Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-11
SUNDAY AT ST. LOUIS.
Everything Wide Open Except the Ex-
position and the Park.


Outlook-If the doors of all the build
ings in the exposition, except those of
the art galleries, were closed on Sun
day, writes a correspondent, it would
take combination of Richmond park,
Hyde park and ST. James park, with
the National gallery, the TAFT gallery
at Whitechapel all thrown in, to make
setting as beautiful and an art gal
lery as complete as those in Forest
park, where now everything is closed
and only the Jefferson guards are in
possession. From all this beauty Wis
itors are now rigidly excluded by the
clause embodied in the exposition ap-
preparation act ty congress four years
ago.
st. Louis is a wide-open city-wide
open on Sunday after the German
rather than the American fashion No
whisky is sold in the saloons. or at any
rate the front doors of the saloons are
all open, and in the neighborhood of
the exposition there are two immense
beer gardens which combined can en-
terrain from 10000 to 100000 persons
between noon and midnight on Sunday.
Right next to the largest and most
popular of these gardens there is a race
track, with races on most Sundays dur
ing the exposition season; and in the
open country about the exposition
grounds there are scores of resorts and
attractions which would not be toll
Grated on the pike All the baseball
grounds on the outer edge of the city
are open on Sunday; SO are all the bill
liard-rooms in every part of the city.
In the city itself three or four theaters
have two performances a day, and
down at the levee there are dozens of
excursion boats in waiting for Sunday
crowds which seek a cool river breeze,
combined with opportunities for
gambling with professionals Of the
lowest and most dangerous type. On
Sundays all these places are in full
blast; while the beautiful grounds out
at Forest park are tightly closed to the
public by high fence.
Even if the exposition buildings are
to be closed, this policy of excluding
people from the terraces, the plazas,
the lawns, and the groves of Forest
park, and from the art galleries, carries
with it nc saving of Sunday labor.
Street-car traffic to the Sunday attrac-
lions is as heavy as it is on weekdays.
1t is even heavier, for st. Louis's work
! ing-class population is at liberty on
Sunday, and, like the visitor from
distance, is drawn to any attraction
which is offered There is even no
saving of work for the restaurant wait
ers, for visitors must get their meals
somewhere.
! The exposition management is keep
ing Loyalty to the agreement with con-
gress as to Sunday closing-so Loyalty,
in fact, that on Sundays fence Is
built about the hotel within the
grounds to keep the 5000 visitors and
the 1900 help from straying on to the
/ boulevards and avenues of the expcsi-
ton. But it can scarcely be claimed
that the closing movement has been
wholly successful as regards the right
keeping of Sunday. We suppose that
1t is now too late to correct the error;
| It could be corrected we Judge, only
by act Of congress; but that it Is an
error from every point of view appears
to US almost self-evident and the fact
Is worth noting now in order that the
country may be saved from similar err
iors in the future.
| To shut up by law innocent, ednca-
tive. and helpful places Of recreation
on Sunday, and leave doubtful, degrad-