St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 February 1893 — Page 6

HOW THE FAIR GROWS. EVERY DAY ADDS TO ITS SCOPE AND INTEREST. Compared with This, All Previous International Exhibitions Will Seem but Puny, Including the liecent One in Paris— Scenes in Jackson Park. The “White City." Chicago correspondence: “All Hoads Lead to the World’s Fair” la the striking headline in a Chicago newspaper, and while the statement may appear rather sweeping at first, the careful observer will admit, upon reflection, that it is not such an exaggeration as it may seem, for it is certain that there never was an international exposition in which such widespread interest was manifested. This winter has been a severe one at the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and the intense cold has at

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times seriously impeded the progress of the work. However, everything is being provided with all possible haste, and to I A iWjf , W-fw STATUE OF CALIFORNIA. those who haven’t visited Jackson Park since the winter of ’9l the present scene of bustle and activity will be found to differ strangely from the panorama to be witnessed at that time. The Fair was younger then. There were then $12,000,000 still to be expended. Contractors smiled and workmen saw before them a long season of rewarded labor. Then the great floors, were laid or laying, with here and there a joist standing in the wind. To-day the snowelad domes sit as silent about the island as sat the Indians at council on these prairies a century ago. For six months the contours of the thirteen large houses have been visible. But only lately has the hamlet of villas for the States come upon the : ce ie. How do they look? Like any residence part of a smart town, saving the awe vmi mav feel in hearing that New York

you may leei ju mau is to live here instead of John Doe. If we were to enter this village in the north end of Jackson Park not knowing it to be “the United _Btwe, would ^^uiafo’Hter town would it be dignified’ to do a thing like that? The houses of the States are of all forms and colors, but none are more than stopping places —meeting places for friends. California, New York amd Massachusetts, as

M OMraraiß wNn^ B 3 industrial court, mines and mining building. has been intimated, have the best sites and make a good appearance. We have not included Illinois in these remarks because the Illinois building must be reckoned as one of the main

buildings of the great Fair, and not the least commanding. Six of the halls have domes—the Administration, the Agricultural, the Horticultural, the Government, the Art and the Illinois. The Art Palace is praised highly, because it is an lonic temple, with a dome on it, and it looks uncommonly well from the south; but the Fisheries, into whose tanks the water was recently let, has won everybody's praise for its originality and fitness. Whether we should liken it to three Chinese pagodas, with the central one twice as large as the lateral ones, and the three fixed in a curving line of beauty—whether or not that gives to the reader any near idea of the composite structure of the Fisheries—he must decide when he comes; but certainly a pagoda is not so graceful in its lines and ornaments as is each of the Fishery pavilions. Midway Plaisance is a very wide lane, now stockaded, which leads from Washington Park to the Fair grounds. This Midway plaisance is to be filled with all

the allurements of this wicked world. Woe to the spiritual young man who shall take his sweetheart on his arm and, starting at Washington Park for the fair, shall attempt to go on past the Dahomey, the Indian, Chinese, Moorish, Turkish villages, the great street in Cairo, the captive balloon, the cyclorama of the Alps and the volcano of Hawaii, the Roman house, the Dutch settlement, the Japanese bazaar, the menagerie, all the glass blowers, and the dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral! Indeed, had he not l etter mount the sliding railway and shoot past this whole mile of costly, incomparable temptation 7 A source of great wonderment to persons visiting the World’s Fair grounds during this cold weather is the elaborate | heating apparatus employed to maintain I a uniform temperature of (>0 degrees in the mammoth Horticultural Building. The transition from cold and snow and icicles to genial warmth and tropical plants and exotics never fails to give rise to a novel sensation on the part of the visitor. The steam for preserving the lives of the valuab'e plants in the Horticultural Building is furnished by j three boilers of 150 horse-power each, | which consume twenty tons of coal pet ( day, and are in charge of six firemen । and three engineers, divided into three shifts of eight hours each. The pres- | sure maintained is uniformly fifty j pounds to the square inch. There is an j elaborate arrangement of engines and ; fans, by means of which the heat is dis- , tributed throughout every portion of the i building night and day. Machinery Hall, the slowest of the j main structures, has lately donned its exterior finish and becomes a vast and , striking spectacle. But for the near- ' ness of the colossal Manufactures ; Building, Machinery Hall would pass • for a marvel among capacious buildings. |

