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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASlsf WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1893.
no. 19.
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Moved to Foley's Old Stand.
The Nicest Stock of the Season
Is here, is unpacked, is marked low, and is ready for
Anyone Who Likes a Good Thing.
We'are simply asking for business that
will save buyers money.
Puronderful Spring Stock
" will make friefnds, outshine rivals, win victories,
' and sell itself on its merits every time. "
Men's and Boys' Clothing:,
Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Gents' Furnishing Goods.
Marvels Of Popularity in Seasonable. Styles'
and Fair Figures.
THE MODEL CLOTHING HOUSE
Foley's pid Stand,
ZiVEstzs: Ein.steln, Proprietor.
t&orth Platte National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
.Iaid up Capital,
&75,00Q.
WW BIBGE,
C.r.nDING8,
A. 7. BTRETTZ,
DIRECTORS:
O. M. CARTER,
M. C. LINDSAY,
H. OTTEN',
D. W. BAKER.
MOBERaT,
A. D. BOCK WORTH-
All buflinsse intrusted to us handled promptly, carefully, and at lowest rates.
IDDINGrS
LUMBER, j
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! COAL,
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Order by telephone from Newton's Book Store.
Dr. N. McOABE, Prop. J- E. BUSH, Manager.
. NORTH PLATTE PHARMACY,
Successor to J. Q. Thacker.
TSTOHTH. PLATTE, - NEBEASKA.
WE AIM TO HANDLE THE BEST GRADE OF GOODS,
BELL THEM AT REASONABLE PRICES, AND WARRANT
EVERYTHING AS REPRESENTED.
orders from the country and along the line of the Union
Pacific Railway Solicited.
IT. J. BEOEKE R,
Merchant Tailor,
LARGE STOCK OF PIECE GOODS,
embracing all the new designs, kept on band and made to order.
PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED.
PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE
Spruce Street, between Fifth and Sixth.
THE CASIM) MLLIAED HALL,
J. E. GRACE, Proprietor.
SUPERIOR BILLIARD and POOL TABLES.
Bar Stocked with the Finest of Liquors.
A QUIET AND ORDERLY RESORT
Where gentlemen will receive courteous treatment at all times and
where they will always be welcome. Our billiard and pool hall .
is not surpassed in "the city and lovers of these games can
be accommodated at all times.
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Treasury Department Unprepared
for the Geary Law Decision.
ASSAULTED BY SULLIVAN.
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FEELING ON THE COAST.
Great Interest Felt In the Case at San
Francisco How the Chinese and
Other People Took the News of the
Supreme Court's Decision.
Washington, May-16. No orders had
been issued at the treasury department
at the close of business Monday as to the
deporting of Chinese tinder the Geary
act. The instructions under which col
lectors of internal revenue and United
States marshals are now operating di
rect them to make no arrests of unregis
tered Chinamen until farther orders.
These orders may be given after the
next cabinet meeting or deferred for a
longer period.
Conservative estimates plaee the
amount necessary to deport the unregis
tered Chinese at $6,000,000. The sug
gestion is made in official circles here
that Chinese unregistered may now go
to the courts and be allowed to register
and remain in this country if they estab
lish clnarly to the satisfaction of the
judge that from unavoidable causes they
have been unable to procure certificates,
or if they prove that they were residents
of the United Stales at the time of the
passage of the act. At the Chinese lega
tion the Chinese minister courteously
declined to express any opinion upon the
decision of the court, or to give any in
timation as to the course his government
may deem proper to adopt.
Mr. fl. J. Moy, counsellor to the
Chinese legation, said that the contest
against the law would doubtles3 be re
ferred to congress whan it meets in the
fall. Under present conditions it will
be impossible for the officials to execute
the law literally,b9cause there 13 practic
ally no money with which to carry its
provisions into effect. It was an un
fortunate and deplorable condition of
affairs, he said, which threatened the
existence of peaceful and peacable rela
tions of China and the United States,
and left hundreds of natives in each
country, in the territory of the other,
practically hostages for each other.
Satisfaction on the Golden Co ait.
San Francisco, May 10. The de
cision of the United States supremo
court, affirming the constitutionality of
the Geary act, has been received with
great satisfaction throughout the Pacific
coast.
Among the Chinese iu this city the
news spread like wildfire, and in a very
short time crowds of Chinese could be
seen assembled on the different corners,
discussing the matter among themselves.
