The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-28
The COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
Some Valuable Watches The Electric
and TRANSFORMATION Buildings.
The Midway piaisance. Hagenbeck's
shows.-The Eskimo Village, and u
Thousand Other Things.

Thousand Other Things.
Perhaps youth6ught you were through
with the manufacturers building, but
you must spare q few moments to look at
the Suisse exhibit of watches. We never
really admired watches until we saw these.
There were three which most attracted
our attention. One about the size of an
ordinary lady's watch the back of which
was completely setwith pearls. Another
the same size set with diamonds. They
cost $1,000, The third was tiny affair
about the size of ii nickel, the back Of
which was one large diamond. The
price of this was, also, $500. If you
wish to examine Il closely, they will take
great pleasure ip handing it TO you across
the counter and lifting you hold 1t for
yourself. The most beautiful bracelets
you see here with little watches on the
top. The crowd around these show cases
was larger, il seemed to me, than any.
where else in the building, One other
thing in the building and we are through
This is a piece OF fancy work: it is a
slumber robe made on the Standard sew.
ing machine. II Is called ian ocean
dream" The center is embroidered in
grey silks-an initiation OF fish scales.
The inside Of the twelve.inch border IS in
delicate blues, green's, and piuks, repre-
senting sea weed and sea shells. The out
side of the border is 10 light transparent
color, representing the fins and tail of fish.
Before visiting any of the other exhib.
IS, drop into Van Houten's little choco.
late colored building, where for cts. you
can refresh yourself with CUP of cocoa
and reception waters. The furnishings of
this building are entirely from Holland
and the walters are dressed in native cos.
tunes.
The fisheries building is quickly passed
through, except the aquarium; this will
take quite while. You must see the
white whale, calico bass, hermit crab, toad
fish, ETC., as one Is always more interested
in something little out OF the ordinary.
We were foswp,ts enough to happen in
the electricacbuilding one evening Just as
they we're unyeiling the beautiful electric.
al pillar This is white, with different
colored lights running in variety of pat
terms from the top to the bottom. Then
they would illuminate these to the tune Of
the "The Beautiful Blue Danube" waitzes,
first the blue and yellow, then the Grim.
sou and green, then altogether, and so on,
making most magnificent display. The
grounds are beautiful at night when they
are illuminated throughout with these
electric lights; indeed, think it would
battle anyone's powers Of description.
| think that almost everyone agrees that
the transportation building eXcels them
all in the beauty Of It's exterior; and
we enjoyed us interior fully as much
us any OF the other buildings. Here
you see all the modes Of conveyance from
the first OK team 10 the modern tandem;
the boats and models of boats Pullman
palace. cars; the boat in which Grace
Darling saved SO many lives; the Plnta of
Columbus; the modern snow plOw used in
the mountains; the first engine run cut of
Chicugo-tlme aud space will permit us TO
speak Of only q few Of the many things OF
ipterest
In the government building, Of all the
many things which we enjoyed we will
speak of but two. The fish hatchery was
the most crowded OF any Of the depart
ments: and the cases Ot articles from the
dead letter office; here you will fluid al-
most everything you could mention, even
false sets of teeth.
Machinery hall, with It's. weaving of
cloth and maklug OF baskets. Is good
place TO siRht-see, but very poor place
to rest in, with Its many machines in con.
stant motion.
No one should attempt TO go through
the art building without h guide book.
There are so many Of the pictures and
statues that were SO fine and 80 much
above our comprehension That we did not
care 70 spend much time with them
when we found something we enjoyed
1t was quite comfort TO find out the
name and all we could concerning IT, /
think the gallery Of pictures loaned by
people In the United States was as inter.
estlng 10 us as any. You can spend days
In this building, or you can hurry through
In a few hours.
or all the buildings on the grounds,
none attracted more attention while we
were there than the woman's building:
firstly on account Of the exhibits, and sec.
ondly because on the third floor Of said
building you could procure the beet meal
for the smallest sum of any place on the
you had the patience TO wait
two or three hours Tor Il. This building
is the hardest to describe. You must step
In the Cincinnati room for moment, and
do not fail % lonk At The ceiling; all The
work In this room, intending the irescong
and carving, was done by women. The
ceiling is beautiful beyond description