Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — THE WORLD’S FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WORLD’S FAIR.

The JSalavs - Magnificent Dist ances - Wouaersofthe Argentine. TIIT MALATS,

HE FASTIDIOUS .creature from New 'York who was • - . • ‘ c- , shocked by Chicago [people sitting on their porches would

have a stroke of heart disease if he happened in on a Javanese dinner at the fair. The liliputians from the East think dinning-rooms a great tiuu vuxzy imu miuii verandas good enough for them. They arc shaded by a thatched roof above and the matted floor makes an elastic seat when they squat cross-legged. Their shoes taken off for comfort, sit around among the dishes, but a little thing like that doesn’t ruffle a Javanese appetite. Several diners gather around a single tin basin of rice and curry standing on the floor between them and dip up that delieacy with rude tin spoons contributed* by orphaned tomato cans, and when they get tired of balancing the food on the slippery piece of tin, they go for that dish with a little black hand and five lasers. The Javanese drink coffee brought from home and their cups are joints of bamboo, a neat and simple contrivance. Since coming to Chicago these‘pygmies contracted the reprehensible nabit of eating bread. A loaf is broken into pieces which art? dumped into a basin and each person

grabs a hunk, which may be nearly as large as his head, and of course has no butter. The floor is the table the tin and the bamboo dishes are scattered about. permiscuously, everyone reaches for what he wants there is no ceremony, and the “brownies” keep up a merrvchatter. These people say they are Malays.

MAGNIFICENT DISTANCE.

Chicago Record. How far must a man walk, to .see ail the fair? This is a hard question to answer, but here are some fairly accurate figures on the larger buildings. If you wish to traverse the main aisles in the Manufactures Building, just to get a good general impression but without edging around thousands of show cases, you will find nine main aisles east and west, with north and south aisles, eleven in numberrinakmg a total" ,length of 26,000 feet, a trifle less than five miles. The minimum estimate for the gallery on the same basis is 12,500 feet. This does not allow for passing through sections or walking buck and forth through the narrow aisles of open exhibits. It refers only to what might properly be called the streets and avenues, furthermore, it does not allow for doubling up on each thoroughfare. The visitor must see both sides at the same time. The same rule is followed in the case of each building. Manufactures, main f100r............26.000 Mteafadturesy gallery..:. .......... .12,500 Agriculture, main f100r............. 9,900 Agriculture, gallery 4,500 Agriculture, annex ; 4,400 Forestry 2,900 Slide and leather. 3,500 Krupp gun and convent 1,00) Administration 400 Electricity, main floor 5,250 Electricity, gallery... 2,(00 Mines, main floor 3,150 Mines, gallery.. 2.000 Transportation, main floor 5,440 Transportation, gallery 4.000 Transportation, annex. 7,0)0 Horticulture, main floor 3,000 Horticulture, gallery 1.0 0 Government 9.(00 Woman’s, incliidinggallery 4,000 Fisheries 1 1.5(H) Art palace, main section 3. 03 Art palace, two wings ..J )f 2,0j0 .1. The grand' total is something in excess of 118,000 feet, or nearly

twenty-three miles. At the same time the estimate does not include State, government or private buildings, tho Plaisance is ignored and no account is taketj of the long

jumps from one building to another. Let the reader figure-for- himself' whether by walking forty miles he could see every nook and corner of the exposition from the washy head of the pier to the westward end of Midway Plaisance. The moral ofraH“this is: “Don’t try to see everything in out day.” THE ARGENTINE EXHIBIT. In the exhibits made by the Argentine Republic in the various buildings —and she has space in agriculture, forestry, and mines in addition to the general made in Manufactures Building—there is every thing calculated to show that it is a great and growing country,

