The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-21
Correspondence baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM THE WORLDS FAIR.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, May 10th, 1904


charged an extra 50 cents for admission, so they
have to pay without having tho pleasure of
turning the turnstile.
The Epworth League Hotel on the north side
is a brick building, built permanently. and is to
be used after the fair by Washington University |
of St. Louis as a home for the students. This |
can be reached by the Eighteenth-str car
line from Union Station. The Christian En- |
deavor Hotel, on the south side just by the |
grounds, can be reached direct from Union Sta |
ton by the through Market street cars. This
hotel can take care of 1900. the diningroom seat
ing 1900. The rates are 81 per day for lodging
or 81 per day, including two meals and lunch.
Two nice private houses, at 6l5O and 6154 Etzel
avenue, have been fitted up by Mr.. Ross c. H.
Hallock with new furniture and 81 per day is
charged for lodging. This is 10 minutes ride
from the grounds and is reached by the Eigh-
teenth street cars from Union Station by one
transfer. All the restaurants outside of the
grounds are reasonable in their charges and all
have seen in the city are as cheap as in our
home cities, so that the reports about exorbitant
prices is incorrect Inside the grounds charges
are higher, but there are several good places
the Agricultural Building restaurant, the Ne
braska and the Fraternity Inn-all of which are
temperance places. Board can be gotten in
private families at 81 to $40 per week.
The car service from the city to the fair
grounds is excellent. The cars are large, COM
Portable and run fast and close together.
The first large excursion reached here at 4.45
p NJ May 18th from the East. 1t was run by the
Pennsylvania Railroad and started from New
York at $50 A. Nj. May 10th and included people
from Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1t was run
in two sections. bringing 521 persons. The fare
from New York is $50 and from Baltimore SIT
ca. tho rc,,nd frir ooOd for fan davS
This is convention week-the international
Press Association and National Editors Associa-
ton, $500 strong-and ''the press was the big
gest thing in the show this week. They are here
and so are the people from Maine to California.
While there is enough to see to keep person
looking for weeks, yet the exhibits are not quite
all placed, but in few weeks you can come
along.
The finest landscape gardening on the LAO
acres is on the east side of the Agricultural
Building and when the thousands Of June roses
come out you want to be here. I am the only
exhibitor 1 know of whose goods have been
selected to work on the fair grounds in the agri-
cultural machinery line, the superintendent of
Horticulture and superintendent Of landscape
gardening having selected our Hallock cultiva-
tor and seeder to cultivate the growing grass
and SOW grass seed.
It requires 5000 persons to take charge of the
1900 exhibits made by about 10000 exhibitors,
so we have small city. This does not include
those who have charge of concessions and res
taurants nor workmen on grounds and build
ings.
The first thing you want to do upon reaching
the grounds is to take ride on the Intramural
Railroad BY all means enter the grounds by
the main entrance. The ride entirely around
the grounds from one side of the main entrance
to the other is about miles, costs 10 cents and
takes 40 minutes, as they run slow in order That
passengers can see the grounds and buildings
The main entrance is on the east side near the
northeast corner. The main avenue extends up
| to Festival Hall past Louisiana Monument
| When you have reached Festival Hall you are
| at the hub of the fan shaped arrangement of the
grounds and buildings. Here you will stand en-
| tranced at the view that meets your eye.
w. H. R.
THE BERLIN correspondent of the New York
Stadts-Zeitung telegraphed at the end OF last
week that in that city the opinion was gaining
ground that the recent speeches of Kaiser
| William pointed toward the possibility of Ger
| many's taking hand in the Far East on &C
! count of the yellow peril" One reason is as
good as another if Germany wishes to get into
the Eastern scrap. But the Kaiser has good
| deal of common sense under his helmet. He
knows very well that England is the ally OF
/ Japan, and would, according to agreement,
tzczeu.py- a tsscohd party. fjinen France would
| have to stand by Russia, and this would make
a general European war, with the sympathies
| of America on the side of England and the
Mikado. The Kaiser cannot afford to stir up
such muss. He may fret over his isolation,
but he knows in his heart it is better than a
universal war, out of which he may come with
neither profit nor glory.
THE Honolulu correspondent of the Wash
ington Star says that an energetic effort is be-
ing made by Mr.. Hearst's managers to get the
six votes of Hawaii to the st. Louis Conven-
ton. The opinion is expressed that Hearst
delegation will be sent to the convention. IL
is costly trip and both parties have to help
delegates to passage money. This will not
discourage Mr.. Hearst, if he needs the votes.
Mr.. Bryan, no doubt, will want them, for ne
remembers the Kansas City platform was
passed by one majority and that was given by
the delegate from Hawaii Both parties should
remember the sarcasm of Roscoe Conkling
when nominating General Grant in 1880:
1--WE do not want man popular in the terri
tories, for they have no vote" Why terri
tory and the District of Columbia should be
represented in National Convention is diff
cult TO say.
In THE written report of w. D. Hunter, on
the ravages of the cotton boil weevil, he says
that by living within the fruit of the plant the
weevil is well protected from any poisons that
might be applied. 1t takes only fourteen days
for development from an egg to adult. The
progeny of a single pair in season may reach
1874, 900 individuals. 1t adapts itself to
climatic conditions and is remarkably free
from parasites and diseases, all these facts
combining to make efforts at control difficult.
Mr.. Hunter says that conservative authorities
agree that unless contingencies at present I'M
expected occur the pest soon will cause an in
crease in the price of cotton throughout the
world.
THE PLATFORM of the Ohio Republicans,
adopted at their State convention held at Co
lumbus this week, contains the following
because of his earnest devotion and unfiinch-
ing fidelity to Republican principles and the
signal ability displayed by President Roosevelt
in his great office as the successor of our la
mented Mckinley, we renew our declaration
of confidence and admiration, pledgiDg him
our enthusiastic support for his nomination IN
the full assurance of his triumphant and mer
tied election next November"
Mr.. WILLIAM P. HARVEY has been elected
president of the Belvedere Building Company
of Baltimore, vice Nelson Perrin, deceased
Mr.. Edgar G. Miller succeeds Mr.. Harvey az
vice president. This company built the tint
Belyedere Hotel, of which the late Mr.. Perrin
was one of the projectors. The hotel which
has been running about six months, has proven
a very successful business enterprise
, LAST WEEK two women were sentenced Il
imprisonment for life for the crime OF murder
One at Steubenville, Ohio, for the killing o.
her husband, and the other in Delaware To-
the killing of young girl OF whom she wa
| FQV0ltlnl