Many merchants were visited, and those
who had complied with the law ap
peared to be very jubilant. Little red
posters in Chinese characters were being
distributed through Chinatown, which
informed the men who had placed faith
in the Chinese Siaf Companies that they
had been beaten, iand that the United
States government would be no longer
trifled with.
At the Chinese consul's residence the
vice-consul was seen and said after be
ing questioned: "We can do nothing
but obey the ruling of the court. We
expected a favorable decision and are
surprised. We think no attempt will bo
made to put the law into immediate ef
fect, because of the great expense of
deporting the Chinese, for which there
is no appropriation and the damage it
'would do farmers and the coast."
No surprise was expressed iu the of
fices of the internal revenue collector
and the collector of the port. They
were pleased with the result, but would
await instructions from Washington. It
would cost $8,000,000 to deport the
Chinese, and no such sum wa3 available
for the purpose.
Negro Democrats Ak For Oms.
Washington, May IK The National
Negro Democratic League headed by C.
H. J. Taylor of Kensas City has ad
dressed a letter to President Cleveland
in which, after the "work of the league
for the Democracy and the insults given
to its members by Republican negroes
have been set forth, an appeal is made,
to the presidens to remove from office
all colored Republicans who have been
hostile to the league and give the places
to members of the league.
Joe Jefferson's Illness.
New Yobs, May 16. Joseph Jeffer
son the comedian, has been suffering for
three weeks from a glandular abcess, in
conseqence of which he has been con
fined to his rooms. Sunday Dr. Charles
McBurnes, assisted by Dr. Charles M.
Parker, performed an operation which
has been successful. Mr. Jefferson's
health is most recruited and his friends
hope that in a short time he will be able
to resume his engagements.
Sioux City and Northern Election.
Sioux City, May in. At the director's
meeting of the Sioux City and Northern
railroad A. S. Garretson was elected
president, C. L. Wright vice president
and G. W. Oakley secretary and treasurer.
Forbidden by the GoTernment.
Rome, May IK The government has
prohibited the holding of the great so
cialist and labor demonstration which
agitators planned to make in Palermo
on May 21.
Handed In Ills Resignation.
Washington, May 10. William E.
Curtis, director of the bureau of Ameri
can republics tendered his resignation,
in answer to a request made by the presi
dent on Saturday last.
Resigned His Office.
London, May 1(5. Baron Wolverton
has resigned his office as lord-in-waiting
in consequence of his disagreement with
the government on the home rule bill.
Ear oat to Neir York.
Havana, May 10. The Infanta .Eu
lalie and her husband Prince Antoine,
embarked In the steamer Maria Chris
tina, for New York.
Appelated by the President.
Washington, May 1C The president
appointed Robert Couran of Tennessee to
be deputy first auditor of the treasury.
Railway Conductors' Convention.
Toledo, May 16. The railway con
ductors' convention spent the day in dis
cussing appeals in insurance circles.
Home Rale BUI Considered.
London, May Ifi. Consideration of
;he home rule bill occupied the attention
f ihe commons.
A Maine Lawyer Kicked and Cheked
the Es-Chainploa.
Biddeford, Me., May 15. A warrant
for assault and battery was issued from
the Biddeford court Monday morning
and given to a deputy sheriff to serve on
John L. Sullivan, who was in Biddeford,
and will go to Portland. The
assault was committed on the Pullman
Irain Sunday night, on which Sullivan
and Lawyer Max L. Lizotte of 'this city
were passengers.
Lawyer Lizotte reached in front of
the ex-champion to shake hands with
John Sheehan, a member of the Sul
livan party, with whom Lizotte was
acquainted. As he did so, Sullivan
gave him a kick iu the groin, which
sent the lawj-er across the car. Lizotte
is a powerful man, though he has only
one arm, and he rallied and went at
Sullivan, clinching him and turning him
over a car seat.
They were separated, but hardly
parted before another member of the
Sullivan party struck Lizotte in the
face, cutting his lips and making his
nose bleed. Sullivan took advantage of
the situation and choked th9 lawyer,
leaving his finger marks on his throaty
They were finally separated. Lawyer
Lizotte says he will have Sullivan bound
over to the grand jury. He will be
brought hero for trial.
BOIES AT MUSCATINE?
The Governor Outlines More Specifically
What He Intend to Do All the
Saloons Are Closed.
