People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Page 7

A GRAND EXHIBITION.

Such the World’s Fair Is Pronounced by Visiting’ Celebrities. Hothlng Lacking to Make It a Complete Success A Great Educator of the People—Unexcelled In the History of World’s Fairs. ISpecial Chicago Correspondence.] If we accept as conclusive the verdict of the distinguished people who have seen the world’s fair we may rest assured that in all the history of world's fairs there never yet has been one so grand and imposing as our Columbian exposition. In the enthusiastic praises which have been lavished upon it by those of exalted station there has not been one dissenting voice, and among the vast number of intelligent human beings who have thronged the wonderful city there have been few to detract and none to ignore. In fact if we except a few disgruntled individuals, who have some personal spite or grievance in consequence of being overlooked or slighted in the distribution of favors, we may

FREQUENT VISITORS.

Bay that in the opinion of all, both high and low, who have seen the fair it is the greatest, grandest exhibition the world has ever seen. The royal visitors from abroad have been astounded at the magnitude and grandeur of the enterprise. They had heard a great deal about it and were prepared to find a pretty big show here in Chicago, but when their eyes beheld the splendor of the White City great was their surprise and admiration. They were still further surprised when they visited our greai city. Although they had passed through some of the older cities of the east they found much in Chicago to make them

open their eyes, and the entertainment ‘ihey received here in our “wild and woolly west” was such as to afford them a fruitful topic for discussion when they return to the palatial halls of their ancestors. Many prominent men and women of our own country have come and gone and every one of them has left with the impression that nothing was lacking to make of the fair a complete success. And the impression was no mistaken one, to judge from the later reports from official sources. Everything points to a good interest on world’s fair stock just at present, and there is little likelihood of any falling off in the receipts during the remainder of the fair season.

A. JAVANESE OFFICIAL

It has been said that the Colombian exposition of 1893 will be one of the greatest educators of "the people'thht has ever arisen in this fcountry. The leading artiste and artisans view with great pride and satisfaction the work of young Americans and predict for sculpture and art a glorious future in the west. And they are undoubtedly warranted in their predictions, as a careful scrutiny of the products of American genius at Urn fair trill prom

In this connection we may <Uly quote the words of the Philadelphia Ledger in reference to the grand exhibition, which says: “Irrespective of the historical, scientific or artistic lessons it has to impart, it is a grand exhibition, appealing to every one’s sense of beauty, and to every one’s interest in things curioui The buildings are marvels of architectural dignity and beauty and so various in their styles and so richly ornamented with sculptured figures as to afford the keenest delight to the eye. Wijhin the beautiful structures are tens of thousands of objects to delight the eye or inform the mind. It is the world in miniature, Some people will be more interested in one department than in others, but there is variety enough to occupy all the spare time that any busy man or woman can give to the fair.’.’

In addition to the display of higher arts there are extensive exhibits of educational methods by our leading colleges and schools which demonstrate the wonderful progress made in the department of learning during the last quarter of a century. In the educational section of the Manufactures building are to be found these valuable and. interesting evidences of the growth of knowledge in our land, and anyone that leaves the fair without visiting this displq|r will miss one of its best features. Some of the strange costumes worn by the foreigners at the fair occasion considerable merriment among the young folks. On the Midway Plaisance the other day a score of grinning youths surrounded one of the members of the Javanese community and held him prisoner for a few moments while they made sport of his clothing. The licoricecolored victim of their curiosity stood the joke good-naturedly as far as his apparel was concerned, but when they got to poking him in the ribs and stepping on his toes, he rebelled and broka through the line that surrounded him and made his escape. Among the most deeply-interested visitors at the fair are a number of Indians from a neighboring show. They devote all their Bpare time to sightseeing among the Wonders of the “heap big show.” It is quite evident that they also enjoy the public interest which their appearance never fails to excite. Garbed in all the trappings of their wild life, they pose and parade for the benefit of the gaping crowds about them. A story is going the rounds about a man who wandered into the Electricity building a day or two ago and was taken away shouting crazy. It was said that he stood before a pavilion in which cut glass in myriad forms throws back the reflection of many incandescent lights. Front the roof of the pavilion towers a pillar eighty-two feet. For a few seconds this is a pillar of ruby light. Then it changes to

EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS.

white light, and next to purple. Witn the regularity of clockwork the transformation of color goes on, but always the pillar of light made by five thousand lamps is there. And each lamp has the power of six candles. On top of the column is a bulb six feet high Thirty thousand bits of crystal go to make up the bulb. The expert and eight assistants were six weeks putting the bits together. Through this glass flash the most powerful electric burners. Here is a base of dazzling scintillations, a column of ever-changing color, an apex of fire. Of the twentyfour thousand horse-power which the management has provided for the entire fair, seventeen thousand horsepower is set apart for the manufacture of electricity for various purposes. The pillar of light eats up electrical energy at the rate of fifteen hundred horsepower. Before this pillar ..stood the man, a plain farmer, when the current was turned on. He saw that eighty feet of solid brilliancy blaze out and then die away. He stood as if chained. Once or twice he put his hand to his face. Somebody who saw he was peculiarly affected started to speak to him. He raised his arms and with a terrible yell fell forward on his face. Two guards picked him up. Shouting at the top of his voice he started on a wild race over dynamos and wires and motors. Five guards caught him and overpowered him. All the way to the station he fought and shouted. Then he became calm. ‘Til tell you how it was,” he said. “Somebody'has stuck bob ties (meaning the incandescent globes) all over that post. lam not to blame. I don't know how those bottles came there. There are millions of them. They were all right at first, but the devils poured red fire in them, . Don’t hurt me. 1 had nothing to do with it.” How true this story is we cannot say, but the Spectacle referred to is enough to dazvle anyond, and When %he Wires are jrvhnipulatec'L ax they are in most wozjtorful fashion, the effect is simply paralyzing in its magnificence. The real reason why negroes live to sue! an extreme old age is that thvy don’t know exactly when they wore born.—Texas Siftlag*.

A MAMMOTH WHEEL.

IS Ww* the Piece of m Tower et the World’s- Felr. After the various tower schemes lor the world’s fair were abandoned there came to the front a man by the name of Ferris who had what incredulous people termed a monstrous wheel krhis head. Mr. Ferris became the object of much ridicule on account of * pet project of his, which was to build a .big wheel which would carry passengers to an altitude of 270 feet. His plan was regarded as exceedingly visionary, but after frequent rebuffs he succeeded in obtaining^'permit to put up his wheel in the Midway Plaisanoe. The work was begun last March and has just reached successful completion and has been put in operation. Its highest point is 265 feet above the surface of the earth. The diameter is 250 feet, and the circumference 825, the entire thing being raised 15 feet above the ground. In reality there are two wheels, twins, 80 feet apart, but it takes them both to make the Ferris wheel. These twins are connected by iron rods and struts which do not approach nearer than 20 feet to the periphery. Outside of these rods- the cars are hung and supported by steel bars of about five inches in thickness extending from one wheel to the other. Each wheel has for its outline a curved iron beam 25by 19 inches. Forty feet inside is another beam, forming a smaller circle. From these beams or circles

THE FERRIS WHEEL.

extends the massiVe iron truss work which holds then? together. The axle on which the great wheel turns is a steel bar 32 inches thick and 45 feet long. It is fastened td each of the twin wheels in a steel hub 16 feet in diameter. .All of this great mass, the hubs and the two circles, is held together by 2X-inch steel rods, arranged to run out in pairs from the axle to spread 18 feet apart at the circumference. - There are thirty-six cars on , the wheel, each capable of comfortably seating forty people. The cars are 27 feet long, 13 feet wide and-9 feet high, and 'each one weighs 13 tons. The wheel, ‘with its passengers, weighs 1,200 tons. The whole thing rests on two pyramidal towers at the axis. The towers are IAO feet high, 40 by 50 feet at the 0 feet square at the top. 'Each has 4 feet resting on 20-fiJot cube concrete foundations. Underneath these are crossbars of steel. The motive power comes from a 1,000-horse power steam engine under the wheel. It will find no difficulty in revolving the wheel and the passengers as fast as the latter want to go. There is a brake on, however, to regulate the speed and stop everything in case of danger. The wheel is moved by <eogs on the periphery passing over a . chain that looks like a mammoth bicycle chain. In the construction every precaution has been taken against accident.

