The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-05-18
The Valley Virginian.
CLIFTON FORGE, VA.
D. S. E,cHELsERcER, Editor and prop'r.
"a MARVEL OF THE WORLD
A Globe Girdler's Rapturo1s View
Of the Great Fair.

CHICAGO, ILL. May element Scott,
associate editor of the London Times,
and one of the foremost journalists and
critics in England. is lost in admiration
of the Worlds Fair, which he has come
from England to see. The following
dispatch Mr. Scott writes for publicaS
ton exclusively for the San Francisco
Coronicle and the New York Press:
81 find the Worlds Fair the greatest
and most marvellous and astounding re-
suits Of mans enterprise, industry and
artistic taste in this wide world. This
is a bold statement, but one that am
in a position to make, for have just
been around the world and beheId with
my own eyes the marvels of the Creator
and the miracles of man.
Just consider for an instant what
have seen since | left London on de-
plorably foggy and heartbreaking day
kneit in the sanctuary of st. Peters at
Rome and wandered awestruck in the
once buried and now resurrected cities
of Pompeii and Herculaneum. | have
mounted to the topsof Vesuvius, steam
ing with lava, and the highest pyramid
in the Egyptian desert, and then stood
gazing on the scene of embodied history,
dating from the finding of Moses in the
bplIrushes down to the battle of Tel Ell
Kelran and the story of the English oc>
cupation. | have ridden on camel
across the burning sand to the spot
where stands the satirical and melancho-
ly sphynx and drank of the waters OF
the old Nile, on which floated once the
the barges of Antony and Cleopatra.
have seen the Parsee beat the Eng
lishlnan at cricket under a burning sun
in beautiful Bombay, and watched the
grim vultures swoop away from the
CHASTITY death feast of the Towers of Sis
lnece | have ridden on the largest ele-
plant l have ever seen to the mountain
palaces at Jeyport in India, and gazed
enchanted at the marvel of milk white
loneliness the Tay Mahal at Old World
Ogra. / have relived in imagination in
the unutterable horrors of the Indian
mntiny at Delhi, Cawnpore and Luck
now, and seen how the Hindoos ere1nate
river at Benares and Calcutta. | have
dreamed away the summer days in the
flower gardens of Teylon, interviewed
Arab Pasha at mountain hotel sur
rounded by lilies. and studied the
growth and manufacture of the tea, cot
fee and cinnamon in the beautiful es-
tate of Thomas Upton, close by where
Bishop Reginald Heber prayed in
poems.
I have been to the Celestial home of
John Chinaman in Canton, surely the
most wonderful city in the world, and
studied the Potter's field on execution
ground, where they slice off rebels
heade 40 at q time, like carrots, while,
at night on the Canton River, have
been the guest of q millionaire manda>
rim in one of the flower boats that can
only be likened to Aladdin's palace. l
have been entertained by my home-sick
countrymen at Shanghi. Penang and
Singapore, and sailed, like Piarre Lott,
into the harbor of Nagasaki, to be like
him, absolutely disenchanted by dozens
of Nine. Chrysanthemums at tea hous-
es in Japan, Toxic and Maganoshita,
and Yokohama.
have visited them all, and returned
astonished and disheartened from the
overadvertised land of the Milkado.
And now / have come to Chicago, have
seen the Worlds Fair as it stands, have
been an eyewitness of the marvellous
scene of the opening day, and can draw
my own conclusions as to the pleasure
that is in immediate preparation for the
travellers and sightsears of the world.
What wonderful showl The visitors
stand transfxed to the spot. Now for
the first time they can see in one huge
space what they have never seen before.
We have had electric exhibitions and
fishery exhibitions, and machinery ex-
hibitions, and flower shows, and picture
shows, by the score, but never before
congregated together and amalgamated
conveniently like this.