People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — SWARMS OF PEOPLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SWARMS OF PEOPLE.

Tlie World’s Fair City Thronged with Eager Sight-Seers. Bulnesa Streets Peeked—The Stock Show at the Fair—Fine Cattle and Hones from Distant Lands— Odd Notes. ISpeclal Chlcaeo Correspondence. 1

ÜB. city now be(€l7) gins to feel somewhat more of a \j ' strain on her caP&city than has SSpnr \ yet been apparI ent since the jEjjfljjlp r opening of the Pii J great exposition, wtfirW ** T u^e JMr plain that the jfjsP farming people mj are getting ffm through with \ their harvesting and are coming 4V to Chicago. The >' down-town thor-

oughfares show unmistakable evidence of a fresh impetus to the tide of travel, <ind for the last few days the crowds that swarm the business section of the city have been perceptibly increasing l in volume. So much so, in fact, that it is a difficult matter to pedestrianate at anything like a brisk gait without coming into collision with people who are very busy with the sights and consequently quite oblivious of citizens on business bent The stores and bazars where Columbian souvenirs and curios are on sale are packed and jammed with eager people from early morning till late at night, and the fakirs on the street are doing a thriving business in badges, buttons and all sorts of mementos of the Columbian year. Money seejns to be plenty notwithstanding the stringency of the money market, and there is a continuous stream of small change flowing into the coffers of the small dealers in nearly all branches of trade.

The crowd that pours out of the city toward Jackson park through the various channels of travel is ’daily increasing and the facilities for transportation ore being severely taxed. Street cars, "L” trains, railway trains, lake boatsl and all means of transit are kept busily on the move to take care of the hurrying throngs that surge toward the gates of the White City, but there is as y®t very little inconvenience felt by the traveling public, and, although a much larger crowd is expected from now on to the close of the fair, it is thought there will be but little difficulty in providing for them aIL

Just now the main attractions at the fair in the shape of special features are the West Point cadets and the prize cattle and horses. Widely varying in interest, of course, are these two features, but attention is pretty evenly divided between them. There is more fine Block at the fair just at present than was ever before gotten together, and more countries are represented in this department than were ever placed in competition before in America. Among the exhibits in the live stock department are some which are decidedly unusual in such exhibitions. There are some Brahmin, or sacred cattle, from India, which, according to the legends of that country, were at one time worshiped as are the white elephants of Siam. They were, it is said, stalled in Buddhist temples and were fed from vessels of gold and silver. Whatever sacred character they once possessed, the India cattle are now bred for combined speed and draft purposes. The two specimens, bull four years old and cew two years old, on exhibition at the fair, are from Trinidad, one of the windward islands of the Caribbean sea, just off the coast of British Guiana. The island is a British colony, and the India bull and cow were bred from sires and cows imported over twelve years ago from Hindo•tan. The breeding on the island has burn eminently successful under gov-

ernment auspices, and the cattle make fast draft animals. They are speedier than males, and will draw twice the weight It is no unusual thing to see these animals hitched up to carriages and handsome barouches in Trinidad, and the India bull is a natural and fast trotter. The cow at the fair is a creamywhite animal, delicately limbed as a Jersey cow, and somewhat resembles one, only being larger. The bull is mouse'colored, marked black about the muzzle, and is a strong, vigorous-look-ing animal. Both are short-horn have drooping ears, and the distinctive feature of the breed is a hump between the shoulders, not unlike that of the

American bison, or buffalo. The animals are thin-skinned and shorthaired, and their coats glisten like satin. Among other importations are forty head of horses from Russia, including a number from the imperial stables, l’hese animals are noted for their speed and endurance and will be disposed of in this country for breeding purposes. The display of native stock is very complete and extensive. There are a great many very fine specimens of horseflesh, from the mammoth Percheron to the diminutive Shetland pony

who wears as great an air of independent importance as does the bejeweled human mite who poses in our freak museums. • Numerous cattle of repute are also istalled in the great stock exhibit Dairy cows with pedigrees and records as long as their tails, and valued at sums that would be a life-long competence for the average man, ruminate complacently while the admiring crowds feast their eyes upon them. The prizes are going off rapidly and the daily contests are proving great attractions, and are filling the great pavilion in the southern portion of the grounds. It is very probable that lovers of thoroughbred horseflesh will soon have an opportunity of seeing the greatest of all living equines, for which $150,000 was paid less than a year ago. Negotiations are now pending between Mr. Mills, superintendent of the live stock exhibit at the world’s fair, and William O’Brien McDonough, the young California millionaire, for a two weeks’ exhibition of the great English stallion and unbeaten thoroughbred, Ormonde. The horse was formerly the property of the duke of Westminster and was sold by him to a South American for $60,000. The perfection of the animal in conformation, his unbeaten record of sixteen races, defeating the greatest runners in all Europe, and his great success as a sire—Orme and St Gatlon, his sons, being two of the champions of the English turf—make him by far one of the greatest thoroughbreds that ever looked through a bridle. A week ago Ormonde arrived in New York from England and will soon be en route to the great stock farm of his new owner in California. It is expected that the animal will be allowed to stop over a couple of weeks and show his great self in the stock pavilion.

Got. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is deeply interested in the world’s fair, and has issued a proclamation appealing to the people of the Keystone state to make the celebration of Pennsylvania day, September 7, worthy of the commonwealth. He addresses himself, not only to actual residents of Pennsylvania, but to the thousands who ♦ave gone out from her borders and become citizens of other states. Excursions are already being projected in Philadelphia, Beading, Pittsburgh and the othw large cities. In the French collection there is a cabinet of bronze and ebony, with enamel of Limoges and Grecian figures It has a secret spring and a labyrintt of drawers. The valuation is twent; thousand dollars. In the German display a notebook bound in turtle shell and set with dia monds is valued at three thousand dollars

DUTCH BELTED CATTLE.

SACRED CATTLE FROM INDIA.

A GERMAN BEAUTY.