The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-01
THE WORLDS FAIR.
UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCES OF A
PARTY OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.
southern Courtesy Exhibited in the Street
Cars-The Landscape Seen from
the Car Windows-The Ex-
position Grounds.
eNew orleans Cor. Chicago Tribune.I

New Orleans Cor Chicago Tribune.l
We waited twenty minutes at the cor
ner of Canal and st. Charles streets for
non s1noking car, and were finally re-
warded The cars seat about sixteen pas
sengers eaeh and this one already had
that number on board. Here the women
had their first experience of that southern
chivalry of which we are all so proud.
Tie men Immediately vacated their seats.
bowed politely, and crowded out OF the
wy until the women were all seated
More passengers got on until the car was
packed to its utmost standing capacity.
About two miles out the crowd had l
thinned. and travelling became more com
Portable Here a stout colored girl got IN, /
but southern chivalry draws the line at
negroes. Nobody offered her seat Aft /
erwards an old woman with big bundle
apparently a washerwoman-got IN !
also. Southern chivalry seemed to draw
another line at waSherwOmen. However,
one of the Chicago girls gave her seat to
the old woman, and a tobacco chewing
knight-errant gave his scat TO the Chicago
girl, and thus happy compromise was
effected The view from the cars was
more varied than picturesque A
long row of white frame houses, all ex-
actly alike-probably constructed by the
same carpenter and painted out Of the
same bucket-with green blinds, wide
galleries and a wood paling in front Oh
the door. Here and there great magnolia
trees their loads of green leaves shining
with natures Yarnish. Then a bleak
piece of swamp with foreground of sew
eral little halfclad negroes and two or
three mauvec olored, serious looking
goats Then several beer saloons for
! right near there is a street car barn and
! some tumble-down colored lodging
| houses Then an orange orchard, so de
| lightful to northern eyes. Then pretty
| frame houses of airy structure set Ill the
midst of well kept gardens OF blooming
| flowers and Strengthening. gtant-leaved
plants.
Then we pass more pieces of bare
| swamp, more gardens and orchards, more
saloons, more miserable frame shanties,
until we reach the vicinity of the eXposi-
| ton grounds. Here are a host OF for
lorn sideshows, with big panorama
building for center-piece. Circular ran
roads, merry go-rounds, tobaggan shaes'
roller coasters, dime museums, mermalds.
and monsters, and freaks. are collected
here from all over the country-a regular
town of them Nobody visits them
even the peanut and lemonade stands
have deserted them. Their proprletors
seem to have almost given up hope; the
rattle Of the tin drum and the biare OF the
showman's voice grows fainter day by
dav. Here is painted clown grimaclng
; TO a crowd of half dozen little negroes.
q melancholy picture There a little
dwarf stands on a pedestal UNDECIDED,
, gazing obviously on the audience at
tracted by his rival. the clown. 1t is
Questionable if one OF the whole most OF
$ shows have yet taken in cent
Our car passes a long row of shanty
saloons and restaurants, and finally draws
| M at the main entrance to the exposition
: grounds The journey of six miles has
G OCCUPIED an hour and hree-quarters-al
\ | FOR five cents If the road had not beer
n blocked we might have done 1t III an hour
We paw our fee of 80 cents head anC
/ mass the turnstile Before us is the mair
building. nearly quarter of a mile wide
e FIaGs and bunting float from every pom
4 and corner of it's low, irregular roof. In
= front is painted a gray or drab color. VIII
u the panelngs and projecting WOODWORK
$ reddish brown. On the front OF the ele
n walton over the main entrance there Is
statuary group representing the progress
of America. Columbia robed in flowing
I gown in her left hand a laurel wreath.
her right hand a wand upon which Is a
E. fixed the star of empire, STANDS mi
lg iestically pointing out the path OF pros
10 cress America, as an indian made
Seated on a wild buffalo, seems tighten1n
her saddle-girths for the first heat Cir
IN ilization. represented as q woman in moC
e- ern costume. with a sheaf of wheat In on
10 hand and bouquet of roses in the othe
"A stands ready to encourage her up thug.
~ ~ ged path A North AmaEaan Indian sits
~ on an ad iiaeGa ffttr rock resting his elbow on
le MS hfiwa club. At the time of our arrival
: ladder leaned up against the side OF Co
lumbia on the top of which stood an ar
fist LAYING on bronze paint with a white
wash brush On each side of the group
and at a lower elevation two tall metal hg
ures are placed in inches, but who they
!. represent is still a matter OF con ecture.
= One of them is popularity supposed to bt
S the Father of His Country, but which OnG
IL is or who the other one is we don
know.
e A hard asphalt walk leads from the en-
J, trance gate to the building. To the right
). nearly half mile off. is the government
- building-a long low structure pa;nte'
!" green its glass sky lights looking ike
|, Slated roof. To the LEFT, about the sam
s distance off, is the horticultural hall, it
!. glass roof shining like an ice palace, will
- a sweep of giant live-oaks forminga back
, ground In the foreground to the left
L the Mexican iron building, still hug
:, skeleton without form or definite Out
'o line Looking directly through the frame
work of the building one can see the spar
of some vessels lying at the Exposition
wharf Immediately to the left fran
:. building is being erected for an Expos
= ton restaurant
y 1t is here the visitors get their first dis
= appointment Instead of the lakes. an
- fountains, and groves delineated in tn
- pictures we see only an artificial muC
p trench and few sickly trees and shrul
~ recently transplanted into the swamp
a, Piles Of refuse lumber are strewn around
5e There is a small sheet of water near til
u. government building with great stant
y pipe in the centre, the fine spray frol
LII which is caught up by the wind and blow
a distance of 500 feet If one venture
IL ! m ro naar II no xvould not only be drcnche
be to the skin, but would sink over his ankle
W. In mud before ne had gone ten steps I'll
grounds are prosaic-it is better to G
inside
On the Kings Highway.
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