July 14,1898

New flooring has been put on the Main viaduct that is less sticky than the tar that would stick to shoes on hot days. The old floor, although double thickness with tar paper between, let water into the restaurant storerooms below during heavy thunderstorms.

Fence climbers will be dealt with more severely... previously just arrested and thrown out... now they face time in jail.

The expo postcards are meeting with great favor... visitors using them to write home.

Bands on the Midway are disrupting the regular concerts... Midway people assert that the band concerts on the plaza are duly prolonged, thus holding the crowd from the midway. They have started a band that begins playing across from the plaza at the time they think concert should cease, thus interrupting the concert with their own peculiar music. It is very exasperating to the people enjoying the concert.

Camp grounds are ready for the Indian Congress... 30 acres on the south portion of the Oak Chatham tract... "Rattlesnake Pete" will have a tent on the grounds... Bluff tract people envious...

Latest issue of the Farm Implement Magazine has 7 pages with 1/2 tones.

Children celebrated the dedication of the Boys' and Girls' Building. Early in the construction period of the Exposition, the school children of Nebraska and Iowa decided to raise by small donations the money for a Boys' and Girls' Building, to be erected on the Exposition Grounds. This building was located in the northeast corner of the Grand Court, and though not as large as the other buildings on this court, it was well adapted for the uses for which it was erected, the entertainment of the children. The building was a source of great interest to the thousands of school children who had contributed their dimes toward its cost and as the admission on this dedication day had been reduced to $.15 for children, great throngs of little folks were gathered early to participate in the celebration and view the sights of the Exposition.

The exercises in the building were simple, consisting of a few short speeches and some music, closing with the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, after which all formalities were laid aside and the little ones enjoyed themselves in all parts of the Exposition grounds. The day was closed with the usual concert in the evening, which was largely attended