Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — “Gospel Chariots” at the Fair. [ARTICLE]

“Gospel Chariots” at the Fair.

While the Fair lasts Washington will have to yield to it the title of '‘City of Magnificent Distances.” One does not realize how much physical exertion sightseeing requires until one has spent a day at the Fair. You are so occupied with looking at things that your fatigue does not find a chance to make itself felt until you turn homeward. Then you begin to wondor if you have any legs left. For this reason the wheel- chairs pushed by intelligent beings clad in sky-blue with white piping are a boon. You can "do” the Fair comfortably and systematically, and if you happen to have the same cicerone several days in succession he is apt to become en rapport with you, divining your tastes, and pushing you whither these would lead you. Many of the gracious pushers are theological students, a fact which has gradually fastened upon these chairs the appellation of "gospel chariots.” The late Mr. Cook, in the earlier days of his efforts to excite the migratory propensities of the human race, was wont to add to his circulars the announcement that "a number of marriages had been among the results of these tours.” From what I have observed, I incline to think that several of the "gospel chariot” excursions will lead to equally felicitous results.—[Century.