Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — Page 6

COMFORT OF VISITORS TO THE WORLD’S FAIR.

bnlltnt Provision Mad* For Publio Convenience In the Grounde end Buildings of the Exposition—Everything Necessary Provided For. Special attention has been paid by the builders of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to the comfort of those who will attend. It is not an exaggeration to assert that no previous exposition has provided so many public conveniences. First of all, there will be plenty of places where one may sit down and rest after seeing the sights until physical fatigue demands relaxation. And this colls to mind an amusing little story of the Columbian exposition at Chicago. The little granddaughter of Professor J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of public schools in Kansas City, attended the exposition with relatives, who made it their business to. show the child many things that would be educative. From time to time the party found it necessary to sit down and rest Returning home, the learned grandfather asked the little girl this question: “Well, my dear, from what one thing that you saw at the fair did you derive the greatest benefit?” “The chairs, grandpa,” promptly replied the child. The chairs will be greatly in evidence at St Louis. Thousands of comfortable cane bottom chairs and settees for the free use of visitors will be found

PALACE OF MACHINERY, WORLD'S FAIR, WHERE THE LARGEST GAS ENGINE IN THE WORLD MAY BE SEEN.

The view shows one end and not quite one-half of the main front of the Machinery building, which is 1,000 by 525 feet in extent, has two towel's 265 feet high and cost $469,000.

ducted with the puzzling mineral In the Chemical Laboratory. A modern gas engine? The largest In the world will be seen In the Talace of .Machinery. Rilled cannon that throw a shell twenty miles? They will frown on ramparts surrounding the Government building. The latest Improved locomotive? It will swing around and around on a turntable in the center of the Palace of Transportation, steam hissing from its cylinders as it revolves. A lead pencil the graphite In which is made by the aid of electricity? Its construction will be exemplified in the Electro Chemical Laboratory. The modern newspaper? You may watch its creation in the Graphic Arts section of the Liberal Arts Palace. The cotton gin? See it working in the vicinity of Agriculture. Dirigible airships? They will sail over the prescribed course and when not seeking high altitudes will be boused in immense stables. That wonder which has almost ceased to become a wonder—the modern watch? You will be able to witness its construction and the assembling of its parts. And upon these wonders are crowded others—wonders that it would require page after page to describe, which it will take week after week to view. China, a sealed book to the world, has been thrown open by royal decree. For the first time, in history secrets which have been preserved from the days of* Confucius will be revealed. Art as it is known in Japan will astonish those who have only been able to gain an inkling of its existence from the word pictures of Loti and other writers. Brazil shows the punctured rubber tree discharging its valuable sap of commerce and its coffee berry in bloom. Peru reveals to the world her wealth •f copper, cotton and petroleum. Hawaii sends a glimpse of the Paradise of the Pacific. Russia awakens interest with industries of a country almost as unknown as China. Panama, the baby nation, proves how her agriculture can make her prosperous. And Panama, hand in hand with the United States, shows in miniature that wonder, the canal, which will change the course of all ships that ply the seas. You marvel at the growth of transportation facilities within the last decade; each step will be shown you at St Louis. You hear of a food that can be compressed into a pill; how it is done will be shown you at St Louis. And you can partake of a course dinner, from soup to dessert, all of which can be held in a box which would contain twelve two-gxain quinine capsules. Creation of electricity I What won-

der would not Franklin expreaa could he see a modern dynamo manufacturing thousands of Jove’s thunderbolts every minute, forcing a tiny stream of water to lift great weights! Marvel, then, at the powers of the hydraulic press! Can man make snow? Look into the great refrigeration plant Can water be set on fire? It will appear so when the cascades are illuminated by submerged lamps after nightfall. Planting potatoes is now done Tiy a machine which takes the “earth apple," cuts out the eyes, halves or quarters it, pushes the sections into the soil at equal intervals and covers them, thus tucking away the germs of life as a mother would tuck away a child in bed. This machine will be on exhibition during the summer of 1004. Flowers will tell the time of day: at least they will appear to do so. Vines nestling on steel pointers, both of which weigh more than a ton, will travel around the circumference of a circle where grow numerals of brilliant foliage. Near by bloom 20,000 rosebushes imbedded in a six acre plot. Was there ever such a wonderful display? When you walk through the grounds, you pass over a buried river. At a cost of $140,000 a stream was placed underground before the Exposition buildings could be constructed. What a wonder is the deck of a modern battleship! It will be seen as prepared for action. A donkey has been driven into one reed of a pipe organ that stands in the Hall of Festivals. Weeds and wild flowers gathered

from all parts of St. Louis county are arranged in a unique display. From the Philippines an entire villag# lias been transported to the banks of Arrowhead lake, which is an artificial body of water in the western section of the site. Alaska sends four car loads of totem poles. The Amazon contributes the beautiful Victoria lilies that grow on its broad, placid waters, and the Nile sends the lotus. In the air, on the ground, beneath the soil, from the 30th day of April until the Ist day of December will be seen the wonders of the world, all forming the greatest wonder of them all. CLAUDE H. WETMORE.

