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PUBLIC £OME»fiT. How Visitors Are Ca*ed for at the World's Fair. IEEE OONVEHIENOES POE A£L Plenty of Waiting Boom* and trail Throughout the Grounds—Free Filtered Water—The Toilet Room Mystery Ex* plained—State Buildings as Club Houses WORLD'S FAIR, May 27. [Special.] Now that the people are coming in large numbers to see the great exposition we have ample opportunity to test the efficiency of the arrangements made by the management for the public comfort. So far there are few complaints. Almost everything that could have been done to .secure the comfort of the visiting multi tudes has been done, and in many in stances on a scale commensurate with the magnitude and grandeur of the whole en terprise. It is true that some of the con veniences have been slowly put in shape, and during the first two or three weeks of the month there were some complaints, but the managers have apparently done the best they could. The task of finishing up the buildings and grounds was a gigantic one, and even these wonderful Chicago men cannot do all things at the same time. Now that the provisions made for the public comfort are practically com plete it is timely to speak to them some what in detail. One first notices that ample arrange ments have been made for carrying visitora to and fro within the grounds. The ele vated electric cars, the wheel chairs, the gondolas, electric and steam launches carry people from one end to the other of the vast enclosure and at reasonable charges. Scattered throughout the grounds are seats sufficient to accommo date 10,000 people at once. If this should prove insufficient the managers promise to put in as many more as may be necessary. Except on the great days, when it is ex pected that half a million people will enter the gates, a capacity of 10,000 should be enough, for a hundred thousand persons within the enclosure probably not more than two or three thousand will care to sit at any one time. There is so much to see, and visitors are so eager to make the grand rounds, that the vast majority of people are constantly on the move. At the luncheon hour many more seats will be required than at any other part of the day, but the restaurants are able to care for 50,000 persons at once. Some of these restaurants are mammoth affairs, and while the charges are higher than most of us have been in the habit of pay ing at home, except in a few instances they are not exorbitant, everything being considered. One may avoid these expen sive places, and enter the smaller eating places or lunch rooms, and do very nicely at an expense of half a dollar. For in stance, in the southern end of the main building is a snug little lunch room where one may buy a good sandwich for a dime and a cup of coffee at the same price. If one spends more money here than he can afford to spend it is his own fault, for the opportunity is given him to take his choice of bills of fare and schedule of prices. Visitors from the country who come in by excursion trains will find that splendid provision has been made for their comfort. In the big terminal railway sta tion, which cost with the tracks running into it nearly a half million dollars, are spacious waiting rooms, lavatories, a lunch room where regulation railway lunchroom prices prevail,and tables at which the people may spread out their own lunches and buy a cup of coffee or tea from the cafe forwarm drink. At various places throughout the grounds visitors are permitted to spread their baskets and en joy little impromptu picnics, all their own. Every day one sees thousands of people, more than half of them from Chicago, taking their luncheons in this way. Not a few take their baskets to the top of the main building, 250 feet above the ground, A RESTFUL CHAT. and sit down there on the half-mile promenade and enjoy their sandwiches and pickels with one of the most entranc ing views ever beheld by the eyes of man spread out below them. It costs a quarter to ride up here in the elevators, but the trip is worth the money, and more too. There is free drinking water in every nook and corner of the grounds. In all 200 pretty fountains have been erected by the management, and from them is drawn fil tered water as pure as any water on earth that has not been distilled by the chemist. It is water from Lake Michigan, filtered through what is known as the Pasteur filter, and carefully cooled without con tact with the ice. Visitors need oot be •afraid to drink this water even in the hot test weather. It is almost ideal water, •and it is free. Of course if you want min eral springs water that bubbled from the earth at Waukesha you may have it by paying a cent a glass to one of the hun •dred pretty girls who sit at neat little fountains in all parts of the exposition. There are plenty of waiting rooms. In .addition to those in the terminal station a number Of buildings have been erected at various points in the grounds, and here both men and women may find all con veniences. No charge is made. In addi tion to these there are toilet rooms for 'both sexes in all the principal buildings. These are free, also, and clean. It is true there are many toilet rooms to which an admission of 5 cents is charged, and the management has been savagrly criticised for permitting these establishments to be opened on the grounds, llut when one considers he need not enter the pay-closets unless he wishes to do so, and that wher ever there is a pay toilet room there le also a free one that to all intents and purposes 4« ust --ZJiY as