Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — WILL OPEN ON TIME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL OPEN ON TIME.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TO SET | THE FAIR GOING, CoL Davis and Director of Works Burnham Say the Gates Will Be Thrown Wide Open May I—Extortlnate Charges Will Not Prevail. The Week at JaHiiEß Park. Chicago VdrretfoV>n#<&tiS!: Tiie Wortd l l Columbian Exposition will.b'e r'eiAdy for business May 1. PresWeiit Cleveland will touch the electric Wt&h, if he lives, and the spindles will Tvhtrl, and the great wheels revolve, and fevery door in every department will swing open so that all the world through its representatives hi&y enter and behold the acres of exhibits which will be in place on that day. The cannon will boom across tho inland sea; the flags of all countries will float in the air of a Chicago spring; the bands will play; the electric boats will dart along the lagoons, ahd the gondolas will move dreamily over the waters and loiter In the shadows of the great buildings. One country will vie with another in exhibits which will at that time be displayed in the most attractive manner by men of the world who have made effective beauty a study. The

natives of the various States of the Union will go to their State buildings and renew their allegiance in such manner as may seem best to them, and then turn to gaze with wonder at the work which has been done in Jackson Park for over a year and a half. So it will be with those whose mother countries are under other flags. The buildings of most of the countries of the East and South which will exhibit will be ready tor the reception of their children. Even Midway Plaisance, that strip about which

people outsido of Chicago know so little, will bo ready. In one day the visitor may wander or ride, as he may be prepared, along this great highway and see how the people of countries which the tourist seldom visits live and dress. So much has been written and said about this Columbian Exposition that those who are under its walls scarce realize that the time is almost at hand for the penetralia of its wonders to open. On the eve of the opening of the

gates at Jackson Park a thousand benedictions will fall, and from the altars of the world there will ascend the incense of thanksgiving that the work about which the nations of the earth will assemble In confraternity Is completed, for the day before the opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition will be Sunday. 'The Plain Truth. An impression seems to prevail in some quarters that the Columbian Exposition Is to be cut up in some way into sections, and that the fifty cent entrance fee will hardly do more than admit the visitor to the vestiblhe. The truth is, on the contrary, that that one entrance fee will give the visitor free aocess to every building erected by the Exposition Company, and to all the State and foreign buildings, including all their exhibits. Every exhibit proper may be seen without any further entrance fee. The false impression in question is due to the fact that there will be some side shows, some of them in Jackson Park, some in Midway Plaisance. and some elsewhere. Those in Jackson Park ana Midway Plaisance are under the supervision of the exposition management, and a certa'n per cent, of their receipts will go to the management. Of course the World’s Fair Company has Ho control of what may be erected and maintained outside of their own grounds. If some circus company should establish a tent alongside the Manitoba Building, and there is plenty of vacant space for it, the World’s Fair would none the less be open in full on the payment of fifty .cents. The best of the side-shows will be of very small importance as compared with what will be shown in any one of the regular Exposition buildings. Not only will every requisite of health and comfort be provided without cost to the visitor, but the management has gone so far as to sterilize the drinking water, a sanitary precaution of great Importance to the health of visitors. Again, the women of Chicago have

organized a creche, where mother# may leave their infants In charge of compe- i tent nurses while they explore the treasures and curiosities of the build- 1 ings. The youngsters will be provided with toys and games for their amuse-

ment; hammocks and cots will be furnished in which they may swing or sleep when tired of somping; good food will be provided for them; for these services a very trifling charge, not yet determined, will be made. But chil-

dreu accidentally separated from their parents and temporarily lost on the grounds will be conveyed to the creche and cared for and fed without charge until claimed. As to charges outside of the grounds, let it be clearly understood that the best hotels have said plainly that they will not charge more than their usual prices, and the hotels of lesser magnitude will be' oompeliod to do likewise. Chicago is full of enterprising people, and really enterprising people know that extortion ruins enterprise. There will be mililons of visitors to Chicago during the exposition season, and lor that very reason there will be fierce competition for their custom. There are now hundreds ot restaurants in this city at which a satisfying meal can be purchased for from 15 to 25 cents, and the number of such places will be greatly increased during the year. The scramble for the patronage of visitors of moderate means will be furious. It is quite possible that the prices of the restaurants that cater for the people of small incomes will be reduced by reason of excessive competition, and it is certain that they will not be increased. In short, it will be very easy fqr a rich visitor to spend $26 or SSO per day, and it will bo quite as easy for an economist to find a room at the rate of $2.50 per week and to feed himself for 75 cents per day. The great Exposition is for the delectation of the people of the world, but specially for those of the United States, therefore attendance upon it will bo'mnde to be within the reach of all. The rich can enjoy all the luxuries that money can buy, the person of slender means can live well at slight cost. Everybody is invited to come. Everybody will be welcome. Nobody shall be imposed upon. This is Chicago’s pledge to the nation and to the whole world. Admisftion Ticket'. Three hundred and seventy-five thousand tickets of admission to the Exposition have arrived and have been placed on sale down town. As already published the engraved entrance cards will be handled in the principal hotels, at the Randolph street and Van Buren street stations of the Illinois Central and at the Exposition Treasurer’s office, in the Rand-McNally building. Fifty

cents is the price of a ticket, and ths installment just received will be good at any time from the date of purchase until the close of the Fair. A good many Chicago merchants have placed advance orders for tickets with Horace Tucker, superintendent of admissions, Who is sanguine enough to estimate a

revenue of more than $1,000,000 from tickets before the gates open. His estimate is re-enforced by a surprisingly large number of inquiries from souvenir collectors who wish to purchase specimen tickets of every series issued by the admissions bureau. F. Porterfield, cashier of the suspended Commercial National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Bank Examiner McKnight. Porterfield gave bail in the sum of SIO,OOO. The charges are perjury and making false statements to the department. Miss Lillie Johnson, who was indicted at Memphis, Tenn., as accessory to the murder of Freda Ward by Alice Mitchell, has been discharged, there being no evidence against her. Miss Mitchell is still in the insane asylum at Bolivar, Tenn.

“THE CIOER PRESS." SCULPTOR CLARKE’S EXHIBIT.

WEST FACADE OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING.

CRORAGIC MONUMENT.

SOME TOWERS AND MINARETS, MIDWAY PLAISANCE.

BIG STONES FROM WISCONSIN.