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It has three parallel rows of steel arches, and this, with its towers and portais, presents perhaps a more complex interior than any other of the great halls for they usually have but one loom—there is but one room in the Ukitv the Elecernment? Manufactur es and the Gov- , •'Cultural has a most agree- ’

able interior, broken with a cross-like upper hall of skylights. wj may lancy the joy with which our farmers shutting away the sights of the north—the music, soda water, swans gondolus and Jinnkslms „ t 01ty llfeA^,^ into the joys of fat vegetables, heroic grains and sleek beasts that will await ail comers south of the Agricultural wealth ° V TI floor ' near) y «00 feet nnAf Th Stoc £ P av dions are prettj and far away. Ihe city will praise them vociferously— at a distance. The farmer will praise the art gallery at the same range. J ' A farmer visited Chicago last week. He was taken past all of the 128 structures that go to make the Exposition He was led to the Masonic Temple ami told that 72,000 persons rode in the eiesquare, or 640,000 square feet, and southward outside for half a mile will be such an agricultural fair as the world has never before seen, for the world has

never before asked the Mississippi v a ]_ ley to make a presentation of its native i tn o s» DOME OF THE MISSOURI BUILDING. vator.s October 20, 1892. He was shown where, fifteen stories up the botanist fell out of the elevator. The farmer was lifted the full twenty-one stories, until Oss became like a wart. He then viewed the glory of Chicago—but he said never a word. As he mounted the train to return home he was asked, “Did you see anything wonderful In Chicago?” and then he admitted that one thing had startled him, and wh»-t, readers, was it? The size of a pum® ln he had passed in front of a restaur^ I*' 1 *' on Madison street! Certainly we believe it was a Masonic temple anK 1 ® pumpkins! These agriculturists, “the great pla! 1 ' people of the West,” will all hurryL 0 see Chief Buchanan and Chief Cottr^j of the Live Stock. The .we allotW ( _ them is ample, an ~rmnTreds of (UdT sands of spectators cnere pa-saj■ day without being even seen nol ',.T_ the great screen which runs from -J । , chluery Hull oust, to tlio AgrlcultuWy* screening Venice from the mud lagooWL It will be the largest fair of history. Compared with it the Taris Exposition of DBJ could not be put in midway plaisance. The large building at Philadelphia was as long a- our big one, but only half as wide, and out of our 128 structures two others are to be measured only by the acre, machinery hall alone having 789,000 square feet of lower floor. From the forestry to the Eskimos is one mile and thiee-fifths; from the forestry to the Dahomey village is two miles and a fifth—these figures by the map. The island itself is two-fifths of a mile long. Suppose you have only a day and tarry ten minutes to see tins phonograph or this Jacquard loom, you will see comparatively nothing. But the fair is more than multifari-

ous. It is beautiful. It speaks in one tone. Rare and rarely sad must be the ' soul that will not be elated on beholding I® O STRANGS PLANTS FROM AUSTRALIA. in America the realization of so many i happy dreams. Peasant Life In Gain <> One of the first things that impresses ’ the tourist is the universal leanness of ; i the natives, biped and quadruped. It ' is not a superabundance of activity that , i causes thi-, for both man and beast । take life very leisurely, altho sgh capa- : I ble of great exertion when occasion i calls lor it, as. for instance, on fair I nays, when the men and women, driv- j i ing flocks of sheep, pigs or cattle to ! sell, will walk miles to get to the market, i and not seem a bit the worse. The I peasant’s cottage, or cabin, built by : himself,contains from one to two rooms. i The average size of the cabins is about thirty feet long and fifteen or twenty

feet broad. The thick walisTare built of laige stones piled one on the ton of »"»'!■« and e emcnlod on °< on - • I he roofs are thatched and se cured with ropes of Indian weed t£ windows are small and do not open the Inhabitants depending upon P the are o/mu"l oZ and alr Tbe floor 9 are or mud or uneven stone.

