The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-11

teous, and soon found myself crowded
80 closely against a worthy member of
our party that dared not move. This
brought to mind quite lit
tie incident which occurred in
Kansas City when Patti was
there. The crowd at the entrance
to the theatre seemed unparalleled.
and among the number was lady who
was seemingly being crushed by a
gentlemen in front of her to whom
she exclaimed ''Si.', are you fool.
10 which he replied. "No madam. but
the gentlemen just in front of me is
the biggest enc / ever saw Within
the gates of the white City how
ever, we were agreeablv surprised to
find ourselves quite comfortable. but
what crowds of people. what crowds
of people! from almost every nation
on the globe.
CONTEMPLATING THE GRANDEUR.
We stood for some minutes and
gazed in mute admiration and wonder
upon the buildings and grounds abou:
which 50 much has been written.
Surely No pen can fully describe the
scene. The beautiful massive build
ings, most of which are pure white.
decorated with carvings of much
historic interest stands out in undefin-
ell grandeur Overlooking the
lake. As one stands before
the buildings, forming what is known
as The Court of Honor, he almost for
gets that these buildings are not con-
stru' ted of 'imperishable marble, but
of short-lived material called '.staf"
but the sweetest things of earth die
young.
THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.
Among the most distinctive and
stu ING pieces of work on the ground
is the Columbian fountain located just
back of the Administration building,
and at the west end of the Grand
Basir. This is often spoken of as the
Mac Monies fountain from the name
of the sculptor. The central idea Of
the fountain is that of an apotheosis
of modern liberty. On either side
is an electric fountain, the
beauty of which can only
be appreciated at night. Gazing east
ward from the fountain our eyes rested
upon the Statue of Liberty, 50 feet
hi Oh, the largest ever made in Ameri-
ca-and we exclaimed "Aye, to he an
American is greater than to be a
king" The unsurpassed beauty OF
the buildings and grounds wisely pro-
claim the mastership of the designer.
THE FIRST DAYS TOUR.
Our first day spent on the grounds
We went hurriedly through the fol-
lowing building: Administration.
Mines, Electricity, transportation,
Horticulture, WOmens, Aquarium,
Art. Government. Manufacture, Agri-
culture. and Missouri-at the close of
which our minds were in a perfect
whirl with what it had encountered.
We then went down on Midway Plai-
sance and from there home, feeling
that this was quite enough for one
day.
We will confne our paper
to the Transportation Building,
and Midway Plaisance mainly--and
only wish that we night tell you of
the one-half of what these two contain
the latter of which consists of special
representations from different nation
aiities and covers an area of eighty
acres.
The entrance on the east to the
Transportation building, in blue, pink
and gold, consists of series of reced-
ing arches entirely OVERLAND with gold
leaf and is certainly one of the most
beautiful pieces OF work ever saw.
This, with the rectangular southern
entrance, is said to have cost $4,000.
In this building We saw every
means of transportation from the OK
wagon of the cd old days" to the
Wagner coach, phaton and steam
vessel of to-day. Here we saw the
Santa Maria with the astrOlabe,
which called to mind the grand old
hero who 50 manfully died
in chains, facing the ingra.itude
of nation for whom he had dared
to brave unknown dangers; saw
"Grace Darling" rude little boat
whose worm-eating sides proclaim the
heroism of one of England's valiant
daughters, a girl of % summers; saw
model Of the Victoria, whose sad
fate on the Mediterranean coast re.
Gently, is so familiar to all of us.
Here we uncofiined the ashes of the
DE Witt Clinton" the first railroad