Muscatine, May 10. Nothing de
veloped that throws any light upon the
conspirators of last Wednesday night's
dynamite outrage. The district court
granted injunctions against all the re
maining saloons, and 3f, all told, have
closed their doors.
Governor Boies spent the day viewing
the wrecked homes, and said: "I have
visited the injured buildings, and found
the ruin complete. I am surprised that
any of the inmates escaped without seri
ous injury. The crime is one that de
serves, as it receives, the execration ojj
all men. To the limit of my power
will I aid in discovering and bring
ing to punishment the perpetrators
of this crime. My powers aa gov
ernor, however, are much more limited
than many seem to understand. The
statutes of th9 state in expressed terms
authorize the offer of a reward by the
governor of not to exceed $oi0 for the
apprehension and conviction of parties
charged with the crime of murder and
arson. By clear implication this pro
hibits the offer of a reward by him
in other cases. There is, however,
appropriated by each legislature a sum
of money which may be used by the
governor largely in his discretion. It
seems to me I may, if necessary, prop
erly use what of this fund remains un
der my control to discover and convict
the guilty parties of this 'crime, and I
have said to the Muscatine county at
'torney and sheriff that every available
dollar in the fund necessary for such
purpose is at their disposal. This, as
I understand it, is the extent of my;
power."
Southern DnptUts.
Nashville. May IK Judge Harat
son presided a-- the Southern Baptist
convention Monday. After the opening
prayer, Dr. W. B. Bagby, missionary to
Brazil, addressed the convention on the
work in that country. Dr. J. B. Gamble
of Mississippi, submitted a report on
home missions, which was adopted, and
Dr. Mnnn submitted a report of work
among the colored people. He advised
the encouragement of farther education
and closer relations in a religion way.
A mass meeting was held in the evening.
Diahln Won the Firooklyn Handicap.
New York, May 16. Amidst a deep
and oppressive silence, Diablo, the aged
son of Eolus and Grace Darling, won
the ricn Brooklyn handicap at Graves
end in the presence of 30.000 persons.
Lamplighter, the favorite, went to the
post carrying a ton of money, was sec
ond, and Leonawell third. The win
ner's time was 2:0!). made fractionally as
follows:- Quarter, 24; half, 51 ; three-'
quarters, 1:U'; mile, 1:12A; mile and a
quarter 2:09.
Russian mid Poles Protest.
Washington, May IK George Ken
nan, the well known writer on Russia,
before leaving for Europe, sent to Presi
dent Cleveland a number of documents
containing protests against the Russian
treaty. Among them were communica
tions of the Polish federation in Switzer
land, Russian subjects in the same coun
try, and resolutions adonted by the Rus
sians and Poles in England. i
Receiver For a Street Railway Company.
Sioux City. May 10. Upon the appli
cation of A. F. Nash, one of the stock
holders, Judge Gaynor appointed James
F. Peavey receiver of the Sioux City
Street Railway company. Mr. Peavey
is the presi eut of the railway company
and is given full possession so that its
business may proceed without inter
ruption. Re-Elected Old Officers.
Nashville, May K The woman's
missionary union auxiliary to the South
ern Baptist convention re-elected presi
dent, Miss O. E. Heck; corresponding
secretary, Mis3 Annie W. Armstrong;
recording secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ellis;
treasurer, Mrs. M. E. Oliver.
Reduced One Cent a Gallon.
Chicago, May The directors of
the whisky trust in session here have de
cided to reduce the price of whisky 1
cent a gallon. The question of the bond
issue will come up again.
Chief Drork's Resignation Demanded.
Washington, May 16. Secretary
Carlisle calied for the resignation of S.
G. Brock of Macon, Mo., chief of the
bureau of statistics, treasury depart
ment.
Cho!-r Heath Near Hamburg.
Hamburg. May IK Considerable ex
citement has been caused here by the
official announcement that a laborer has
died of Asiatic cholera at SchifQuck,
near Hambnrg.
State Congregational Convention.
Muscatine, May 16. The 44th" an
nual meeting of the Congregational
State association convened here. The'
association will continue in session until
Friday evening.
Iowa Federation of Labor.
Des Moines. May 16. The state fed
eration of labor was organized here at
a convention of delegates from labor
unions in various cities of the state.
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Hanging of Christie Warden's Slayei
at Concord, N. H.
