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Hearld May 22.

TROUBLE AT THE GATE.

ATTEMPT TO INCITE A BIG CROWD.

Suggestion to Storm the World's Fair and Force the Gates Applauded by Disappointed Thousands - Effect of Temporary Supremacy of Sunday Closers.

Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition were near to being disgraced yesterday through the rashness of a mob. But for the prompt actin of the police the FIfty-ninth street entrance to Jackson park might have been torn down and the great enterprise besmirched by the cry of anarchy.

About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon a well dressed young man climbed on a barrel near the entrance and began to address the crowd gathered at the gates. When he called upon his hearers to enter the park by force the sentiment met with a responsive cheer from the five thousand people who had surrounded him. The speaker had no more than uttered the words when a police officer in plain clothes pushed his way to the young man's side and ordered him to cease at once. At the same time several bluscoats, re-enforced by a dozen detectives, ordered the crow to disperse. There was a moment of sullen hesitation and then the throng slowly broke in pieces and moved on, up and down the thoroughfare. Another scene similar to the foregoing took place at Fifty-sevent street entrance. The crowdd was small as compared with that at the Fifty-ninth street entrance and the police were easily able to prevent any riotous action.

It was a perfect spring day. The sun hung in a dome of purest blue and from the east came a tempering wind. From the budding trees came the songs of the birds and from the smiling earth arose the fragrance of flowers. Inside the high fence that held back hundreds of thousands of people the magnificent columns, spires and roods of the white city glistened in the mellow sunshine, but from the mighty interiors came no sound. It was indeed a deserted city.

Not for the Eyes of the People.

The beauty of the peerless landscape, with its bright green tapestry dotted with a million fair blossoms, was not for the eyes of the people. The lagoons and canals, unfretted by the wind, lay shinning in the light, but no trim craft cut the water or glistening blade cast shimmering ropes of pearls above the placid waters. Within the vast structures, the storehouses of the wealth nations, wherein are shown the products of man's genius, a few workmen hammered away. The splendid exhibits were covered with canvas and no mortal eye gazed upon them. Two thousand guards patrolled the park under orders to use force if necessary to keep safely hid the treasures from many lands. And so throughout the livelong day all these beauties lay, as much bured and money made them possible, as though the earth had opened and swallowed them up.

Outside the guarded barricade there was another picture in strange contrast to the peaceful one within the forbidden grounds. From early morning until the sun went down the great thoroughfare leading by the western limits of the park and spanning the Midway plaisance was thronged with well-dressed and law-respecting men and women. Hundreds of thousands of people gazed during the day from the dusty roadway and ugly viaducts into the glittering city over against the blue of the rolling lake. On one side of them was an enchanted city given over to solitude. On the other was a horde of noisy and vulgar mountebanks shouting their worthless wares or urging the people to patronize their worse than bad entertainments. From the west came the shouts of drunken men and the clink of glasses. The saloons that line Lake avenue as as well as those near to Stony Island avenue did a thriving trade all day long. The people had money to spend and they gave it to the fakir and the groggery keeper because they could not spend it within the gates of fair. Every fakir repeaed a harvest, while the only entertainment worth all that is paid to see it was unable to accommodate one-half the peopel who desired to witness it. That one exception was Buffalo Bill's splendid exhibition. At both the afternoon and evening performance the great grand stands were packed to their utmost limit. When the shows began standing room could not be secured at any price.

Record May 22.

Saw the Wild West Show.

Buffalo Bill's emphitheater was packed the eaves. Among some of the distinguished people in the boxes were Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Senator Don Cameron, ex-Senator John Creighton of Omaha, Gov. Cosio and Signor Don Francisco Gallastegui of the state of Queretari, Mexico, and Miss Pauncefote, daughter of Sir Julian Pauncefote. When it came time for the ponies to buck they bucked so earnestly that the cowboys themselves became interested. Lee Martin was riding Blue Dog when the crazy broncho reared straight up on his hind legs and fell backward. The wiry cowboy managed to squirm out of the way unhurt, although half the people thought he was killed. A little later George Johnson mounted Badger. The latter stood on his head a few times and then dashed wildly into the little platform raised in the center of the arena, smashing in one side of it. Johnson leaped just before the horse struck, the boards and landed safely on top the platform, a feat not down in the bills. Then the crowd cheered for a full minute. Mr. Johnson was asked if it scared him. "Not on your life," he replied. "But if you give Badger six weeks of bunch grass this palce wouldn't him."

Pst May 22.