The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-28
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Notes and Comments on the Worlds
Greatest Show.

Greatest Show.
So much has been said and writ
ten about the wondrous White City
by the lake, that it is unnecessary
for US to 90 into detailed descrip-
ton of the many things to be stem
there. Things from every quarter
of the globe are to be seen and to
see is to remem Der them.
On our recent trip, covering a
period of about ten days. a piano.
rama of the worlds products was
open to our sight, the like of which
NAV never be seen by this or the
following generation; and must it
perish, this superlative of all that
is beautiful in all the world, this
massing of the choicest effects of
architecture since the world began.
these pictures in white against back
grounds of grassy green and the
pale blue of an inland sea, all the
thought and all the effect and all
the glory, the triumph of triumphs
IN mechanism and arr; must it all
fall, destroyed by the hand that
created it! Built for IA day. vet in
all that brings to the senses
, wholesome qualification, in all that
makes man proud of his kind, in
all that exalts the soul and lifts it
nearer to the one Creator of all that
is good and true and beautiful, wor-
thy to stand through all the ages,
a monument to the nobest thought,
the loftiest and nurest aspirations
of the human race. The achieve
ment of the young republic of the
west, 1t is the glory of the whole
world. If only it could be perpet-
ual. If, leaving it, one might have
the assurance that it woull stay for
him to come again to be charmed
by the marvel of its beauty and
awed by the heighth and depth of
its unequaled grandeur. The enor-
nous cost has been forgotten-this
great country can afford that. and
it has gone for labor. The exhib-
It's will 90 whence they came, or be
distributed among those who will
preserve them as souvenirs. 1t is
the swift coming destruction Of
| Dreamland, the razing of the White
City that fills the heart with sorrow.
O., that it might live to tell its
wondrous story to the coming gen.
erations, to whom it cannot be de-
scribed.
After all that has been read on
the subject, after all that has been
told by returning pilgrims to the
white shrine of liberty and progress,
every building, every stately col
umn, every richly ornamented cap
ital is as new as though no word
bad eyer been spoken ofany of them.
1t is the stupendous massing OF a
lavish wealth of details of exquisite
beauty that makes real the Land of
Dreams, and at every turn startles
with new surprise the most COM
posed. Every angle of vision
shows a new picture, each seemingly
more beautiful than the one before.
was hardly surprised to meet a
man who had been on the ground
day and night for four days and
had not yet entered building. He
said ne was trying to see the build
ings before going into them" He
was not through yet, but hoped to
get through that day. The orna-
mentations of the buildins would
in themselves make great gallery
of art.
There is a beauty Of the day and
another of the night, each standing
on its own merits, the two not to be
compared. One night | stood with
a friend on one of the hlgh-archcd
bridges that span the lagoon. We
were looking toward Wooden Island,
aglow with soft lights in many col
ors, lights beyond counting. Con
dolas and electric launches shot
their bow lights through the shadows
of the lagoon. Arc lights brought
out the whiteness OF walls that
seemed to have been built for all
time. Presently two search lights
crossed their milky ways over the
island, and from that fairy spot
came softly the sweet strains of the
Mexican Serenade. The sound of
brass and strings had hardly passed
away before a gondola stole along,
and we heard the strange and CRATE
full liquid melody of the Guatama-
Ian mariamba played by four expert
native musicians. My friend had
been looking, listening, and saying
not Il word. He was overwhelmed,
as | was. Turning to me, he said,
1.-The Arabian Nights will have to
be rewritten. | do not expect
ever to hear finer comment than
that. This same man. who bad
probably looked twenty times on
the Golden 11or Df thn rrau,,,,rt,