good, the criticism loses mart of its force. If any criticism is justified it is upon the manner in which the owners of the nickel toilet rooms have been per mitted to take possession of the most con spicuous parts of the rooms set apart for this purpose. As one enters the door marked "toilet room" he sees Immediately in front of him a handsome lavatory, with other conveniences, and a turnstile beside which a young man sits ready to receive your nickel. He not only sits ready to re ceive the coin, but calls out to you, "this way, please." Naturally the visitor who does not know the ropes thinks this the way to the toilet room, and the only way there is. Many are misled into entering the turnstile gate at a cost of 5 cents per entrance, whereas if they would turn either to the right or left immediately after passing through the first door they would find folding doors which admit to pleasant rooms which are absolutely free. There is no use of paying a nickel unless you go in for luxury. In the Children's building are all con veniences for mothers and their Uttleones, and the latter may be left in charge of careful nurses, where they will receive good attention and be permitted to amuse themselves in a playroom on the roof with all manner of toys contributed by the na tions of the earth, at a small charge per hour. The state buildings are sure to be a great comfort to many thousands of visitors. With two or three exceptions, all the states and territories have handsome buildings here, and only a small number of them are used for exhibits. They an all devoted to the entertainment of visi tors from the states. If you are from Ohio, for instance, in the Buckeye build ing you will find pleasant parlors, a check room at which your parcels may be left CARING FOR THE INDISPOSED, without cost, lavatories and toilet rooms, a spacious piazza outside, letter-writing conveniences, tables at which you may eat your luncheon, messengers, postal boxes, and above all the opportunity to meet friends from your own state and neighbor hood. These state buildings are in other words club houses for the visitors from the commonwealths which erected them, their friends from other states. They are not only handsome, but decidedly usefnl. Uncle Sam has a postofflce on the grounds, with every department in full running order. There are about thirty carriers, and more will be put on in a few days. People who intend coming to the fair and who do not know their permanent or hotel address, will do well to have their mail sent to their state building. At each of the state buildings special efforts are made to take good care of mail delivered into their hands and to see that it gets to the rightful owners. Of course there are telegraph offices all over the grounds, and the charges are the same as in the city. The express companies have offices here, also, and if a visitor buys articles which are inconvenient to carry he may have them wrapped up and sent home by ex press. There is a bank within the grounds, and checks may be cashed or deposits made. This is the bank which failed a few weeks ago, but none of the depositors lost anything. Within a few hours the business men of Chicago raised enough money to pay off all depositors, and the bank has since been reorganized on what appears to be a sound basis. Now that the hot weather la coming on— for in Chicago's mysterious climate spring seems to have been dropped from the role of seasons and a quick jump is made from winter to summer—there will of course be a few cases of sunstroke as well as now and then other sudden illness among the throngs of visitors. For the care of auch who may be unfortunate enough to fall ill ample arrangements have been made. There is a complete hospital service, with surgeons, physicians and ambulances, and two hospitals which are model institutions of their kind. While Chicago has its hot days in summer, as every city has, visitors to the fair are to have the great advantage of the lake breezes constantly blowing upon them. They may ascend to the top of the main building and cool off, or take a ride out upon the lake in one of the many steamers plying to and fro. In the splendid rotunda of the Administration building, which is in some respects finer and more impressive than the rotunda of the national capitol at Washington, visi tors will find a cool spot, for here the heat of the sun finds it difficult to penetrate, while the slightest movement of air pro duces a circulation through the vast en closure. For the preservation of order and pro tection of exhibits and visitors the man agement has provided a force of guards numbering 2,000. You may have read in the papers some complaints about these guards that they are stupid, insolent and disagreeable. If you have.no doubt you ooncluded not to trouble the blue-coated gentry with your inquiries when you reached Chicago. But in all the time I have been here I have met but one case of insolence among the guards. Except in this one instance I have always had my in quiries politely and in n. cases intelli gently answered. Nor hcve I ever wit nessed any act of insolencc. or brutality on the part of a guard. Therefore I am not to be blamed if I take with many grains of allowance the stories which I read in the newspapers about the dreadful tyranny of the Columbian guards. The whole case seems to be like the tradition that goes round to the effect that all policemen are ignorant and brutal, and yet out of a hun dred officers you may have asked for direc tion in the city not one failed to treat you with respect and courtesy. The exposition managers have a bureau of public comfort, with a large number of employes, and its duties are to see that visitors are afforded conveniences and that they are not imposed upon in any way. Complaints will be promptly investigated, and the offenders punished whenever the evidence warrants. LONDON, May .