Dromedaries, elephants, sacred bulls, and water buffaloes take part in processions with hundreds of natives. Oriental sports and pastimes are presented, and there are theaters, museums, bazaars, etc. The Magic Whirlpool consists of a circular waterfall sixty feet in diameter and forty feet high, under which the visitor is drawn in a boat, plunges to the bottom, passes through a tunnel in which are the most blood-curdling effects, enters a seething maelstrom, where lightning flashes, thunder rolls, winds howl, and the victim escapes alive and unhurt. An Irish Village reproduces the most charming bits of the Emerald Isle, and is entered through Blarney Castle, where an Irish jaunting car takes the tourist onward. A Trip to Paris is made on an expensive reproduction of the ocean steamship St. Louis.
Return is by air ship.
With this mountain scenery to act as background, massive castles with lofty gray towers and embattled walls range themselves in close proximity to small Swiss houses with their arbors, gables, and towerlets, while near by is a Tyrolese Council hall built to full size. A faithful copy of a famous inn in the Tyrolean Alps, the St. Louis Inn was considered the finest hostelry at the fair. When President Theodore Roosevelt visited the fair he was banqueted at the inn, of course. Both the President and less distinguished patrons were entertained nightly while they dined by a young lariat-wielding comedian named Will Rogers. The Cliff Dwellers reproduced the pueblos of the Mokis and Zunis of the Painted Desert in Arizona, and brought in a large number of members of those tribes to inhabit them.