Beauty, Size and Sentiment
of the World’s Fair
It Is Larger and More Beautiful Than Any Other
Exposition Ever Given.
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When President Roosevelt touched
the electric key at the white house in
Washington, which set in motion the
machinery of the world’s fair at St.
Louis, he not only opened to the
world the greatest display of the arts
of peace the world has ever known, but
he gave to the nation a fit climax of a
century of growth of that vast territory
west of the Mississippi—the Louisiana
territory.
When, at the swing of a lever, 90,000
gallons of water per minute was re
leased to flow over the beautiful cas
cades In front of Festival hall, there
was completed the most beautiful ex
position picture the world has ever
seen, a ricture that will live in the
mind of every visitor to the great fair.
Chicago had its Court of Honor, its
stately palaces set against a back
ground of the blue waters of lake
Michigan; Buffalo had its wonderful
illumination, its dusk of evening
brightening into day again as the
countless thousands of twinkling
lights brought back the effect of the
rising sun, but these pictures, beautiful
as they were, have been surpassed by
the glory of the cascades, the foaming
waterway, rushing downward from the
colonnades surrounding Festival hall,
to the great lagoons, with their myriad
colors. Intersecting the wonderfully
beautiful grounds in all directions.
Just as this newest of expositions
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surpasses all others in beauty, so, also, I
does it in size. One thousand two hun
dred and forty acres, literally covered
with the-treasures, the productions, the
curiosities of world, tell the story
of the fair in a sentence. No one vis
itor will ever see it all, though he
spent the full time the exposition is
open at the task. An exposition which
cost $50,000,000 before its gates were
opened to the public; an exposition
to which 52 nations from all cor
ners of the world ha%'e sent their
best for the people of the world
to look upon; an exposition two miles
long and one mile wide; an exposition
that is twice the size of any other to
which the public were invited; an ex
position that is larger than the three
previous large American expositions
combined. Such is the exposition
with which St. Louis celebrates the
centennial of the Louisiana purchase.
But the men responsible for the ex
position do not wish that it should at
tract by its size alone. They have
builded for beauty, as well as for big
ness, and wlio can stand in the center
of the great panorama without being
aroused to a pitch of enthusiasm by
the beauty that surrounds him? It is
the beauty, rather than the size of the
fair, that first appeals to him.
Another thing that appeals to the
American, the man who loves his coun
try, is the sentiment the exposition
stands for. It is a sentiment that is,
fully exemplified in the Imposing he
roic statues of the states that stand on
either side of Festival hall. These
statues typify, not the states of the
east, but those of the west, the states
carved out of the Louisiana territory,
the states that stretch from the gulf
to the Canadian border, from the Mis
sissippi t. I’uget sound; states that
have within a century of time been
builded out of the wilderness. It is
for these the exposition has been build
ed; it is these again that have made
the exposition possible. The lesson
♦hey teach is written deep in the his
tory of the nation.
To attempt an itemized description
cf the wonders this exposnion has
brought to the doors of the people of
the centrtlkweat is impossible in the
space of a Jf wspaper article. Twelve
thousand Mr loads of exhibits found
space within the great palaces. It is
almost impossible to realize w hat such
a statement means until one has gone
—
from building to building, from ex
hibit to exhibit. Nor is the space in
the building wasted Every niche is
filled with something of interest, and
the demand was for almost double the
amount at the disposal of the author
ities. Some Idea of this may be had
from the statement that the breakfast
food manufacturers alone asked for
more space than would have filled all
the Agricultural building, covering 19
acres of ground, and with four miles
of aisles.
To pick even the more interesting ex
hibits is almost an impossibility,
though among them might be men
tioned the largest pipe organ ever man
ufactured, with 145 stops and pipes
five feet in diameter and 32 feet long;
four acres covered with agricultural
machinery; the largest natatorium on
earth; ten acres of roses; ten acres of
live game; the largest* engines ever
built; a floral clock covering a quar
ter of an acre of ground, and of which
the minute hand weighs over a ton.
Such items but give the general idea
of the entire fair. It is all big, it is
all beautiful, it is ail interesting.
The exposition management is not
boasting of the “Pike.” They wish
the visiting public to remember the fair
by what might be termed its legitimate
portion, its wealth of educational ex
hibits, and yet. who would say that the
shows along the “ Pike” are not edu
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rational in their way. On it are vil
lages of every sort, and amusement
features of every description. Five
million square feet of entertainment.
Among the most interesting of the
many features of the fair are the vari
ous government exhibits housed in the
Government building which is 800
feet long bv 250 feet wide. Every
function of the government is exem
plified in this building. Among these
exhibits is a complete government
mint for the manufacture of coin, but
at St. Louis Uncle Sam is making in
stead of coin gold souvenir medals,
but the process is the same as if the
product was legal tender. While Uncle
Sam has a monopoly on the money
making business he guards the priv
ilege jealously and does not risk the
precious dies, which put their im
prints upon dimes, dollars and eagles,
to leave their place of keeping.
