The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-07

bic to be gained by such opportunities
may be interesting ii not instructive, and
are to be had, too, with less trouble per
haps than IN different limits or localities.
1t was matter for comment with some
OF the party on the cars, what the quiet
but observant Mongolians, with their
strict customs in regard to the seclusion
of the gentler sex, might think of the I'M
privacy (if l may coin the word) of the
Pullman sleeper; and at the same time
our own minds were busy with q covert
curiosity in regard to the queer looking
literature and Japanese lunch baskets
and boxes carried by the commissioner S
party as we'll as the contents
OF the latter, which did service
journey. Altogether the opportunity for
sight seeing and note gathering is not
confined to the exhibition at Chicago and
the traveller may have chances for gaining
interesting impressions at least of the
peoples to be represented there, before
reaching the end of his journey,
The end of the trip of the board OF lady
managers was made pleasant by the meet
ing with the Salt Lakers who formed the
van of the Utah delegation to Chicago,
Mr.. Alonzo Young and Secretary Nc
Daniels meeting them at the depot and
conducting them to the quarters provided
for them pending the completion of the
Utah building. At the same house were
stopping Mrs. DR.. Hamilton, Miss Edith
Wyler and Miss Emily Cloves, both the
latter being secretaries of the World s
fair commission, and the number of Salt
Lakers has since been augmented by Mr..
and Mrs. Empey and George Piper, so
that the house is at present headquar-
ters for nearly all of Utah's Worlds fair
representatives. The location is only
temporary, however, as the rooms in the
Utah building will be ready for cccu-
pancy before the end Of this week, and
they will then take up their permanent
residence on the fair grounds.
AS was the case with many other of the
buildings, it was impossible for Utah to
make any display at the time of the open
ing ceremonies on May 1st. The doors
were closed during the day, and only
Utah visitors and those having connection
with the work in the building were al
lowed admittance.
1t was relief as well as a surprise to
the Utah people in view of the delay with
regard to their own preparations to find
how many buildings in the grounds were
unprepared for the opening. The gov
eminent buildings were in better shape
than any of the others, though many of
these were far from perfect, and Utah's
was only one of a great number of the
state buildings which had made no pro-
gress, whatever, in their inside decora-
lions.
ished buildings, however, to more than
make up for the lack in the others, and
this with the opening ceremonies of the
day, furnished sufficient material for the
interest of the sight-seers.
1t is doubtful if all the descriptive mat
ter which has been published in regard to
the Worlds fair grounds can furnish
ones imagination with anything like a
sufficient idea of the beauty and splendor
of the scene. We had imagined Jackson
park as sort of superb pleasure ground,
a splendid suburban retreat, where the
buildings and drives, and canals and lakes
We're to figure as beautiful landscape eff
fects in great park like picture. 1t is
instead a princely city, set up as if to
stand forever upon the shores of the lake;
with hundred splendid avenues lined
with palaces and thronged with people of
every nationality under the sun, and who
with their matter of fact air of content
and preoccupation might be supposed to
be moving in the ordinary round of life
and attending to affairs OF permanent cit
izenship.
The thousands of artisans and workmen
employed in various lines OF occupation
connected with the Fair, the delegations
from states and countries and people con-
nected with the management OF the Fair,
together with the policemen, rolling
chair manipulators and countless other
vendors continuously on the ground.
make up an immense population for the
transient city, and these with the myriads
of visitors, men, women and children
who throng the place every day, make
this great concourse of people who add
to the life and apparent stability and per-
manence of the new and wonderful city.
Great as was the number of people who
visited the grounds before the opening,
they were, in comparison to the myriads
who came that day, as the trickling
stream to the hoodtlde. The great stand
in front of the administration building,
the bridges, avenues and esplanades eur
rounding it, the porches and windows of
the buildings bordering the lagoon, all
were thronged with people, and the ranks
extended down through the adjacent ave-
nues far beyond sight of the great square.
There has been no scene on earth, and
in fact but few occasions in the history of
the world that equal the grandeur and
suggestiveness of the view and event
which took place on the day of the cele-
bration.
The spot in which the opening cere-
monies were held overlooks the most
DeauUlIul scene CnaG can De imagined.
The administration building, together
with the magnificent edifics which face it
on either side form great square, the
center of which is lagoon whose blue
waters form q striking and charming con-
trast and color note in the white theme of
the buildings, pavements and steps
which surround and hem its edge. At
the extremity of the broad esplanade in
front of the administration building are
three columns, each bearing golden ship
in the design of Columbus vessels, and
below these the magnificent fountain with
its group of statuary representing the
landing of Columbus, makes a grand
heading to the imperial square, while at
the further end of the lagoon the colossal
statue of America facing the administra-
ton building, gives the last touch of i'm