Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-09-07
AIEXANDRIA VA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Z, 1876.

that of the States of Kansas and Colorado
which you must not miss, are, next to tn
Maiu Building, the most interesting and VaIu
able to the casual observer, whom l am al
dressing. Horticultural Hall you may leave
uuseen. 1t is simply vast unfurnlshed green
house: it is the oce failure on the grounds.
There is little Japanese hazar,, where you
may spend more or less moncy, and ouy more
or less pretty things with 1t, as your taste ano
purse may combine. But the real curiosity
there is the building itself. 1t is little genl
of architecture aud carpentry. You may study
il carefully 10 all its details for 40 hour or TWO;
aud when you are done you will wish that our
own carpenters had only half as much taste
and skill as have been put into this exquisite
| little house, which, please to observe, has not
nail 10 1t. Then do uot forget to look at the
odd little gardan, which has some curlostles of
its owu-as cedar trca sixty years old growing
| In flower pot; lotus growing IN iunny little
tank ot It's own, and several gardening devices,
which will interest you ii you are fond of flow
eis Over against this japanese building Is
! soother pretty bit of alcllitcc. urC-the Sweed
| isl schoolhouse. E,en the Interior with lis
msuy devices Tor teachiog he young idea how
| to shoot. will Interest aud lUStruct an Amcrl
| eau, though as to school interiors we arc as
| far ahead of the world as We are behind these
Swcdes 10 school tuiIiiugs.
You will return often to the Main Building.
lis conteuts are more varied aud lnexhau>tlby
interesting You wand.r 10 a perpetual maze
of wouders Nowhere 10 the world can you
travel SO far Tor half dollar. From the dla
mouds aud feather h,wers of Brazil you slide
over to the Dum ags and qulnne OF the Dutch
East Indies; from Morocco and IuDls 1t Is but
a step to Japan; you have hardly left Chlua be-
fore BueuOs Ayrlan vaquaro invites you to the
remarka bic and curious S..OW OF his country The
kuku or candle puts of the Sandwich Islands
are still 10 your mind as you drop into the
Mexican quarter anu ,cc the vasI rude desk of
silver and the 6ue but cold marbles which shine
like j4wcls. The little Orange Free State shows
you oslrichcs and damrnds; Australia six wool
and pillar OF gold; Queensland, Tasmania,
the Cape OF Good Hope, the SeycheIlr Islands,
Egypt, Spain and South Amer 'ca-yOu may
see the essentials ot each aud all 10 day or
two aud at suose! be farther travelled man
than Marco Polo. Aud If you will stop TO
thiUk-as | ADVISE you TO dG-yUu Will wonder
at he marvellous store of undevc!opcd wealth
IN the world; and even more at the great h1ure
which the EDgllsh- speaking race plays on our
planet just Dow, when almost two thirds II tEc
vauabes here collected are sent by mcu w:to
read their B bile in the same language with
ourselves.
You must give moruing hour or two to
round Of the houses cree. cd by a uumb=r OF the
States for the welcome OF their cItlzan.. Each
differs from the uther IN some chafactvr-tlc
way, even as the people of the States differ
And there are Turkish aud Tuuislan and Mo-
roccan and other bazaars where you may ex-
anime and buy the special products OF these
countries in the way Of trlok.ts and oruaments,
Il Hale Il m tn
the Man Building, and each TINS find some
thiGg pew, and have not only th2 pleasure OF
seeing, but the added charm Of discovery.
II you have bat week or even less, to stay
YOU need not strive to sec more or more syste-
matically than this; aud you will be foolish It
you io For it is mol what your eye hurrIediy
takes 10, but what your mind grasps aud ap.
precates, that will really remain with you as
an enjoyment. Aud amid all your sightseeing
do not, pray you, ueglcct to notice The finest
and most impressive sight OF ALL The best
part of the great show is the people whom you
see there These great, quiet, Intelligent, or
derly, thoroughly respectable crowds of your
fellow cltZeus whom yru meet on the narrow
gauge cars and waking about the grounds, aud
wondering as they waoder through the various
buildings and eating in tho restaurants, aud
too few Of them-!ounglng about am0ug the
flowers and music, these make up to thought
tul observer the most impressive aud on the
whole the most satisfactory sight ln the Exh-
bltion. They TOO are our native products;
look into their iaccS aud see how little
coarseuess, how much intelligence and virtue
and sturdy sense of du'y are written there.
Please to notice bow pretty these young
American girls are; how many thousands OF
them YOU may see in your weeks stay, and
scarcely homey face or awk ward figure among
them See how freely they wander about; how
charmingly they make themselves at home IN
the halls where they sit 10 rest and lunch. No.
tice how orderly are all these crowds. General
Hawley told me the other day that not single
case of disorder or drunkeun 81 has been re
portcd by the police Think how, from all the
ends of the Continent we Americans have been
gathered here to look each other in the face;
nearly 4, 900 have registered themselves trom
Wisconsin alone as write, aud at all the HOUSES
built by States the registers show thousands OF
names of their people. The great American
peopie are by long odds the 6nrst and most
satisfactory part of this Centennial show II
YOU study their faces and their Conduct you will
90 home believing that the country Is safe for
another century. =
Finally, if you can any way compel yourself
to it, take it easy. Do DOT be- IN bury; think
OF your three days or week as pleasure Ioul'
and not as time 10 which to tire and furry
voursef. Spend at leas, half Of every dag out
Of doors; ea. good and very lcisurely dinner,
choosing for it the pcasantest seat on an open
balcony or root that you can find; take your
indoor sights by bits not too long at tlme,
aud SO you will come with fresh st and intel
ivent appreciation to each. Study rhe tu Id
ings as we'll as their contents. Rem mbcr that
the middle aisle OF the Main Bulldog is broad
er than any street in the world aud that each
Of the side asles is broader than any street 10
Washiugtou. NOTICE how insignificant part
the police play in these great crowds ard DC
proud of your fellow citizens when you learn
| that amid all the crush auu croWdlng there Is
no complaint of stealing.
In these desuItory ways you may 10 week
or even In three or our days get Il better id a
of the wonders here tnan may mau gets by
| the most tedious and systematic effort to hurry