FEATURES of THE WORLD'S FAIR

A model farm, representing a section of 160 acres, illustrating the value of crop rotation in farming, will be one of the interesting exhibits provided by the Government A model farmhouse, model barn, stables and outbuildings will be and there will be an orchard, vineyard, garden, stock and poultry yards, pigsties and all of the other equipments for a farmstead. - A floral clock with a dial 100 feet in diameter is on the northern slope in front of the Palace of Agriculture. It is the largest timepiece ever constructed. The minute hand is fifty feet long and the numerals fifteen feet high. Flowers and foliage plants conceal the mechanical frame. A rose garden, with 50,000 rose trees, covers four acres on the east front of the Palace of Agriculture. A six acre map of the United States constructed of representative growing crops of each state is a Government exhibit. Cinder paths three feet wide mark the boundaries between states, permitting free passage of visitors. The largest organ ever built, with 145 stops and pipes five feet in diameter, is in Festival Hall. It will be used for concerts and other musical features held in this structure. A fireproof building containing 2,000 safety deposit boxes is provided for the use of the World’s Fair visitors. Money and other valuables may be left in safe keeping for a small fee. The Liberty bell will be exhibited in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania building. It will be the first time it ever crossed the Mississippi river, i

THE GREATEST WONDER.

..i. 7-' 4* ... v.-.; ;_ i;.. job i., ,f>lT,l'ri;i[i jjt. From All ths World Havs Corns Wondors to Maks Man Cry In Amassment When Ho Visits 8L 1 Louis This Year. Since long before the Christian era, when Antipater of Sidon enumerated seven great works that subsequently became the Seven Wonders of the World, wonders have been accumulating until their number has become not only seven times seven or seventy times seven, but hundreds—yes, thousands—times seven. Every great modern bridge Is a wonder of the world. So is every great power engine, mountain climbing railroad or modern hotel. ' - And the greatest wonder of all, greater than any of yesterday and today, is the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This is because it combines the greatness of all the others and because those others were instrumental in bringing it to a state of completeness. In order that the whole world should participate in this centennial display, the wonders of the steamship, of the locomotive, of the cable, of the land telegraph, of the telephone, were brought into use; then exhibits of these wonders themselves were levied upon to form part of the grand display. Mention anything that causes man to express amazement, and it will be proved to you that it can be seen in St. Louis this year. The wireless telegraph? A station has been erected on the Fair grounds. Radium? Experiments will be con-

in the retiring rooms in the great exhibit palaces. But at this Exposition there will be resting places unknown to former fairs, for within the grounds there are many acres of wooded land which are not occupied by buildings. With 1,240 acres at their disposal it has been an easy matter for the builders to create the biggest Exposition ever known and still have many breathing spaces to spare. Under the trees of the forest—a part of Forest Park—the public will find numerous seats, where, beneath the cooling shade, may be enjoyed a reasonable period of rest, so that the visitor, as though sitting in a quiet park, may look beyond the trees at the domes and towers of the Exposition. In each of the exhibit palaces and

ONE OF THE AIRSHIPS WHICH WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE GREAT AIRSHIP TOURNAMENT OF THE WORLD’S FAIR.

the state and foreign buildings there are public retiring rooms, many of which are provided with wash basins. Scattered throughout the grounds will be a number of separate structures for similar uses. Provision will be made whereby for a small fee the visitor may have toilet accommodations with water and towels. As to drinking water the teetotaler need have no fears. An arrangement has been made with a concern that will bring pure clear water from a famous spring at De Soto, Mo., to be piped over the grounds from large tanks, refilled twice daily and supplied to the visitors at attractive booths for a cent or so a drink, which means as many glasses as one may require to quench the thirst Filtered water from

the Mississippi river also will be sopplied. Those whose seal for seeing the sights is in excess of their walking or Standing powers may hire roller chairs at a small expense, and for traveling greater distances in the grounds tho Intramural Railway, with comfortable cars specially constructed for observation purposes, will furnish a mode of conveyance superior to any yet provided at an exposition. Then there will be the 2,500 Jefferson Guards in uniform, a part of whose business will be to give free information to visitors. These are bright young men. many of whom will have been on duty for months prior to the opening, and they are expected to be walking encyclopedias of Exposition information, able to direct the visitor about the grounds without consulting a guidebook. An excellent hospital system is being installed, with several branch hospitals, where capable physicians and nurses ‘will be on hand, so that in the event of illness prompt attention and treatment may be had.

