Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — SEE IT IN SECTIONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEE IT IN SECTIONS.

HOW TO SPEND TEN DAYS AT THE FAIR MOST PROFITABLY. Don’t Squander Time and Money in Aimless Wanderings—Begin with a New Group Every Morning and End by Making the Grand Tour. Unfold Its Glories Slowly. World’s Fair correspondence: Time will be money at the World’s Fair, and some there will be who having a month will squander it in aimless wanderings unguided by knowledge or any definite purpose. Others will wisely spend ten golden days as if they were so many weeks and will take away with them into workaday life a treasury of vivid impressions that will retifrn the expenditure a hundredfold. However you come, whether for profit or the pleasures of eight-seeing, your purpose will be defeated if a haphazard method is followed. Before you leave home read up on the fair. A catalogue is a very good thing in the Fine Arts Building, or if you are making a study of a special line of exhibits, otherwise it serves but to pile up your mind with useless lumber. Decide upon what you want to see before you come at all, and see that first. Each day have a clearly defined idea of what you want to do and how to do it with the least expense of time and energy. Don’t be diverted from your purpose by the thousand and one distractions that will beset you on every side, for the World’s Fair will have many gorgeous and absorbing tales to tell, and each will insidiously suggest another, as did in the fertile brain of Scheherazade. You have to consider that the World’s Columbian Exposition is a great city in Itself, that extends over an area of 500 acres and measures a mile and a half within its northern and southern limits; a city laid out on such spaciofis lines that to cover its streets and waterways is a day’s journey; a city ideally planned, where every house is a palace enriched beyond description within and without, and to any and all of which might be applied the name bestowed on St. Peter’s in “The Marble Faun”—“a great jewel casket.” Don't Be Tempted Aside. The buildings will seem huddled together inconsequently to the visitor who comes upon them unprepared. The vastness of the Fair, the distances lent by the fine study of perspective, and the endless succession of beautiful vistas

and detail will bewilder the senses so that you are likely to leave it all confused and dazzled as if you had been lost in an Oriental labyrinth. You will be enraptured by a hundred things. A noble dome wrought in a sad sincerity, a classic colonnade, a bridge like the Bridge of Sighs, a statue, fountain, fresco, some untold wonder of floriculture, a roof of red Spanish tiles, a cluster of aerial minarets, or a glimpse of the Midway Plaisance, that, like the green fairy of absinthe, is not to be looked upon and resisted. Then there will be the babel of strange tongues and the briberies of foreign wares and ifnholy rites and customs to beguile you from your purpose. A strong temptation will be upon you to see the whole fair grounds the first day, or rather to drift whithersoever the fancy of the moment listeth—a temptation that I am not sure I should be able to resist, but one to which it would not be wise to yield unless you have at least a month for your visit. Let the wonders unfold themselves in sections for the traditional nine days, and on the tenth day bind the fragments of your impressions together by taking the grand tour. Study the plan of the grounds as a lesson at school, and the arrangements apparently so complex will be seen to be very simple and easily divisible into groups, taking any point as a center. The west boundary line of Jackson Park is pierced by gates at every street, so that to reach the most remote part of the fair it is necessary to walk only the width of the grounds. On the lake front the entrance is at the south end through the casino. On the first day of a visit to the Fair, or if I had but one day, I should go by water, see the great statue of the republic from the long pier, walk to the arch in the middle of the peristyle that connects the casino with the Music Hall and look up the grand court. This Is the Arc de Triomph of the exposition. On the top of it a colossal group repre-

Bents Columbus making a triumphal entry into a new world in something that looks like a Roman chariot. You might think this was meant for the chariot race from “Ben Hur,” but the anachronism is explained to be symbolic and consistent with the canons of art. Make your fi’-st entrance here and your last exit and you will have two pictures hung on the walls of memory that will never fade. It is the Venice of the days when the Doge wedded the sea at his feet with a golden ring. Before you is a basin of water ten acres in extent, with shelving banks of green turf and broad flights of steps that lead up to palaces so vast, so white, of such aerial grace that they seem to be of the stuff that dreams are made. At the farthest end, completing the inclosure of this Venetian grand canal, is the architectural glory of the World’s Fair—the lofty golden dome of the Administration Building, piercing % sky blue as lapiz lazuli. On the one side stretch the Corinthian columns of the Liberal Arts Building, and on the other the renaissance' facade of the Agricultural Hall, with the St. Gaudens Diana poised on the dome. East of this, on a little promontory, is the ancient monastery of La Rabida, with its historical treasures. Beyond there are glimpses of other palaces and of bridges spanning the streets of water between. G'ories Taken In Group?. The buildings about the grand court, including the forestry exhibit, machinery hall, and the model dairy and stock pavilion to the south, constitute one group for convenience in sight-seeing that, may occupy a day or a month. Farther west the electricity, mines and

mlntng, and transportation buildings form another about the south' end of the lagoon. In leaving the mines building at the northern entrance the Pompeiian frescoes of the transportarion building will come upon you as a gorgeous surprise. After the white wonders of the grand court, the warm terracotta walls, brilliant frescoing of the frieze, bronzed statuary, series of ornate arches of Romanesque design, and the glory of the golden door will seem an opulent dream that runs the whole chromatic in riotous splendor. This Is beautifully set off by the greenery in the horticultural hall to the north and the architectural scheme of the west side of the lagoon is completed In the classic repose of the Woman’s building. To these last two seems to belong especially the sylvan beautlss of the wooded island with its hunters* camp, odorous rose garden and the almost feminine delicacy of treatment of the Japanese phoenix palace. The fourth group lies at the north end of the lagoon, and includes the

beautiful Spanish Romanesque fisheries building, whose exterior is a joy forever; the Government building directly south of it, with Uncle Sam’s Interesting exhibit, and the curious headquarters of all foreign countries along the northeast shore. There remains then to be seen the Fine Arts Building with the headquarters of the States grouped about it and the Midway Plaisance, in which, in your least responsible hours, you may find endless diversion, eat heathen fare and part with much money. For the Midway Plaisance will be like the Joppa gate of Jem Salem when the Nazarenes went up to pay their taxes; the tax gatherers will be there also. These suggestions are for the great majority who, having no special object In view, would see the most in a limited time. Just the seeing of it in this way will be a liberal education of all the faculties, and to many some dormant talent will coms out and give to life a more absorbing interest. The student will follow a different method and like a bee find the flowers whose honey is for him, scattered though they are over the wide field of the Fair. Last Day’s Grand Tour. Having seen it all in sections, systematically, on the day you pay your last visit bind the fragments of your impressions together by taking the grand tour. Get a bird’s-eye view from the elevated railway, another from the Ferris wheel on the plaisance; another out over the lake and along the shore from the roof garden of the Casino. See it all from below; from the canopied cushions of a gondola or the deck of a steam launch. Take your morning coffee in Constantinople, on the piaisance, your noon lunch at the Japanese tea house, your dinner at the Casino, and watch the lights of a myriad gay water craft flash back from the ripples. Listen to the mighty jubilate of the organ in festival hall. Go alone to the

little promontory and have thoughts of the man who in this monastery of La Rabida dreamed of this strange new world that has such wonders in it. Push out to sea from the pier by the light of the electric fountain that bathes the statue es the republic and streams along the classic promenade of the peristyle; view from the water afar off, so that it will remain with you un forgotten—the White City of but one summer whose pinnacles, turrets, towers, and domes glitter with a million restless lights.

INFANTRY CAMP NEAR RABIDA.

THE CHILDREN'S BUILDING.

THE ROLLER CHAIR.

LORD OF THE LAGOON.