STRANGLED TO DEATH.
Waea He Weat Through the Trap HH
Feet Touched the Floor His Identity
Vakaewa and His Life a Mystery
Tet Unsolved.
Concord, N. H., May 16. Frauk C.
Almy was hanged in the jail yard here.
The execu ion was a 'bungling job.
Almy's feet touched the floor when he
went through the drop, and he was
strangled to death. The rope with which
he was hanged was cut from the same
piece used in hanging the Chicago an
archists. Almy's crime was the murder of Miss
Christie Warden, one of the most beau
tiful' and talented young women of-Han-
owr; l-, July 17, itsvi. Aimy was
Coal Company Assigns.
Toronto, May l5. The Ontario Coal
company has assigned.
FRANK C ALXT.
evidently a man of education, some re
finement and very extensive reading,
yet.be conld give no account of his past
lifehen he came as a wanderer in the
vicinity of Hanover and worked as a
common farm hand for Mr. Warden.
He received letters directed to another
name and in the autumn of 1890 Mr.
Warden dismissed him. It was then
discovered that he had importuned
Christie to marry him and threatened
her with death if she refused. The
threat was literally fulfilled. As Christie
and Fannie Warden, Miss Louise Goodell
and Mrs. Warden were returning from
an evening meeting, Almy suddenly
confronted them with a pistol and
seized Christie. He fired at the others
but missed them. Despite her strug
gles Almy succeeded in dragging Chris
tie into the bushes, where he fired one
ball into her head and another into her
body, causing instant death. Help was
bo near at" hand that he had but a min
ute to escape, but he did, and then the
most sensational man hunt of the year
begun. He was found a couple of weeks
later concealed in the loft of the "War
den barn.
, There, with provisions and ammuni
tion, he watched the funeral of his vic
tim. When the first midnight settled
down upon the new made grave he stole
forth, plucked flowers from her garden,
and with them decorated her grave.
The unsuccessful search might have
continued indefinitely had not the mur
dered girl's mother discovered in the
yard indications that someone was cou
cealed in the hay and given the alarm.
FIRED UPON WHILE ASLEEP.
A Cowardly Attack Upon a Camp of
Negro Workmen.
Bonham, Ter., May 16. A lot of col
ored men were employed to work on a
brickyard 10 miles south of here. They
were camped out near the scene of their
labor. While thev were wrapped in
Blumber unknown parties crept up and
opened fire on the tent. Over K-O shots
were fired, and their tent was literally
riddled with bullets. The negroes
miraculously escaped, and several of
them spent the balance of the night in
the;treetops. Five white men were ar
resfed on suspicion of having committed
the outrage. It is thought this attack
was made in order to get rid of negro
labor.
Charges Against Kossnth.
BudaPesth. May 16. The clerical
orimn. Masriar Allam. asserts that the
government promised Louis Kossuth an
annuity of aiMi trancs in payment ior
his services in advising ins followers to
support the liberal cabinet of Dr. Wek-
erle.
Identified as Pallister's Ilody.
Sing Sing. N. Y., May 16. A body
was found in the Hudson river, near
here, by a fisherman, which has been
identified by detectives and a keeper of
the, prison as that of Pallister, who es
caped from the death house of the prison
a month ago
Arrested For Kmberzlcmont.
Pittsburg. Mav 16. Robert McClure,
agent of the Law and Order society,
was arres'ted at noon, charged with em
bezzlement by Controller Brown of
Allegheny City. McUlure secured bail
forjiis appearance in court.
Another Lynching In Indiana.
Indianapolis, May 16. A mob. pre
sumably thefp me one that lynched Ter,
rill at Bedford, went to Brownstown
and. took Lou French, who killed Henry
Feadler a week ago, from jail and
lynched him.
Killed His Roommate.
Chicago, May 16. Thomas Williams
killed his roommate, J. Craig, with an
ma. anlittimr his head open. Craig re
fused to pay his half of the rent, and the
sawder resulted.
The Atlanta's Captain Removed.
Washington. May 16. Captain Hig-
ginson has been removed from the com
mand of the unitea aiaies steamer At
lanta, for dilatoriness in sailing for
Grey town, Nicaragua, and has been or
dered home. Captain tfartlett succeeds
him.
- - A Folding Bed's Victim.