) “ - -——- —— r Wouldn’t Promise. ' erv s™X WenttO hirea horßSof aliv- ; erj -Stable proprietor, who was . particular about his stock, and alwayl ! nntT^i 3, pr f mise from his customers ' tinV° d v Ve fast a ? a condition of let- ’ said -p 0 ? Can haVe the horse,” h Q agree not to drive him I fast. Well,” said the man, “I want I to go to a funeral, and I am bound to l the hoi P se/’ h the procesßioa if kills । Harvard an I Yale. Yakl X tu ™“° US P °“' tS - At *“ l ““ a^nerffiv 6 ^^ lo ”’’” he Bald ’ with eom « h/ i ’ 4? W me to know just a littie, please lou seem to forget I’m not , a xale graduate.” (

THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY. Glimpses of the Closing Scenes of an Eventful Life. A few familiar sketches of “The Father of His Country” as he apappeared in social life, in camp, and on his plantation, in the intervals of his busy military and political career, may prove interesting. Every body knows the story of his childhood in the quaint little farmhouse near the junction of Pope’s Creek with the Potomac in Virginia; of his passion for military games when he was a small boy; his adventurous tour in the Northern wilds when a mere I stripling; his work in the French i and Indian war, and his friendly ad- j vice and support in the disastrous j campaign .of Braddock. Here are a: few glimpses of him in later years. Tiie Marquis de Chastellux, a : French gentleman who visited him I at liis headquarters in 1780, has left a most interesting account of the hero. Arriving near the camp one rainy afternoon lie met the General on horseback and was heartily welcomed. “I saw with pleasure,” says the Marquis in his rambling chronicle, “that George Washington was dispose I for a smart gallop back to | headquarters. We went there as : rapidly as the bad roads would per- | mit, and found a good dinner waiting for us, with a score of guests, among whom were Generals Howe and St. Clair,” The Marquis describes the repast at some length, but we will only quote his remarks on the dessert; “After these courses the cloth was removed an 1 some apples and a great quantity of nuts were _S£ived. Os these Genera! Washington ordinarily partakes during two hours, ail the while -toasting’ and keeping up the conversation.” As soon as this dinner session was over, the servants came to lay the cloth 1 for supper. The Marquis protested that lie could eat nothing more, but in about an hour, while the polite little Fienchman was noting his impressions in his room, a lackey informed him that his excellen-y was awaiting him at supper. “I returned to the table, protesting with all my inijht. but the Guieral said that he was a< customed to take something in the evening, and that I need only sit down, take -ome fruit, and converse. I wanted nothing better, for now the strangers had gone, and only the . General's family and some aids-de-j camp remained. The supner was * ■ W AMIIXG . I 111 H I I Al E | dishes, smm : . ' ■ Hly 'a great abundaru'■ ' the nuts which I we:e -o well n-o-v.d a' dinner. Th ■ ! cloth then beiu_' again removed, a few I<tt i' , <,f _ , I 1. rd< aux and Made r i w • Many toa-t- followed. 'I h ■ glasses," j wrote the Marquis, “are small: each j one takes for himself the quantity of i wine he wi-hes without being pre.-se I to take more. I observe 1 that at j dinner the tos's had more so.enmity , than at supper: s< m ■ were suggested ■ by General Washington and anI nounced by that one of the aids de- : j camp who did the honors of the dinThe Father of his Country was at th'- time of this visit b. the Marquis de Chastellux l-< year- of age: his reri' wn was already world-wide, and every action and gesture of his was carefully studied. The pm portrait which this cultivar d and friendly scholar has left of him is most valuable. “W’ashingt< n's form is tall and noble, well set up and exactly proportioned. His physiognomy is mild and agreeable, but one would not think of specifying any particular feature. In leaving him one would

