The free press., 1893-08-10
THE WORLDS FAIR.
W. d. Boyce's Correspondence hufeaq,
Administration Building, VOID |
Fair GROUNDS, dulg oAs 1870.

can he had for 10 cenls as Tue Nl7t =
tor will fiad in Cairo street, Mli-
wav plai>ance, ust west OF the Fer
ris wheel. Cairo street and It's
several hundred hu5tlmg Mehanl"
medans seems to catch the crowd
at all times. Go there morn ng,
evening, noon or night ard the
wonderful Egyptian tLoroughfare
ie sure TO be fairly overlooking with
deli GIFTED patrons. Cairo street is
made up Of native stores, candy
booths, theaters, museums, work
shops, In fact, all that one would
naturally expect to find 10 the real
Cairo. The prevailing lad III Cairo
street is donkey and camel riding,
and it is this pastime that attracts
the multitude and holds them cOnN
yulsed in laughter until merrlment
positively becomes wearisome. Hus-
bands who at home are no doubt
as dgnified anG reserved as a
Methodist parson, here lose con-
troll of themselves and shout and
Applaud as their courageous better
halves pass along perched high ups
or the hump of stately Old cam
ell. Two persons generally sit to-
gether when indulglng in camel
ride, and the anxiety exhibited by
the damosel behind, lest she slide
down underneath the camel's softly
pIodding heels, is worth going hun
dreds of miles to see. The donkey
boys and their patient little beasts
are great favorites with the ch'l-
dren, and it is needless to say that
the donkeys "CoIumbus' and MARY
AndeI son" are prime tavorites.
The only blot on Cairo street S
escutcheOn is the performance gly>
Ell by the five native dancing girls
iD the large theatre. Having found
all else interesting AID amusing
the visitor is only too ready to com
plete his tour through Cairo with
an hour spent in the attractive-
looking theatre. If the vi-itor is
man, and one with strong nerve
and calloused cheek, perhaps the
''danc ng' Of he teveral volnptu~
GUS young women will not have
any very Iamentable effects, but let
the same man by chance take his
wife, daughter or son there, and he
will soon feel like applyinga a match
to the whole disreputable affair.
Without going into details it can be
truthfully said that the three sets
of oriental dancing girls now giving
hourly exhibitions in Midway p!als1
ance should be bundled aboard a
fast train and returned with all
speed to their native baunts. Moths
ing SO disgusting and vulgar has
ever beer seen in the vilest of
Americas gradually disappearing
'free-and-easys." There Can be
only one meaning to the suggestive
postures aud sensuous glances of
the Turkish dancing girls, and even
that would soon land American i'm
itators behind prison barr. The
directors of the Columbian Expo
sition can not walk through Cairo
street, the Turkish Odeon or the
Moorish palace with clear con-
sciences.
Champion Pugilist Corbett, how
ever, who was giving a strictly
first,class and interesting exhibi-
Iion, must leave the plaisauce-
driven out like some unc'edn thing.
lie will not suffer by it, Tor, al
though only a prize-fghter, the
champions place is not among tue
plaisance freaks.
In the administration building
can now be seen model If the
United States treasury building at
Washington, constructed almost
entirely OF Columbian souvenir half
dollars. The frame for the model
is made OF wood and zlnc, but this
is all concealed from view by the
ingenious maDner in which the sll.
yer coins have been arranged. The
model is abont 10 feet long, 8 wide
and three high. Seyenty>fve thous-
and coins were used in its con-
struction, cement being employed
to hold them in place. Several
young men, under the watchtul eye
of superintendent, were engaged
in putting on the roof of the beau-
tiful structure Friday, and for this
purpose the coins were brought in
by the sackful, each sack bearing
the governments stamp. In order
to do a finishing job, the young
men engaged in laying the halt.
dollar pieces were obliged to cut
them into two and form pieces of
various shapes, large pair of
shears being used to trim them into
the desired form. While doing this
clippings and shavings of coin sill
yer would fall upon the floor, as
we'll as whole coins, but the coin
layers paid no attention to the
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