Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1893-09-01
WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
Some Very Interesting Points Made by
Our Special Correspondent.

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Some Very Interesting Points Made by
Our Special Correspun,ient.
Very likely the Worlds Fair will not
close until Dec. l.. by act of Congress
| it is permitted to run until Jan. !.
1894. Cold weather will prevent that.
but it is reasonably certain that il
will not be closed as long as good
weather lasts. Two million people
passed the turnstiles in October at the
Centennial which was more than
double the attendance Of anv preced-
| ing month except August. 10 close
the gates Of the Worlds Fair the last
of October with a daily attendance of
| 100, 600 would not lie in keeping with
the usual policy of The directors. The
attendance at the air now is the best
ever known and is on the increase.
One great feature of the Fair very in
| teresting to large part of our pOpu-
latiOn is just opening. That is the
stock exhibit. Fifty-Seyen carloads
of exhibition stock came from Canada
one day last week. The exhibit opens
| to-day with show of Suffolk Punch
| horses and Short Horn cattle.
Midway Plaisance is peculiarly fas-
cinating to the American people. 1t
offers a rare opportunity to study
| foreigners and we are not slow in using
| it. From the first the broad, bOule-
ward lined with its scores of greatest
on earth" attractions has been filled
to the edge with eager sight-SeerS
Few persons visit all the attractions,
and few pass all by. "Old Vienna"
has no charms for Mr. Mike O'Brien,
and Donegal Castle lnG the Blarney
stone are not visited by the portly
German. What to see and what to
pass by becomes an important prob
lem. If this letter can help somewhat
those unacquainted with the ground
to solve this question we will be glad
Probably the best show on the
grounds for the money is Cairo street.
The narrow crowded street with its
awkward camelS, trOtting dOnkeyS,
turbaned Egyptians, and blackhaired
dirty Egyptian boys and girls, make a
scene to be remembered for life. I'm
less the visitor intends staying several
hours, he should be there shortly
before noon, I, or p. m, for at those
hours there is an Egyptian marriage
procession. The procession consists
Of a band, camels with the bridal
party, dOnkeys for the friends, maid
servants with pavilion for the
bride, and the unusual attending
crowd. Wrestling, juggling and
sword fighting form part of the cere-
monies.
The LibbeV Glass works show glass
factory in full operation. There are
on exhibition fine displays Of art and
engraved glass. and beautiful dress
made of glass threads for the Princess
Enlalia. The most wonderful thing
in the building il. the spinning wheel.
1t is six feetsiHs diameter and makes
250 revolutions per minute. The
flame of an alcohol lamp is blown on
the end of a glass rod until it begins
to melt. The drop Of molten glass is
allowed to fall on the buzZing wheel
and you see something almost incrcd-
ible. As the drop sticks to the wheel
the thread does not break but is drawn
from the rod at the rate Of 1900 feet
nearly mile minute.
The Moorish palace presents a
varied list of attractions more for
amusement than instruction. On
entering you find yourself in an
oriental palm grove that appears to be
of vast extent. Long rows Of gilded
pillars lead into the famed Alhambra
in the innermOSt part Of which the
Harem is discovered. Here the
Sultan sits surrounded by dancing
girls. In another direction narrow
stairway leads into an upper room and
on reaching the top you start back in
astOnishment. Before and all around
you is a great multitude of people.
TO make bad worse fOur-tfthS of the
people burst out laughing at your dis
cOmtiture. But the rest are in the
same plight as yourself and indeed
resemble YOU, and on looking close you
find they are only reflections of your
self and that there are only five differ
ent people in the whole thrOng. The
rest Of the attraction consist OF a
modern Mrs. Farley's wax work, and a
Moorish band and singers.
A ride on the Ferris wheel Is by no
means the exciting thing sketched by
wild Drained reporters, where women
faint and strong men" - heave up.
However, the trip is worth fifty cents
for the magnificent view 1t afford of
the white city" the garden city
and the lake. And inasmuch as visit
ors are no more allowed to go on the
tops of the high buildings it is the
only means of obtaining that view.
There is any number of other at
fractions well worth seeing but those
must be chose which are most con-
genial to the individual taste and in-
clination. The thOughtless or pleas
ure loving will visit the Algerian and
Turkish theatres, Hagenbecks ami
NAL show or the beauty show. Lovers
of art will visit the Bernese Alps or
the Alpine glowing, Lovers of the in"
| neninns will visit the sgOld mineN or