People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Javanese Village Closed. [ARTICLE]
Javanese Village Closed.
Chicago, Aug. 29. —The Javanese village on the Midway Plaisance is closed and the natives are making preparations to leave the world’s fair and Chicago. The company is indignant at the treatment it has received at the hands of the world’s fair management and its officials say they will not reopen negotiations looking toward a settlement of the difficulty with the exposition. They say that the percentage claimed by the world’s fair officials is exorbitant, and rel : ts has been refused them.