Chicago, May 16. A folding bed
closedon'Mrs. J. E. Clough, wife of a
Baptist missionary, and crushed her
body into an insensible mass, while her
flaughter stood by powerless to prevent
it
Noted Western lawyer Dead.
Portland, Or., May 16. William
Lanford, a pioneer lawyer of the Pa
cific northwest, died at Spokane, Wash.,
after a long illness, aged 58.
Hob. Harvey Bunce Dead.
Booneville, Mo., May lt. Hon.
Harvey Bunce, a widely known Mis
lonrian, died here.
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ILLINOIS tEMOCRATic JUBILEE.
Assistant Postmaster General Ratified.
Springfield, May 16. The Demo
crats of Sangamon county held a ratifi
cation meeting, celebrating the appoint
ment of Frank H. Jones as first assistant
postmaster general. The meeting wa3
held in the circuit court room in the
old capitol building and a great crowd
was present. Senator Palmer, Congress
man Springer and many others promi
nent in politics were there. Speeches
were made by Judge Creighton and
Hon. James W. Patton and Mr. Jones
responded in a brief , but felicitous ad
dress. Senator Palmer was loudly called for
and in responding referred to the tariff.
He said he bettered that in the f uture
the financial and economical legislative
views of the northwest will be accepted
by the country.
Congressman Springer also touched
on the tariff. "The result of the last
election," he said, "is the beginnjug of
a new departure in American politics.
The power has passed to the west and
south, and henceforth the groat states
west of the Allegheny mountains and
south of the Potomac are strong enough
of themselves to elect the president of
the United States. The time has come
for legislation on Democratic lines for
the purpose of crystallizing into laws
the principles of the Democratic party.
The Democratic party will rise to its
supreme height of responsibility and ex
ecute the will of the people. We shall
have a tariff policy that will meet the
conditions and requirements of every
country. When this is done an era of
prosperity will begin in thi3 country
which has been heretofore unknown."
SHIFTING. BESPONSIBILITY.
Implicated Nebraska State Official Not
Attempting to Disprove Charges
of Doodling.
Lincoln, May 16. When the court
convened this morning Judge Post, in
behalf of his associates, announced that
the offer made by the attorneys for the
respondents had been considered, that
the testimony relative to ex-Governor
Thayer's message, commending the
members of the board of public lands
and buildings for their honesty, and the
testimony relative to the message of
ex-Governor Boyd demanding an inves
tigation of the asylum matter, would be
admitted in evidence. He also said that
the report of the legislative committee
of 1891, the report of Dr. Knapp, the ex
superintendent at the asylum, and the
report of the board could bo considered.
The testimony taken in the investiga
tion, however, he held was not to be ad
mitted. Major Post, the accountant, went
upon the stand for the purpose of identi
fying the flour vouchers showing the
amount of flour charged by Sewell & Co.
and paid for by the state. The major
found most of the vouchers and upon
them he found the certificate of correct
ness of either himself, the baker, the
coote, or that of J. Dan Lauer. With
all of this testimony Major Post did
not utter a syllable to show that any
check was kept Tn the flouc the plan
evidently being: to receive the flour and
merely "O K,? Sewell & Co.'s bill. This
class of testimony is jnst what was pre
dicted by the state, and it is openly ad
mitted that it is for the purpose of again
shifting the responsibility and getting it
farther away from the respondents.
FOR A DUTCH COLONY.
Representatives of Hollanders Looking
for a Location In Missouri.
Springfield, May 16. G. Van Ame
rongen of Orange City, la., and George
Bankans of Grand Rapids, Mich., have
been here a day or two, and departed
for Chadwick. They represent a colony
of people in Holland, and are looking
for from 10,000 to 20,000 acres of land,
with a view to purchasing it for agri
cultural purposes. Mr. VanAmerongen
says he has traveled all over the Pacific
coast, looking for suitable lands, and
southwest Missouri is the last section of
the country they will visit before pur
chasing. They contemplate buying soon
and bringing out 0 families as a starter
for the colony. So far the gentlemen
are delighted with Missouri as a whole,
and it would not be surprising to hear
of them buying a large tract in Taney,
Christian, or adjacent counties.
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago. May 1C.
"WHEA T May, T3Hc; July. 76?gc; Septem
ber, 79c.
CORN May, 4"c; July, 43ic; September,
48C.
OATS May, 23c; July, 29H29c; Septem
ber, 27c.
