Life — November 2, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: “OOhile there's Life there's Hope.” NOVEMBER 2, 1893. No. 566. -Tuirp Street, New York, VOL. XXII. 28 West Twent Published every Thursday. $s.0oa year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, ro cents. Rejected contributions will be destreyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. / HE Fair is over. The gates may be open for some weeks yet j and people with the indispensable half dollar may be let in to see what is left until the water freezes in the lagoons and Jack Frost closes up the spectacle. But officially the Fair fin- ished its course last Tuesday, the nation is relieved of further responsi- bility for it, and the closing remarks upon it are now due. It was an immense Fair and warrants in the retrospect a generous use of tall and comprehensive language. In its more important features it was hugely suc- cessful. On some of its details it slipped up. Its lady-managers were a source of more amusement than pride ; its John-Boyd-Thatcher system of awards was a continuous drawback to its usefulness; its dealings with the Sunday question were not altogether pleasing to any one, and its managers, toward the last, were unequal to their job. But these are all minor blemishes, As a whole, there never was a World’s Fair so amazing, so grandly beautiful, so substantially satisfactory in its essential attributes, or so widely and generously appreciated. No city in the world has youth and enthusiasm and wealth and assurance enough to have precipitated such an enterprise, except Chicago. S for Chicago, now while she bumps against the clouds with her high head it is no time to pat her on the back. It is too far to reach, Chicago has done well, and needs i no one just now to tell her ¥ so. Lite has admired her grit, has gloried in her achievement, and has persistently <> trumpeted its praises. Now it rejoices with her that the box-office receipts bear so unexpectedly favorable a relation to the costs of the show. Even with her prodigious for hustling and notoriety she must be glad it is he must be sated with being stupendous and super- She must be tired of crowds and clamor and jostling and fireworks and strange faces. Her legs must ache with standing up in street-cars and doing feats of pedestrianism in Jackson Park. ‘The Fair was mighty hard work for every one who undertook to view it. No doubt Chicago in some measure got used to it, but it must have been very hard work for her too, It will do her good now to come to New York and put up in a comfortable hotel and rest. appetit over. lative. HAT a queer, old, played- out delusion is the super- stition known as the courtesy of the Sen- It seems to be on its last legs, and, possibly, by the time this issue of LIFE gets into the reader's hands it will be extinct. Once dead it will stay dead, presenting in that particular an impressive contrast to Senator Hill,.who lately came unburied again in the Senate debate on repeal. Hill is no better than a political body-snatcher, He is ostentatiously interred about once a quarter with a profusion of obituary re- marks by the press, and the turf barely begins to sprout over his tumulus, when all of a sudden his scalp appears thrusting itself up, mushroom-like, through the bristling mold, and before the undertakers can be summoned, behold him hustling across the sward, shedding cerements at every stride. . * . EASURES are already under consideration for restraining the exuberance of the young gentlemen who expect to wit- ness the Yale-Princeton foot- ball game in New York. The Yale faculty consents to per- mit the game thi ar only on condition that Superintendent Byrnes shall agree to keep the city’s peace, and arrest all marauders. Doubtless, it would facilitate the preserva- tion of order if the authorities of the competing institutions would take care beforehand to have handles securely adjusted to the persons of their representatives, for convenience in running them in. Provision of an ample and commodious cage for under- graduates in the Madison Square Garden building would minimize scandal and pre- vent overcrowding the police-stations. A few extra patrol wagons would also be useful. comicbooks.com