—The Cavendish amendment to the home rule bill was rejected by a vote of 275 to 888. THE FOURTH TIME Sherman House at Fargo Burned Again—All the Guest a Escaped, Though Some of Them Lost Their Clothes and Other Personal Effects. The Mississippi and Missouri Valleys Visited by Tornadoes and Cloudbursts. FAROO, N. D., May 27. —Fire broke out at 2:30 a. in. in the 3-story frame Sherman house, owned by Alderman James Kennedy, and leased by Ike Blair. It started from the explosion of a kerosene lamp in the kitchen, and crept up the wa'l inside the plaster. One of the boarders was awakened by the flames breaking out at the head of his bedstead. There were over 100 lodgers in the house, but all got out safely, though some of them lost their clothes. The building is a total loss. Insurance, $6,500 furniture insured for about fl,50O, loss about |4,000. This is the fourth hotel of the same name burned in Fargo. SERIOUS STORM. Cloudburst and Tornadoes Do Dam age In the South. ST. LOUIS, May 27.—The Missouri and Mississippi valleys were visited by one of the most terrific thunderstorms that has ever swept over this section since back in '50. The storm extended as far west as Kansas City and as far north as Keokuk. The average rainfall re ported at o'clock p. m. was 3.04 inches and the rain is still falling in torrents. From reports received during the afternoon from points up the river, it is expected that the Mississippi river will rise five feet within the next four days. This will make a serious state of affairs along the levees below here, and serious apprehension is felt for the safety of people at Helena, Ark., Arkansas City and Vicksburg. Telegrams from Miko, Mo., say that north of that city Henry McCue was fatally injured by a barn blowing on him. A house blew down and killed John Wills near Laddenia. On Young's creek, north of Mexico, the storm was most severe, but no lives were lost. The storm passed Crystal City about 10:40 p. m., doing great damage to property. Fire at Rochester. ROCHESTER, Minn., May «7.— Fire damaged the Central school bnilding during the night to the amount of from $5,000 to $7,000 insurance, $27,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. It broke out in the basement and it is thought to have been started by spontaneous combustion in dry-earth closets. Deeas Approved. WASHINGTON. May 27. President Cleveland has approved the deeds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation for their right and title to the "leased lands" in the Indian Territory formerly occupied by the Cheyenne and Arapa hoe Indians but now constituting a por tion of Oklahoma Territory, for which the sum of $2,911,450 was appropriated by the Indian appropriation act of March 3, 1801. Advertised Cherokee Bonds. WASHINGTON, May 27.—Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation has published a notice asking bids for the sale of $45,040, 000 of the bonds authorised to be issued under act of congress of March, 3, 1893, the bonds bearing 4 percent interest from March 4, 1893. Bids will be open on Wednesday, May 31, 1893, at the treas ury department in Washington. In Memory of a Poet. BROOKLYN, May 27.—The 90th birth day of Ralph Waldo Emerson was ob served by a large meeting of his friends at Association hall. Dank Cashier Jailed. KOKOMO, Ind.. May 27.—The cashier of the defunct Greentown bank, L. D. Walton, was taken from an east-bound train at Greentown and placed under arrest. He was on his way to his home in Pennsylvania. Supposed Assassin Arrested. MASON CITY, la., May 27.—The sup posed assassin of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Towne has been arrested at Glenville, Minn., 30 miles north of Plymouth. Michigan Bank Suspends. JACKSON, May 27.—King's bank at Brooklyn, this county, has suspended payment. The bank is a private one and no statement of its liabilities or assets could be ascertained. Ask for a Reduction of Fare. WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, May 27.— The executive officers of the different state buildings on the grounds have held a meeting and decided to promul gate a letter asking the railroads to re duce fares to Chicago. Later they will send out a letter setting forth that ho tel and restaurant charges are not ex orbitant. Two Men Cremated. CHICAGO, May it. —In a tire which broke out at 1221 and 1228 Wabash ave nue at 't o'clock a. m., two men lost their lives. The name of one isThoma9 McDonald but the other man was un known. Princely Ofltor. LA CROSSE, Wis., May 87.