The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-14
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THE PALLADIUM SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT REPORTS
THINGS
AS THEY LOOK TO HIM
Meeting Richmond People Every Day
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As THEY LOOK TO HIM
Special Correspondence:

busy go to the Worlds Fair. Eugene
Field once wrote a poem on "Seein'
Things at Night.' You'll be seem
things day and night if you go to the
Exposition, and you'll be lamenting
for days and nights afterward that
you didn't have time to see more
things-for the things are there. You
just simply can't see all the things
you want to see, unless you spend a
week or two at the fair.
I met man inside the Fair ground
who looked supremely disguised. He
wore the expression of person who
has tried and tried again to accom-
plish something, but failed to sue
ceed
"What s the trouble?' I asked
him. "Don't you like the fair?'
"You bet I don't like it, he re-
piled; "I'm sore on the whole She
bang'
"Isn't the Exposition fine? Don't
YOU find many things here Of inter
est -
"Sure; lots to interest anybody
magnificent buildings, beautiful
grounds, costly exhibits, and all that,
but still m disgusted.'
I received the impression that here
must be a most curious individual,
and I resolved to investigate further
"What is it you don t like? Don t
YOU like the music by these famous
bands? Do you object to the illumi-
nation from half a million electric
lamps? Is it the daily, almost hourly
military parades that disgust you?
Don't you fancy these big Pike at
, tractiOns.'
"Oh, Of course I like all those
things. Who wouldn't? They're great,
but still I'm disguised with the Fair
as a whole.'
"My dear good man. I asked in
, despair, "what feature of the Expo
, sition is it that so greatly displeases
you?'
: cts size,' he replied, "it's the
confoundest biggest thing I ever saw
heard Of or dreamed of, and I'm sore
because I can't see all of it. Every
time I think of the fact that I've
r, got to go home tonight, after being
f here only two weeks, I get disguised
Why, I've only peeked into one cor
ner of the World s Fair. and all the
rest I've got to miss Wouldn t that
disgust you?'
From the card which the disguised
gentleman handed me I discovered
:, him to be a member Of the American
Press IlumoriSts, who held a conven-
ton at the Worlds Fair the first
week in June. Though he was having
:. merely expressed in his own way the
disappointment of thousands who
find that in the limited time at THEN
disposal they are unable to see as
much Of the fair as they would like
because Of its unprecedented and un
expected immensely Of size.
Gradually but surely it is being
7 impressed upon the public conscious
ness that this Exposition is all thai
its builders and managers have claim
ed for it, and more, namely, by fa1
the largest, most comprehensive anC
most interesting enterprise Of its kline
ever created.
e Every day during my stay at The
a Fair have met persons from afar of
g who simply had to sit down and gasl
S at the bigness of the Exposition
It "My.' exclaimed a portly woman
Il from Milwaukee; "but amt it aw
l. ful?'
S "What's awful?' her husband
It asked, solicitously.
s ~ just never saw anything like
It it, the woman continued. cit jus
completely stuns me; m dazed ant
h bewildered!"
n Knowing that the pleasant Jun
IS weather was too cool to give the Wis
consin lady a sunstroke, [ was at
l. loss to know what itwa S that daze'
n and bewildered her, and was so aw
l. full, and all that. Though it was non
N OF my business, fingered convenient
n ~ near. just to hear what she mean
S by her superlative expressions.
- "1'n never get over it-never!
81 she exclaimed. ~ know Sarah won
believe it when | tell her, and incl
Jim will accuse me of boasting abou
IS what I've seen, just because h
IL wouldn't come. But I dom It care; il
just the biggest thing I ever say
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