the Roer war camp
and il is well worth ling. You see
q genuine battle between some 900 Beers
anG as many British. The riding is as
goo0 as in Buffalo Bills show and the
battle Is quite like the real thing. Gen.
Cronje was married that day and | had
the pleasure of shaking hands with him
and the bride. and the old gentleman
gave me wedding reception card. 1t
was an awful crush but good natured
crowd bent on shaking the hand of this
brave old hero who at Paardeburg with
5000 Beers held out for three days
against 5000 British and killed 1000
of them before he was sent to st. Helena.
So a Boar lady told me who had been
to the wedding least ard was suffering
from indigestion.
Now, will 1t pay one TO come hera for
one week only, to see the fairf be-
lieve that it will. In week ope ought
TO get five days inside the .sates, and
can see much in that time. The weather
has not been hot and there is a breeze
most of the time. The tIg buildings
are cool. One wants to arrive here in
the morning so to get located Now,fo
the benefit of some whc may want to
make short inexpensivc trip to the
fair let me give the minimum expense;
railroad fare $40. rs; room, five days at
st. Louis ST. so; gate, 81 50; meals, seven
days s.; car fare 81 That will give one
time to do the fair, to get good gener-
al idea of it at cost of less than twenty
five dollars. G.. V. PORTER.