The Progress., 1893-05-13

and movement of the more frequcnted
highways The nations which have build
ings of their own are Germany, Urea
Britain, Spain. Italy, France, Canadei
Hayti. East India. sweden, NenczuolT'
Turkey. Brazil, Colombia. Guatemala
Costa Rica. Ceylou and Japan. The last
named stands apart from the others. occG
pyng the prCttiest spot in the whole en-
closure. the wooded island which rest
within the water space almost IN TN" cen
ter of the grounds. Here the Japanes,
have built what Is one of the greatest at
fractions to the fair, the Hooden palaco
modelled after the famous HOo-doO palaCi
which stands near 10 kiotO. Every dag
thousands of visitors cross the bridges C.
see the temple, aud the thrifty japanese
the Yankees of the Orient, carry OF
a hourishiug business in tea and curios.
As have said, the foreign exhibits are
everywhere In the Women's building
the women of Great Britain have n most
interesting exhibit. in the Horticultural
and Agricultural halls the foreigners ar
almost as conspicuous relatively rs the
are in the great main structure, and in TIA
Electricity and Machinery department.
they are lively rivals for supremacy. Th9
best display i'm the Mining building IL
made by n German house. and outside thu
principal departments there * no single
exhibit that compares in popular Interest
with that of Krupp and his great gun. In
the Transportation building the Eng
li,h show their locomotives and coaches
their switching and other devices, and thj
display of models of ships aud steamers, ol
boats and vehicles, is worldwide in it,
scope.
But for our foreign friends the most
novel and picturesque feature of the fair
the Midway plaishnce, would he rather
dismal. This stretch of ground is sort
of side-shOw, and of the forty concessions
more than one-half are for foreign curl.
osities or aggregations. Here is the true
Cosmopolitanville. A simple list of the
shows, and this ain incomplete one, Is suiii.
cient to indicate to the reader that If hs
wishes To see the world and its people he
need not spend n thousand dollars in cir
cumnnyigating the earth, but simply come
here and spend fvG-dollar note in al.
mission fees. Here are the international
beauty show, the Irish village, the Ger
man village, the Tyrolese, the japanese
bazaar, the Fiji islanders, the men from
Borneo and New Zealand, the street in
Cairo with shop and mosque, the Chinese
village, the Turkish bazaar, 10 model OF ~
Peters at Rome, the Dahomey village, the
Laplanders. Buffalo Bills American In
dians, an Algerian temple and theater, q
French cider press, Vienna cafe, Moor
ish palace, two cr'ick military bands from
the German army, and Hagenback's ag
gregation of the animals of all climes and
lands will make n fitting complement OF
this most complete display ofiuternationa
life. industry and trade ever brought to
gether These are all money-making Gle
vices, and an admission fee is charged &
see most of the sights, but the fees ar,
moderate and all the regulations and th'
police control are under the management
of the exposition.
Taking the expositiol as "a whole, th'
latest official figures show shat fifty for
eign nations and thirty-seven of thei
colonies are participating in one way o
another They have together made tn
Columbian exposition notable for tn
number, the richness and interesting char
acter of the international exhibit. No
even at Paris, it is said, was the cosmopol
itanism more conspicuous or picturesque
ROBERT GRAVES.