Besides a modern coining press,
from which drops a bright medal at
every click, is a screw press built in
1795 and used at that time to stamp
small coins. There is also a hammer
120 years old and a small pair of bal
ances formerly used in the Philadel
phia mint. Comparing these with the
improvements made in the last 100
years reveals how much easier it is
now for Uncle Sam to replenish his
treasury than it was when he was
young in the business.
Processes used in the making of
paper money are altogether different,
for it is here that the printer and not
the machinist and founder serves a
usefulness. In another section of the
big Government building at the
world's fair there is a fully-equipped
bank note printing plant.
In the Palace of Transportation may
be seen a full size section of the great
tunnel which runs from Jersey City
under the Hudson river, under New
York city at Thirty-fourth street, ami
under the East river to Long Island, a
distance of eight miles. It illustrates
the tremendous work and millions of
dollars expended upon one of the
greatest engineering works of modern
times. A great laboratory for testing
the power, efficiency and economy of
locomotives is also in this building.
Locomotives will be under full steam
and full speed in this laooratory, the
greatest show of locomotive testing
ever conceived and costiug a quarter
of a million doLars.
PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS, WITH I'NITED STATES GOVERNMENT
BUILDING AT END OF LAGOON AT WORLD’S FAIR, ST. LOUIS.
HOPE FOR THE TRANSVAAL
South Africans Do Not Despair of the
Future of Their Country—
Present Depression.
A severe depression affects bus
iness in the Transvaal and Orange
river colonies, says the Baltimore
Sun. The boom expected after the
close of the war has not material
ized owing to the impracticability
of getting Kaffirs enough to work
the mines to the extent to which
they were worked before the Boer
war. Revenue has fallen behind
! expenditure to the amount of over
f1,000,000j and it has been found
necessary to defer the beginning
of the repayment of part of the
cost of the war. Still the output
of gold increases monthly, and tin*
recent authorization of the impor
tation of Chinese laborers for the
mines inspires hope. After a time
i the present deficiency of 30,000 la
borers w ill 1h* supplied from Asia,
and the stamps now idle will begin
to be “dropped.”
This is the view of the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal: “Af
fairs in South Africa,” says our
mining contemporary, “appear to
lx* shaping themselves in a man
ner favorable to the advancement
of that great mining region. In
Cape Colony the majority secured
by the progressive party in tie*
recent elections for the house of
' assembly indicates that the power
of the Africander bond is broken,
and that the intrigues of that in
sidious group of politicians will
no longer hold back the best of the
Butch people from joining with
the English in furthering the real
interests of the country. The
Boers of the Transvaal were good
foes and are now loyal eoworkera
with those who fought them.
“Should the war in the east not
interfere with the arrangements
for securing Chinese and it need
not, for 1 hey will come chiefly from
1 he southern provinces oft ’hina—
then a revival in activity may be
expected at Johannesburg.’'
Meanwhile Rhodesia advances
steadily. The gold output im
proves. The Wakie coal mine is
found to afford great relief to the
railways and to various industries
which have had to pay almost pro
hibitive prices for fuel. Tin* Zam
besi is being bridged. When this
is done tin* copper mines north of
that stream are expected to do a
j profitable business.
Bermuda Bananas.
The dwarf banana of Bermuda
first came from t lie ('anaries. The
fruit is little larger than a man’s
linger, and is compact in texture
and rich in flavor. The fruit grown
in summer is of higher quality
than that grown in winter—if the
word winter can be applied to a
land in which the mercury rarely
registers as low as 50 degrees and
in which frost is unknown. The
single bunch that the tree bears
should weigh, of this dwarf sort,
from L’o to 60 or 70 pounds. There
is almost no exjxmse required in
maintaining the plantation after
it is once established, and the
gross annual increase should be
from $400 to $500 per acre. The
little bananas are consumed en
tirely by the local markets, for
Bermuda is visited by tourists, it
has a large garrison, and the res
ident people—some over 17,000
all told—are fond of the fruit.—
Country Life in America.
The Magic of Carbon.
Steel is cast iron, half-way on
toward wrought iron. It liassome
of the stitf. harsh, stubborn
traits of the cast-iron, combined
with the bending, yielding quali
ties of the wrought-iron, and in
herits from its pig-iron forefather
the family trait of absorbing
carbon. Carbon, then, in varying
proportions, is the great distin
guishing mark between iron and
steel. The subtle play of this ele
ment, as found in steed, is one of
the most marvelously fascinating
exhibitions of natural phenom
ena. The smallest quantity,
changed in the slightest degree,
produces effects as different as
uight from day.—St. Nicholas.
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