Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1913 — WORLD IN CHICAGO MAY 3 UNTIL JUNE 7 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD IN CHICAGO MAY 3 UNTIL JUNE 7

Great Exposition of Customs of Strange Lands and People to Opcupy Mammoth Enclosures. 20,000 PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE Both Chicago’* Coliseum and Auditorium Theater Needed to Display Wonders of World-Wide Exposition and the Pageant of Darkness and Light. The World in Chicago, which tor five weeks, from May 3 to June 7, Inclusive, will occupy both the- Auditorium theater, Chicago’s largest playhouse, and the immense Coliseum, will be the greatest exposition of Its kind ever held. „ The object of the exposition is to illußtr&te the advancement of Christian' civilisation, and to that end, at a cost of $200,000, there will be brought to Chicago from the far corners of the world scenes from strange lands together with the customs of their peoples, their forms of worship before the coming of the missionaries, illustrating vividly what has been done and what still remains to be done in foreign lands and at home, both from a humantarian and religious standpoint. ~~ Twenty thousand men and women, gathered from the membership of 600 churches of all denominations, will be

required to depict the hundreds of scenes and stage “The Pageant of Darkness and Light,” a great masque oratorio, showing In four wonderful episodes the triumph of Light over Darkness. Managed by Bu*ln*e* Men. The World In Chicago is under the management of committees composed of Chicago’s leading business men, who, in order to assure the success of the exposition, have pledged a guarantee fund of SIOO,OOO. The exposition will be divided into two grand divisions, the Pageant being staged at the Auditorium, while the exposition proper will be In the mammoth Coliseum. As the visitor steps from the busy, swarming streets of Chicago through the doors of the Coliseum he will have passed into another land. Charming scenes of the Orient will confront him. He will see the cherry blossom gardens of Japan; the pagodga of the Chinese; the waving palms of the South Sea island, and scenes from a ■core of other lands. Peopling these realistic scenes will be smiling “natives,” eager to tell In the English language the history of their countries, how they have progressed since the eoming of Christianity and the folk

lose of the past. Little children costumed as the boys and girls of these, strange lands will sing native songs and play the games 6t the other hemisphere. U. 8. to Be Bhown Too. But the exposition will not only dsplct foreign countries. There will be scenes from the southland, where the “poor whites” of the mountain fastnesses of the Carolinas are gradually being led to' change their mode of living. Little churches, their spires peeping above the pines, cuddled beside a mountain will be shown, as will the “rough and ready” missions of boom mining towns of the west, when the only law was might The China scene will have its tall central pagoda, Its temple shrines and Its native homes, together with an entire street of a town In inner China In Korea there will be a farmhouse and other buildings with a peculiar wayside shrine and a devil post Then there will be an India village, made up of a Kali temple and a Bengali Zenana, a bazar of shops and a monkey shrine. An African village, with Its thatched roof mud huts peopled by the downtrodden natives of that country, with a native blacksmith shop, a schoolhouse and other scenes. In the section given over to Mohammedan lands, which the visitor will enter through the Damascus gate, there will he a rich man’s bouse, a Bedouin tent. Houses which you would see were you in Arabs and Persia, and the kind of Bhops found In Turkish cities will also be seen. Ellis Island Portrayed. One of the most interesting sections will be that devoted to the work among incoming immigrants at the Ellis island Immigration station, New Tork. The Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba and the South Sea islands will also he represented. In the section given over to displaying scenes from Palestine there will

be wonderful reproductions of a Jerusalem street. The entire north end of the balcony in the Coliseum will be given over to Bible land. Sintering Palestine through the Damascus gat* you will see a tent such as Abraham lived In, then there will be a realistic reproduction of the tabernacle In the wllderneea, a Bethany house, a Jaffa case, the Pool of Hezekla and dozens of other famed historic places. Following the visitors’ “trip around the world” In the Coliseum he should visit the Auditorium, where “The Pagent of Darkness and Light” will be given twice dally, afternoon %nd night. Here a grand choir will sing the music of four great episodes of missionary history while a thousand participants will dramatically present the story. Think of it Twenty thousand Christian men and women all struggling for one Idea —to make The World In Chicago a success. These twenty thousand men and women are recruited from more than 600 churches. Already rehearsals have progressed so far that It la now an assured fact that when The World In Chicago la thrown open to the public on May 3d, all will be In readiness.

A TEA HOUSE IN JAPAN. If you bottom* woary In touring The World In Chicago, you may ride in th* Japan*** ’ricksha and atop at th* T*a House for a cup of tea.

PAGODA IN CHINA SCENE. A Feature of The World In Chleag* *HM be a reproduction of Mm faaMMS Tompls- of Gratitude Pagoda at Nankin, China.