The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-22
REPORTS FROM THE FAIR
RETURNING TOURISTS TELL OF
MINNESoTA'S EXHIBIT
St. Louis Is Trying to Make All the
Money It Can and Visitors Should Go
With Full Purses if They Want TO
See Everything

The reports that returning sightseers
from the worlds fair bring of the Min
nesota building and exhibits are inter
esting. Many have said they were un-
worthy; one claims they are adequate.
1t is a very great question whether
these exhibits do a state much good.
There is not a question at all wheth-
er expositionS are not being done
to death, because it is very generally
conceded that they are. Next year
there is to be a great fair on the Pa
cific coast, later on one in the South.
Much money is thrown away in these
affairs, and it is doubtful whether they
do lasting good. 1t is unfortunate that
Minnesota should not take rank with
other states at st. Louis, but the pres
ence of one Mr.. McVey in charge of the
Twin City exhibit would hoodoo any
thing st. Paul demanded that he be
deprived of his position in ST. Louis
because he temporarily lost his mem
DRY while writing about the Twin Cities
for the Encyclopedia Britannica and
said Minneapolis was the capitol OF
Minnesota. 1t was probably some re-
latiOn of his who showed several East
ern people round the two cities recent
~, for they said they had visited Lake
Como and the fair grounds in Minneap-
Oils, and they thought Como park in
Minneapolis was the prettieSt park they
had ever seen. They had been Nc
Veyed.
A woman writing in New York pa
per from st. Louis expresses her opf9l-
ion of the fair and gives an excellent
reason for the statements by SO many
visitors that it does not come up to the
Chicago exposition. She said that it
is always the first thing of kind that
appeals to us as greatest. The visitor
to the Chicago exposition will never
forget his first view of the wonders of
that fair. 1t is just so when one goes
abroad. If you land at Havre you
never forget the first glimpse of for
eign land, and no matter how many
other places you may visit none seems
so wonderful as HaVre. Just so if it is
Liverpool, Bremen, or some of the
Mediterranean ports. And thus it is
with fairs, 1t is not likely that with
the improvements and progress in
everything which has been made in the
eleven years since 1893 that the st.
Louis fair falls at all behind the last
one But almost everyone who goes
saw the other, and this one is not the
novelty that the Chicago exposition
was.
From many reports that reach us 1t
is evident that ST. Louis is making the
most of its opportunity to charge Wis
itorS all they think they will stand, and
the stories they tell of the vabsurdly
high prices of everything from board
at the hotels to the trif1es for sale
make one believe that the reputation of
the city will suffer. The writer refer
red to above says wherever they can
charge for anything it is done, even to
Obliging people to pay a quarter to
walk across a bridge. She further says
that the great contrast between the last
fair and this one is in point of space
covered. The one at Chicago was COM
pact, while this one is spread over
twice the ground. That at st. Louis
the commercial side of things has been
dwelt upon. The same writer tells of
a hotel in st. Louis which she consid-
ers the finest in the world in point of
modern comforts and Improvements.
The hotel is built entirely of marble
and stone, there is no wood visible,
even the floors being of concrete. The
electric lights are So arranged that
when you go out of your room the
turning of the door knob puts out the
them on. Lights in the closets are ar
ranged n-the same manner. Every
room has a drop light with green
shade and the entire house is furnished
In the greatest comfort and luxury.
you can spend a fortune weekly at a
hotel like this one.
The great handicap of the fair dur
ing July and August is the heat, as st.
Louis has the reputation of keeping
~intensely warm longer at time than
almost any city in the country. But
those who will brave the hot weather
will be we'll repaid.