The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-01

see also all the patterns Of locomotives and
all other vehicles or motors besides.
He may ride upon the first locomotive used
In America, or stand wonderingly beside
the largest railway enginee overturned outof
shop. Who will not be glad to visit the
Liberty bell, the loved and revered bit OF
metal whose proud Office 1t was to ring out
liberty to American The old Liberty bell
Is on the way and Chicago, always alert in
public spirit and patriotism, proposes not
only to give Liberty royal welcome, but
to gather around her next July 4th In a
celebration western, ardent and memor-
able.
Wonders and curiosities crowd thick
upon us in this vast astinternational museum.
Here the great redwood trees Of California,
single trunk big enough for New Eng
land meeting house to stand within.
There the Irish village, with the pretty
lasses making lace and butter before our
Eyes and serving as a target for a million
pdmiring glances. AS for beauty, which is
always more or less sensational, we have
oceans of IL. Every nation almost under
the sun has chosen of it's fairest to come
hither and vie with rivals. One will be
able to drink tea or coffee or chocolate
taken from the hands of the most beautiful
women Of all races-and surely this alone
Is worth coming to the fair for. But to
make doubly sure that no type Of beauty
shall escape, private enterprise ransacked
the earth for female loveliness, and has
corralled the extraordinary catch under
one roof where oil may be beheld for a
quarter of dollar.
Not far away will be the greatest animal
show ever assembled, SO that we are to have
not only the circus but the menagerie,
and you must bring the children
to see the five hundred monkies, TO
hear the Thousand parrots chatter in all
tamed hons ricing horseback. Or course
our own wild western life, our Indians,
rangers, bronchos and cowboys, are to be
seen in all their glory under the leadership
OF noted scout. 1t is only step from
the Egyptian obelisk to the wild west, and
In five minutes one may enjoy transition
from the classic Athenian art gallery,
which carries the mind back to the Acrop
oils, to a Chinese theater in full and
chastity operation. Here Is q Dahomey
village, with score or more of swarthy
Amazons who have very little to say but
whom one would not care to- meet on q
dark night and without gum
Two minutes more takes us from Africa
to Turkey in Europe, and we stand In the
streets Of Constantinople, surrounded by
shops In which native workmen carry on
their trade, the mosque in which all the
devout say prayers to Allah, restaurant
In which we may eat strange Oriental
dishes, az I a concert hall where we may
pause to puff q Turkish cigarette and
watch daughters of the harem tripping
their toes and writhing their sensuous
bodies for an admission fee of the mighty
quarter of a dollar. If Turkey wearies us
we move on to more beautiful Morocco,
and in the Moorish village scent the gar
den of palms and wonder If there ever was
a chamber 90 horrors such as is shown by
the wax figures in a dungeon from the
middle ages.
When it comes to cosmopolitanism Chi
cago is this year ahead of any other city in
the world. In the advertisements of situa-
tions wanted one notices that claims are
made of ability TO speak "the four princi-
pal languages of Europe" or "eight Ian
Ruages fuently." The man who can
speak eight languages will have use for
them all at the fair. We have not seen q
fifth-part of the foreign settlements. The
Japanese are here, with q beautiful tenn
pie and an interesting industrial village;
there is q street in Cairo, where the Arabs
are developing an unfortunate fondness
for American beer; the Esquimaux have
village all to themselves, and life in the
Arctics is to be graphically shown; and
there are to be huts and habitations from
the Fiji islands, from Borneo, Samoa and
many other far-away places, with natives
in full dress or lack of dress, as the home
custom and the Chicago climate may die
tate. The German village Is to be one of
the principal attractions at the fair.
Chapels, cottages, workshops and stables
are grouped in the style which centuries
have fixed among the Teutons. Here the
royal German band will give concerts, each
of the 100 musicians being over six feet In
height.
OF course the American Snowman or
fakir, the professional amusement pro-
wider for the masses, is here in great num-
bers. He has some strange and wonderful
schemes with him, but none more sensa-
tional than the wheel which is to serve as
a vertical merry -go-round and which is
one of the engineering wonders Of the
world. 1t is $50 feet in diameter, and each
of the three dozen baskets is of steel and
about as big as Pullman car. There is
an elevated hydraulic railway on which
you float noiselessly aud rapidly, and
natatorium in which you may swim in salt