Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-27
THE CN|LDREN'S WEEK,
TEev Took Possession of the Worlds
Fair and Run Things Their
Own Way.
Buffalo Bill Negotiating For Midway's
Leading Attractions to Go to
Brooklyn With Him.
Interesting Railroad Exhibits, Par
ticularly Those Made BY the
Baltimore & Ohio.

JACKSON PARK, Chicago, Oct. 90
Especial correspondence The kids have
taken possession Of the fair this week.
They come in gangs, in droves, in groups
of twos and threes. Occasionally a pair
OF tots who haven't been provided with
means to come by their parents, go
alone and may be seen in Midway Plais-
ancc taking in it's attractions without
costing them a cent. AS if led by ma
ture they stray into the same places as
The older heads. They ride on the
camels, take in Haggenbacks, go around
on the wheel, slide on the ice track, hear
the Swiss girls sing aud sec the wicked
dances. The terminal stations and the
state buildings are overrun with them.
Yon meet them in gangs hanging on to
Il rope attached to a teacher, or they
are held together by some other device.
You meet them in the manufacturers or
other buildings and feel like giving
them the right Of way at once. Cen
orally they behave like little gentlemen
and ladies and show that they have
been bred in quiet and a%ffectionate
families, but sometimes it becomes neces-
sary to take heroic measures with them
and tach them lessons in behavior that
will be valuable if remembered. Thou
sands come with their parents or friends
but a still greater number come as a re-
suit of contributions made by the
charitably disposed, many of whom
have provided for a thousand or more
each.
The attendance increases day by day
ard often reaches the near vicinity of
100000, but so far the North Dakota
and Chicago remain the greatest days
of the fair. The directory has decided
to keep the gates open as late in Novem-
ber as the receipts will justify. In that
they are sensible but none of the states
have made provision by legislation for
maintaining their exhibits after the
first of the month. The foreigners do
not show a disposition to remain on OK
pense to their respective governments
after the exposition proper Las closed.
Those exhibitors who failed to gain
awards are sufficiently amosed; those
who have won awards in many instances
have no reason to remain, and generally
there is a disposition to get away as
soon as possible. Midway and it's at
fractions may linger until a new and
better location is secured. Negotiations
are on, headed by Buffalo Bill, for the re-
moval of the main attractions from Mid
way in connection with his greatest
show on earth to Brooklyn.
North Dakota folks come and go and
those who have changed residence to
other states are frequent visitors, but
none are 80 warmly welcomed as MI.
and Mrs. Graham, now of the Baltimore
& Ohio, residing at Cleveland. They
come often and bring a flush of sun
shine to the cheeks of all who meet and
have the opportunity to greet them.
Mr.. Graham wa in this morning, and
MIR. Odell, who was 80 long with the
Northern Pacific, and has proven him
self on so many occasions the friend of
Bismarck and Of our people, is in the
city.
Speaking of these old time friends, re-
minds MI of a paragraph in my CORE
spondence to the St. Paul Globe IN
which I said: Zone only needs to go
into the Transportation building to
realize that here are some of the grand
est attractions of the fair. The Baltl-
more & Ohio, for instance shows the
evolution OF the railroad tracks, engines
and cars from the first idea Of steam
transportation by land to the present
and in full working models"
We find full sized models of the old
time track and.the successive stages in
the development of all that pertains to
railroad construction-the track inolud-
ing ties, rails, bars, spikes and ballast
beginning with the wooden skid roads
and wooden tramways used in the mines.
sAOOOO UuOl0 40 q 6oCUAOu VI VAC n1AA1V0l
road built by Caesar shown in onnec
ton with the perfect railroad tracks Of
to-day by means of which millions IF
troops could quickly be moved from one
part of the country to another. Isaac
Newton's first idea of the steam engine
is produced in working models. It dates
back to 1850, and the result is more like
an old fashioned iron kettle turned bot
tom up on a cart than an engine of the
present day. There is a steam wagon
of 1769-71, a three.wheeled engine of
1874, and a flat car built according to q
receded idea of propulsion on land by
steam in 1890. The "T%revithiok," an
idea Of 1900 is put into a working model
and shows what the engine would have
looked like, and there Is also a full
working model of the "Trevithick" of
1904, which was u part of the first
railroad train in the world, and in this
Connection there ara modela NJ the H0uth