The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-06-01
HOW TO SEE THE WORDS FAIR.

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the Fair is to study up its departments
before hand and after general survey
of the grounds and buildings, spend the
time in such sections as may offer the
most pleasure and profit.
For instance, machinist may be
most interested in the department of
machinery and spend the bulk of time
most proftably there.
The mineraiogist and geologist will
find in the mining department the
treasures of the world, in crude form
and in every state of transition for
utilitarian uses.
The florist and lover of flowers will
find in the horticultural department
the collected splendors of plants and
flowers from every known cline and
country.
Then there is the 6ne art department,
where are found the chief works of
modern art from the brushes of United
States and foreign artists This collec-
ton is particularly fine because one
third more space was applied for by
foreign countries alone than the whole
building afforded, so that the paintings
were selected from selections, securing
the rarest specimens of art from the
various schools.
The exhibit of Great Britain, France,
Holland, Germany and the United
States are exceptionally interesting and
so fascinating are some Of the subjects
that one will, unconsclously, spend q
long time spell bound before single
painting.
But if one wants to see the Fair in
limited time he must not linger long In
the halls of statuary and art. The
magnitude Of the undertaking Is prac-
tically presented by the Chicago Tri-
bune, based upon canvasses alone. The
Tribune says there are 1000 pictures
in the art galleries and If q
visitor gave them all one
minute apiece, on the average,
and spent ten dnys in sight seeing, the
length of time required would be twelve
days.
The government building is whole
fair in itself. There are the wax figures
in uniform, showing every variety of
military uniform from the organization
of the United States army, down, in
cluding General Scho6eld, the general
now in command and his full staff, on
horseback.
There is a section of the North pole,
with its sea of ice and shores of over
hanging icebergs and icicles, showing
the utmost point to which Lieutenant
Greely carried the flag, with Lieutenant
Greedy and his rescuers, the Esquimaux
and their snow dogs In the foreground.
There is the curious dead letter office
display, with its infinite and fantastic
display of odds and ends lost by mis-
direction and poor wrapping; every
thing under the sun from ginger bread,
babies miniatures, photographs, medi-
cines and swseties to brass knuckles
for siugger bruisers, engagement rings
and hard tack.
Weapons, offensive and defensive,
relics of great wars, military portraits,
portraits of presidents and cabinets,
banners, escutcheons, specimens from
mint and mines, Smithsonian speci-
mems, geologic and natural history, the
whole epitome of progress aud re
sources of the nation. above and below
and around
Then there is that wonderful electrical
display, wilderness in itself where
various electric machines are working,
without sound, without friction, seem
ingly without motion; wonderful
building whose exhibits must be studied
to be seen at all They are as subtle in
construction as the mysterious forces
they conserve and control
And what a wonderful exhibit is the
live fish in the Fisheries Department
Do not fail to go there, If you love
natural history and have marveled over
Charles Kingsley's wonders of the
deep.
They are all there, Tom and Ellie and
the curious water babies, from the
salt and fresh seas.
1t a great circular building, with a
flashing fountain under the dome, where
gold flsh, in shoals, are sporting and
many curious fish, and double circles of
water cases, where, as in their native
haunts of rock, or shells and sea ane-
mones, are shoal and shoals of wonder
ful finny creatures; everything from
the little silvery baby bass, summing
themselves at the top of water case,
like bevy of RaphaePs cherubs, to
tumbling terrapin and sinuous young
sharks.
A lover of natural history could
spend many days in the fishery depart
ment alone, 80 manifold are Its won
ders.
There, in another department, are
the fishing craft and outfit OF all
nations, with great stuffed bears and
walruses, otters and eagles and gulls.
The boats of the Vikings are there,
the veritable boats in which
Left Ericsson and his crew discovered
America, centuries before Christopher
Columbus had taken form in the
dream of the ages.
And the forty acre building, the gen.
eral assembly of all nations, surely a
week will not suffice to go up and down
among its wonders manifold. See the
the German department early and ask
for the Nuremburg collection for there
is mighty panorama of the city of
minnisingers and artists. the city that
Longfellow loved, where
"when art was still a religion,
With simple, reverent heart,
Lived and abored Albert Durer
The evangelist OF art;
Emlgraylt is the Inscription,
On the tombstone where he lies;
Dead he is not but departed,
For the poet never dies.
Time and space will not permit so
much as the names of departments and
buildings where the eye may be educat-
ed aid the mind filed with wonder and
delight.
But of course you will all take a
ceremonial cup of tea at the Japanese
Tea Garden, chat with the Irish lace
lace makers at Blarney Castle, listen to
the bewitching strains of the orchestra
RS you stroll on the piazza
before the administration building
with the Greek facades all
around you; and the gilded statue of
the Republic towering across the fash
ing lagoon, while you dream of a day
"statf" will be marble and alabaster.