People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — A GRAND EXHIBITION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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

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.

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

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*.

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