The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-19
The Indian School at Chicago.

EDITOR Posr.-The trip which has
been the one theme of conversation
among the hundreds of boys and
girls of the Indian Industrial School
has ut last taken place. 1t was not
little thing to take nearly 600 boys
and girls OF all ages to Chicago, allow
them to roam the Fair Grounds
alone and bring them back safely.
But Capt Pratt was equal to the
undertaking. The trip was well
executed.
Our train composed of eleven cars
landed us at Windsor Park, South
Chicago, on Monday night. We
spent four days at the Fair. In this
short time We could not study the
wonderful exhibits in detail but
could only get n general idea of this
most wonderful place on earth.
The Gov building, especially the
Smithsonian Institute exhibit, the
Fisheries, Manufactures and Wo-
mans Buildings were the most in.
teresting to me. Cairo Street on
Midway Plaisauce gave me better
idea OF Oriental city life Shan / ever
had before. | tasted their "Bum-
bun (candy) which these foreigners
Keep singing into your ears con-
stantly. | couldn't leave without n
ride on the Ferris Wheel. Looking
down on the White City and out
upon the lake FOR several miles, while
one is being suspended go It. above
the moving mass below, made an i'm
preston upon my mind which shall
never forget.
The fire works in the Court of
Honor and on the Lake shore were
magnificent and held us almost spell
bound for three hours. am not in
clined to be sentimento', as 7
stood on one of the ,nany bridges
that span the 10 On to the beau,
tiful Woodo -sland and saw the
electrical fountain at play, with its
many colors, and then turned to the
island lit up by thousands of color
ed lights and Japanese lanterns
hung artistically among the shrub.
berry, L felt that / was in another
world. The sweet strains of music
that floated through the air from the
gondolas that glided noiselessly
about i'll the lagoon, the perfumed
atmosphere, everything about the
place tended to soothe me and
arouse all that is good end noble and
uplifting III ones nature. | can't de-
scribe the Fair. And no person
whose soul has not been thrilled by
the beauty and magniiicence of the
grounds is capable of imagining it
from the descriptions.
A few more words about our boys
and girls. They marched to the
grounds in companies headed by
their officers just rs they do here ut
school. We all wear yellow badges
and passed into the grounds free on
condition that concert be given in
Choral Hall on Tuesday and that
the Band play several selections
daily on the grounds. The boys
gave drill aud dress parade daily ut
4:3O on the Administration plaza.
All this was well done and cheerfully
too, as one of the objects in coming
to the Fair was to show what can be
done with the Indian in n few years
OF training in civilization Very few
visited Buffalo bills Indian show, al
though they were admitted free.
They We're ashamed of it. They are
proud of their attainments and anX-
ious to make others feel that the
efforts Uncle Sam puts forth for
them are not III vain. As the train
pulled out of Carlisle one of the girls
said to her friend. Here goes nine
carloads of civilized Indians" And
so they are. How their faces bright
ened rs they reached the Carlisle eX-
hibit Here they gathered in little
groups every day looking upon their
own work with feeling of satisfac-
ton and JOY. They were turned |
loose" Immediately upon entrance
to the Fair, and always found their
way back without any trouble
Their observing powers are highly |
cultivated. The round trip over the
Intramural II. II. was n treat enjoyed |
by ALL The band played frequently |
and the girls sang America" and |
Nearer My God to Thee" Round |
after round of applause, and hun
dreds of waving handkerchiefs gave