St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-06-15
SEEN AND HEARD AT THE FAIR.

SEEN AND HEARD AT THE FAIR.
Every evening the long distance
telephone is operated from New York
to Chicago and crowd is always
at the pavilion Of the American Bell
Telephone Co., in the electrical build
ing, to hear the cornet solos. The
music has all the volume of sound
that one would hear in New York but
some of the tones are imperiectly
rendered. But it is wonderful in
vention, and when | told the man at
my side what he was listening to he
replied incredulously, II suppose |
am expected to believe you"
The long distance telephone made
it so easy for New York and Chica-
90 merchants to talk business with
each other that the railroads began
to plan how they could bring the
two cities in closer communication.
The result of their deliberations was
the establishment of the 20 hour
train between Chicago and New
York, which has been running one
week and is already well patronlzed.
| am informed that the long distance
telephone is directly responsible for
this fast train service, as the business
men of the two cities had begun to
use the telephone instead of patron
ling express trains. The 20 hour
train service gives an opportunity
for a man to leave Chicago at 2 p.
M, Monday, reaching New York at
10 on Tuesday morning. He can
attend to his business in the great
metropolis, leave New York at three
in the afternoon and reach Chicago
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
Hehas really lost but one day Tues.
day. from his place of business in
Chicago.
All sorts of foolish questions are
asked the atmy of guards who
patrol the exposition grounds. One
of my Northampton friends, who is
well known in St. Johnsbury, be-
came separated from his wife in the
Liberal Arts building and asked the
first guard he met if he had been his
wife. The guard asked him where
he had left his wife, and my friend the
bookseller was unable to answed
this question. He then asked the
guard where he was, anyway, and
the guard not only Strengthened him
out mentally, but wandered around
with him until he finally united both
husband and wife.
Yesterdays Chicago Herald re-
lated an amusing instance. A lady
had stopped in the French exhibit in
the Liberal Arts building and was
enraptured before the exhibit o
Worth, the Partisan dressmaker.
Picking out the most expensive
costume, she remarked to her com
pauion, "If could wear that dress
one night | should be willing to die
the next morning"
One Of the most wonderful sights
in the Midway Plaisance is Hagen.
back trained animals. In Barnum' s
and Forepaugh's circus one has
often seen the intelligence of horses
ponies and dogs, but here the
animals are lions, tigers, leopard:
and bears. The animals are al
together in a huge circular cage ant
perform startling feats. First lior
rides on a horses back and then tn,
horse leaves the cage and two
Bengal tigers draw the lion in j.;
chariot. Another act introduces ;
tiger riding a bicycle. In the las
act all the animals are unclaimed an,
the lions, tigers, bears, leopards
jaguars and boar hounds, "a in all
amuse themselves by jumpin
hurdles, etc, or feeding from tn
trainers hand. The performanc
lasts nearly an hour and is an e,
hibition never before produced i
America.
Some of the state buildings hay
some very choice exhibits and ever
one of them is worth a visit. I'll
old liberty bell is at the entrance
Pennsylvania building, while in II
Delaware building is an oillpaintir
of one dollar bill and beneath it
newspaper clipping describing II