— A formal offer of $00,000 and a site was made the normal school regents for a location for one of the schools hem, INSULTED THE COURT. Some Strong Language Used by bra ska's Attorney General. LINCOLN, Neb., May 27,—The supreme court lias adjourned to meet on Monday afternoon. No decision in the impeach ment cases was handed down, but it is said by those on the inside that the tip has been given that an acquittal of the defendants has been agreed upon and that ex-Treasurer Hill's and ex-Auditor Benton's plea to the jurisdiction of the rourt is sustained. It is understood that the judges are not at all pleased with certain para graphs of Attorney Lambertson's clos ing argument on behalf of the state. In his closing peroration Mr. Lambertson spoke of the possible judgment of the court and said: "If the court decrees that the respondents be restored to their offices and commended by the court as good and faithful public serv ants, then will the court pronounce for the first time, as a tribunal of impeachment. a judgment that will not only produce a profound sensation, but one that will seriously impair the respect and vener ation in which it is held, and lessen that high sense of public duty in offi cers which is at once the safety and protection of the state." One of the judges is credited with saying that the language of Lambertson was outrageous, and a direct insult to the members of the bench. CHINESE MUST GO. A Big Mass Meeting of Citizens Held at Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., May 27.—Pioneer square was crowded with several thou sand people in attendance upon the anti-Chinese meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for a public expression of opinion as to the enforcement of the Geary act. The crowd was enthusiastic b\*t orderly. President Cleveland was condemned in a series of resolutions for interfering with the carrying out of the act. No political significance was given to the meeting with the exception that a, few orators of the Populist party attempted to air their views. The character of the crowd was of the solid laboring classes, and all ap peared determined in the opinion that the Chinese must be driven out. One of the resolutions passed was to the effect that Attorney General Olney seize all the property of the Six Com panies and use the proceeds of the sale to deport Chinese. WARRANTS FOR ROCKAFELLOAV The Pennsylvania Banker Finally Seen by an Officer. NEW YORK, May 27.—A Sun special from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: Last Feb ruary Private BankerE. V. Rockafellow closed the doors of his bank on 640 depositors. The report of the assignee showed that depositors would get 4 per cent on the dollar. A meeting of all the depositors was held Thursday after noon. Heretofore it was impossible to secure warrants of arrest on the ex banker, and he remained in bed. Doctors testified that he was unable leave his bed. Constable Bauer, disguised as a delivery man for a grocery store, got access to Rockafellow's kitchen. He made his way upstairs and served nine warrants on the banker charging him with embezzlement. Rockafellow fur nished bail in the sum of $25,000. More warrants will be sworn out and Rocka fellow cannot secure enough bail to keep him out of jail. Stirring Up Strife. BELFAST, May 27.—Orange newspap ers report that the police ordered the removal of Union jacks from the hotels in Belfast and they ravingly accuse Secretary Comley and the police of ex ercising their powers of removal as the likeliest course to incite riot and thus give the government an opportunity to point out the disorder on the part of the Unionists. Ordered to Furnish Good Water. BURLINGTON, la.. May 27.—Judge Casey has rendered a decision in the case of the City of Burlington vs. The Water Company, ordering the company to furnish pure water, to extend the mains as per contract, and to raise the funds by assessing the capital stock. Paying Claims of Scalers. VICTORIA, B. C., May 27.—Collector of Customs Milne lias begun paying the claims of sealing schooner owners. He has announced officially that Behring sea will be closed until the first of May next, unless her majesty especially orders otherwise. A Degree For Bishop Potter. MONTREAL, May 27.—The honorary degree of D. C. L. will be conferred on the governor general of Canada and Bishop Potter of New York at the cen tennial convocation of Bishop college, Lennoxville, Quebec, shortly. Killed One and Injured Six. VANDALIA, Mo., May 27.—A terrible cyclone struck Laddonia, 10 miles west of here, at(S p. m., killing Jack Wills of Furber, Mo., and seriously injuring six others. Five large business houses and five dwellings were completely de stroyed. Many buildings were badly damaged. The rain poured in torrents all night, and no definite news has been received from the country. The cyclone also struck the town of Rush Hill, a few miles further west, and did consid erable damage to property, but no lives were lost Only One Parade. ST. PAUL, May 27.—There will be but one parade in connection with the Hill celebration, and that will be the mam moth industrial display of the first day. It had been decided, in the first place, to have two, an industrial and a civic parade. The committee which is ar ranging for the festivnl, however, de cided that the public interest would probably be satisfied by the first street pageant, and to speak plainly, that the second day's street show would fall flat. FAIE FINANCES. A Subject Which Is Frequently Discussed. WILL THE GBEAT EXPOSITION FAY? The Artistic and Educational Success of the World's Columbian Exposition Is Assured Even If the Financial Part Is Not—Cost of the Fair Up to Time of Opening. WORLD'S FAIR, May 25. [Special.] An inquiry often heard is—"Will the great exposition be a financial success?" In my view it doesn't much matter whether it is or not. The great desire is to make it a success from the artistic and educational points of view. Its artistic success is al ready assured. There never was any thing so beautiful, so inspiring. It will be a tremendous educational success if the people come to utilize the opportunity which has been afforded them. They will come, too. They will come by the millions. Neither railroad rates nor cholera fears