COST OF SEEING THE WORLD’S FAIR.

For ths Majority of Visitors It Will Bs Lsss Than Railroad Transportation to 8L Louis and Rstum Would Cost In Any Othsr Ysar. From any point within 300 miles of St. Louis a person may travel to the World’s Fair this year, view the wonders of the Exposition for three days and expend less money than in any other year he would pay for train fare alone. This may seem an astonishing statement, but it is a fact. Railroad men have practically determined that “one fare for the round trip” will be the rate during the seven important months of 1904. Public announcement of this only w r aits the passage of certain legislation concerning “scalpers’ ” tickets and formal indorsement by the various passenger agents’ associations. With this fact in mind a clear demonstration of the statement in the opening paragraph can be made. The fare from Chicago is $7.50, or sls the round trip. So under the new schedule $7.50 will be put down as the railroad fare from that city to St Louis and return. If you are economical, your per diem expenses in the World’s Fair City need not exceed those given in this table: Breakfast $0.26 Car fare to grounds 06 Admission to grounds 60 Dinner on grounds 36 Car fare downtown 05 Supper 25 Night's lodgings 1-00 Total i $2- <6 Multiply $2.45 by 3, and yo.u have $7.35, the sum total for three days’ sightseeing. Add to this the $7.50 railroad fare, and you have a grand total of 15 cents less than the car fare alone would cost you in any other year. For this money you have thrown open to you the thirteen grand exhibition palaces, the forty and more state buildings, the fifteen and more foreign government structures, the ten great stone edifices acquired temporarily from Washington university, including the Hall of Congresses and the Physical Culture Hall, with its adjoining Stadium, the Filipino Village and many other pleasant places. Should you desire to remain longer than the three days you can do so without a greater per diem expenditure than given above. But, supposing that you have plenty of money to spend and desire certain comforts and even luxuries, yet are not

extravagant, what will the figures be? Less than $5 a day! Breakfast $0.50 Car fare 05 Admission .50 Admission to one or more Concessions on the Pike.... 60 Pinner 75 Souvenirs and extras .60 Supper .60 Car fare .(6 Hotel room 1.60 Total per diem— .$4.85 Suppose you desire to remain six days. In that time you can devote a morning to one main building, an afternoon to another, and so on, from Monday to Saturday, inclusive, passing the evenings on the Pike, and the grand total of the week’s expenditures will be j $29.10. •

SORE? USE -4 )aracamph Relieve* Instantly or Money Refunded. SORE FEET, BUNIONS. Prevents Swelling, Allays Inflammation. It Cools. It Soothes. It Cures. I< * Sold only In 25c., 50c. A SI.OO BottlM. At aU good PragghU. FOR SALE BY B. F. FENDIG, DRUGGIST. ~.' ’ 7 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK North Side of Public Square RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Loans Money on all klnda of Good Be- DIRECTORS, curlfy, on CITY PROPERTY and on A. ParkUon. FARMS at Lowest Rated, Pays Interest President, on Savings, Pays Taxes and Makes In- John At. w*»»on.^^ vestments for customers and others and Jame* T. Randle, sol cits Personal Interviews, with a view deo. E. Hurray, to Business, promising svsry favor con- e . L. Hoillngeworth, slstent with Safa Banking. Cnebier. FARn LOANS A SPECIALTY. 111 fe In i IW' We have anything yon want in the Buiding line; we are selling about one carload of Lumber per day which speaks well for our grades and our prices, and you can’t afford to buy elsewhere : : : : i Hi. Her ftin#

I fairs Sail! t p • \ n n n imnn 1 .u.. u 0 'T'HE YEAR 1904 finds us with a com- \ * plete Farmers Supply Store. Our I* grocery department is filled with a complete new stock of fresh goods. Our dry goods department is complete with good line of staple goods. Our farm implement department is also complete. Can furnish \ you with everything a farmer needs on a i farm. We have the largest and best t selection of good farm and driving horses in Northern Indiana. Everyone has a * chanpe to try‘the horse before he takes it | away. If he isn’t right, don’t take him; i try another until you are satisfied. It is \ satisfied customers we want. Our buggy 2 department is the largest and most com--2 plete that you can find. Our buggies are ! bought right and sold right. We will sell 2 you a cheap buggy or a good one. We 2 will tell you just what you are buying. i We want you to get value received for » every dollar you spend with us. It is sati isfied customers we want. Remember we ' 2 sell for cash and on time, but not on open i account. Come and see us, if you don’t buy, for we will then become acquainted. But remember our business is to sell | goods and lots of them. MS M ifftf | PARR - IND. i W. L. Wood, Proprietor.