Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-03
A Vivid DESCRIPTION
oF THE WORLDS FAIR AND
ITsWONDERF UL EXHIBIT
BY Our Fair G Correspondent-You
May Not be Able to go, 80 Read
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DEAR ADVERTISER: While going
through the great Fair and trying
to see as much of it as possible,
I could not then find time to at
tempt to write any description Of
what I saw. Besides it is very
laborious and tiresome to walk
through it day by day for a week
and try to get only glimpse Of
the numerous and various and
wonderful things that are there.
1t is impossible to give any sort OF
description that would give any
fair idea of it in a short letter. If
it were written in book, and each
article described in its history and
in all it's aspects, it would fill a
series of volumes.
The fair grounds are situated on
the border of the lake, seven miles
from the city. There are ample
and various ways of reaching them.
The elevated railroads, street cars,
drives, boats, and other means of
transportation, carry the people to
and from the Fair by the thous-
ands IN a very short space of time.
Everything goes in a rush, every
body moves in push, 1t is as
Julian Ralph says: "The voice of
the genii of the West crying clang
clang, hustlel Clang clang, be
livelyl"
On reaching the grounds the
whole spectacle is almost bewilder-
ing. The huge white buildings
cluster around the lagoon, and
large statues are placed all through
the enclosure.
There are a large number of
buildings, but some of the main
one are, the Transportation build
ing, Manufactures and Liberal
Arts, Agricultural building, Elec-
tricity building, US. Government
building, Fine Arts building, Wo-
mans building, Fisheries building,
Music Hall, etc.
TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.
From the elevated railroad we
reached first the Transportation
building. Here we saw exhibited
all the different kinds of trans
portation from the earliest ages to
the present time, from rude carts
and wooden rails to the magnifi-
cent and luxurious palace cars of
Pullman and Wagner, and all the
progressive improvements in water
transportation, from the canoe to
the finest and largest modern ves-
sells; very interesting were the
models of the three ships IN which
Columbus came over. In this de-
partment were many foreign ex-
hibits. The German and French
had specimens of their best cars.
They cannot compare with Pull
mans, however, but seem to be
very pretty and comfortable. The
popularity of their structure is
that the cars are divided into Sec
tions of four seats each, and are
not open like our cars, something
like our sleeping cars with the
divisions permanently fixed. The
model of the Victoria, the ship
that went down a short time ago
in which so many lives were lost,
attracted a great deal of attention.
MUSIC HALL.
We visited Music Hall. Thomas's
Orchestra was laundering forth
some of the finest pieces Of the
great master composers. 1t was a
great treat and I'VE enjoyed the
whole programme thoroughly.
This hall is devoted to concerts by
famous musicians, and contains
no exhibits, but the interior and
exterior are highly ornamented
with carvings and statuary. The
acoustic properties are very fine.
The place was crowded with peo-
pie pushing and pressing along,
and I was not expecting to see any
one that I knew. But in this great
crowd I met Misses Mary and
Marion Haskell, two of my school
mates in Columbia, and was pleased
and delighted to meet a familiar
face in that vast throng of
strar "ers.
woMAN's BUILDING.
We visited the Woman's Build
ing. 1t was adorned by the beau
tiful statue Of a woman. This en-
hraced exhibits of woman's work.