Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-22
SPECIAL FEATURES.
All to Draw Crowds to the
Worlds Fair.
Some Great Specially Given Almost
Every Day Of the Week.
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Thers is . boom on. Not . great swelling
boom - yet, but the wave is rising daily
week ago the worst was passed, the DAILY
attendance 10 gaining fast enough TO indi
ate that the grounds will at least b com
ortably full by Sept l. and the stockhold
rs are once more talking Of getting bach
per cent. Of their money. And there b
ikewise . great boom in amusements
. he super-classical music Is discontinued
ad instead thereof various bands located
II different parts of the grounds give pop
liar airs. and they render them well. We
.aye swimming matches and boating racea
1y the Indians and other uncivilized peo
PIES and we are to have = continuous 70
r.ety Of even livelier amusements.
l. At the same time the cost of seeing and
hearing has been somewhat reduced. Last
Monday was great day for music. Therl
was an old folks concert in Music hall by
the Stoughton Mass. Musical society and
a free concert at Festival hall in which
the bands OF all nations took part In their
turns, with native instruments and COS.
tunes. On the next day the Ancient Or
Ter Of Foresters had their grand display.
There was An international regatta on the
Lagoon and q variety Of free concerts. On
"Wednesday there was no special pro-
gramme for the day. but great fireworks
at night. Thursday evening all the saw
age tribes on the ground gave their relig-
ious and ceremonial war dances on the
south poud. Friday was Austria's day,
and the birth date Of her emperor was cele-
brated with wild enthusiasm. Saturday
was British day. so long advertised, and
yesterday being Sunday was nobody's day
as usual
Hereafter there will be some great spe-
c!aity almost every day and much atten-
tion will be paid to race and national
achievements. Every Monday there will
be typical concerts, every Tuesday boating
carnivals. every Wednesday evenings fire
works of new and special designs, every
Thursday some war, ceremonial or relig-
ious demonstration by the non-Aryan
races, every Friday swimming contests
and other aquatic sports and every Sat
urday some social exhibition or festival On
the wooded island, with splendid illumi-
nation thereof at night. And this calls
my attention again to the fact that am
''stnck for a word" l have spoken OF
those far. foreign people as savage, pagan
half civilized and so on, but neither word
describes them all, so hereafter ] will cali
them non-Aryans. True, that phrase
would include the Jews and Magyar Huns,
but they are not in this combination.
Their music is, however.
| Some of the plaisance people have evil
IDENTIFY advanced far enough to appreciate
better music than their own, and the other
evening in the theater in Cairo street
made prolonged, might say desperate.
attempt to get an explanation from very
intelligent Egyptian on their ideas OF
music. The musicians on the stage, tum-
Itumming away, are curious sight, and
| the movement, scenery. etc, Is show
enough, but the whole matter OF music is
such mystery to me that was eager to
get at the idea Of a man who could really
enjoy that sort of racket. WANTED to get
ut the radical germ. SO to speak, and
| thought / might do it here. He talked at
length and with great animation, but out
Of it all got but one clear idea-perhaps
| because his English was poor. That idea
was substantially the same that got from
lovers of cultivated music. He said that
| all that pounding and blowing made him
see Egypt again. l suppose there is
| theme" in it, as they say of a classical
piece never kno. what it is about, but
| I take the word Of the enthusiastic that
| there is u theme"
On Sept Is all the Central American na
| tions will combine in social and ceremon-
| ial methods of glorifying their common
| independence day, as it was on that day in
| 1921 that Guatemala declared herself a
| free al.A independent republic and so the
| day is honored by all. have had no
pleasanter afternoon in a social way at the
| fair than that passed in the Guatemala
| building and its annexed grove, the latter
| chiefly for coffee drinking. AS there il
| Just now an epidemic of bad coffee in these
| United States (so the travelling men say,
| and as bare swallowed more mean stuff
under that name since coming to Chicago
than for years before, was all the more
cheered by the delicious drink served
there, and interested in examining the
| sample sack.
Sr Manuel Lemus, president Of the COM
mission, does not speak English very well,
| but Secretary Leon H. Rosenthal is not
only fluent in both tongues but retains
| his native German. DR.. Gustavo E. Guz-
man is another active commissioner and
with them are some extensive coffee plant
ers who say that their speciality is to omaKe
money. All these talked with contagious
enthusiasm Of the wonderful capacities
and present rapid development Of Guste-
mala and were warm in their praises Of
President Jare Maria Reyna Barrios, "the
most progressive and gentlemanly execu-
| tive, senior, which our republic has ever
| had And, observe, senior, do not fail to
| observe, that all this notion about such
ani so many revolutions in Central
| America. is not true of Guatemala. o, no,
very much not true, senor."
That Guatemala is a little larger than
| Ohio. covering about 1900 square miles.
and that it contains 10000 people Of pure
| Spanish blood and some l,so0,Go0 Of every
shade from that to pure Indian, are facts
| any one can learn from the eyclo.; but
| many other interesting things were men
| toned in the conversation. One was that
| every product of the two Americas is pro
daced at some elevation, even to the Siber-
IAN crab apple. Northern. grapes and reg
ular Vermont apples have'recently proved
sIccessful, aai pumpkins. potatoes aud
| pineapples, ike tie mixed races, each find
| their level The finest coffee in the world
is grown on the middle lands and last
year the republic produced 80, 600 sacks Of
100 pounds each. The berry is beautifully
clear and firm.
| The exhibit contains so many varieties
ut rock and minerals that did not seek to
classify them, and out Of the old ruins
they hs-s srcugLt a queer assortment Of
mum mics, ornaments, weapons and bas-
reiiefs in stone. As, however. the most
interesting remains Of that strange eiviit-
kation OF long ago are the immense stones.
the various nations lave combined and
| with the aid Of the most noted explorers
havs constructed an exact imitation oil
part of one Of the towns and with 1t the
rock carvings of UxnIal and Palenque.
This curious and interesting structure
stands rear the southeast corner OF the
grounds, aid as one sits among the great
saenoliths and looks on the mystic earF-
ings his longing to solve the mystery OF
that vanished race grows intense. Del
Rio. Du Bourbourg, Stephens, Dupaix
and lie Plongeon in turn have explored
sections Of the great forest covering much
of Guatemala. Salvador and the adjacent
Mexican states, and have shown that II
was once the seat OF somewhat advanced
| civilization and contained at least ID. Co
ooo people Ali the rest is yet conjecture.
\ Not far away is the quaint Ceylon build
ing in which every pillar, doorway and
carving is reproduction in native woods
of something from temple or palace In
the island. Three hours there Is tour ol
I in .