RELICS OF OLD MEXICO.

Wonderful Exhibit Opened in the Anthropological Section. Rich in relics and ruins of a civilization that long antedated the coming of Columbus, and which runs back beyond the ken into the., prehistoric period of the world, Mexico is the first to open a display in the Anthropological building. The event occurred a few days ago, but was unattended by any ceremonies, though hundreds gained admission to see the wonders that have been exhumed, and ancient utensils and weapons which the Indians of Mexico use. As Prescott says in his “Conquest of Mexico,” the Spaniards encountered > civilization in Mexico superior to their own in all save the art of destruction, and in the Mexican anthropological collection there are numerous remnants of this superior civilization in antique pieces of architecture, pottery and war weapons, while other evidences have been accurately reproduced from details written in descriptions given by Cortez and his scriveners. Among the reproductions in miniature are the temples of Xochicalco and Xicotenatl, which were great pyramidal structures after the Egyptian style of architecture. Besides the war shields of the Caciques of the army of Guatomatzin, who fought Cortez, other weapons and such antiques as sacrificial stones, there are among the collections articles of wear, palm leaf capotes, gaudy colored cotton cloth rebases, straw sandals and other parts of the costumes of the different kinds of Indians still inhabiting Mexico, together with the old-fashioned utensils they used to grind corn, the simple loom and wooden plow. Home life in the tropical part .of the country is illustrated in a thatched aad grassmade cottage, while a farmhouse is built of adqbe to keep out the cold. The collection is large, varied and interestiog, and is exhibited at Prof. Putnam's solicitation by Col. George M. Greene, a Pennsylvanian, who has become thoroughly Mexicani zed % thirty or more years’ residence In the City of Mtxicu He has been assisted by his wife in making the selections, and she helps in presenting and explaining them to the public. “That air is very familiar,” said the musician us a gust of wind took hu hataway.-f-Harvard Lampoon.

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HOT SPRINGS.'SOUTH DAKOTA. Wkat Hok. Samuel W. AUerton Thinks of ' Them. The Hon; Samuel W. AUerton, the noted rapitalist of Chicago, arrived over the Burlington Route a few days since,and during an interview with a “Star.” reporter said: “You people do not begin to realise what you have here in these waters. I have bad the opportunity of traveling some over the United States and have visited a great number of its health resorts with springs which are claimed Jo have-medicinal properties, but, in n>y opinion, you. have Water here that is superior to auything in this whole country, if hot in the world, for the. cure of rheumatic afflictions and diseases of the skin. My attention was first called to these springs by an intimate friend, Mr. Spencer, wno own*, a large cattle ranch west of here. He had a man on bis ranch that woe so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was hauled here in a helpless condition. He was bathed in the old Indian bath fpr several weeks, and be went home entirely cured up, and I resolved that if ever I had rheumatism in my family, I would trv Hot Springs, South Dakota; We brought Mrs. AUerton here se soon as she was able to come at all and I have found that all Mr. Spencer said in reference to the curative properties of the waters has been realized in my wife’s case. She aays sho feels aa though she has just been turned loose from a prison where she had been.called upon teenaure excruciating torture—every joint and musclo racked with pain so that life was a burden. No, I think Hot Springs’future is a grand one. Its air is pure and wholesome, its scenery lively and inspiring; sleep comes without any effort, and it is just the place for rest and building up .a shattered constitution. You do not talk enough About the value of yout_ waters for skin troubles. 1, myself, received great benefit from them lust year in a short visit there. Your climate makes you infinitely superior to the Arkansas Hot Springs, and in a country where so many thousand are afflieted with Rheumatism and other kindred ailments, if your advantages are mfde known, there is no question but that yon Will become the foremost health resort in the United Slates. We are delighted with our trip here and what vour waters have done for us and will make’frequent visits to your pleasant little city.’’— Hot Springs (S. D.) Star.

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McVicker's Theater, Chicago.

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