San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY,, JULY 10, 1898.
The Grand Fair by a San Artonian.

The Grand Fair by a San AEtonian.
Mr.. w. J. Locke and Miss Ruth
his daughter, have just returned
from Chicago. While they are
full of grand praise of what they
saw at the greatest show the world
ever unfOlded, they are equally
glad to again salute home scenes
and friends. Nh Locke said to a
representative of the LIGHT: ave
made the trip to Chicago in fifty
three hours but were tGty-tiVe
hours coming home. 1t is no
trouble to find quarters, l paid
$3.50 per day for two rooms ON
second floor in a hotel, with all
conveniences and saith room adj
Joining, only eight minutes ride
by cable a and a fifty yard walk
to the grounds. For twenty-five
cents good meals can be had equal
to any served here for that price.
Mr.. Locke is enthusiastic about
the greatness and grandeur OF the
fair, saying: No nation ever dad or
ever will spend such millions for
such purposes as has Chicago in
this enterprise, and for fifty years
to come Will not again appear such
unparalleled groupings of the
worlds wisdom, science and skill
as it is now on view in a system
attic gathering with a natural
fitness of things" pervading the
whole, as there is now at Jackson
Park.
The nations that are represented
on the Midway Plaisance are the
wonders of the age. This thorough
fare is a mile long, six hundred
feet wide and in fine condition. No
vehicles are allowed except rolling
chairs and such carts and wagons
which supply the daily needs for
the various colonies dwelling on its
border. The African female war
riors, the Zulus, Laplanders and
South sea islanders, and nations
innumerable, all in their native
attire, in many cases of which a
paucity of clothing is the most
perceptible part.
Passing through the main build
ings, in which we see the products
of the world, machinery in all
the forms and devices that the in
genuity of man could conceive. In
the electrical building we saw
pieces of steel welded by ~electrici-
ty, in one moment, and a second
afterwards it was cold enough to
handle with bare fingers. We saw
the great Krupp gun, of n humid
red and twenty tons weight, which
will throw a ball of nine hundred
pounds a great distance. We also
noted that among all the d~istintiVe
implements for warfare for the de-
struction of human life, at least
ninety per cent were the inventions
of, and manufactured by Christian
nations.
The caravels from Spain and
Captain Anderson in his ODen boat
from NOrway,received high hOnOrs
from the mayor of Chicago, the
council and many societies parad-
GU dlIlluSt lIIC DOOIl VI CdIlIluIl
and fireworks at night.
A funny cOntrivance yet simple,
says Mr.. Locke, is the milking of
cows by machinery, it is a success
and is being exhibited in practical
application daily to large crowds
intrusted in this branch of indus
try. We had a round trip in the
great Ferris Wheel, which is erect
ed in the centre of the Plaisance,
and costs 100000; it is $50 feet
high and when on it's highest
point you have a magnificent view
of the fair grounds and the city of
Chicago.
Mr.. Locke said, with a cynical
smile on his face: 81 was informed
that the saints (?) had protested
against the nude statue eighteen
feet high in front of one of the
large buildings, and would next
get an Injunction issued against
the "naked truth"