The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
AT THE FAIR.
A CANTON MAN WRITES OF HIS I'M
PREsSloNs,

He Sees Much to Admire and Speaks
oheeringly of the Good Accommods-
tions he Has Obtained.
OF the wonderful features of the fair,
one might fill column after column Of this
paper, but Of which will mention only q
few. Take the Electricity buildinR-The
Bell Telephone exhibit has room in
which telephones are ranged having con-
nection with the Military Band In the
German Village mile away and where
one can plainly hear the music of every
concert they give. They also exhibit
Theatorum wherein oil the sounds Of a
o9hcert at q distance are heard by the
audience, not with the ordinary receiver
used on telephones but with huge re.
ceiver in the roof having resonster, that
all may hear as plainly as II actually pres
ent instead OF being SIX miles away. Ad-
joining this Ia scenic theatre giving a
splendid view Of the Matterhorn Of the
Swiss Alps, the great feature being the
effect produced by electric light. The room
is darkened, dawn appears with the rising
of the sun, the full midday, the setting of
the sun, twilight, the lighting of the lamps
In the mountain chalets, the inky dark
ness of the night, the beautiful stars in the
blue heavens, the rising of the moon, the
moonlit mountains, all OF these are pro-
duced In succession but perfect In detail,
the colors so rich, yet blending so har-
moniously that II Ia a sight long to be re-
membered. The latest improved phono-
graphs, where you may speak and be
startled with the exactness of the repro.
duction from your own voice.
The Bell Telautograph where you may
write o telegram, and when transmitted
comes from the instrument an exact
duplicate Of the original, with gil the
peculiaritles Of your own individual hand-
writing, and should you wish to Illustrate
your telegram with sketches or drawings
of any object, the same are faithfully re.
produced, but woe TO you should you
make mistake and cross II out, for the
evidence of your blunder would appear
az In the original. The wonderful Edison
tower Of light, so feet in height, contains
1900 vari. colored lights, changeable at
the will of the operator, makes an object
Of indescribable wonder and beauty.
In the shoe and leather building the en-
tire skin of an elephant in one piece, also
that of q walruu and n monster alligator
are shown in leather as monument to
the tanners skill, while the leather in each
of these skins is plentiful, yet 1t Is not as
desirable az the fine Russia skins and
elegant kid skins shown from France.
The wonderful million dollar gun exhibit
by Krupp requires . separate building
and shows the monster weapons OF war
for the modern times.
The Columbus caravels and the Viking
ship are we'll worth visit, and one won
ders how any one could in the present
age be induced to make an ocean voyage
in auch frail craft.
The buildings alone without anything
in them would alone make an exhibit OF
which any nation might take pride, but of
whose magnitude you can get no real idea
until you walk the length of
one or more. and see special
exhibits inside towering to the heighth of
three and four stories, with plenty of
views the whole from the intermural rail-
road or from q vessel on the lake front,
you only realize what an immense exhibit
there is, the whole so skilliulIy and artis-
tically arranged, the buildings In white,
the lawns and shrubbery contrasting
green and again the white sands of the
beach, the beautifully constructed
bridges, the many walks and drives, II is
no wonder many exclsim-ihat the build
ings look like the ornamented wedding
cakes often exhibited by our best bakers
the effect being so pleasing and dainty.
We have had the good fortune to secure
accommodations in Hyde Park with Mrs.
j, d. DIN, q former Cantonian, so well
known that Ii makes this veritable
headquarters for Canton people, and
where we have met Mrs. and Miss Sluss
ser, Mrs. and Miss Mcdowell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mahaffey, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stew
art, Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert, Mr.. and Miss
Douds. Mr.. Joe Myers and others, the
location being convenient to the fair
within easy walking distance-and con-
venient to the city by either steam or
cable cars.
hyde Park Is in itself an attractive part
of Chicago. II contains many handsome
residences, good streets and fine boules
wards, beautiful drives. and has metro
politan air, many business houses, fine
hotels, postofflce, express offices, public
library, police headquarters, etc, etc.
WILLIAM TELLER.