Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-27
The Editors Vacation.

The first entrance into the Exposi-
ton grounds is bewildering. Great
white buildings loom up on every hand
intersecting streets lead in all direc-
tions; the grounds are cut up into
miniature peninsulas. islands and con-
tinents, by the lagoons which beautify
and, with their craft, enliven the whole
area. The crowds of people, the flags,
the music all make the Fair a contin-
ued holiday, and the eyes grow tired
with endeavOrs to take in the tout
ensemble of the big show. 1t reaches
that. We had determined, beforehand,
to ''do' the Fair Systematically, but
no system was big enough for the occa-
sion, and the succeeding five days were
given up to go-as-y you-please sight-see
ing. And even then, with no set
amount of work to do, and opportunity
for rest and refreshment on every hand,
at all hours, the evenings found US SO
tired and footsore that, seated in the
wagonette bowling along rapidly to the
hotel, it was agonizing merely to look
at the pedestrians plodding on either
side!
Our party these days consisted of
four-Mr and Mrs. McMullin and the
writer and his better half. Mac is one
of the most indefatigable of walkers,
and each evening found him apparently
as fresh and unconcerned as when first
he strobe thro' the gates at early morn.
We envied his endurance, his freedom
from corns, and his lack of advoirdu
pois. When the cool weather sets in,
we are going to take walking lessons,
train down all winter and spring, and
when next the Association meets and
excurses to the land of the Aztecs, we'll
try his metal on the streets and in the
environs of Old Mexico. 1t is record
cd. SO mote it bel
First we entered the Missouri Build
ing, registered, and deposited in the
check-room shoe-box filled with
luncheon, furnished US by landlord
Bliss that morning. Then, stripped of
all impedimenta, we sailed forth the
sights to see. The Illinois exhibit,
which, contrary 10 the rule, is in the
State building, Was the first examined.
OF course, It's principally agricultural,
but in the mineral way Il is not to be
sneeZed at. Among the other attrac-
tions here. is d large picture of a farm
wheat fields. meadows, horses, barns,
etc.-ln made from various colored |
grasses and wheat stalks. The inside |
building is lacquered, dadoed, and else
wise ornamented, with corn cut across
the cob; and beans and seeds of all |
varieties and colOrs, enclosed in glass
and so arranged as to form all the
shapes known to inlaid work. The
effect is fine, and at a short distance
the eye leads one to believe he is look
ing on walls upon which the highest
efforts Of the painters art have been
The display of fruits, large
md small was good, but Old Missouri
lidn't need to stand abashed before it.
Next, the Horticultural Building
vas taken in. and all the plants and
Ill the flowers of all the world We're
lere represented. Palms, cacti, giant
erns. palmettos, banana plants, mag
lolias, and thousand other forms of
vegetable and tree life, some of them
With corrugated names as long as your
arm. Flowers u.s. no tongue ,
Ould tell, no pen set down, nor types
ncompass the varieties, their shapes,
olors, etc. We only know that two