The state chronicle., 1893-04-18

The population consists of $50
Turks, sixty horses, forty camels
and dromedaries and various small
fry which bear relations towards the
larger number of the Turks very
much as trimmings are ranked with
proportion to a dish They also
have dancing girls, besides actors
and actresses, native band and
orchestra, and Moham.nedan priests.
It is said thst the value of their ex-
hibition will exceed s1500,O00 Only
a portion of it is here as yet, but
it is all promised by May 1st, and
the work Of erecting tee booths is
Well in progress.
TO jump from Turkey down to
Bolivia is somewhat OF g step, yet
this is what the visitor can do, for
there have arrived band Of Boliv-
ian Indians, prodigious Bolivian
giant, ana nora dancers and mon
keys. Vancouver Indians, too, are
here.
All this is in the Midway Plais-
ance, iong strip of land especially
set apart for peculiar diversions.
It is 600 feet wide and seven
eighths of a mile long, and contains
80 acres of ground. Here will be
also the Austrian village, Bohem-
ian glass factory, a Dahomey vii
lage, Dutch settlement, East Indian
settlement, German village, Irish
cottage industries, Moorish pal
ace, Pomr aian house, besides a
thousand other smaller affairs.
Some of these things are entirely
complete, but others are net. One
very interesting feature of the
Plaisance has just come in the
shape Of Prof. Carl Eagenbeck's
Hamburg menagerie. The long
and hard study that men have
made almost since the world began
to train wild beasts has been mas
tered by him successfully. His
assistant, Merhrmann, collected the
beasts and trained them, so that
he is entitled % as much credit as
Hasenbe k. The performance
promises to be of 8 most exciting
description. The animals come into
the ring at the same time. They
consist of six lions, two tige, s, two
leopards, two black bears, one polar
bear and six large fox hounds, max
ing nineteen in all, except that the
| fox hounds must be ranked as assist
ants in the training. The professor
is armed with no other weapon than
a light switch. The animals GO
through a great variety Of tricks
Besides these, he has also a number
of less fierce animals, such as ele-
plants, monkeys, ETC., which are
also trained. These last hardly
come under the head Of strange
people at the Fair, yet they art
found in the same locality, and viii
doubtless be seen by the same visi
tors.
The truth is that there is hardl,
a people on earth that one will no
find represented in his native life a
the fair. As for Jap snese. they viii
appear in all their phases. Their
are japanese bazaars, Japanese tea
4 houses, and pits of genuine Japa
/ nese scenery. A miniature Chin
will be here, too, including q com
e pany of Chinese actors who will &C
0 one play all summer. The red maj
q of the plains will pitch his tent o
+ wigwam; the cliff dwellers hav
: erected huge artificial mountain
t where they will show all their pecu
: liarities. According to foreign az
e preparations, the largest is that Q
: France, which allow, $733,4O
e for participation; Germany come
g nex5 with $500 200; Japa
d next with s63O,765; and Brs
/ zil follows with $60O.00O Their
r are hardly any governments whic
y have not appropriated, and eve
e those who have not will not be rel
b resented through private subscril
ton, The British Parliament q,
Is propriased $4,000 for participi
ss ton, but all the various British co
., onies have made separate appropr
e ations, bringing the total for tt
. British Empire tar above a millio
x dollars.
le If all the foreign exhibits tur
6 out as they promise to dc, it ma
l. be truthfully said that one ca
rs learn more of foreign ways an
l. people at Jackson Park than
q could learn in considerable trav
g abroad.
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