Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-19
RANSPORTATlO
How Worlds Fair Visitors Are
Carried About.
MOVABLE SIDEWALK ON TIE PIER,

Which Can Attain II Speed of $50 Miles
AN Hour-Superb Horses. Dromedaries.
Renders and Other Beasts Of burden.
WORLDS FAIR, May 49, Especially -
Not the least interesting phase Of the en-
position is its horsemanship. We may see
here a comparative display of the horses
Ind riders OF many countries. 1t happens
taat q number of hussars or other caval-
:ymen are attached I the foreign commits
ions here to serve as official messengers.
Hence n may see. almost any fine day, Il
German hussar, a Russian cossack, an
English horse guardsman or an Arab
courier flying about in the vicinity of the
exposition grounds. There are American
cavalrymen, too. The foreigners all use
big horses and r%esplendent trappings. The
American horse soldier alone looks as if
he were outtitted for actual service, the
Others being mere parade soldiers. More
serviceable than any of the military horse
men in the capacity of messengers are the
cowboys of the plains, twenty or thirty of
them having been constantly employed in
the days of construction. CARRYING mes
sages and orders to and fro. They are to-
day the most interesting horsemen in all
this international menage. Their little
mustangs or bronchos fly about with soft,
sure foot, lodging Instructions and pedes-
trians. swift and intelligent.
A magnificent specimen of the horse
manship is to be found here in the outfit
of Colonel Rice, c~ommandanr of the Co
lumbar guards. 1t is no small response
bility the colonel has undertaken-cap-
taincy of the troop of 1000 men who are "a
sort OF cross between policemen and sol
diers. In management and training of his
men the colonel finds it necessary to go
rapidly from one part of the grounds to
another. In fact, he acts like a man who
would, if he could, be at forty widespread
spots in one minute of time. He rides a
massive iron gray charger, a noble animal
who carries himself with a proud stride as
IT he We're the bearer of the general of q
great army.
1t is indeed a cosmopolitan showing Of
horsemanship and beasts of burden which
we have here. Buffalo Bills COWBOYS,
ONS NJ SASSA hA4lCA OAA SlOuA
horsemen are TO he seen on the same
bridle-paths with the Cossacks and Hus-
sars. Immediately after them may be a
pack-mule from the Andes going over to
State street for a load of feed for his fell
lows, or a dromedary from the Egyptian
village in the plaisance. Now and then, at
rare intervals, a %I.aplander may be seen
out exercising a big reindeer. In Hagen
backs famous animal show lions may be
seen riding horseback, and two or three of
! the elephants are often ridden about the
heighborhood of the plaisance by their
trainers.
h horse show proper will not begin
till late in August. Then it is expected
there will be here the greatest horse show
ever seen. Certainly the management of
the exposition has been liberal enough in
its provisions and prizes. There are TWEEN
ty-five acres Of stock sheds, and in a huge
amphitheatre that will seat nearly zoos
persons hundreds of animals may be sim.
ultaneously exhibited. It is %elliptical in
shape, 300 feet wide and 40 feet long. and
looks like an enclosed track. No fewer
than forty-six barns are to be erected for
the accommodation of horses, and if these
, prove inadequate more will be built. The
premiums offered for horses are very lib
erai, consisting of both cash awards and
medals. There are cash premiums on sin
gle animals as high as $500.
There is a wonderful variety of con-
trivances and vehicles for people to ride
upon within the enclosure of the exposi-
ton. The elevated electric railway.
which runs around the grounds, the steam
and electric launches on the lagoons, the
gondolas and the rolling chairs are all we'll
known. But this does not exhaust the list,
by any means. One of the most interest
ing spots in the exposition is visited by
only a small proportion of the people who
come here. 1t is the steamboat pier which
runs more than half a mile into Lake
Michigan from the Casino at the southern
end of the peristyle. One is not surprised
to learn that this is the greatest pier in
the world, for these Chicago people have a
habit of building everything a little larger
than n similar thin0 was aver h,,i1t ~.
where. This pier is the landing place or
the many big steamboats, which run be-
tween Chicago and the fair, and on a warm
lay this is the best route to and from the
city. The pier alone is worth going to see.
Its vast proportions may be better under
stood from the fact that it contains fifteen
acres of space, and that $4,000 people NAV
move about pom it without crowding.
The view of le lake and the exposition
from this pier is very fine, and one may 20
out on the pier for the purpose of sight
seeing without taking passage on a steam
ship for the city.
1t would no. be like Chicago to build a
pier more than half a mile long and pro-
vide no means of transportation from one
end to the otl .r Of it. A pier so long that
a passenger railway is needed on its sur
face will be q .ovelty to most people, but
= greater novelty is the railway itself. 1t
IL what is known AS a movable sidewalk,
and is Il very 4ngenius contrivance. Two
low platforms endless, run side by side on
q series Of small wheels. The outer one
runs constantly at a speed of three miles
an hour, and though it does not stop to
take on or let off passengers one has no
difficulty in stepping upon it. With the
same ease one may pass from this plat
form to the upper one, which moves at Il
speed Of six miles an hour. This faster
platform has comfortable seats, and a bet
ter means of resting one;s weary limbs the
while refreshing body and soul in the cool
breezes which nearly always blow over
Lake Michigan, could not well be devised.
The fare on this novel railway is only q
nickel. and already it ia unite non,lar