can keep them away. But it is true that from one cause or another enough may not come to make the fair financially successful. There may be a deficit at the end of the six months or, to put the case more accurately, the city of Chicago and the people of Chicago who subscribed to the stock of the exposition company may get back only a small part of their money. This is not a thing to be much deplored in itself. The Chicago peo ple didn't expect to get their money back when they put it up. At least, they did not expect to get it back directly from the exposition treasury. But that they will get it back many fold in other ways through the assemblage in their midst of millions of strangers, no one can doubt. But a large class of Americans will insist upon regarding the fair a failure unless it earn a profit for the stockholders. They have a strong commercial instinct, and think success in this as in other enter prises is measured by dividends. They overlook the fact that this is not intended and was never intended as a money-mak ing concern. Its greatest success will lie in affording instruction, inspiration and amusement tova large proportion of our people. Inasmuch as the educational suc cess and the financial success to a certain extent are dependent upon the same con dition—a very large attendance—it is worth while to pause here and consider what the chances are. The attendance so far during the month of May has been rather disappointing. But it is easily explained. The fair has not been complete, and the weather has for the most part been cold and cheerless. The people, not only of Chicago, but sur rounding country knew the fair was not finished on the opening day, and they were not willing to spend their money and time going to see an imperfect exposition. You cannot fool the people, and some of the Chicago papers now wish they had not attempted to do so. At this date, how- 1 ever, the exposition is practically com plete. No one need fear being too early on the ground after this. The work is done, the show is finished. It is ready for the inspection of the world. How great will the attendance have to be in order to make the exposition a suc cess financially This is a very interesting question, but it cannot be answered very accurately because there are other sources of revenue which depend somewhat upon the attendance but which cannot as yet be only estimated. Still, this inquiry about the financial success oft he enterprise is an interesting one, and speculation upon it is a convenient means of reaching abetter appreciation of the magnitude of the operation. In round figures, which are within a hundred thousand dollars of the actual sum, the cost of the fair to the opening day was twenty millions of dollars. This enormous sum is more than twice as much as was spent for the last Paris exposition, and there the government of France was behind the enterprise. Twenty millions probably reaches the high water mark in the outlay for international expositions. It may be doubtful if the coming century will see a parallel to this affair in mag nitude or costliness. This fair is not too big, but it is big enough. Future fair builders will probably devote their ener gies to making more perfect but not more vast. How was all this enormous sum raised? Principally by the citizens of Chicago. In the first place, they sub scribed nearly six millions of dollars of stock in the exposition company, and have paid over in cash thereon 85,851,173. Then the city of Chicago as a municipal corpora tion issued bonds and devoted the proceeds to the purchase of $5,000,000 of stock. Thus nearly eleven millions in cash was poured into the enterprise here. At first it was thought this would be enough, or nearly enough, to build the fair. But it proved to be only half enough. The exposition issued five millions of its own bonds and sold them at par. This gave a total of sixteen millions. Congress voted five millions of souvenir half dollars in aid of the fair, and then took away a half million dollars' worth of them on a quibble. Out of the remaining two mill ions of dollars worth the management realized, by virtue of premiums, very nearly $2,500,000. Thus the total receipts were brought up to nearly eighteen and a half millions. Interest and miscellaneous receipts swelled them to the grand total of $19,000,000. It cost more than twenty millions to open the gates. Only nineteen millions had been received, therefore the exposi tion company began doing business May 1st with a debt of a million dollars staring it in the face. Looked at as a vast financial operation this fair is almost as fascinating as from any other point of view, twenty millions to open the gates, three millions more will be needed to pay expenses till the end of the six mouths, therefore #33,000,000 is to be approximately the total cost of the World's Columbian exposition. 