Year: 1876

GETTING THINGS TO RIGHTS-A DISPLAY


OF BERRIES AT AGRICULTURAL


HALL.


Bravely the work goes on, and by
the coming of the Fourth of July, per
haps, we shall see everything in true
order, the exhibits all in proper shape.
and the tinkering all finished except
perhaps the paths. In Agricultural
Hall :he railroad track that caused so
much bother to timid females to cross
on a plank from one platform 10
another is. being boarded over. and
the exhibits of Russia, France, and
one or two others are being rapidly
\ put in place. In the Main Building
AID Machinery Hall these nations are
also rapidly putting their spaces in
order after a seeming as pathy of so
many days. In walking over the
grounds the casual visitor often wond-
ers why the commission did not have
the


NAMES OF THE BUILDINGS


put upon them instead of cabalistic
number, which means everything or
nothing. The Main Building annex is
an exception, and the restaurants also.
These saw the advantage at an early
date of letting the visitors know what
their buildings are. 1t may be very
simple thing for those who laid out
the grounds, or who prepared the
plans, to know what 81 or 1877 means,
but the persons who require the know
ledge are the tens and hundreds of
thousands of visitors who are not &C,
quainted with the locations OF the
buildings, and even if they have an
"official Guide" it is not so very easy
to open out the map on windy day
on the avenue.


Most, if not all the buildings are
open to the public at the time of open
ing the gates except Main Hall. Here
there seems to be an inexcusable lack
of information as to the government of
the place pervading those indescribable
beings the guards. AS an instance, a
party of ladies applied for admission
to the northern entrance of the Main
Building Just opposite the Art Gallery.
The guards refused to allow them to
enter, it being fifteen minutes to 8
o'clock, and said they, "No one can
enter except exhibitors until o'clock"
Probably they must have thought the
ladies had obtained entrance by climb
ing the fence, as there were fully 500
visitors inside at that very moment he
refused them. If the hour of opening
is o'clock visitors should be entitled
to see the exhibits without having to
go from door to door until they find q
guard who knows enough to allow en-
trance.


THOSE ROLLING CHAIRS,


the delight of the aged and infirm. the
pet of the ladies, and the execration
Of the observer who wishes to see
some of the beauties of art or investi-
gate closely the working of some mas
ter pice of mechanism, but owing to
an impenetrable phalanx of chairs, are
getting reduced to some show of con-
troll. Many of the sections have set
their faces against them, and bars and
ropes and notices are set up to say,
$50 far shalt thou 60 and no further"
not in those words perhaps, but as
emphatic, Were the discomfort all it
would be enough to arouse indignation
but extortion is in some cases added
to the dose. A well known gentleman
corresponds mt of leading European
paper, who was severely injured and
crippled by street accident, was the
victim in one case or series of cases.
The charge advertised in their rates is
sixty cents per hour. For taking him
from the entrance gate to the head.
quarters of the press, occupying per-
haps from three to five minutes, he
was charged eighty cents cash time.
TIRE BROOM BRIGADE
in the buildings and ON the pathways
merit little passing notice. Their
work is necessary, and in most cases
done as well and with as little discom-
fort to visitors as could reasonably be
expected. But there are a great many