People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Things Worth Seeing at the World’s Fair-Where to Eat, etc. [ARTICLE]

Things Worth Seeing at the World’s Fair-Where to Eat, etc.

Special Correspondence, i Between the live stock pavilion and the windmills, south of the great agricultural building and overlooking the lagoon, stands a large rectangular structure called the French Bakery. Here are exhibited wonderful bread making machines (one of which is capable of furnishing the staff of life to 500,000 people each day) and ovens of French manufacture, which are a revelalation to our bakers. “The proof of the pudding is the eating,” as the old saw has it, and the proof of machinery is the quality of the articles produced; therefore the exhibitors are manufacturing bread and pastry of every description before the eyes of the spectators They sell these goods at a nominal rate, and serve you the best cup of coffee on the grounds for a nickel. Not satisfied with this liberality (considering that they have to pay 45 per cent, blood money to the exposition) they offer a free ride on the Intramural railway to every one of their patrons spending thirty cents at the bakery. In other words, a person gets thirty cents’ worth of the finest French bakery goods for twenty cents, which is the best argument why visitors should, by all means, patronize this, the fairest and squarest of all eating, places at the Fair. Using the Intramural ticket thus provided by the liberal management of the French Bakery, and taking a north bound train, one should stop at the Midway station. Passing many interesting shows previously described in these columns, we come to a circular edifice, ornamented with a delicately carved wooden facade, the famous Panorama of the Swiss Alps. It took thirty months and twenty-five eminent artists to paint this huge canvas, which measures 500 feet in diameter and stands sixty-five feet high, making it the largest painting ever conceived and accomplished. So faultless is this magnificent reproduction of the wonderful Bernese Alps, that one can readily transport "oneself in Switzerlond, away from the din and noise of Midway Plaisance. A delightful Swiss trio of Alpine singers and genuine Alpinhorn artist add yet t® the illusion. This stupendous work was executed purposely for the World’s Fair, and is the only exhibit at the Midway Plaisance that has obtained a medal from the jury of fine arts. This very fact is sufficient proof that the Swiss Alps panorama is one of the best exhibits on the grounds and should not be missed by any visitor to the Fair. Leaving the panorama in a westerly direction and to the right of the great Ferris wheel, we come to another marvel of French skill, the Eiffel tower exhibit. The great success of the Paris exposition in 1889 (which numbered a totol attendance of 44,000,000) was due, in large measure, to the celebrated Eiffel tower, nearly 1.000 feet high. A French engineer, Mr. C. DuPasquier, exhibits here an absolutely correct reproduction of this gigantic tower. This miniature copy cost SIOO,OOO, is composed of over 600,000 pieces of bronze, and is justly considered the most complete and most artistic reproduction known. There can be seen elevators running to the several

platforms, a revolving search light on top of the tower, over 1,000 of the smartest incandescent electric lamps ever made. Hying gardens crowded with pigmy people and better yet, an electric fountain spouting several hundred fancy colored water jets. This work is so astounding in its scope that it is impossible to describe it adequately either with tongue or pen. To add to the comfort of the spectators, the management has established a case in Parisian style where the inner man can be accommodated and from which a magnificent view of the Ferris wheel and Midway Plaisance is obtained,