The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-07-08
THE CHICAGO FAIR.
Extracts from a Letter from r. L.
Fulton

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From a private letter from R. L.
Fulton, now in Chicago, the Reno
Gazette makes the following extracts;
81 have frequently joined in the
criticism of travellers VIII felt compet-
ent to write book on Q strange coun-
try after few weekse study, and I
feel something the same about any
one who undertakes to sum up the
Columbian Exposition on a few days
notice. Within it's walls almost every
phase of human life and enterprise
are on exhibition, and for a person to
say he had really seen and understood
everything would be to claim that he
knew all the arts and sciences as well
as every form of industry and trade.
The sight-seer of the greatest expert
ence can only hope to go generally
over the ground and then pick out
such parts as prove especially inter-
esting or valuable and give them what
time he can afford.
"Chicago sprung up SO quickly that
it seems almost unreal, and an instruc-
tive suggestion comes that it is liable
to melt away when the Fair is over
and the whole disappear together. But
the country back of it on all sides is
very real indeed, and its vast COM
merce makes city necessary as if
it had been the growth of a thousand
years instead of fifty. Taken together
there is no place of such striking in
terest, and the city and the Fair COM
mand the admiration of all beholders.
No creation of man ever equaled that
great white city by the lake. 1t is
very seldom that the architect is able
10 devote large sums to the building of
fine pictures. Utility comes first with
almost all great editices and the looks
of the. thing depend entirely upon the
needs of business. But here vast
sums of money, millions in fact, have
been devoted to scenery, picturesque
effects, large buildings, immense
groups of statuary, single figures of
heroic size, fountains, lakes, islands
and canals have been constructed for
the sole purpose of pleasing the eye.
In approaching the grounds from the
lake particularly, the grandeur of the
place become apparent. All the
other approaches are fine, but this is
superb. At every turn the brain work
of the projectors becomes apparent
and some feature worthy of attention
is revealed. The illuminations at
night are beyond description. Long
lines of electric lights high on the tops
of vast buildings, strings of them up
and down the domes, or along the
classic facades of the higher places,
fill the vast multitudes with enthusi-
asm. On Thursday nights there are
fireworks, search lights and electric
fountains, which would have been i'm
possible before the days of Edison.
"Tbe service is good and ample
accommodations provided for all thus
far. The guards are always within
reach and are polite and intelligent.
I failed to see drunken man or to
see rude action either in the city or
on the grounds. One or two men I
met showed signs of liquor, but it is
remarkable that there is so little con-
fusion or disorder.
"There is some expense connected
with seeing the Fair, but no more than
a trip to any city would cost an ordin-
ary traveller. The whole is a success
in every way and every American who
can should see it. Chicago people may
be disappointed in the result and ben
efits to trade, but the Fair is paying
expenses and is a grand success. "