The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-24
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Cn1cAao. october 20. Is

draw great crowds, last Saturdays
attendance being the largest of any
day since the opening. The present
week will undoubtedly prove a
more successful one 70 the stock
holders of the great show than any
former week has been, as. the rail-
roads are just beginning 10 give
low rate excursions from the remote
points. All who attend once go
away with such perfect satisfaction
with what they witness that they
fiji everybody's heads with the
great exhibition until they put aside
everything and come TO see If the
marvellous description be true.
Every state is here represented, and
the results cannot help but be BEN
eficial to the whole country, in the
diffusion of knowledge and in in
spring all classes with ambition TO
initiate the examples that here call
forth praise. 80
The Chicago Exposition will GER
tainly prove of great advantage to
the Western States and territories
which are SO creditsbly represented
here that the emigration fever is al
read at glowing heat. We meet
a great many Kansas people in the
hall, and they are invariably de
lighted with the magnificent dis
play from their famous young state.
al am proud of IT," is the invariabIe
exclamation of every Kansas man
or woman when they come to the
, Kansas department. The people of
the state owe the railroad compa-
MES great debt Of gratitude for
the pains they have taken and
f money spent in showing mp the
: capabilities of Kansas to the visitors
who are pouring in here from all
the different states of the Union.
sit is big advertisement for Kan
sas," drops from the lips of every
beholder, and we feel certain that
the fruits will be observable all
! over the state. The NJ X. 81 T.
2 road, through its able land commits
. sioner, the Hon. 1T. Goodnow, has
devoted it's labors exclusively to
the Neosho valley, and thousands
8 of persons have remarked in my
: hearing, that their department alone
!. is worth the admission fee to see.
), The A. T. s. S F. department, in
e charge of r. r. Randall, of Topeka
!. is also every way worthy of the
states best Acknowledgements, and
/ will do much for the great south
q west. O. 5.iz sfsfa1-st -E4.., ,f
. During the two weeks that have
: been in Chicago have visited mos
!. of the places of interest to visitors
a A general survey of the magnificent
d blocks which cover the entire burnt
d district is always the first thing in
i order. These are without excep-
Z ton far more costly and of vastly
d superior finish to the buildings thai
!. were formerly in their places. The
q Potter Palmer hotel is receiving the
! finish, and is the finest in the United
States. 1t cost $4,000, O00.'l Thu
Majors block is equally grand
while many others of the new
blocks are wonderful 10 behold
9 On all the principal streets in tn,
II south side the huge blocks ar,
Q scarcely once broken by vacant lots
= One day I went out TO Lincoh
II Park, the favorite pleasure ground
g of the city. An immense sum o
II money has been expended there ii
y building artificial hills, caves, prec
ipices of rocks, lakes, drives, etc.
IS and the effect Is very pleasant to al
y lovers of nature. At the time O
q my visit the weather was beautiful
y aud some three thousand peopl
1t were within the park, boat.rldine
O. promenading, driving or picnicing
Is while bands of music, PROFESSIONS
n ETC., were added to the pleasures o
le the scene The extensive boulevar,
along Lake Front was thronget
= with carriages, and the .excursiO
% streamer on the lake arrived AM
o departed to and from the city ever,
/ twenty minutes. t'nssfl seaI 20
3, From the park / went to The gEea
Is north-side water works, to see th
}; largest engines and boilers in tn
% United States. The balance o
"a drive wheels were thirty-five feet i
+ diameter, and the huge pumps wer
D wonderful pieces of machinery.
g One of the things that perplexe
IS a person who has been used to liy
10 ing in Kansas town is to conceiv
Ct where all the people como, frou
st that are daily seen in this city
Step out of the Exposition hal
9 when it is crowded to, its utmost
9 and undertake to go along any o
D the streets in the city, and q com
y plete jam has to be crowded througl
n everywhere. The horse cars ant
Z buses are at the same time packe.
g full and one is all the time. in dan
y ger of being run over or trampIet
le down, Chicago is certainly the fin
:, est city in America. r.. W. r..
y STATE NEWS. eii '''
It Destructive Fire in Topeka.