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FORTY THOUSAND OUTSIDE THE GATE.

They Peep Through Knot-Holes in the Fence-Side-Shows Flourish.

Those who think that the closing of the World's Fair Sunday inflicts no hardship upon the wage-workers should have been on Stony Island avenue yesterday. Forty thousand people were barred out. Men with their wives and children, young men with the maids of their choice trooped hopelessly up and down before that implacable fence.

On one side of the fence was the "Dream City" - a fairyland of restful beauty of green grass and blue water. On the other was a gang of howling fakers whose wares are the cheapest attractions that ever surrounded a circus tent. The crowd which thronged Stony Island avenue all day was the largest ever debarred from the grounds. Before every gate or possible coign of vantage people clustered in groups, eager to obtain even a glimpse of that which is to them a forbiden land. They were no mere pleasure seekers, these men who rested toll-worn hands upon each other's shoulders in their endeavors to see. They had

no time to take a day from the week of work. Sunday only was theirs, and the White City was closed against them.

There were few threats, for an American crowd can suffer long in silence, but there was ominous discontent, and with it that to them unanswerable question. "Why?" The people seemed to feel their power, and that their numbers were a vast protest, but they waited and hoped. One man said the Fair would be open next week.

"Next week!" he was answered. "You bet it will be open next week. Look at that crowd. What the people want the people will get."

Excursionsists Greatly Disappointed.

The crows was composed half of excursionists from the country. They came on excursion trains from rural districts tributary to Chicago, lured in, it is said, by flaming railway advertisements. They had their hald dollars to pay admissions. Their jaws fell away down on their chests when they learned that they could only spend the day by patronizing the side shows and "lemo'" stands that were on exhibition out among the greens and early dog-fennell in clossom outside the fence. They put in the day trying to beat the games and buy out the stands.

The lumber of which the fences are built about the grounds of the World's Fair proper, as well as around the exhibit of Midway

FORTY THOUSAND OUTSIDE THE GATE.

They Peep Through Knot-Holes in the Fence-Side-Shows Flourish.

Those who think that the closing of the World's Fair Sunday inflicts no hardship upon the wage-workers should have been on Stony Island avenue yesterday. Forty thousand people were barred out. Men with their wives and children, young men with the maids of their choice trooped hopelessly up and down before that implacable fence.

On one side of the fence was the "Dream City" - a fairyland of restful beauty of green grass and blue water. On the other was a gang of howling fakers whose wares are the cheapest attractions that ever surrounded a circus tent. The crowd which thronged Stony Island avenue all day was the largest ever debarred from the grounds. Before every gate or possible coign of vantage people clustered in groups, eager to obtain even a glimpse of that which is to them a forbiden land. They were no mere pleasure seekers, these men who rested toll-worn hands upon each other's shoulders in their endeavors to see. They had