The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-20

| tel. Here / might remark was
where a great number of our party in
dulged for the first timein life, in drink
of water from bright electric blue finger
bowl. This was entirely unintentional
on their part, rs was afterwards ex-
planned amid acclamations and other
forms of laughter pronounced lafter)
which l did not learn the names of.
Kansas City is busy, smoky city. You
can scarcely see the proverbial hand be-
fore your face for smoke some of the time.
] brought half lung full back among my
souvenirs.
At the concert we caught the audienc e
a little less enthusiastic than at Denver,
but still highly pleased. Arriving at st.
Louis we were first invited to go In body
to the chamber of commerce, more COM
monty spoken of as the stock exchange.
Here we we're welcomed by the mayor.
Speeches were made and thousands came
to see what we looked like. l think most
of them went away disappointed as to our
looks. They were delighted when the
boys sang some of their choruses, and
applauded and yelled till one might have
suspected pandemonium was lending
hand and vocal chord or two. At
the Auditorium, which is an i'm
mense theatre, we had a rousing
audience. The girls all looked their
prettiest in their dainty white dresses.
Every body sang splendidly, and each one
made hit. Back to the train and off for
Chicago. No more work until the great
contest at the World fair.
Arriving at Chicago we struggled away
over the various car lines to our hotel,
the Columbian Central, which was within
one block of the Sixty second street en-
trance to the fair, the choral building be-
ing the first as you enter. 1t is to the
credit of the management, Messrs. Claw
son and Whitney, that we were SO conve-
nientiy located. And although we had to
cut up with some inconvenience, such
as having to stand up in your own bed to
disrobe, we were fortunate in obtaining
such quarters 1t is true that my room
was Coward and upward that is, l
went as far lengthwise as the building ex-
tended, and then as far upward as it
reached-but had a glorious view of the
Ferris wheel and the Midway Plaisance.
(You will please excuse the way [ say
that, for was really born much below
my statlon.) l generally skipped the
word, and said 'sdown yonder where they
sell things l had only one fault to
find with the hotel, the bann;sters instead
of being made smooth and curving,
like corkscrew were hard and rough,
and came to abrupt examinations which
prevented my getting downstairs with
my wonted aiacrity. went down back
wards after that, which proved less pain
full. With these few words | will, with
your kind permission, leave the hotel
and go over to the fair. The talIest,
widest, thickest and most wonderful fair
in the annals of history.
If this should meet the eye of sold Sub
scriber' or tConstant Reader | wish
to commune for moment with him.
Did you ever find yourself in the presence
of anything so large and grand that your
own little soul and body seemed so small
that you could dance jig on a pepper
mint drop and not crowd the orchestra?
Well, that is about the size of you when
you go into the Worlds fair There are
no words in any language to convey a
proper idea to anyone who has not seen
it. Every one of the immense buildings
contains q wonder IN itself, and the main
building, covering over forty acres of
space, is q marvel of wealth, beauty and
interest. l shall not endeavor to tell how
our four hundred were lost like drop in a
bucket among the immense throng which
visited the fair every day. How we walked
and walked, and looked and looked, until
we were worn out with the pleasure and
wonderment and delight of it all. How
we dallied about the art gallery amidst
the beautiful pictures and statuary, how
we fingered over the beautiful fabrics,
Jewels, carvings, bronZes. and thousands
of things until we Were dazed and stupi-
fed and tired with endeavoring to COM
prehend its grandeur. | must not forget
that our own Dallin has the post of honor
in all the fair for his bronze statue of the
Indian and pony which stands at the main
entrance OF the art gallery. You must
pass one side or the other to enter the
building.
will not endeavor to say anything for
or against the decision which gave the
second prize in the contest to our choir.
/ will only saylthat the general impress
sion among hundreds which heard speak
of it, was that we should have had first
prize 1t was, perhaps, more than one
could expect, for human nature
especially eastern human nature-cculd
scarcely reconcile itself to allow people to
arise in the wilderness of the west
to teach them how to sing.
And now the time is up and we must
HE ourselves s'down town. as they
speak of it when you are at the fair
grounds, to Central Music hall to give a
concert to fair-sized audience, then for
the Rock Island depot. and, whishti for
home! Stopping over at Omaha to give
concert, where, owing to- our delay in
reaching the city, the audience remained
until 10 O'Clock before the concert began.
And we. were hungry lot and had to
Using for our supper" which was a
good one when we got it at the close of
the concert Here the most unpleasant
news of all; reached us, the sick
ness OF the child of our loved
and charming Bessie Dean ALI
son. From this time our train
was hurried with all possible speed home
ward. [ am sure the hundreds who have
heard her glorious voice on the trip will
be sorry to know that she only arrived in
time to see her darling pass away.
This will be the only thing to cause
single thought of anything but pleasure
on the whole trip. Everybody was for
bearing, kind and considerable, and en-
deavored to make things pleasant for each
other.
Sometime may tell you of the many
things l saw at the fair; till then good
bye. P. GREEN.