Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — The Truth About The Great Fair. [ARTICLE]

The Truth About The Great Fair.

We have received from Mr. B. F. Havens, executive officer of the Indiana Board of World’s Fair Managers, a statement of the present condition of the Fair, and o’ matters connected therewith. The statement is signed by the executive officers of twenty-nine states and territories, and every wore can be relied upon as absolutely correct. The following is the statement: We the Executive Officrs of the States and Territories we respectively represent, deem it our duty to present to the people of the United States the following statement for their information:

On the opening of the World’s Fair May Ist, while many of the Exposition Buildings were in an entirely satisfactory condition, exhibits were incomplete and the work of installation had for various reasons been very much retarded. Since that date, the Exposition authorites have accomplished an immense amount of work in Jackson Park, and the buildings of the great departments are complete. Streets and walks are in perfect condition; exhibits from foreign countries and the several states and territories have

been received in large numbers and are practically installed, the pavilions, entrances, booths, etc., are elaborate and beautiful and the visitor finds himself in a bewildering maze of exhibits and this type is borrowed of The Republican are they not very kind, surrounded on all sides with a display of surpassing magnificence and beauty. In brief, the world has never seen before a collection approaching it in value, interest and educational features. Forty states and territories have contributed $6,020,850 for the erection of the buildings and in aid of exhibitors, and tliere has been raised for the purpose of the Exposition, exclusive of gate receipts, interest, and the above amount from the States, $26,904,264.55.

The conveniencies afforded for Quick and easy communication from one part of the grounds to another, by the Intramural Railway, electric launches, and gondolas are excellent, invalids and others can be transported through he grounds and buildings in rolling chairs in the most comfortable manner.

The Midway Plaisance contains features novel and interesting—a representation of nations of the globe of surpassing interest. We unhesitatingly affirm that .he exhibits, the buidings of the Exposition, State, Territorial and foreign will make a visit to Chicago the event of your life. The individual exhibits in the various departments from the several states and territories of the Jnited States and Foreign countries are of wonderful interest and value, and illustrate in a reThe democratic success of ’92 will )e the cause of their death in ’96. markable manner, the growth of the arts, sciences and manufactures. Individual exhibitors, at very great expense and sacrifice lave placed in the Exposition Buildings, evidences of industry, skill and ingenuity, creditable in the highest degree to the artisans, manufacturers and agriculturists of the United States. *

The reports industriously circulated that extortion of every nature prevails in Chicago and on the Fair Grounds we emphatically deny from personal experience. In numerous restaurants in Jackson Park, the prices are no higher than are charged for the same variety and quality of food in other cities of the Union. Comfortable rooms convenient to the Park can be secured at reasonable rates by the day or week, with or without board; and board can readily bq obtained at rates not excessive. It is the opinion generally expressed by those who have visited the Fair that they were agreeably surprised not only in the completeness, variety and extent of the exhibits but in the reasonable charge for room and board. The educational features of the Fair and the evidences of wonderful progress made iu this country since its discovery are of sufficient importance to incite all to see the Exposition. It is an opportunity never before given to our people and probably never will be again. A. single admission fee of fifty cents admits to the Grounds and to all the Exposition Building proper. We have presented fairly and truthfully the condition of affairs at the Exposition. The executive officers of the following states and territories sign the State meat: - Pennsylvania*

Missouri, New York, Indiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, S. Dakota, Rhode Island, California, Florida, lowa, Kentucky, Washington, Utah, Nebraska, N. Dakota, Minnesota, Connecticut, W. Virginia, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas.’ Boarding by the meal, day or week at the World’s Fair restaurant, C. H. Vick, proprietor.