PORK May. $20.60: July, $20.90; Soptember,
$21.07.
LARD-September. SU.12H-
SHORT RIBS May, $10.15; July, $10.2
September, $10.33.
Chlcaeo Live Stock.
Union Stock Yards. I
Chicago. May 16. j
CATTLE lieceipta, 4,000 head; common to
extra steers, $1JJ50.00: stockers and feeders,
$2.75f&4.6."; cows, $1.933.80; heifers andTiulla,
$2.6.V&4.50. Market steady.
HOGS Receipts. 10.000 head: lisht, 87-30
7.60: mlxcd,87.307.6o; heavy, S7.49S7.75. Mar
ket active.
SHEEP-Poorto extra. $4.5039.00; lambs,
$485.93; westerns. $3.1031.90.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas City, May 16.
CATTLE Receipts. 2,603 head; shipments.
1.200 head; market steady; range steers, $3.00
4.X); shippers. St.Wjjtf.GO: native cows, $2.00
OfiO; butchers' stock, .5T601.05; stockers and
feeders, $2031.70; bulls and mixed, $2.00
4.03.
HOGS-Receipts, 4.100 head; shipments. 4.000
head: market 10c to 15c lower: bulk of sales.
$7.157.20; heavies, $7.05; packers, $7.1537.25;
mixed, $7.037.20; liht. $6.7537.20; porkere,
$7.1537.25; piss, $6.407.10.
South Omaha Live Stock.
Union Stock Yards. I
South Omaha, May 16. f
CATTLE Receipts, 2,0)9 head; 1300 to 1500
lbs.. $4.60(35.20: 1100 to 1300 lbs.. ?4.20ai.50: 900
to 1100 lbs.. 53.754.23; choice cows. $3.5034.10;
common cows. 2.0033.00; good feeders. $3,503
4.30; common feeders, $2.7533.23. Market
10c to 15c lower.
HOGS Receipts, 2,800 head: light, S7J203
7.3?; mixvl. $7.25(37.30; heavy. $7.303753." Mar
ket 15c ln-.ver.
SHEEP Receipts, 500 head: muttons. $1.00
Qfi.Si; lambs, $4.5038.23. Market weak.
Counterfeiters Plead Gnilty.
Sioux City, May 10. George Hallett
and John Mason, the counterfeiters,
pleaded guilty before the commissioner,
and were held to the federal court.
Double Suicide at Joliet.
Joliet, May 16. Two Italians com
mitted suicide by asphyxiating them
've in a room at a hotel here.
Damaged by a Waterspout.
Buffalo Gap, Tex., May 16. A
raterspout did great damage here.
saw aw m x I afar-ws
Baking
mer.
The only Pure Cream of Tartar Ponder. No Ammonia; No Alum.
Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard.
BEAHFDL BIDES.
Those To Be Seen
World's Fair.
at the
SIGHTS PLEASING TO THE EYE.
Towers, Domes,. Spires, Sllnareto, Giant
Hoofs, Ornamental Columns and Lofty
Statuary A Look at the State Buildings
and Also Those Erected by Torclgn
Countries The Leviathan.
World's Fair, May 17. Special
Let us see what we can see in a day's run
through the exposition. It will be a good
deal, measured by the number of buildings
and beauties andnoveltiesjvery little, com
pared with the sum total of things there
are here to see. Assume that we enter the
enclosure at tho Fifty-saventh street en
trance, wherfc the electric elevated road
has its terminus. For a dime we may ride
all about the grounds, but we choose to
walk, that we may the better see. It is
early in the morning of a fine day, and
the bracing air of tho lake makes us feel
strong enough to take in the entire expo
sition in a single day. So we bravely set
out on foot.
The first glance about inspires us to un
wonted energy. In tho foreground is a
cluster of beautiiul buildings. There are
so many wo cannot count them, and
haven't time to try, at any rate. Whence
came all thess miniature palaces, looking
so gay and fine in the sunlight, with then
great variety of facades and infinite types
of architecture showing vividly in the sun
light? Some one tells us they are the
state buildings the individual contribu
tions of the states of the Union to the
World's fair. Instantly ouropinion of the
vMtness of the United States,-of the im
portance, wealth and grandeur of its con
stituent commonwealths, risc3 many de
grees. So attractive are these state build
ings, and so numerous, that we scarcely
know which first to enter; and in the end
we conclude to enter none, but simply to
hasten along and glance at their exterior,
coming another day to behold their inter
iors. It is well that we reached this de
cision, for when we come to think that all
but one of the forty-four states of the
Union are represented, as well as several
of the territories, and that ten minutes
devoted to each building would consume
an entire day we perceive that it will not
do to tarry. At every step we are tempted
to linger, for some of these state struc
tures are verj hjmdsonie, btitvve. press
resolutely on. The most wo can do today
is to walk in front of all the buildings.