19 there any chace that this enormous sum of money can be earned by the gates and the concessions? At the close of the fair it is estimated the salvage from the buildings and grounds will net a million dollars. Still twenty-two millions to raise. What do you think of their chana*? At the Philadelphia exposition the at tendance was 0fi,000 per day for the six months. At the recent Paris exposition it was 900,000 per day. The former figures at Chicago would mean failure, the latter financial success. Results will probably h« found about midway between these marks, or from 125,000 to 150,000 per sons paying their way each day through ne gates. If, as it looks now, the fair is to be open every Sunday, the average at tendance may reach the latter figure. Chicagoans who well know their elty and their people aver that every bright Bun day from this time on there will be from three hundred thousand to a half million people on the fair grounds. On*' finds no difficulty in crediting this statement. Chi cago is now a monster city with nearly two millions of inhabitants. Besides, it is a Sunday city. Three-fifths foreign born, the population makes the Sabbath a day of outing and recreation. The theaters are all open on Sunday, the dance halls, the saloons. On this account many people have argued that the fair should be open also. Of course if the people of Chicago pour through the fair gates on Bundays from a quarter to a half million people, they will not have enough people or energy left to constitute much of an attendance during the remaining six days of the week. Then the people who live outside the city must swell the receipts. The Indications are that enormous numbers of strangers will flock here during the summer. The crowds are already swelling. By the mid dle of June the tide will be running strong. Chicago hotels have accommodations for about two hundred thousand strangers. The furnished rooms In minor hotels or boarding houses and in private houses throughout the city are able to take cam of one hundred thousand more. At no time are they likely to be pushed to their full capacity. Repressing all enthusiastio expectations, it is not likely that more than one hundred and fifty thousand strangers will be here at any one time. Of these not all will go to the fair every day of their stay. Of course one must not overlook the fact that Americans are the greatest peo ple in the world to travel and spend money and seek amusement. If the times be fairly good and cholera keeps away these good American citizens of ours will come in great train loads. Not a very great at tendance Ls expected from New England and the east, nor from New York or the south. But from western Pennsylvania to the Pacific ocean Chicago knows the American people are making ready to come to the fair. The attendance from Europe will not be large, eithey, a mere bagatelle in comparison with the whole number of.admissions. It is a fortunate thing that Chicago has such extensive hotel accommodations and also that her railroad facilities are the best in the world. Chicago, you must re member, is the greatest of all railway cen ters. More than a score of roads enter the city, and inquiry has developed that they AT THE TUBS-STILE. are able to carry from 75,000 to 100,000 per sons per day to and from the city. Many of these passengers will stay from one to four weeks. I asked one of the directors of the expo sition company what attendance he ex pected to see. His reply was interesting. "The first thirty days don't count," he said "we have 150 days remaining. In a score of Sundays we'll take from six to seven million tickets. In the 130 remain ing days I expect to see the paid attend ance run about like this per day: Chi cago people, 25,000 strangers staying in the city, 100,000 excursionists from near by points who come in the morning and go away at night, 10,000. Total, 135,000 a day except Sundays, or seventeen millions for all the week days. Say, a grand total of twenty-five million admissions, or 'W |12,- 500,000 at the gates." I think the results will be a little better than this, though not much. If the man agers succeed in taking from twelve to fif teen millions of dollars afe the gates they will come out nearly even, for their con cessions will yield them half as much more. The exposition company gets all the way from 25 to 75 per cent, of the money spent by visitors within the grounds. They get a share from the res taurants, the cafes, the railways, the theaters, the rolling chairs, the boats, pop corn, gum, guides, catalogues, foreign vil lages, dancing girls, big wheels, shoe blacking, everything. There are about 600 concessionaires, and some of them have as many as eighty cashiers and a thousand employes. If each visitor to the fair spends a dollar a clay within the grounds in addition to the price of admission, and the total num ber of admissions rises above twenty-five millions during the six months, the expo sition will return dollar for dollar to its stockholders. There are so many tempta tions to spend money here, and the aver age American citizen is so fond of suc cumbing to such wiles, that it is pretty safe to say that the 800 concessionaires will after a bit find their money boxes rapidly filling. The visitor finds his luncheon costs him from a quarter to two dollars. He wants a guide and perhaps a cata logue. He must fcuve a ride on the gon dolas, the movable sidewalk and the slid ing railway. The children must see the wild animals and some of the international novelties in the plaisance, they must have popcorn and soda water. At every step one takes there is the temptation to spend money, and of every quarter that you drop in the slot the exposition company gets a dime. WALTEB WELLMAX. A Boy Who Liked Pancakes. A careless mother at the food show the other day loft her small son at a counter where samples of pancakes baked with a patent flour were given away with a lavish hand. As fast and as long as they were passed across the counter to him, the young man seemed to consider himself bound to devour them. He final ly became black in the face and had to be rolled upon the counter by a return ing and alarmed mother and the too gen erous white capped cook.—New York Times. i'Jti