JjaaAm simply the remembrance of a | f"i|„ . 1 Moic., his brow from time to

press of thought, but never of inquietude; by inspiring respect be inspires confidence, ami his smile is H Iw ,1 ’“"oundel >J lu»btatl lies especially Interestling, (.eneral of a rei üblic he h-. J t not the imposing style'of a Marshal I I an h ° r oin a ^Public ho of thT-olTn^ '\ hit ‘ h Seems born | or the sole idea that the safetv of pekmn^T^ 11 '' 1 iS attached t >' h is ! per. on. Jhe general officers of the 1 military I • . h.se officers whose duties i bring them much into public not S ! um e marked ^tenei wSth^ j f A ben one <ees the battalion in fn nt^T 11 ] 8 - body *^ U: ’ rd camped in front of his house, the nine ■ a b'nns tor his camp equipage ranged i in the jard, a great number of grooms takmg care of the very tine horses !

belonging to the generals and the’? aids-de-camp; when one observes the perfect order, the manner in which the sentries are exactly set, h* X < \W/ J ANEL ON WASHINGTON’S COACH. one concludes readily that he is in a highly civilized and warlike country.” ' These kind and true words did yeol man service for our cause in Europe. REMEMBERS GEORGE’S DEATH. ■Mrs. Bordner, of Lewistown, 111., Celebrates Her lO3d Blrthd »y. Mrs. Christina Bordner, living at Lewistown, Hl., was 10 years old when

Washington died, and distinctly reniembers the sor- ; row of the people ‘on that occasion. Iler husband, Pester Bordner. died in vISSI, when he was but ten months from being 100 years old. Thir-

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teen children were born to them, of whom ten are living, and their dese n hints, including twenty-four great-grandchildren, now number 353 persons. LETTERS BY GEORGE. He Barters “a R »gue and a Runaway” for Vari mu Articles. The New York Evening Post prints a number of letters from Gen. George Washington, heretofore unpublished. Among them are the following: Mount Vernon, 2 July, 1776. T > f'aptiiin Jolt. Thontpson: Sir.: With this letter comes a nesro Tom', which I beg the favor of you to sell in any of the Islands you may go to, for whatever he will fetch, and bring me in return from him: (’ne hhd of best molasses One ditto of best rum One barrel of lymes, if good and cheap One pot of tamarinds, ceniaininz about 10 lbs. Two small ditto of mixed sweetmeats, about 5 lbs. each. And the residue, much or little, in good old । spirits. I’hat this fellow is both a rorue and a runaway tho’ lie was by no means remarkable for th -former, and never pr ictised the latter till of late 1 shall not preteu 1 to deny, but that he is exceed n : healthy, strong, and good at the hn.' Hl -Wlml- nrlirhbnrhnn I cin tnstjfv. arid partlvularlv Mr. Johnson uno his son.who havo ' both ha 1 him nn ter them as foreman of thr i gang; which gives me reason to hope he may. I with your go > I management, sell welt, it kept I eleau and trim'd up a little when offered tor I O b'. I shall very cliearfully allow you thecustom:ir\ -imis-i >iis m * :is affair, and must Leg ; favor of von lest h ■ should a’tempt hi s .s-,;.. t - k.-.-p him hxiid -nff • I . ill ton get to S ... or in t 11,- bay. after whi :h I d.-u' t not you tn.iv make him very useful to you. 1 w.-h voi: aple isant and prosp-.-rons passage, and a safe and’ speedy return. w.ishlnrt >n Object! to Hiring Hit Claim Jumped. Letter to Michael Cresap. l Mount Vernon. s>pt'-mr th 177-.. hi -ny passage down the Ohio in the Fall of the year 177->. 1 made choice of a piec? of Land, being the first bottom on the So East side of , tiie river above Capteening. as also a little above a place where the effects of a hurricane j appear ane ng the Trees, and Opposite to a ( re k on tii.- other si le near the upper end of Hi- bottom, i a I'd i’ipe Creek. The next Spring, when (apt: Crawford went down the | Ohio to survey, 1 desired him tn run out this Land for me, which lie accord.ngly did. A: retuni'.d me the Piat of it, as you may see by l the inclosed copy; intending as soon as a Patent couid be obtained, to apply for me. The summer following, hearing that Uoetor Uris o had taken possession of this bottom, (altho' inform’d of my claim to it) 1 wrote him a letter of which the inclosed is a copy.—And within these few days 1 have heard .the truth of which I know not) that you, upon the Doctor's quitting of it. have also taken possession of It. If this information be true, 1 own I can conceive no reason i why you or any other person should attempt to disturb me in my claim to this Land, as I I have not. to my knowledge, injur’d or at- ! tempted to injure, any other man in his pretensions to Land in that country; it is a little ; hard, therefore, upon me that 1 cannot be allowed to hold this bottom (which is but a small one) in peace and quietness, ’till a legal j right can be obtained which I always have ! been and still am ready to pay for, as soon as I ! know to what office to apply.—l would feign

