| Show our worlds fair latter special correspondence just five moro more days and then tho the greatest show on earth will be ready to commence at least the most of it will he be ready amount of work confronts con fronti the thousands of I 1 bus Us y men engaged in getting things in in shape but the desired transformation is gradually gradual lv taking place and on may I 1 the exhibition is quite me likely to present a spectacle worthy of chicago T and the enterprise in ill the mining building an truly army of men is at work arranging displays and the same activity is is displayed in the building to be d devoted c to the wonders ol of electrical force and illustration foreign state buildings are being pushed to completion and the end of this week will find the larger 0 num number her of them ready to receive tho the valuable con sign ments which ire are to interest and instruct visitors at the fair no u one who has watched the progress of tile the building it at the fair and the collection of exhibits will deny that the opportunity it will place before the people is the most magnificent ever known now the question arises what will each man get for his money in a 1 general wair way men will obtain from froin the fair what they seek whether pleasure knowledge or of soul one could pass three or four visitors for the purpose of scrutinizing iz i the object of their visit and the effect it will have on them as representatives presenta tives veA of clas clashes ces on oil the first one the curiosity seeker I 1 lie he need not wast much time although perhaps a large portion may be of that order to such a person the worlds fair will be only an ail enlarged dime museum full of freaks and founders wo of monstrous size ile he will xander wander from place to place in n an aimless way attracted I 1 lither and thither thit lier by the things 0 that are the most grotesque or that hat make a noise seeing and rearing hearing a great many things and perceiving but a little of ariit anything hinl he be will have a first rate 0 good rind time and will tell ever afterward of the wound erful sights and scenes of the columbian exposition the next man we will observe wants to learn earn something there is an abundant promise for one who has this his spirit and it is iq well worth while to consider how lie he may best brum forum late his plans with this thia end in n view the subject of oatlie the worlds fair as a university of liberal education has occupied the attention of a great many there are so BO many different brandies branches of study to interest one that it will depend pretty moch mich upon the bent of odthe the visitors mind just juit what branch they will care to devote tho the most attention to one may next consider as a trye of a class the philosopher philos pher whose mind is inclined toward the abstract and contemplative sciences the metaphysician the student of books what a field of knowle knowledge doe to him t E every very in man in can find good food for meditation next summer and right in his own line too there is great disa dai felt among the managers that there are to be no indians at the fair buffalo bill will have in his wild west show the only indians to be seen there next summer no indian camp no be feathered warriors I 1 no pictures of the real place the natives of the united states fill in in t the lie history of our country fi finds a place on the grounds rounds of comparative importance it should have been an interesting spectacle to have had the history of the american indians illustrated with vivid pictures of his domestic and warring life of his em emancipation anci pation from the rule of the medicine man and the partly successful efforts that have been made to civilize him foreigners and home folks as well would have liked to see the red man as he was and is now of course courso the indian is an ail old song with the 1 westerner I 1 es hut but a great many eastern people never saw a real live indian some seventy ticket sellers have been engaged to sell tickets to the fair and on saturday they were kept busy submitting themselves to measurements for the uniforms they will wear while on duty of the number dumber 60 far selected only thirty are residents of chicago the remaining sixty coming from nearly nearl nearly y every prominent city in the world they are required to g give ive i a bond band of 2500 many of them are ticket who have been engaged in si millar positions at national and states expositions COLUMBUS |
