The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-19
THE GREAT WHITE CITY
Fresh Sights Of Interest at the
Worlds Fair.
PASSING CT A HUMAN THRoNG.
The Ebb and Flow of the Great Human
Tide-aIore About High Arf-At the Cat
tie Show-Tke Country Cousins Opinion
of Chicago.

us take whole day fer tour Of jackson
park and note the ever varying scenes OF
the successive hours. We must breakfast
and be on the street by5 or soon after. foY
even at that time our section OF the Hyde
Park annex is beginning TO send its quota
to the north ard northwest gates. In an
other hour al. the surface ears on the VS.
bash and Cottage Grove ard the State
street lines will be literally damned, and
strong armed men will be hanging on the
steps. An hour later the trains on the ele-
waited will be packed, and every few min
utes the Illinois Central viii bring down a
battalion at a trip. By 10 a. m. the great
whaleback and other lake boats viii be
landing at the main pier black with peo-
pie, and the moving sidewalk whirling
along its loads of dizzy humanity.
Besides all these the &c, Geo visitors who
live or lodge in the Hyde Park annex will
walk to the grounds. We enter at 80.
How crisp and inyigorating the morning
cir from the lake! The summer heats are
passed, and sightseeing 20 longer means
overheating. And how very clean and
white the White City looks as IT'S domes
and pinnacles glitter in the rising sun, All
the litter LETT by lis GOO people yesterday
has been removed. ard all the walks and
grass plats freshly sprinkled, for the place
starts off every morning as fresh and clean
rs if just finished There is not fieck of
dust visible on any exhibit. Even the
bronze statues Of our great men look as If
they had just come from the bath. We en-
ter at Iifty-seventh street gate, and turn
ing to the left move around the Interstate
avenue to. get to the lake shore while it is
still in its morning beauty.
To our left in succession are Nebraska,
North Dakota, Kansas and Texas, and in
the last they are all alive preparing for
Texas day. The women take the lead in
the ceremonies because they made it pos
sible for Texas to be represented here, and
if / may judge from the strong, sometimes
profane, statements l have heard, the gov
ernor will not be in it very much. Mrs
Benedette Tobin, president CT the women's
organization of Texas, is - represent the
state and make the address of welcome
Then follow an invocation by Rev. T. 3.
Lee, an Grafton by Ex-Governor John B.
Allen and speech of thanks and praise
for the women of Texas by ex-Govern-
or Hubbard. Next to the women the
most greatly honored viii be Seymour
Thomas, who made the equestrian statue
of General Sam Houston, and for him the
old Roman decoration Of o laurel crown
has been revived. Elizabeth Nay will also
be honored for art work, and Mr.. and Mrs.
katzenberger of San Antonio for their sue
cess in organizing the music Both viii
sing today, and he will lead the great
chorus.
Passing on eastward between Utah and
West Virginia, Missouri and the triterri-
torial building (Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma), Idaho, Virginia and Maryland,
we find Iowa in the pieasantest place Oil
the grounds, both her large porches giving
view of the lake. TO our right the six New
England states and New Jersey are closely
set in a little triangle and do not attract
much attention, bat there is something
well worth seeing in every one of them. IL.
fact. the New Jersey building is quite sur
prise in embodied history. 1t is an exact
reproduction of Washington's headquar-
tiers at Morristown and is Il perfect museum
of Revolutionary relics. Iheinterior orna-
mentation consists very largely of views,
chiefly Photographic, of the states noted
scenes and seaside resorts. All the New
England states show much in the line of
historic relics. Thus Massachusetts has
reproduced John Hancock's house in Bos-
ton, Vermont has strikingly original
building III which her marble is great
feature, Rhode Island shows US an annex
in imitation OF the old stone mill at New
port, and Connecticut a Gne specimen OF
the pure colonial style.
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Leaving Maine, which is the farthest
southeast of the state buildings instead Of !
northeast, as il should be, we enter the for
eign group and find nearly all the habi1ues
on the sandy lake beach, for they do not
shrink from the sun. and this is their hour
of morning leisure. First are the Cinga-
lese. with hair so very black and straight
and combed so tightly back and smooth !
from the forehead that really it must hurt /
them; then the Norwegians, Siamese and /
others in turn down to the caravels. where /
the fun has already begun. This is wash /
day with the Spanish sailors on the Pinta,a |
and so the visitors are delayed an hour or |
two till the hanging out" is completed, I
but the attendance has so increased OF late /
that even at $50 a. III. an eager crowd is |
waiting to go On the caravels. There is |
more spontaneous fun along here and in /
the live fish department than anywhere /
else out of the plaisance In the Art pal I
ace an almost funeral silence Is observed, I
and elsewhere there is but a gentle muir
muir, but in these two places everybody I
talks and laughs aloud, and jokes are ex-
changed with the freedom of county fair. /
So early as O'Clock the sun is uncom-
fortably hot on this side and sends up
sort of binding glare from the lake. so let +
us saunter back across the grounds, taking
the north bridge. from which we have
glorious view OF the Art palace across the
north pond. On the west side we ind the
Illinois building, as fresh and cool within
as if it had not been crowded all day yes
terday. Even the fish in the great pools
lock cool and rested, and from the high
rockery the water pours down with
soothing murmur over the aquatic plants.
Ous al the west ED we find the great
avenue filed with stream Of humanity, !
for th-ee-fourtbs OF the visitors enter at the
two north gates and the Fifty-seventn and
Fifty ninth street gates on the west s5ce.
Very fresh and esy indeed 90 all these
people look now-hUsbaEd and wife with
children running and skipping beside them,
groups of younger people enattering, and
the lone ones made gay By seeing the
others. Il VIII he amusing 10 sit CT the
porch OF the Indiana building about : this
afternoon an6 note the contrast IS these
people drag their weary 1ay On the return
You will see no speculation IN their eyes
tben.
Five hours for Sightseeing and then the
current IL II e nSrthSesf avenue Is IN tie
other direction And IL dolsn'; LOOK pref
II. Tie women are collapsed. the men are
cross, TIE children are worse Bot thou-
xaEsds remain spraw!ed here AID the-e On