The herald., 1893-05-28
THE GREAT FAIR ON WHEELS,
Some of the Transportation
Facilities at Chicago.
All Sorts Of Ways of Getting From
One Place to Another.
Boats, Railways Sliding Sidewalks,
Intsrminal Railroads, PalanquIns,
Donkeys and GondoIas arc
Some of Thom.
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cOul0 nave Deen secured Ior WOfl0
fair than Packson park. An ex
tensive park, washed by the waters o
an azure lake, within the boundaries o
the moat cosmopolitan and progressive
city OF America, reached by every mode
Of transportation, 1t is doubtful il any
J other municipality could boast of such
I q site.
: The Illinois Central running along the
! shore reaches the grounds within Ia
| minutes from the city station. The Ele
vat ed or ALLEY L." landing passenger
within the gates, noceesitates little
longer period in transit, while the cable
cars, though cool and pleasant, can
hardly be recommended to those who
expect to see the fair in q week and
whose time is very precious. The elec.
trio road runs just south OF the grounds
and transfers with several of the south
bound lines. Every railroad entering
Chicago connects with the Belt Line and
for their convenience q magnificent
building, called the Terminal, has been
erected in the southwestern section OF
The park.
An English syndicate runs four-horse
tally-ho coaches once an hour. up Mich
igan avenue, Grand and Drexel boule-
wards, and through South and Washing
ton parks, depositing passengers at the
doors of the White House inn.
Then there are the many steamboat
lines plying Lake Michigan from the city
to the exposition pier. II one is not
afraid of the dire NAL de mer or takes
an extremely calm day, this is acknowl-
edged al being the most comfortable and
profitable way of journeying to the fair.
The boats keep close to the shore, and a
splendid view of Chicago is afforded, but
when the White city is sighted every
thing else dwindles into insignifcance.
From the steamers deck, are
seen the golden domes, towers,
legoons, terraces, verdapt lawns
and the hundred thousand brill
liant flags and pennants flying to the
breeze. 1t seems an oasis in the desert
OF fsmoke begrimed and dingy buildings
just passed. Including all these, and
the many buases pressed into service for
the summer, it is estimated that 100000
people can land at and depart from
Jackson park every hour in the day and
considering that the area here 10 only
about one square mile, 1t is the only dot
on the globe wnere such a marvellous
system OF transportation can be found.
Once within the gates, tbs variety of
conveysnces and modes of land and
water locomotion are simply wonderful.
From tho palanquin of the Oriental
countries to the iinrikHhas of the Flowery
it seems as though every thing
novel of that kind was included. The
iauntlng car OF Ireland with Jehu OF
thick brogue, the tiny donkeys from
Cairo, with their donkey boys from the
land OF the Lotus and Nile,
the camels from the Sahara
with swarthy Arab attendants; the
curious palanquin Of India, Turkey and
far eastern lands, with bearers in baggy
trousers and gaudy earnings; the jim
rikshas, with their diminutive Japanese
"man-horees," almost lost under their
huge hats, and the beautiful sedan
chairs OF the early French courts. Also
in the Midway plaisance is the Barre
sliding railroad, which runs for half q
mile in this part of the grounds and is
great convenience when one does not
care for these other unfamiliar methods
OF travel.
In Jackson park proper is the inter-
mural railroad (elevated), which encir-
cles the grounds in it's serpentine trail of
three miles. On this trip splendid
view of the buildings and general idea of
the immeneity of the whole plan ia OBJ
tanned. Out on the south pier, which
is one mile long by $50 feet wide, is the
multiple speed sidewalk, or travelling
or locomotive sidewalk, as it is
sometimes called. 1t makes one
continuous trip with no stops up and
down the length of the pier, making q
loop at both ends. There are two rates
of speed, three miles an hour being con-
sidered as walking speed and six miles
an hour as driving speed. On the first
you simply step onto sidewalk on low
wheels and are carried along without
any exertion, while the faster one is
supplied with settees. Then, of course,
there are thousands of willow rolling
chairs, which here have gallant college
student attendants, and aleo q few OF
the new electric carriages. All these for
terra firms; yet if one cares to travel
vertically instead Of horizontally for a
change, there is the captive balloon
ready to fulfill the desire.
OF the water craft there are 81 electric
launches, 10 steam launches, Is Condo
las and a number of rowboats. Every
one visiting the fair is sure to try one or
all of these different modes of naviga-
llOn E5 W 6t0Nnly VI kAlO0 dUbub blO lh-
goons under the Rialto bridges, past the
Wooded leland and its rose garden, the
marble palaces, and under the Colum.
bian arch and quadriaa out iEto the
lake, is one Of the most pleasurable and
instructive features Of the fair.
The gondoliers have all been brought
from the glorious city in the sea, and
while their native costume has been
somewhat marred by tinsel and gaudJ
| teppings, and rendered a cheap edition
of Kiralfy's spectacular plays, their love
songa are the genuine article; they no
only eing the native popular airs of thu
street, but often selections from the bes
Italian operas. Accompanied by thu
musical twang of the guitar or mando
lin, touched in a light and fantastic
tempo, the mellow cadence of thei
voices floats across the placid waters
filing the cir with sweet melody ant
cheering the heart of the wanderey
from the Bride of the Sea. The Ameri
can people could not be ss prosaic AM
matter oi-fact as they are said to be, ha
they always with them the White cit
and the Venitian gondoliers. G. t.
Ready for the Summer Cruise.
VALLEJO, CAL, May 26.-Advices re
ceived at the navy yard today from Pol
Townsend report the Bering sea patrc
fleet ready for the summer cruise nortl