i hops that my Information respecting 'our । taking possession of this Land, is without I । as 1 should l>e sorry to enter into 1 u.< n f this matter witu any , | vLlu'ethtmofb^. Sir— Your most humble Servant— G. Washington. Washing on Si„ Ks tlle .. Derl , y R ~ AV hen Washington, after the revolutionary war, was traveling through onnecticut he visited Hartford ^y-ng at the B U 1 ?S Tavcrn ther d ’ A boj came into the kitchen of the tavern and said: “f want to tb * St"... T "e functionary

onuuiydid not propose to let anv njeroboykcc G 0,,. wUh^,,” TMI h',, m< - ’ akl as mucl >- 1-ut 1 hate a note for him,” remonstrated the hoy. -From wS” Either. Chief Justice Ellsworth ” “Oh. well,"and ,l„. tnnctiool" relented. Gen. Washington read the I f AA and . said t 0 tb e boy; -Your । father invites me to dinner, and । will do more than that, 1 will go and breakfast with him.” And he did ! ^ he ” ext umrning. And att-r bre kList he took the twin sons of the JusI tice, each on a knee, and sang them Vorhy K,,,,,." iln „ Id m d’• A gl ", n,n ^ • It was on a market day, and setting forth that the ram or Derby was so bi- that the birds bunt nests !„ Ihe i?, ‘ hp back, and the butiher who undertook to kill him was drowned in t'-e blood.

FORTY-THREE DEAD. Inmates of a New Hampshire Insane Asylum Roasted Alive in Their Cells. News lias been received of the burning of the insane ward connected with the Stafford County Poor)arm, four miles from Dover, N. H., and the loss of forty-four lives. The building was a two-s: ory wooden structure, 120 by 130 feet, and burned like tin ’er. Only four of the inma’es were rescued from the blazing building. In making his rounds shortly after 10 o’clock Night Wa chman Wilbur Chesley discovered the fire. He at once gave an alarm and William P. Dr scoil, t! e keeper, and his assistants rushed through the inmate quarters, which were mainly on the second floor, and burst the locks to the cells, trying to apprise the inmates of their serious danger. The fire had gained great headway and the majority of the inmates were so bewildered and confused that they retarded the escape of ea -h other. The scene was one of appalling horror. Keeper Driscoll used every possible effort to liberate tho inmates and remained in the building until he was oblige I to jump from a second-story window in order to si.ve himself. A messenger was at once dispatched to Dover for assistance, and a steamer and a force of the fire department were sent to the scene, but before they arrived the building was a smoldering mass of ruins. Those who arrived on the scene ear'y will never forget the horrible scenes witnessed. The fire brightly illuminated the country for miles, i nd the poor unfortunates could Le plainly seen as they writhed and tossed in the blazing furnace. The tire was discovered in a cell occupied by a woman named La Fomlan, an 1 was a very small affair at first, but Wat hman Chesley states that it spread with a lapidify that was astonishing, and befo. e he had g ven the alarm to Keeper Driscoll it had gained such headway that the only thing left to be done was to attempt to rescue the inmates. The watchman and keeper broke the locks of the fifty cells as soon as possible, and then the keeper got cut his wife and two children, who Lvcd in the building. They were obliged to leave the building in their night clothes. Th*, building was erected twenty years age, and cost SIO,O 0. How the fire caught is a mystery th t no one seems able fc explain. The burn’ng of the keeper’s books caused some difficulty iu ascertaining the nanu sos the lost Several inmates got out through a small Lasement exit only to be penned in by the high beard fence that surrounded the building, where they were literally roasted alive. The tour that escaped were assisted in climbing the fence and were the first to rush from the burning building on the alarm being given. Twenty years ago, by the destruction of the former asylum, eight lives were lost. GRESHAM WILL NOT TALK. Neither Afllrms Nor Denies the Rumor that He Is to He Secretary of St ite. It is a fact that there is more joy in Lakewood over one Republican that reI penieth than over ninety-aud-nine just i Democrats that need no repentan e, I and the fatted calf of the State Depart- | ment has been, says a Washington cor- | respondent, ordered into the spit for a I Gresham 1 aibecue. The first place in \ l,con effevoa tn । Juuge Oresnam and accepted vy ului. j The office was first offered to Mr. XVhitI ney and declined, then it was offered to I Mr. Dickinson, with 'he same result, ’ and then it was urged upon Senator I ' Gray, but he would not consent to leave > | the Senate. It was offered to Judge Gresham Jan. 27, but < e 1 ne 1, because it is not a Cabinet office that the Judge wants particularly, but a seat on the Supreme B> n h. Th> n the arrangement was : mod.fled to fit the Judge’s < ase and he accepted. He is to hold the office until Mr. I helps, f rmerly Minister to England, gets hrough with the Behring i Sea case, in which he is counsel for the । United States, by which time it is anticipate 1 th t there will be a vacancy on the Su rente Bench. Then ■ Judge Gresham is to be made a : justice and Mr. I’helps is to succeed ■ him in the State Department. Mr. ( Cleveland is understood to have sele't- • ed Judge Gresham in recognition of tue ! large independent Republican vote that he received, and with the idea that it will stregthen the Democratic patty in Illinois and Indiana ly bringing Republicans into the fold. The selection of Judge Gresham is highly appioved by Mr. Whitney and Senator German, and by man.* Democrats whom the i President and his friends consulted in regard to the matter. The report of Judge Gresham’s selection is not received with warmth by the Democrats. While his fitness for the office, his ability an I purity of character is universally conceded, it is ; thought an old-time Democrat should Von-wi-k I nou It ia intirnntoH that.

i have teen chosen. it is inumatea tnan i eitht r Mr. Cleveland or Judge Gresham, i the two men who are authori zed to speak I with aut^jj^hematter, will make ou nc e m ea I>wq . 5.7 '?»• H » Gee within the gift o p the President Curre^e’ej Condense!. In a rear-end collision on the 01.1 Colony road near Leominster Mass sei eral t assenger cars were wrecked ” Bishop Foley, in order to show hi* appreciat on of the good wo k being done by the ( hildren’s Free Hospital Association, has become a member of that organization. 1

m S , J Ol: ,bn.' c E denies that he has eased the Metropolitan Hotel at Washington for inauguration d ry for the purpose of entertaining all the Ohio people who attend that event. people James Stevens, of Thorold, Cnt whose care ess handling of a revolver caused the dea’h of John G. Walker, of Meniton. a week ago, has been arrested on charge of manslaughter. An average of Sl.-.0P.0f.0 of old greenbacks per da .-is being reeehed at the Treasury Department for redemption. Unknown assassins at Oetion, La., fired uron a party of three, instantly killing Henry B. J hompson, wounding bamuel Burton so that he died within an hour, and crippling John King for lire. The Finance Committee of the United States Senate will make a favorable leport on the bill to permit the Chicago and St. Louis Electric Baiiroad Company to import free of duty the machinery for the construction of theif *oad.