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A Chapter On The World's Fair

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Day
23
Month
November
Year
1892
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Public Domain
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Th re is one thing which Chicago a done which probably would liave een true of no other city, had the air been aasigBöd to it. It ha givn the site, the five imillioras promised, nd has raised six more millions. It roposes to increase the sum still more. It is in measures such as these hat Chicago shows her greatness. he never stops for money if a lwrgB ■uim is needed for something of benet to the city, and Chicaíro has withn her límite men wlw are able and -ho willmgly give of their fortune o the city' o'f their heart.s. Chicao's children are devoted to her, and nly the vast-niesis o'f their aims and opee tor her, iaves them from inrges ol Indeed, that is clmrge brought agaimst them by ïany irom other ci.ties. LocalLsiu :O, a, certajn extent te a virtue. It es patrto'tiism on a smnll st-ale, and n a country like ours it is not weU o discourage it. Provincialism is uite ainother matter. That narrowo' ndividuals or oities because it does ot pwimtt them to eee the deiects iu liem.selves aud tw correct them. The elevated railw&y is the best ïeaus of getting about the city. It s ahead of New Yoi-k's ia some repeets. It te less noisy and runs snwothly. Whfea the Fair opera the tevated will carry passengere t the i-ounds. It te a thing, and as et runs ouly to FHteenth street. It as all tlie advantages which cable nd horse cars lack. The buildings of the Fair are beauiful. Whea it was proposed to build hom, the architects held a meeting ml all the plans were considered as whole that no one structure should vershadow the others. Henee there s a unity in design with all the varittoina in detail. Nkx one part is waried by amather. Arcliitectually hey merit commeadation and are wOTth study. The Fair grounds look ke a city from the Arabian Nights 3very resource that refined taste deires in color or form has been tested. lie omly regret connected with them s that they cannot be preserved but will be torn. down at the end oL the easoo. They should remain and be ared for that the children. of tomorrow may profit by the works of heir fathers. Tliere is educatiotual 'alue in, the Fair as it stands liow. The Lady Managers have started a mwv-ement wliich is excellent. They re to erect live d'ormitories, ëacn olding five thousand persons, which are for the benefit of women of modrate nreans. Each wotinan takinsr adva.ntage aï this becomes a stocklder. A share coste ten dollars. 'his is transferaljle and entitles the older t0 twenty-five days' stay. If wo preíer they can use ' e stock cerifícate in comiTnoii, each stayiug welve and ome-half days. Applicaions ior rooms must be made one nonth in advance. Enough stock has already been soild to insure the sucess of the scheme. Tliis is not a inony making scheme. Tlie -wx)men who naugurated it are wiealthy and if enough moaiey is not raised they will supply what is lacking. It is ntended to ha-ve receipts and expenses bala.nce. If it is possible to lower he ratea that will be done. This vill make it possible for women a-rail-ng themselves of it, to come to the ity toir one-half -ivhait it will cost n other places. My inquiries have mot brought to my notice any place Vhere wonnen may lodRe twenty-five days next suimmer ioir ten dollars. Twenty-five dollars for ten days is much nearer the average for lodging her e. There is a proposition to estabish lamdly C'oi-initories om the same lan, buit tli is ham as yet uot crystaled into anything. It would be realy a good tdiiug ior the maey men ol moderate mea as if eomething of his kind might be devteed. Thei-e is HO. dodging the iact tliat umless there s a change between now and spring, a visit to Chicago betweon April and Xovember will cost a man oí moderate rneams all he can save in a year. It tooiks as ii this sidO of the Chicagoans woaild bring its own punishment. Hor the success otf the Fair does not depend upom the moaieyed men, but uipoo the rank and file who cannot ifïcrd tö ha-e their daily expensen amtou'nt to three dollars. This Fair with it marvellous edueatiwnal capacities sliodild be available particularly to the class of Americana on whom the country depends. Working men and wonnen are those who shonild be co'nsiidered in carryrying this on. How many oí this class can spend twoi weeks out of work, with mot only loss of wages, bu't an additional expense of two dollai-s a day? Decent accoimmodations with board will not be had in Chica go at leeB than that. Tliere is no dispositian on the part of city people to make everythiag as little as poe Bïble, but vn. the contrary, they are planning to treble everything. Thi Fair is tor the United States as tmucl ate tor Chicago, though the. inipres Bion one gathers in the. city differs from that, and it is a matter of im portamce to citizens1 in all parta o it. that it shooild be possible to com here and stay without becaming bank rapt. The World's Fair is worth seeing dow. "Wlien everything is complet it will excell anything that lias eve been indertaken in this line. lts pos sibilities in art, mechanics, the prac tical and beautiful have never bee equaled. Tlie world in miniature i there iroin the Eskimo to the Orienta The Eskimo are already hre ia all their native dirt. They complain now of the heat. Next slimmer they are to be stored in a speeially coaistructed refrigera tor. I teil this story as it was tjold to me. I will not be i-es-poiisible tar ita truth. Roy, our simall boy, fsaye tliey aught to be ruiplied -B-lth oolagüe. The Orential.s have a miodel of a street in Constantiwople. Tlie studtut ai ethnoloR.y will ïK-ver have anobher opportunity equal to tliiis tar studyinii men of all nattoiïs. "Evei-y iiatiloii, every tribe oo this to-restrfol ball" will have here a mloKlel of their mannier of living, and in all tliiat array oif wliat lian been broug-ht together, nothittg will bc nnore wonderful that the varieties of hu.m.uity. Whatover óae's hobby, tbere will be every faoility for rldhuc it at the Wlarlcfe Fair. . - Thanksfflvlnpmakes our pravers bold Hiid íonjrand weet; feeds and eukiudles them with coala of fire. -Luther. Iré wae the clang of plates, of kuife nnl fork, bat merciless feil, like tomuhawks. to work. - Peter Pindar.

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