Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-25
THE WORLDS FAIR
Some Interesting Facts About
the Exposition.

S0'''0 Interesting FACTS ABOUT
the Exposition.
THE GROUNDS EASILY REACHED.
Street Car. Railway and Water Routes to
tho Greatest Show OH Earth-Th Conn
fort to BE taken on the Lake Shore IN
the Evening-Always Something New to
Sec.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. 10. - [spccial.l -
There are some facts about Chicago and
the fair which every hesitating American
ought to know. They have often been
published. and I have mentioned them,
hut as there are just nov some indications
thai many people are debating about IL
trip hither they deserve at least one more
publication, The first is the ease and
cheapness with which one may get from
amy part of the city to the grounds. From
the legion of new hotels in Hyde Park one
can walk in from five to fifteen minutes.
From any part of that division known as
.ne south side, meaning south of the
main river and east of the southern
branch thereof, he can ride ON the street
cars for five cents. in a time varying from
a quarter of an hour to an hour and
a quarter, while from the remotest sec
ions of the north side and west side only
another nickel fare is needed.
ANY one who is not a cripple can make
the Illinois Central station in fifteen min
utes from any place in the heart of the
city, and for ten cents can reach the gates
OF the White city in a few minutes. But
the incest trip, all things considered, is by
boat from the landings on the lake front.
One is thoroughly cooled, rested, and re-
freshed, and enters the central section of
the fair with a fine appetite for walking
and sightseeing. And on all the grounds
there is no more delightful place of after
Moons and evenings than the slope and
walk along the shore. In the morning the
sun beats on it a little too powerfully.
Passing out of the group of state build
ings at the northeast corner of the
grounds-on the lake side porch of sew
eral of these is a delightful place of rest
one can walk far to the southeast with the
blue-green waters of Lake Michigan to
his left and to his right in their turn the
buildings of France, Ceylon, Norway.
Germany, Spain, Canada and Great
Britain.
This brings the rambler to the north
pier, but if he has any sort of intelligent
curiosity about foreign peoples and
strange races, he will go lack and forward
there many times. just behind those
mentioned are the quaint little structures
of Costa RIGA, Colombia, Siam, the East
Indies, Hayti and New South Wales, and
back of the latter, between the North
Pond and Fisheries building, are a dozen
more interesting peoples, and all those
like all the others take their evening rec
reation on the lake front. There one can
see men of nearly all races and colors, clad
in their native costumes and ENJOYING
themselves in their home ways, and the
kinship of races is shown in at least one
thing-they all smoke tobacco. The lake
has been comparatively calm during al
most the entire fair, but in the only two
days of wind and storm it quite made
amends. Between the city landing and
the piers for the fair scores of passengers
took their first experience in sea sickness,
and the visitors from Indiana who came
across the south end of the lake land that
is the ~favorite way) had dreadful stories
to tell of their night of misery.
***
Between the north pier and the main
landing in front of the peristyle, the lake
shore sweeps inward in a grand semicircle,
and there OF finds of evenings chiefly an
American, at any rate an Aryan crowd.
1t is there that the open air restaurants
and win tables line the north side of the
great Manufactures building and therethc
most popular music is dispensed from the
band stand. On the broad promenade
and gently sloping shore, rough paved to
the waters edge, there is ample room for
100000 people to sit and enjoy the cool
air, the music, the moonlight on the lake,
or the fireworks on moonless nights, as
these last are sent up from a float some
distance out in the lake. Directly in front
of the famous brick battleship Illinois, the
more famous Viking ship is anchored, and
all day long visitors flock to inspect this
faithful reproduction of the ancient
Norseman's warship. South of the main
pier the first attraction on the lake front
is the convent La Rabida, and next in
turn are the Indian School, Krupp's ex-
hibit, the Forestry building, and in the
Va UuO RIOuuUSs CQe
Power house. And through all this grand
promenade ore rarely finds it too warm
after 3 p m, and never sees or hears any,
thing disagreeable. 1t is not only a con-
gress of nations, but of the ladies and
gentlemen Of those nations.
The greatest discovery a ma can make
at this fair is to discover himself. That is.
he finds himself capable of enjoying many
things he had previously taken no inter-
est in. And not only does he awaketo
many new beauties, but in time finds in
himself new capacities. For instance, I
have recently discovered that I have some
taste in art. Neither l nor my best
friends had ever suspected it, but it must
have been concealed about my person
somewhere, for every day l walk around
any big building l discover new beauties
in the exterior decorations, and every time
I visit the Fine Arts rooms l am delighted
with some beauty l had not seen before.
Some of the figures in other buildings,
those put up as mere curiosities, l dislike
and cannot tell why. The statues in
chocolate gave mi no pleasure and / was
really glad when they fell to pieces. The
pnueStrian Sfafuo NJ pr,, mn, ;p <bo Ts.l: