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The Ghening news
AND TELEPHONE.

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1887.
AT THE YANKEERIES.

[By A SIGHTSEER.]
In spite of his intense Republicanism, Brother Jonathan was favoured with "Queen's weather" yesterday for the opening of his exhibition; and, as a natural consequence, all the world and his wife were there. Now if anybody traveled to Earl's Court in teh delusice hope of seeing an exhibition of American arts, products, and discoveries, disappointment awaited that person at the end of this journey. The main building in which the exhibition is to be held was a mess of chaotic confusion. Stalls half erected, others built but empty, with here and there a meagre exhibit, were the order of the day. But this is a matter that will be remedied before the end of the week, and as nearby every one went yesterday to have a look at the Wild West Show, this delay in fixing up the more serious parts of the business didn't so very much matter.

The crush, and fight, and struggle amongst both quadrupeds and bipeds to reach the gates of teh Yankeeries, was, for some hours, something terrific. The block in the vehicular traffic actually commenced at South Kensington Railway Station, and all along the Old Brompton-road was a mass of crawling carriages of every description. Indeed, the side-walk (to use an expression consistent with the day) was just as bad for pedestrians. How and when I got there, I should not like to have to state on oath; but, once there, I felt amply repaid for all my heroic struggles.

The opening ceremony was about as lacking in liveliness as such events invariably are. I am afraid there was precious little attention paid to the addresses, or to the consecration prayer; but Madame Nordica's singing of "The Star-spangled Banner" and "Rule

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The Ghening news
AND TELEPHONE.

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1887.
AT THE YANKEERIES.

[By A SIGHTSEER.]
In spite of his intense Republicanism, Brother Jonathan was favoured with "Queen's weather" yesterday for the opening of his exhibition; and, as a natural consequence, all the world and his wife were there.