The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-09-09


And That 1t Will be Bigger Yet.
He Thinks IL Nip and Tuck Between
Midway Plaisance and the Cali
fornia Exhibit---West Virginia is
all Right---ske is Square and only
Tries to Show What She Really Has
Special corr. OF the NEW DOMINION:
CHICAGO, Aug. 80 wish to give
the readers of the New DOMINION
some of the impressions made by
brief visit to the White City The
arrival of the West Point Cadets,
West Virginia and Delaware, Illinois
and other state days, and the fine
weather on the Lake front, afforded
visitors of the latter part of August
fine opportunities to see the wonder
full sights and greatly increased the
daily attendance which ranged dur
ing the period named from 10000
to 247,000 paid admissions daily, the
last named being on Illinois day.
Despite the many uncomplimen-
tary things that have been said by
newspapers, that seemed jealous be-
cause the Windy City secured the
Fair, it now seems almost certain to
become a success, and that it ought
to be, no one who views the wonder
full display can well dispute
Beginning with the brain work
which planned the grounds and loea-
ted the buildings and exhibits and
the engineering talent necessary to
model and construct the immense
buildings, the mind at most becomes
bewildered, and we exclaim Grand !
Wonderful Gorgeous!
The limits to which | am pre-
scribed will prelude going into de
tail, and / shall have to confine my
self to the foot and Snobble" as
one fellow called it.
wish / could only 90 into detail
as the rustic was determined to do
who took his wife through the Exit
so they might 'see it all"
OF course much of the exhibit is
only what you could see on a more
extended scale elsewhere, as the
many Exhibitors have only 1.-THE
of their resources.
Tiffany at Chicago is not Tiffany
at New York, but the display in the
various buildings here gives you an
idea of the whole world in nut shell.
Take the Weman's building and
you readily see her handicraft and
the many other buildings, fully rep
resent their various departments. In
the Government building all sorts of
ordnance, implements of war and all
the departments Of the service.
The Fishery building gives you
sights you might search long for
elsewhere.
Machinery Hall, with so much
wonderful machinery. mostly in mo-
ton, can only impress you of how
very little you have ever seen.
The transportation building shows
all from the hand sled that we rude
ly formed when kid, to the very
fine hearse that will carry the Arts
tocraey to their last abode.
The Electric building-well you
could not appreciate it, or compre-
bend it except by seeing the display,
The Shoe and Leather building,
the Forestry building and Horticul-
tural Hall any of which are almost
o Worlds Fair in themselves.
The exhibits of the different Ma
tionalities in the various departments
was to your correspondent very in
teresting feature.
Horticultural Hall with its won
derful fruits and plants makes an
cid person feel that they would like
to be young again.
! might also name the Cliff Dwell
ers, The Stock pens and Buffalo Bills
Wild West the latter just on the out
side as an extra.
In the stock department we find
between s and 8 hundred horses and
|, POS head of cattle.
In the horse stables are varieties
extending from Shetland pony colts
to the heaviest norman percheron
stations, and in the cattle line from
Jerseys to black Polled Argus, Here
fords and Shorthorns, weighing up
to 5000 pounds.
The last of next month the sheep
and hog exhibit will also be on hand
and will doubtless be immense.
With brief notice of some of the
State buildings and Midway Plat
sance, / must conclude this letter.
In State exhibits at her own build
ing and in the various other build
ings it is hardly necessary to dispute
the fact that California leads all.
Her exhibit of fruits, plants, miner
ais, etc, is immense. Washington,
Iowa, Wisconsin and others press
closely upon her, and the exhibits
are wonderful. For quantity Cali
fornia leads. For beauty of design
Iowa. For the wonderful in natural
resources give us Washington. Logs
in her State building 3x35 feet square,
cut from trees 240 to $50 feet long,
and flag pole 215 feet high and
looks more than foot in diameter
at top cut from a single tree Iowa
has her corn ears over two feet long
and her apples two years old, and
her State building most artistically
decorated with her various grains.
Virginia gives us Mount Vernon;
Florida an old Fort.
While Illinois may have her flag
the highest New York and Pennsyl-
vania can well compete with her in
State buildings. and all the States
represented have made creditable
displays.
While West Virginia has attemp-
ted nothing ostentatious or attrac-
tive she gives in the various depart
ments the solid facts, no monstrosi-
ties, no receptions of any kind. Her
grain, wool, timber, minerals and
other resources "Just as they are"
and her Commissioners deserve cred
it for their honesty, and for the very
creditable display made. West Vir-
ginia has resources-West Virginia
has brains and West Virginia will be
heard from later.
In leaving the grounds you can
come out through the Midway Plai-
sance if you wish and see its many
side shows and sights of various ma
tionalities but you can live without
these.
Last, but by no means least is the