or, more properly speaking, a great country being rapidly developed. It is a country for which railroads are doing much in the way of bringing out resources, one of the many immediate results of i-ailroad building being the opening up of mining industries, which are destined to become one of the country’s richest resources of wealth. The mining area of the republic is nearly nine times greater than that of Great Britain. In the provinces of Cordoba, Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, Jujui, Salta, and Mendoza alone nearly three thousand mining concessions have been granted for the exploration of gold, silver, copper, coal, iron, petroleum, etc., samples of all of which are shown in the Mines Building. Throughout the entire I‘epublic this is an industry to which great attention is paid and into which each succeeding year larger capital is being invested. In the Mines Building the Argentine Republic's mineral exhibit is in charge of Gustav Niederlein, an expert who has for many years been in govern-ment-employ and who is thoroughly versed in ail Argentine mining aDd mineral matters. The rockingstone of Tandil is one of the wonders which Americans will go to see when the intercontinental railway begins to carry tourists to South America. On the summit of a low hill on a great plain of the Argentine Republic looms this great mass of rock. It weighs 2,000 or 3,000 tons. A thousand horses couldn’t roll it over. Yet a man can stand under the edge of it and putting his hand against it can move the entire mass until it rocks to and fro. If a bottle is put close to the under edge'of the mass and two or three pushes are given the rock will roll back and smash the bottle. There is a picture of this curiosity in the Argentine exhibit.

TIIE rROBABLE ATTENDANCE. Cleveland Leader.. The paid admissions to the World's Fair nutnbe.re.d_l,oso,o37 2,675,113 in June. Up to July 20 the paid attendance for the month was 1,965,205, a total of 5,690,345. This figure was not reached at the centennial until the 16th of September. On July 20, 1876, the total number of

paid admiss ons had been only 1,535,1)58. At the Philadelphia exhibition the cash admissions in May were 378,890. In Juno they numbered 695,660, and in July there were 636,518. August furnished 908.687 paying visitors, and the first half of September added 806,045, making 3,425,893 in ail. Then the rush began The last two weeks of September brought 1,324.946 cash admissions, and in October 2,334,530 persons paid their wav into the fair. It will be seen that the records of the Centennial point clearly to a much larger attendance in October at the Columbian Exposition than there has been in the whole time “since the fair was opened, and there should be 4.000,000 visitors in the last half of September, against 2,500,000 in the first two weeks. August is likely to furnish 3,500.000 paid admissions, and there will be nearly 1,000,000 in the last ten days of July. Altogether it is pretty safe to couiit on a grand total of more than 20,000,000 paid admission.;, and 25,000,000 would not be surprising. If the Columbian Expositon could have had a year of general prosperity and easy money markets the record of 28,000,000 made at Paris in 1889 would probably have been surpassed, and 30,000,000 visitors would havecon-

tributed to the financial success of the great show. HE WOULDN’T TAKE A FEE. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Isaac Taylor, the architect, who has made several trips to the World’s Fair, returned a few days ago, full of an adventure which is received askance by such of his friends as have visited the “White City.” “Yes, gentlemen,” said Mr. Taylor to a group of friends at the Southern Hotel, “I met during my last visit the only living person in Chicago who would and did refuse a ‘tip.’ I know it is hard to believe, and T was myselfnrach astonished. While strolling through the Midway Ftoance,4n company with William Eden of the Great Northern Hotel, we dropped into the Persian Palace. After inspecting the various relics of ancient and modern art, a gentlemanly young Persian in his native togs, who spoke good English, asked me to sit down and have a cup of tea or coffee. “We complied, ordered tea which was elegantly served in cups of fabulous value. When we had finished the beverage, I asked, ‘How mush is it?’ “Nothing at all, sir: we give this away.’ “Xhe answer took away my breath and it was a moment before I could recover sufficiently to draw out a coin and say, “Well, take this for yourself.’ “ T beg pardou sir, but it would be in violation of our rules. We cannot accept any fees whatever from the people who are temporarially our guests. ’ “Lput my money back and checked an inclination to. ask this phenominal person if he had photographs of himself for sale. I would have willingly given $5 for one.

VENTRAL COURT OF BRAZILIAN PAVILION.

ARGENTINE EXHIBIT IN MANUFACTURES BUILDING.

ON THE MIDWAY—EXTREMES MEET.

ENTRANCE TO URUGUAY'S EXHIBIT SECTION.