Iron County register., 1892-10-27
Some Things I Saw at the Exposi-
ton and Fair.


ter a good nights rest and good
breakfast, Charley and took the cleo
trio cars for St. Louis, to put in the day
at the Exposition hall. We commenc-
ed with the art gallery, where we saw
the greatest variety of photos of all siz-
es, from the smallest to the largest;
photos of men of renown, and men OF
lower estate and men of no estate;
women beautiful and women that were
not beautiful; photos of boys and girls;
photos of beasts and birds, photos of
things animate and things inanimate,
photos of land and water; and pictures
painted both large and small, pictures
of mountains and plains, pictures of
oceans and seas, pictures of rocks and
rills, and wooded hills, pictures of war
and pictures of peace, and such a yari-
ETY. to try to partieulariza. would take
days and weeks.
But I saw two very large pictures
that covered a large space, should
think as large as a. good sized side OF a
house. One was the picture of the
landing of Federal troops at Helena.
The river covered with boats, loaded
down with soldiers and all the muni-
tions of war. On the heights were SOL
diers in camp. AS sat and looked at
it, it brought back all of the scenes of
those days when no man felt he had a
country to call his own.
The other was General Robert E. Lee,
surrender of the Confederate army.
Those were historic pictures. After
looking at these two pictures, all of the
other pictures seemed to lose all their
beauty and attraction for me, so we
moved on through all of the different
parts of that vast hall.
Every now and then we would find
something that would especially attract
our attention; for instance. all of those
precious stones displayed in Mermod &
Jaccards' rich display. Such beautiful
things made of gold and silver, and all
of the precious stones. AS l stood |
could but think of the Queen of Sheba.
as she looked at all of the wealth and
glory of Solomon's grand display. No,
they had not told me the half; and at
other places where we saw all OF the
rich material and rich robes fit for
kings and queens to wear; at other
places we saw many things that we, in
all of our every day life, make use OF,
such as sewing machines and all of
their different parts.
At one place we passed castle
made of coal; before the door OF the
castle was a large box full of chestnut
coal, young man stood with his hands
fall of blanks for each visitor to fill and
put in a box in the castle: '.How many
tons of coal are there in the walls of the
castle, and how many pieces OF coal in
the box? The one that guesses the
nearest, gets three tons OF coal. !"
As we decend to the lower hall, we
come to the fishery, we see great tanks
with glass sides, the bottom covered
with sand, and rocks large and small;
from the center fountain sends up
stream of water, which falls back into
the tank. You can see fish floating
and swimming around of all sorts and
sizes; here you see little perch and big
perch; now just look at that big old
shovelnose catfish, two feet long if he
is an inch; just look at that. did you
ever see such a big carp9 full two feet
long. Oh, isn't he a beauty. just look
how his scales shine as he turns and
the light shines on him.
And there you see a crowd who seem
to be fascinated, rooted to the spot, for
they won't leave the place seemingly