The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-05-04
IT IS A GREAT MUSEUM.
Novelties and Sensations at the
Worlds Fair.
AN ANINTERNATIONAL BEAUTY SHOW


A Surprising Aggregation of the Pretty |
Women of All RaCes---CuriOus and In.
tercsting Articles ard Displays from
Every Part Of the world---An Astonishod
Obelisl.
WORLDS FAIR, April 2S.-The ancient
Egyptians believed that their obelisks had
souls and eyes. If the model of an EgyI-
tian obelisk which stands in the basin be.
fore the Hall of Machinery has a soul and
a pair of eyes it must be continually lost
in wonder at the variety and magnitude of
the museum of all times and all nations
which is being assembled around and
about II. AS a museum the Worlds fair
Is TO be almost as great o success as it is
as an exposition. In fact, the features
composed Of novelties, relics, curiosities,
queer processes, historical articles and
buildings-the rare, strange and wonder
full things of all the earth-form greater
show than the exhibition Of the products
of art and industry. The visitor who tires
Of that part of the exposition which IS
really most worthy though here aud there
commonplace because composed Of the
things used in everyday life, will have no
difficulty in finding the more sensational
with which to regale himself. The Egyp-
tian obelisk itself, as it now stands, is
doubly a curiosity; for added to the classi.
cal outlines of the original, indicating a
constant vigil upon the progress of all the
world for two or three thousand years, ii
is as yet unfinished, and queer sensation
comes over the observer as he notes the
great granite column, or what purports 60
be granite column, standing on stills
The unfinished base destroys the illusion
and exposes the method Of construction.
II Is almost q pity that the tell-tale open
ing Is to be closed before next Monday, for
1t would afford all visitors convenient
and graphic object lesson in the stage-like
| process which has made this whole enter
prise possibility.
A mere catalogue of theEinteresting and
curious things now in this huge museum
| would fill many columns. The visitor will
come upon them in anypart Of the grounds
and often where least expected. The nov.
elites are so numerous and so widely diff
| fused that in no spot does the exhibition
| come down 30 q mere display of the arts
and manufactures. While the appreciation
|
| to, there is sandwiChed in so much Of tie
| sensational and extraordinary that the
| dullest soul must here find ample repay.
menG for his time and money. It IS worth
| something to see One-ifth of a mile of i'm
mcuse steam boilers generating $4,000
| horsepower Of energy, nearly all to be con-
| verted into electrical power for running
the machines and lights, even the railway
| three miles and more in length, which for
| dime is to carry visitors all over the
| grounds. Surely this is the electrical age
| 1t will be worth something to see hun
| dred thousand inCandesCent lamps and six
| thousand arc lamps-enough to light q
street 200 miles long so brilliantly that one
| might see to read his paper as he rode from
one end to the other of it.
There is the Convent Of La Rabida, a re
| production of n monastery older thar
American history Within its dark cells
the visitor will look eXpectaDtly for thl
hooded monks who succored Columbus
and within the room which the great dis
covcrer occupied during his residence il
retreat one will have his thoughts carIieC
most wildly back to the days Of Isabel!
| aud her corrupt court.
The crystal cave from the Black Hills
underneath the rotunda in the HorticUl
tural building, viii be sure to attract mucl
attention. So will the big krupp gun
| which is one Of the chief sensations Of tht
fair, and the great guns exhibited by on
own government, OF but little smaller cali
| Der and power. Uncle Sans brick man
| of-waV, with its complete outfit and per
feet illusion, viii be worth the study Of {
| whole day. IL one wants to take in tht
earth at q single gulp he may do so in thJ
| Government structure, where our sphere
Is reproduced on q scale that makes it pos
sible for one to reali-.e as never before thc
height of mountains, the comparative siz
of continents and lands and the vastnes
of the sea. One may go aboard the ole
whaleship Progress, which for q score o.
more of years pursued the sperm monste
In Arctic waters; or he may put his hand
upon the boat with which celebrated
Grace Darling rescued a dozen or NOR
human beings from the grasp of old ocean
A visit to this fair will be simply arounC
, of wonder-seeing. Picturesque and inter
esting will be the gaudily-clad gondolier
polling their pretty craft through the Ia
goons. More modern and more usefu
will be the scores of electrical launche
which glide silently and swiftly over tn
water. One may see all the types of ship
and boats used the world over; and he ma,
Bee also all the patterns of locomotives ant
NIL other vehicles or motors besides
He may ride upon the first locomotive useC
In America, or stand wonderingly besid
helargest railway engine everturnedou out O
shop. Who will not be glad to visit th
Liberty bell, the loved and revered bit q
metal whose proud Office it was to ring ou
liberty to America? The old Liberty bel
Is on the way and Chicago, always alert il
public spirit and patriotism, proposes no
only to give Liberty royal welcome, bu
to gather around her next July 4th in
celebration western, ardent and memor
| able,
: Wonders and curiosities crowd thicI
hpon us in this vastinternational museum
Here the great redwood trees Of California
4 single trunk big enough for New Enc
land meeting house to stand within
, There the Irish village, with the prett
, asses making lace and butter before ou
eyes and serving rs q target for a millio
, | admiring glances. AS for beauty, which
always more or Less sensational, we haV
! oceans Of it. Every nation almost undc
J the san has chosen Of its fairest to com
, | hither and vie with rivals. One will b
able 80 drink tea or coffee or Chocolat
; | taken from the hands of the most bcautGu
women Of all rlces--and surely this Glon
Is worth coming to the fair for But
make doubly sure that no type Of bcaus
| shall escape. private enterprise rHusQCke