The Newtown bee., 1893-08-04
Affairs About Town.
THE WHITE CITY.
fFRom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
MIDWAY PLAIsANCE.

Here along this street, one mile long and GOO feet wide, are what is officially called isolated exhibits. Here are 4l different exhibits under ethnology, and the reader will find the meaning of the word further on.
 It was our privilege to witness pa- rade of the different nationalities on an afternoon. They turnedout in gala at tire, presenting to the thousands upon thousands Of visitors pageant, pam orama of the characteristics of the peo- pie of the old world. A keleidoscopic mingling of colors amazing and dazzling. Arrayed in their best,even if in instances the raiment was scanty, the midway peo- pie treated the visitors to a most won- derful, striking and brilliant spectacle. The column of the parade of races, was over a mile long, and made up of men and woman afoot, camels, gaily decked horsemen, wild Bedouins from Arabia's deserts, carriages, rolling chairs, rein deer and dog sledges. From the fur garments of the Laplanders leading the column, to the sea-grass thoroughly ven- tilated costumes of the Samoans was presented q contrast that marked the display all along the line. Laplanders, children of the land of the midnight sun, blinked their eyes in the effulgence of a summers midday sun.
 Now the Bedouins lead, riding franti- cally to and fro along the line, giving exhibitions of superb horsemanship, armed with long iron-tipped bamboo lances, robed in long white cloaks, tur- baned and cowled, and mounted upon horses of pure Arabian breed. They made a most picturesque appearance. Then came the Dahomians, black as night, bediZened with tawdry finery and armed with huge clubs, bows and ar rows. Warriors and Amazons chanted wild wierd refrain, and came through Midway Plaisance with an undulating, serpentine motion that made their col umn look as if it were large black ser pent crawling over the ground.
 Then came the Chinese, the most gor- geous contingent in the column, costum- ed in rare and brilliant silks, ablaze with gold and silver, the Chinese actors and actresses. To add to the display, 40 Chinamen carried the dragon of China, an open-mouthed, scaly monster 100 feet long, which they kept in motion during the entire parade. Then came four French girls, wooden-shoed, gay in dress and with great Norman caps on their heads, portraying peasant life, followed | by village band of fiddlers, whose 1 music was bright and cheery. Turkey and it's dependencies were out in full l force and The crescent and star of the Ottoman empire was conspicuous in many places along the line. Then the people from the streets of Cairo, afoot and mounted on camels and donkeys headed their part of the procession with a Turkish flag, and swift-footed runners guarded the banner, while men in rusty antique chain armor were near to defend the crescent and the trieolor of France and the dancing beauties of the Algerian village followed in rolling chairs, while the yelled and unveiled inmates of the harem and theater of the Turkish vii lage rode in barouches. The beauty show was in the parade. Blarney Castle had several lads and lassies present, let by the pipes and jig-dancers, as agile a an antelope, and as tireless as an electric
 fan, for he jigged every part of the fivt ! ya iJaa tho Y,roaascinn nnarnbn6 and with
 out doubt he is jigging still.
 The Persians, too, turned out and fur nished novel contingent. The liol banner of the Shah, was carried proudly and this detachment closed with score
 of Persian gladiators naked to the waist Next the Samoans came along. Stal
 wart men, yellow skinned and muscula and in airy, sea-grass garments, kne
 short and chest high, they presented
 fine physical appearance. The me ldaneed war dance, while marchin
 along, and fierce welding of their clubs had something to do in keeping bac from encroaehing upon the moving pro cession, the black wall of humanity eS
 tending along the entire length of tn
 Midway Plaisance. Swiss guards wel Ithere and the Tyrolese girls. At lengt the rear of the procession is reached, an the open space rapidly closes by the ol
 surging mass of visitors. With tn
 Iview at short range one can say ha, } Ipaid visit though brief to Ireland, En-
 Hand, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switze
 Hand, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Nubi ! Dahomey, India, China, Japan, Austr } lia, Samoa, the Hawaiian Islands, La :. land and the South Pole. Such spe tacle has never been furnished before
 the human eye on this continent. N y not in the world, and all for 50 cents t the White City and large margin
 take in score of other things. w, II might Gen Miles say, 1T am giving eve 7 spare hour to the columbian expositio Z as regard it the opportunity of a Ii | time. .''-E Rev A. Gardner, Warren, Ct.
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