People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — EXTORTION NOT ALLOWED. [ARTICLE]

EXTORTION NOT ALLOWED.

World’s Fair Visitors Will Be Protected from Imposition. Misrepresentation has been the ever ready weapon of those who for one reason or another have allied themselves with the enemies of the exposition. A few newspapers have stultified themselves by publishing malicious falsehoods concerning the greatest enterprise of this, or indeed of any other century. For a time it was thought unnecessary to contradict these reports. The American public was left to determine for itself that the exposition was being maligned. Very often has the suggestion been made that some official denial should be uttered, and finally these suggestions have been accepted. President Higinbotham has authorized the publication of the following, with the request that it be given the widest publicity: “The exposition will be opened for visitors on May 1. “An abundance of drinking water, the best supplied to any great city in the world, will be provided free to all. The report that a charge would be made for drinking water probably arose from the fact that Hygeia water can also be had by those who may desire it at one cent a glass. “Ample provisions for seating will be made without charge. “About fifteen hundred toilet rooms and closets will be located at convenient points in the buildings and about the grounds, and they will be absolutely free to the public. This is as large a number in proportion to the estimated attendance as has ever been provided in any exposition. In addition to these there will also be nearly an equal number of lavatories and toilet rooms of a costly and handsome character as exhibits, for the use of which a charge of five cents will be made.

“The admission fee of fifty cents will entitle the visitor to see and enter all the exposition buildings, inspect the exhibits and, in short, to see everything within the exposition grounds, except the Esquimaux village and the reproduction of the Colorado cliff dwellings. For these, as well as the special attractions on Midway Plaisance, a small fee will be charged. “Imposition or extortion of any description will not be tolerated. “Free medical and emergency hospital service is provided on the grounds by the exposition management. “The bureau of public comfort will provide commodious free waiting rooms, including spacious ladies’ parlor and toilet rooms, in various parts of the grounds.” DR. GATLING is getting even more fastidious in the matter of guns than he used to be. He has harnessed to a new one an electric motor that gives a result of 2,000 shots a minute, according to his wn claims. A NEW Missouri statute makes it a penitentiary offense for a husband to desert his wife until they have lived together for at least ten years. —Love is stronger than argument.— Interior.