St. Louis Exposition.

Northland Age, 27 September 1904, Page 3

St. Louis Exposition.

Beset With Dangers. A letter published in the Manchester “ Despatch “•gives 5 ah appalling-descrip-tion of the state of St. Louis since the opening of the Exposition. Like .the World’s Fair at Chicago, it has attracted all the cleverest and most unscrupulous American.!'* crooks ’’ of both sexes. The newspapers are full every day of stories of visitors who disappear unaccountably, and of others who have had unpleasant experiences. There are splendidly organised kinds of robbers and murderers who employ the usual devices to get the pleasure-seeking stranger into their nets, and the man who escapes with his life may bear the loss of his money with equanimity.. It is useless, of course, to expect the American police to trouble themselves about such trifles. A shrug of the shoulder is their only response to a complaint. Again, the charges at the hotels are ruinously high. The buildings themselves are fliinsilv constructed boxes,with rooms that resemble lockers. The meals provided arc wretchedly poor. The waiters serve in' their shirt-sleeves, smoking and chewing and spitting all the while over the heads of the diners, though with such wonderful accuracy that‘accidents seldom occutv The correspondent adds that the only safe way for a stranger to see the town is to join the Salvation Army, and accompany their peregrinations.—“ Advocate?’'