The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-12
MARVEL OF THE WORLl.
Clement Scott Dazzled by the Mag
nitude of the Fair,
A GREAT LONDON EDITORS VIEW.
In Girdling the Globe He Has Seen
Nothing that win Compare With 1t.
Tho Greatest AmaIgamatIon of tho
Wonders of the Earth Ever Con.
oeived by Man-An Eloquent De-
scrlption.

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soclate editor oil the London Times, and
ono Of the foremost journalists and
critics in England, is lost in admiration
OF tho WORTH. Fair, which he has come
from Eng ,ld to see. The following
dispatch Mr. Scott writes for the New
York Pres;
l find the Worlds Fair the greatest
and most marvellous and astounding re-
suits OF mans enterprise, industry aud
artistic taste in this wide world, This is
bold statement but one that | am in
position to make, for have just been
around the world and beheld with my
own eyes the marvels Of tho Creator
and the miracles OF man,
Just consider for an instant what |
have seen since ! left London on de-
plorably ioggy and heSvtbreaking day
in the middle OF last November
have knelt in the sanctuary OF st.
Peters at Rome and wandered awe
struck in tho once buried and now
resurrected cities OF Pompeii and Her
culaneum. have mounted to the top
OF Vesayius, steaming with lava, and
the highest pyramid in tho Egyptian
desert, and then stood gazing on the
scene OF embodied history, dating from
tha finding OF Moses in tho bulrushes
down to the battle OF Tel FL Keliran and
tho story OF tho English occupation. l
have ridden on o camel across the burn
Ing sand to the spot where stands the
satirical and melancholy Sphynx and
drunk Of tho waters OF tho old Nile, on
which floaed once the barges OF Antony
and Cleopatra.
WONDERS OF INDIA.
I have seen the Parsee beat the Eng
liShmap at cricket under burning sun
in beautiful Bombay, and watched the
grim vultures swoop away from the
ghastly death feast Of the Towers OF
Silence. have ridden the largest ele.
plant have ever seen to the mountain
places OF Jeyport, in India, and gazed
enchanted at that marvel OF milk white
loyeliness the Tai Mahal at Old World
0gra. have relived in imagination in
tho unutterable horrors OF the Indian
mutiny at Delhi, Cawnpore and Luck
now, and seen how tho Hindoos Gre
mate their dead on the borders OF tho
sacred river at Benares and Calcutta.
have dreamed away the summer days
in the flower gardens OF Ceylon, inter-
viewed by Rabl Pasha ut mountain
hotel surrounded by lilies, and studied
the growth and manufacture OF tea,
coffee and cinnamon in the beautiful
estate OF Thomas Upton, close by
where Bishop Reginald Heber prayed
in poems.
THE MOST WONDERFUL CITY.
have been to the celestial home OF
John Chinaman in Canton. surely the
most wonderful city in the world, and
studied tho Potter's field on execution
ground where they slice off rebels
heads forty at q time, like carrots, while
at night on tho Canton river, have
been guest OF millionaire mandarin
in one of the flower boats that can only
be likened to Aladdin's palace I.have
been entertained by my home.sick
countrymen ut Shanghai. Penang and
Singapore, and sailed, like Pierre Lott
into the harbor OF Nogaaki, to be, like
him, absolutely disenchautod by dozens
OF Nine. ChrSsanthemums at the tea
houses in Japan, Toxic and Maganoshlta,
and Yokohama.
have visited them all, and returned
astonished and disheartoned from the
oVeradvertized land al tho Mikado, |
have seen the American stars and
stripes float proudly from every window
in Honolulu, and longed to linger in
the observation-disclosures. where the natives
adorn themselves from head to foot
with exotic flowers, and the girls, who
are the finest horsewomen in the world,
ride their gallant steeds in divided
Skirts astride like men. have seen
San Francisco and been Hospitality on
tertained, and left behind mo mem.
DRY that time can never replace,
PLEASURES IN STORE.
And now have come to Chicago,
have seen the Worlds Fair as it stands,
have been an eye witness OF the mar.
velous scene OF the opening day, and
can draw my own concluiions as to tho
pleasure that is in immediate prepare.
ton for the travellers and sightseers OF
tho world. l repeat again, you must
EXERCISE to tho iull your powers OF pa.
thence and Imagination; put aside your
present view OF still erected scaiold
poles and still burning smelling pots;
forget the statuary still on tho
floor. and the undriod putdtes in
tho garden ground; try to imag.
inc tho day when the east wind
will have blown itself to the other end
Of the earth, and the lovely lake will no
longer be- lashed with the storms aud
tempests Of an apparently endless win.
ter; exercise your imagination, con.
ceive what the marvellous Worlds Far
will DO like when the warm and genial
sun shines on the lovely specimen Of
architecture dedicated to fishery and
when the bNlmy breeEes blow round the
picturesque old German houso-picturo
those we'll planned and beautiful
grounds whom tho flowers are all out,
when the roses perfume the air, when
tho bands are all playing, and when the
citizens OF the world are allowed TO
smoke without having their pipes put
out by the light blue guides.
hoy IN THE MORNING"
Sorrow ondures for u night, but Joy
comelh in tho morning It's no long
May in Chicago, it's n beautiful heaven
sent day In lovely and loaty Juno or dry
July Tho men arc In their white
clothes and lhe pretty women In their
summer dresses. Tho train service,
elevated or depressed, is In excellent
working order Indeed II Ia so hot that
most sensible people prefer TO travel
out TO JaCkson Park by boat.
What a wonderful show The visitors
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