The Republican., 1893-06-01
WHAT HE SAW.
An Editors Off Day at the Great Ex-
position.

a brief epitome of the editors OBJ
servations during four days at the
great fair:
Of the State exhibits Illinois
leads, with Washington, Indiana,
Iowa, California and Michigan as
close seconds. Alphabetically, the
Iowa building is the handsomest,
the Illinois most disproportioned.
Maryland does not show up well.
The building suffers by comparison
and the display is meagre and COM
monplace. Agriculture, fish cul-
ture and mineral features almost
blush with modesty. In the Mines
building the State has no space and
the colossal shaft of the Georges S
Greek Coal and Iron Company,
carved out of the breast and ship
ped with so much care, labor and
expense, is an outside monument
to the superiority of the Georges
Creek product over any and all
steam fuels. 1t is IA feet s inches
high, and 4 by 4 feet square. 1t
is perfect and imposing speci-
men of our coal, a credit to the re-
gion, more especially to the COM
pa2y who sent it.
The most resplendent view of the
grounds was obtained Friday night
when over 10000 electric torches
il animated the Basin and a search
light threw its binding blaze across
the lake. The scene was one which
would tax the resources of oriental
rhetoric. 1t was a realm vying IN
splendor with the fabulous concep-
tions of Aladdin. All round, above
to the SUBMITS of the environing
palaces, and below to the waters
edge cleaned electric lights. 1t
was midnight in the Court of
Honor with radiance overlaid. 1t
was as though Carthage had risen
with tenfold impressiveness and re-
sumed her luxurious distinction as
queen of the cities. One could
fancy, too, that Plato and Aristotle
lived again and walked and talked
and questioned anew the sublime re-
searches of philosophy. The triple
fountain poured its water upon
the broad terrace and rolled them
down wide stairway of marble into
the serene Basin as Of yore the clas-
sic jets of Rome washed the shores
of the tideless Mediterranean. At
the other end of the Court the
colossal figure of the Statue of the
Republic, draped in Grecian attire
and resplendent in gold, seems con-
scious of the ultimate imperialism
of Constitutional Liberty. Greater
than Atlas, she holds the globe in
one hand, in the other a staff, not
of support, but of beckoning i'm
port to the millions that still weep
IN the shadows of despotism. AL
together. it is a scene, the like of
which may have never before glad =
dened human eyes, or stirred human
hearts. 1t challenges history to ex-
hibit even its model
The reports of extortion in Chi
cago are much exaggerated. Nor
NAL prices prevail and prompt,
clever attendance the rule.
William Brace is still almost an
indispensable member of..one of Chi
cago's biggest and best legal firms.
He looks well and is doing we'll.
Outside Of law a fayorlte topic in
cludes boy about FIVE months old.
A confab on this subject in his
Office was interrupted by Harry G..
Brace, now a whiskered individual
of manly proportions. He is a
newspaper syndicate man, with an
interest which runs through the
columns of 1900 papers. He is
evidently doing well.
|. G.. Lambert is a trusted chief
In one of the Marshal Field empO-
RUINS. A good man he is, bound
to stand high with those who know
him. and highest witt those who
know him best.
Roy l.. McCaadell, at the Puck
building, apretty structure, showed
all the Marylanders marked cour-
tesy. He was manifestly proud to
see them and spared no pains to
make his old friends feel at home.
He is a High Priest Oh Puck, an
ADVISING associate of the great KEEP
pier and a consort of Ottman, the
leading photographer of the world.
On account of his promised worlds
fair letter the Journal shortens it's