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On an early train yesterday morning and
in the same coach were a merchant from
Bagdad accompanied by two "Frenchified"
attendants. A Parisian dealer in curios,
Commissioner Moore of Minnesota; Judge
Henry P. Ware, of Salem Oregon, three
animal trainers attached to the German
circus, a group of Prussian metal workers,
an Armenian "tumbler" or athlete, a detail
of English soldiers, colonial cavalrymen who
will participate in the big British military
tournament several malodorous and Chattering
Javanese and the "Honorable" Buffalo
Bill.

"Buffalo Bill" in personal appearance,
despite his prolonged stay abroad, remains
the same striking type of that class of heroes
which popularized the editions of Beadle's
dime novels and the American penny-dreadfuls.
He still wears his white sombrero, his
mustachios and imperial and his long hair,
all of which is now tinged with gray. The
association of princes, dukes and the swells
of Belgravia has apparently not dulled the
democratic instincts of the Nebraska ranch
owner, although it may have swelled his
girth a bit. Cody is probably one of the
most generally known men alive. There was
probably not a man in the town yesterday
morning who saw him who did not recognize
the man.

Places of Comfort.

Two restaurants are now open, under the
management of the Wellington Catering company,
on the grounds, and are being liberally
patronized. One of them is in the administration
building and the other in the south
wing of the horticultural building. The
service is at present indifferent, but doubtless
will be improved in the near future.
Prices charged for food are no higher than
those asked in clean and respectable cafes
uptown, and the quality of the food is fairly
good. The steady patronage of the employes
on the grounds is divided between the restaurants
and those hotels and eating-houses
in the vicinity of the grounds that fortunately
for their proprietors are prepared to
entertain guests. Only a small number
of hotels especially designed for the
care of exposition visitors will be ready to
receive them by May 1. Work is being
pushed with vigor by the projectors of thousand
or more mercantile enterprises in the
neighborhood of the park, and the streets
leading to the gates will before the summer
is over form avenues of wonders and interest
leading up to the grand and colossal "show
in the big tent." Henry Murray, the distinguished
English statistician, in writing of
expositions of the past devotes a large
amount of space and time to the consideration
of what he calls "the fringe" of the
national exhibitions, and regards them as
the sources of valuable information and entertainment.
The bazars, shops, cafes,
street stands, and the wares of the street
peddlers, all of which for obvious reasons are
and will be excluded from the park grounds,
will constitute a great exhibition in themselves.