In fact, we soon alter our plans for the
day's jaunt. Just now we have a glimpse
iasfc the Art gallery and across the big
agoon toward the southern end of the
grounds! The spectacle delights and
amazes. The.sky is filled notirregularly,
confusingly, but with symmetrical and
effective arrangement with towers,
domes, spirea, minarets, giant roofs, orna
mental columns, lofty statuary. The
glory and magnitude of the exposition
have dawned upon us. It is so much
larger than we even thought it that at
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THE WINDMILL DISPLAY,
once we say: "Well, this first day we'll
not go in any of these buildings, but sim
ply walk around and try to study the
outer effect of every building on the
grounds.
So with this new purpose in mind it is
always well to havo some definite purpose
or objective point when setting out on a
ramble we turn. to the right and pass the
buildings erected by South Dakota, Wash
ington, Oregon, Colorado and California,
and retrace our steps by Indiana, Wiscon
sin and Michigan. Then passing to the
left of the Fifty-seventh street entrance
we have Nebraska, North Dakota and
g&naas on our left hand, and Georgia,
Tenneaseo, Minnesota, Arkansas and Ken
tucky on our right. Taking a good look
down the avenue of states, to save going
twice over the same ground, we behold
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and
North Carolina, and then turn through
tho interesting thoroughfare to the south
past West Virginia, Virginia, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Missouri. Occupying the
whole south ont of this square are the
magnificent buildings of New York and
Pennsylvania. As we turn north again
through the next street Massachusetts,
Vermont, Rhode Island and New Jersey
are on our right, Delaware and Maryland
on our left. Again reaching the northern
avenue we see New Mexico, Arizona, Wy
oming, Montana and Iowa on one side,
and Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine
and Vermont on the other.
Now we are somewhat tired and sit
down near tho shore of Lake Michigan to
rest. The water, with its moving picture
of steamships and pleasure crafts, divides
our attention with the splendid view of
the Art palace and its annexes behind us.
It is 10 o'clock, and after an hour's work
we have seen nothing but the Art build
ing and the state structures. Yet when
we take the map of the exposition and cal
culate the distance traveled we find we
have walked precisely two and a quarter
miles. If this is the scale on which this
exposition is built, we say to ourselves,
we shall have to be up and doing.
Before us is another group of palaces,
mora costly and more beautiful than the
state houses. These are the buildings
erected by the foreign nations, France,
farea!. Britain, Germany, Mexico and
Spain face the lake. Farther back, ranged
alonj; winding avenues, and showingbeau-
tlr' perspectives at every step, are Nor-
Wh-, Sweden, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil,
Cot Rica, Hayti, East India, Chili, Co
le a bi a and several others. Charming as
Ihe views are here we rush on, for a walk
of. mile and a half has been necessary to
imply see the foreign buildixga, and time
presses.
Now we take a rapid run around the
Fisheries building, though a dozen times
tempted to enter, and cross the inlet canal
and skirt the United States Government
building. It Is not a large building, as
buildings go here, but to go around it re
quire a walk of nearly half a mile. An
other half mile jaunt is necessary to see
Uncle Sam's outdoor exhibit the life
saving crew, the marine .hospital, tb har-
lQr and channel buoys and the big guns.
We save ourselves a third of a mue by
""viewing the" big brick- hattlesfiip Irom'fhe
shore.
Here we come to the structure which
we have had before our eyes and in our
curosity all the time. It is the leviathan
the Manufactures and the Liberal Arts.
Ever since we entered the grounds it has
been looking down upon us with its thirty
acres of roof rising so majestically toward
the sky, and we are determined to circum
navigate the monster. In the whole expo
sition there is nothingmore startling than
the perspective one finds before him in the
THE MANUFACTURES FROM A DISTANCE.
loggia on the western side of this immense)
structure. It seems to bo endless. The
southern end shows a mere speck of light,
and human beings standing there are like
ants in size. It comes very near being the
ideal perspective which runs to a vanish
ing point. We walk on and on, and when
we finally emerge into the grand central
court of the exposition, with the Adminis
tion building at one end and the peristyle
at the other, we pau&e for half an hour in
spite of all our good resolutions.
