Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-10-13
FROM CHICAGO.

riety of its chunks. Almost every
other day for the last week the rain
has poured down in torrents. On
the other days the sky is clear and
die Narm, Iudian- summer air is
peculiarly de-. htful. The people
are not to be subdued by moisture
and have Aocked to the Fair with
overshoes and umbrellas with una
bdted interest. All they DO IS to roll
or hold their garments trife
hitler,
The Midway has been the Midway
very often of late but the bands play
the same old tune and the guileless
public does the rest.
The great Ferris wheel, of which l
spoke before, does more business and
makes more money than anything on
the place. Day and night its cars
are filed with an eager, half fright
ened people. The sensation of going
up aud around is peculiar. The view
is always splendid. There are 8
platforms, ranged three upon either
side at different elevations, 50 that
6 cars are TILED at once. You pay
before entering the gate so that con-
fusion Is avoided. The big thing
moves slowly around and stops very
gradually, A guard swings open the
door of car and in you go Two
rows of revolving seats face the Win
dows of the car, so that no one need
stand up. In a moment the great
mass gently starts aud the trip COM
mences. First you pass the geared
wheels which work into an immense
cog on the outer rim of the wheel.
Then you swing over the twin en-
gines of 1900 horse power that i'm
part the motion. Over the engines
the rise commences. So far there is
lutte feeling to it. Now you seem
to be pushed out and upward at The
same time. The scene below begins
to fatten out as you rise. Tops of
houses, roofs Of temples, spires and
Ccmes Of Oriental palaces sink slowly
downward. The view begins to be a
panorama of absorbing interest.
You turn aud look the othey way
toward the center Of the wheel. A
thousand slender rods and braces
are mixing and passing with a dizzy>
iug effect and far off the other cars,
seem descending much faster than
you are ascending. As you near the
level Of the axis the thing gives an
uncanny vib.- IN and stops. You
wonder if any ning has broken and
left you suspended in mid-air until
gradually it dawns upon you that
maybe other people are getting on
down below. Presently it starts
again and the scene becomes more
claiming every instant.
Away cut in front the roofs, domes
and flags of the white exposition
buildings ioom up as you have not
seen them before. Further away
the emerald and azure of Lake
Michigan blend into the sky. Black
masses of people surging through the
Midway seem more numerous than
any throng you ever saw and on a
far off railroad a miniature train
slowly crawls over its track. AS
you near the top the next lower car
shuts off the view forward and its
| top, rising to your level, makes it
seem that you are decending long
before you are at the pinnacle of goo
feet elevation. DEFENDING on the
other side the best view is out TO the
West. There the great plains stretch
away. unbroken by single elevation
and nearer the small lakes, the
groves and the grass plots of Wash
ington Park are laid out like re
lief map. Chicago is buried in
smoke haze-only its endless suburbs
are visible. When you are well
down on the defending side you
fancy that the wheel is going much
fasser than when you went up. a
misty idea that your weight is bear
ing down hard aud causing this un-
wonted speed, inomentarily possesses
you until the beams and rods mixing
up again make you turn your dizzy
eyes to the approaching earth. The
thing is continued until everyone has
gone around twice, then you get out
aud gaze III wonderment DIT the huge
structure. At night the whole cir
conference OF the wheel, with a