The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-07
SEE THE FAIR IN SECTIONS
How to Spend Ten Days at the Column
bian Exposition Most Probably.
1t Will Unfold Its Glories Slowly. and II Is Best
to Begin with a New Group Every Morn
ing and End by Making the Grand Tour.

Will squander it IN aimless wanderlngs
uugulded by knowledge or any definite
purpose. Others will wisely spend ten
golden days as if they were so many weeks
and will take away with them into worka-
day life a treasury of vivid impressions
that will return the expenditure o hun.
oredfold.
However you come, whether for profit Oh
the pleasure of sightseeing. your purpose
will be defeated if a haphazard method 10
followed. Before o leave home read NJ
on the fair. Nothing is SO depressing in
foreign travel as the sight of the everlsst-
ing parties of tourists with their noses in
guide books, religiously examining right on
the spot. A catalogue is a very good thing
in the fine arts building or If you are maxi
ing q study of q special line of exhibits.
otherwise it serves but to pile mp your
mind with useless lumber. Decide upon
what You want TO see before you come ct
all. and see that first. Each day have o
clearly defined idea of what you want to do
and how to do il with the least expense OF
time and energy, Don't be diverted from
your parpose by the thousand and one dis
fractions that will beset you on every side.
for the worlds fair will have many gor-
geous and absorbing tales TO tell. and each
will i~nsidiousiy suggest another. as they
did in the fertile brain Of Scheherazade.
You have to consider that the Worlds
Exposition Is q great city In it
self. that extends over an area of i've hum
dred acres. and measures q mile and q half
within Its northern and southern limits; .
city laid out on euch spacious lines that to
cover Its streets and waterways Is @ days
journey; q city ideally planned, where
every house Is a palace enriched beyond
description both within and without. and
TO any and all of which might be applied
the name bestowed on st. Seters in The
Marble Fawn:" "A great jewel casket."
DON'T BE TEMPTED ASIDE.
The buildings will seem huddled to-
gether inconseauently to the visitor who
comes upon them unprepared. The vast
ness of the fair, the distances lent by the
fine study of perspective and the endless
succession of beautiful; vistas and detail
will bewilder the senses so that you are
likely to leave it all confused and dazzled.
as IL you had been lost In en Oriental laby-
ninth. You Will be enraptured by q hun
dred things: a noble dome wrought in asad
sincerity. q classic cOlODnade. q brldg Ill
the Bridge Of Signs. a statue. fountain.
fresco. some untold wonder of Horticulture.
q root OF red Spanish tiles. o cluster OF
aerial minarets, or q glimpse of the Mid way
Plaisance, that. like the green fairy of abb
sinthe, is not to be looked upon and resist
ed. Then there will be the babel of strange
tongues and the briberies of foreign wares.
and unboly rites and customs to beRuile
you from your purpose.
A strong temptation Will be upon you to
see the whole fair grounds the first day. or
rather to drift whlthersoever the fancy of
the moment listeth-a temptation that / am
not sure | should be able TO resist. but one
TO which IL would not be wise to yield I'M
less you have at least q month for your
visit. Let the wonder unfold themselves
In sections for the traditional nine days
anC on the tenth day bind the fragments
of your Impressions together By taking the
grand tour.
Study this dull plan of the grounds as q
lesson at school. and the arran gements, ap-
parentiy so complex. will be seen to, be
very simple and easily divisible into
groups. taking any point as O center. The
west boundary line Of jackson Park il
pierced by gates at every street, SO that to
reach the most remote. part of the fair it ID
necessary to walk only the width OF the
grounds. On the lake front the entrance ID
at the south end. through the casino.
On the tiIst day of G visit TO the fair. or il
l had but one day, L should say go by water,
see the great statue of the republic from
die OF the peristyle thai connects the Casino
with the Music Hall and look mp the grand
court. This 10 the Arc de TrlOmph of the
exposition. On the top of it n colossal
eAOeb q - IL
umphal entry into a new world In some
thing that looks like q Roman chariot. You
might think this was meant for the chariot
race from "Ben-Hur," but the anaohronism
is explained TO be symbolic and consistent
with the canons of art. Make your first
entrance here and four last exit and vol
will have two pictures hung on the walls Of
memory that will never fade.
1t is Venice of the days when the doge
welded the sea at his feet with q golden
ring Before you is a basin of water ten
acres in extent, with shelving banks Of
green turf and broad flights of steps that
lead mp to palaces so vast. so white. of such
aerial grace that they seem TO be of the
stuff that dreams are made of. At the far.
thest end, completing the Enclosure of this
Venetian grand canal. Is the architectural
glory of the worlds fair-the lofty golden
dome of the Administration Building,
piercing a sky blue as Iapiz lazuli. On the
one side stretch the COrinthian columns of
the Liberal Arts Building. and on the other
the classic renaissance facade OF the Agrt-
cultural Hall, with the st. Gsndens Diana
poised on the dome. East of this. on q lit
tie promontory, is the ancient monastery
Of La Rabida. with its historical treasurer
Beyond there are glimpses of other palsces
and of bridges spanning the streets OF
water between.
GLoRIEs TAKEN IN GROUPS.
The buildings about the grand court,
including the Forestry Exhibit. Machinery
Hall and the Model Dairy and Stock Pa
vilion to the. south. constitutes one group
for convenience In sightseeing that may
occupy a day or a month. Further west
the Electricity. .Mipes and Mining and
Transportation buildings form another
about the south end of the lagoon. In
leaving the Mines Building ct the north
ern entrance the Pompeiian ~frescoes of the
TRANSPORTATION Building will come upon
you es a gorgeous surprise. After the white
wonders of the grand court the warm terra
Gotta walls, brilliant fresco NJ of the
frieze. bronzed statuary. series of ornate
arches OF R~omanesque design and the glory
of the golden door will seem an opulent
dream that runs the whole chromatio scale
In riotous splendor.
This is beautifully set off by the greenery
in the Horticultural Hall TO the north. and
the lagoon Is completed In the classic re-
pose of the Woman's Building. To these
last two seems TO belong especially the
sylvan beauties of the wooded island. with
it's hunters camp, odorous rose garden and
the almost feminine delicacy OF treatment
OF the japanese phRnix palace.
The fourth group lies at the porth end OF
the lagoon and includes the beautiful
Spanish RomaDesque Fisheries Building.
whose exterior is q JOY forever; the Govern
meDt Building. directly south of II. with
Uncle Sans interesting exhibit. and the
curious headquarters of all foreign coun-
tries along the northeast shore.
There remains then 10 be seen the Fine
Arts Building. with the headquarters of
States grouped about 10. and the Midway
Plaisance. in which. in your least response
BILE hours. you may ind endless diversion.
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