Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — COMFORT OF VISITORS TO THE WORLD’S FAIR. [ARTICLE]

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

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.