Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03

that said he saw a thousand cats: s.Yes,
sir am ready to discount number OF
times" But there was large number
after all.
After the floats passed by, my part
ner said if we want to get home tonight
we had better take down one of these
streets that the crowds have left, and 60
around to our road and get aboard one
of the up trains that is coming up
empty, for if we go to the end of the
line, there will be such a jam as you
never saw before. As we boarded a
car, the crowd had made rush for all
of the cars they could reach, and as
they come past us each car was just
crowded with people inside and out.
As our car came up to to the turntable,
such rush as they made. never was
so squeezed in my life. Women and
girls piled in, one on top of another,
two or three deep, and just when we
thought we would get started, all of the
lights went out in all of the cars on the
line, and there the cars stood: in what
ever part of the city, Or way down to
South st. Louis, there they were. The
electricity had been exhausted, and
there we sat, all packed like sardines,
for nearly an hour At last the lights
flashed up and we started. After a jolly
good ride of about eight or ten miles,
we reached home at just five minutes to
twelve, and didn't bed feel good as we
stretched out on it, to dream it all over
again.
Wednesday morning, October 5th,
dawned bright and clear, not a cloud
to be seen, not too hot nor too cold,
just the kind of a day to celebrate ones
birthday, for this morning sees me
seventy-twO years old. In all of my
early hunting days 1 made that day a
special hunting day, and that always
with good success.
As we take electric cars at South St.
Louis, We go flying past beautiful parks
and nice yards, filed with beautiful
lowers, on and on until at last we
reach the Fair grounds. AS we start
I'd early, we are on the grounds before
he crowd arrived. AS we entered the
grounds | stop to take a survey of the
grounds as whole, for have not Wis |
ID them for about twenty-five years,
'ut do not see much change for the
)etter. AS look at the buildings they |
ook to me as though they had not had |
he care taken of them as in the early |
lays. saw a good many of the build |
ngs that looked very much dilapidat-
ID and many of the stalls and fences |
ooked neglected. l was told after |
things did not move har-
nonious, and l missed a great many |
.hings 1 formerly saw On exhibition.
found the Exposition had taken away
! great many of those things | used to
zee, especially the fine arts. After |
ooking awhile we commenced taking |
Zach exhibit as we came to them. The |
monkey house / did not like much. |
The bear pit was good, those bears |
we're fat and nice and looked as though |
should like to meet one of them in |
open woods with good rifle. The |
moose and elk looked hOmes1ck, poor
ind disconsolate; felt sorry for the |
Door beasts. The buffalos looked shah |
)y and poor, but did not wonder they |
ooked so bad as it is not natural for |
hose animals to be confined. They |
want the free, open air, where they |
.an run and move about. The thing |
hat looked the most at home were the |
yea lions. They seemed to enjoy life,
swimming and playing in the water,
heir natural element. They looked at
home, l think. They were a greater
attraction than any of the other ami
mails, for you always saw good crowd
them as they swan and dove
lnder water and come up and throw
themselves over and over, rolling and
umbling about. l never saw such a
inc show of pigeons, of all kinds and
,olors, from carrier pigeons to the
more common kinds. Rabbits of ALL
izes and colors, from snow white to
aItty.