The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-22
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The four days that we have been III
the city have enabled us to gain good
general idea of the Fair grounds and
/ to take in the Midway, into which,
being with 'sthat husband Of mine,"
1 was dragged as soon as we had
tglanced over the grounds.
|. / would advise every one to make
their first trip to the grounds on the
Ayhaleback, for nowhere else, not even
from the Ferris wheel, does one get so
ine view Of the White City. As
we rounded the point below the foreign
buildings and full view of the
ground burst upon us.-a Chicago
gentleman said to me: lis thsre an
other place OH earth where go fine All
teffect could be obtained?h ( said,
..Yes; set those buildings down on
the Kansas prairie, away from Chica-
COS smoke and haze, and it would
seem indeed a city of e1lchantment."
!
intramnal railway and one through
the basin and lagOons on an electric
launch before. attempting to see any
thing in detail is time we'll spent, for
it shows one the immensely OF the
whole affair and has convinced me
that my plan Of going through each
building will have to be abandoned.
One simply cannot form any concep-
ton OF the pastness of the buildings
without seeing them. 1t is all very
we'll to tell one that the manufactures
building is ] ,6S8 feet long, but let him
thake up a position at the end of the
loggia Oh the south and let his eye
. sweep down the lnterminable vista of
pillars along its side then he will begin
to realize what your figures mean.'
Il liz the Midway, just two things inn
pressed me powerfully; they are the
! panorama of the volcano of Kllanean,
in the Hawaiian building, and the
!, execution OF Marie Antoinette, in the
Moorish palace. There are other
things that are intensely interesting
and instructive, but these two will
stick like burs in the memory. The
panorama shows the volcano as it
, would appear to one standing on d
. point,in the center of the crater, which
is three miles i'll diameter. This point
i'll the center may he reached from the
p crater house by perilous journey over
p miles Of lava beds by picking your
q way carefully among geysers and little
! bubbling craters. The rock in the
confer of tile crater rises gradually for
=, a period OF six years When, the pres
sure becoming too great for the column
+ of sustaining gasses beneath, it sinks
200 feet, when the rising process again
o begins. You are shown the appear
4 ance by day and by night. At tile
@ latter time native priest comes To
. the edge Of the most ,frighlfui pit o..
q lava and delivers an lncantation, fol-
n loWeu ny d CHORUS. NOtnillB more
= wierd than the scene at night can be
f imagined. :
Those who exhibit the execution of
II Marie Antoinette claim to have the
original suillotine. II not real, it is
at least very rude, time-wUrn looking
o affair. She has assembled the rough
;, steps, at the. foot;of which stand the
:, two men who have bound her delicate
% hands behind her; she stands not two
= feet in front of the board which is
q held in an inclined position by one OF
-, the executiOneers. On this board she
j IS to throw her body forward and la,
;, her head upon the block. ] could
never have believed thatqwax could
, tell such ar eloquent story of despair
i, and resignation us breathed forth from
g every line of the sad face and black
, robbed, dropping figure. The soft
hair, ''grown white i'll Il single night, .
rests like al aureO!e round the strong
e sweet face mot unlike that of Napo-
leon) while the inquiring eyes gaze 81
- fearlessly into futu-ity seem to ques-
=, tion the fate OF d nation which is thus
. merciiessly putting to death the limo
cent 'heiress of ages of tyranny. No
Il one should fail to see this.
/ The: great Ferris wheel, which l
i, approached in, fear and trembling
q proved to be a very tame affair. There
:, was no sensation of either revolving OF
8 descending to cause any fear. The
g view, while fine, did not come up to
!. my expectation. -.
o Last night we took IN Ali Bahia at the
Chicago opera house., To-day (Sun-
day. we spent the morning Lincoln
!, park; this aftercoon visited the North
q western University at Evanston, and
# this evening had our souls thrilled
g with Thoughts too great tor 'utrerance
4 while listening to the grand tones of
e the organ at st. Michael's cathedral,
q the largest and one of the finest in tue