世界公平的笔记。
A dispatch from Singapore says that the Sultan of Johore, one of the most prosperous States in the East, situated in the western part of the Malay peninsula, is causing to be prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition a model Malay village, in which the trades and industries peculiar to the Malays will be carried on by natives. It is highly probable, the dispatch adds, that the Sultan himself will visit Chicago during the Ex. position.
它被解释为总干事戴维斯一个d other World’s Fair officials, who are inclined to favor Sunday opening, that it is not the intent'on or desire that the Fair shall be opened on Sundays in the “ wide ” way in which it will be on week days. On the contrary, they would have the machinery stopped, all manufacturing processes at a standstill, and every description of work by employees reduced to a minimum Religious services and choral and other musical entertainments could be held in the numerous halls and auditoriums which the buildings will contain. The people could stroll through the park, viewing its resplendent beauties of nature and wonderful achievements of man’s handiwork ; could enter the buildings to enjoy the work of painter and sculptor, and to learn and profit from exhibits of innumerable description. Very few employees, comparatively, would be required to remain on duty on Sunday, and those chiefly for watchmen and guards. These would not be required to work seven days in the week. To care for the thousands of visitors at the Fair on Sunday would not require more persons to work on that day than would be necessary were those same thousands to go elsewhere. Had it been understood from the beginning that the Sunday opening of the Fair would be of the kind indicated— orderly and educational instead of noisy and demoralizing—it is believed that the petitions and protests against a Sunday Fair would have been far less numerous.
