St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-07-22
Wonders of the Worlds Fair

\ letter from an Opelousns friend now
III Chicago says:
Words are Inadequate to convey the
rcmOtest idea OF the magnitcence and
grandeur displayed in tie Main Build
ing Carts and manufacturers. All of the
exhibits are grand. Among those saw
were the cutlery in the German exhibit,
the japanese wares and crockely, Yer
mont marble and granite, porcelain
from Berlin, Titfany's exhibit of dia-
monds, jeWelry, &c, from New York,
etc. | also saw a statue of Columbus in
solid silver, valued at $4,000, weighing
10000 ounces. In the same place | saw
a $4,000 necklace. The most elegant
display of furniture the world ever saw
is here.
There was opened here on July what
is known as the Terminal Station Build
ing, at the point where all roads reach
the fair. This is the place to get your
comfort. You can get an elegant din
ner for one dollar and have an elegant
toilet room where you are waited upon,
and have water, soap, towels, ETC., all
for 5 cents; also fine barber shop, shoe
blacks, and benches and chairs to rest.
No one can imagine what mag
nlticence and grandeur are displayed in
the construction OF the buildings at this
fair. For three days I've marveled and
marveled at their magniticence, and yet
l marvel still. And to think that nearly
all are to be demolished soon after the
fair closes =
| saw the panorama of the battle of
ettysburg-sOmethin of the style of
the battle of Sedan at the Exposition in
New Orleans, but on a more elaborate
scale. One is appalled, and stands mute
at this spectacle OF carnage and death.
Not a whisper is heard as the thrOng
surveys the field filled with the dead
and dying, and the. rushing of battal-
ions into the enemy's line engaged in
hand to hand combat. Then you see
the Federals around Little Round
Top" entrenched behind fences, with
breastworks of rocks, charged upon by
the ragged veterans" Of Lee and
fighting at the CannOn's mouth This
picture shows, what impartial histo-
rians say, viz: that the Federal posi-
tion was impregnable, and the wonder
is that the COnfederates ever reached
the hill, but reached it they did-tllree
successive times.
Last night the electric plants were in
full blast. This feature is worth to any
one who has not seen it the cost of a
trip here and back. In the Electric
Building all the plautsare at work she'd
ding their varied hues Of light in every
direction like the views of a kaledos-
cope. Principal among these is a col
umn some 20 feet high standing upon a
pavilion inscribed "Edson's Light
When the motors are at work upon it,
you see this column streaked with the
most elegant and varied hues, appear
ing and disappearing with lightning
like rapidty. It looks as if every fibre
of the column emits ray Of light, va
ried to correspond with the shapes and
colors of the floral creation. Beyond
was lamp shaped round like ball 2
or 8 feet in diameter, around which
clustered like bunch Of grapes the
small lights. This was revolving, and
it would turn instantaneously from red
to blue, white to orange ; and then again
each one of the lamps would be filled
with a different Colored light resem-
bling a ball of yarn knitted together
with the various coloTs OF the rainbow.