Finally plucking up courage to leave
this matchless spot we note the lateness
of the hour and abandon our intentions to
walk entirely around the monster build
ing, contenting ourselves with a long look
at the great front which faces Lake Michi
gan. Then we walk under the beautiful
peristyle, through the great Columbian
arch, past the Music hall and the Casino
and out the pier which extends more than
half a mile from the shore. Returning,
we pass the eastern end of the Agricul
tural building, pauslng-f or moment before
the grim walls of the Rabida convent; and
then skirting in quick succession the In
dian school house, the building in which
He rr Kxupp of Essen shows his giant guns
(stopping a few minutes of course for a
peep within), the Leather building and
the quaint structure in which the forestry
products of the whole world are exhibited.
Here we conclude to go no farther south.
The car houses, some power houses and
dairy barns, as well as the immense but
unfinished stables and sheds in which the
horses and other stock are to be shown
later in the summer and many other struc
tures of more or less interest lie beyond,
but we must stop review here.
Now turning north we take a run around
the Yucatan ruins and the imitation rocks
in which the cliff-dwellers have burrowed,
and at our right hand is the welcome
sight of a lunch-room attached to the
Dairy building. While satisfying hunger
we again look over the map and are sur
prised to discover that we have walked
how far do you think? seven and a half
miles!
The afternoon is now well advanced, but
we are bent upon carrying out our plan.
So we suppress the impulse to stop for a
good look at the Indian villages and coun
cil houses, the mummies and skulls in the
Anthropological building, and rush
through the outdoor exhibit of the French
colonies, the windmill display and the
acres of agricultural implements, past the
great amphitheater in which the horses
and stock aro to be exercised before the
Judges and 7,000 people all comfortably
seated, and finally emerge through the
Venetian screen or arch which stands
guard over the southern end of the grand
canal.
Here the view is superb. To the right
the Agricultural building, one of the
grandest structures of the exposition; to
the left the cathedral-like Machinery hall;
farther on the Barge of State and the elec
tric fountains, and a splendid vista of
water and wooded island, dome and tower,
the Electrical building on the left and the
overshadowing leviathan to the right, and
the dome of the Illinois building and the
classic outlines of tho Art palace showing
a mile away. As far as the eye can see are
thronm; of neoole crossine- tho. stntiv
bridges, and the waters of the canal, the
basin and the lagoons are alive with gay
gondolas and swift-moving launches.
It is indeed a scene the eye loves to lin
ger on, but we walk rapidly to the west,
past the pumping house, the big sawmill,
the great boiler house with its long row of
four-story steam-makers, the machine
shop, the annex to Machinery hall (nearly
as big as tha hall itself), the enormous
gas house and gas-making plant, and
round into the plaza between the railway
station and the Administration building
serves as a glorious sort of a vestibule to
the exposition. The sun is sinking low
now, and we must make haste. A half
mile walk takes us past the Pennsylvania
railway's model station and John Bull
show, the immense cold storage warehouse
where one may skate all summer on real
ice, and several minor outdoor exhibits.
Another half mile has carried us past the
Mining building, and the Transportion
building with its gorgeous golden portal,
the Choral hall which Theodore Thomas
and Paderewski recently dedicated and
nearly to tha north end of the Horticul
tural building, itself a fifth of a mile in
length. We do not stop to visit the green
houses nor the Hooden temple which the
Japanese have erected across the lagoon.
A few minutes' walk gives us a view of
the Woman's building and of the Illinois
state house the ugliest structure, by the
way, to be seen on the grounds and we
have completed the grand circuit. We
have had a glimpse of every Important
structure within the enclosure, and are
able to say with pride and satisfaction that
we appreciate the magnitude and the
beauty of the exposition. Our weary
limbs speak eloquently to us of the efforts
required to reach this knowledge, and
gladly do we agree to leave the Midway
plaisance or side-show feature of the ex
position to another journey. Merely to
see the grounds and the exteriors of the
buildings we have walked fully eleven
miles, and that is enough for one day.
Robert Gravis,
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