The times., 1893-09-22
THE GREAT WHITE CITY
Fresh Sights of Interest at the
Worlds Fair.
PASSING OF A HUMAN THRONG.

The Ebb and Flow of the Great Human
Tide-More About High Art-At the Cat
tie Show--The Country Cousins Opinion
of Chicago.
WORLDS FAIR, Sept. 16.-[Special Let
us take a whole day for a tour of jackson
park and note the ever varying scenes of
the successive hours We must breakfast
and be on the street by z or soon after, for
even at that time our section of the Hyde
Park annex is beginning to send its quota
to the north and northwest gates. In an
other hour all the surface cars on the Wa
bash and Cottage Grove and the State
street lines will be literally jammed, and
strong armed men will be hanging on the
steps. An hour later the trains on the ele-
waited will be packed. and every few min
utes the Illinois Central will bring down a
battalion at trip BY 10 a. IN. the great
whaleback and other lake boats will be
landing at the main pier black with peo-
pie, and the moving sidewalk whirling
along it's loads of dizzy humanity.
Besides all these, the 10000 visitors who
live or lodge in the Hyde Park annex will
walk to the grounds. We enter at 7:30.
How crisp and invigorating the morning
air from the lake! The summer heats are
passed, and sightseeing no longer means
oyerheating. And how very clean and
white the White City looks as its domes
and pinnacles glitter in the rising sum- All
she litter left by 175,000 people yesterday
has been removed, and all the walks and
grass plats freshly sprinkled, for the place
starts off every morning as fresh and clean
AS if just finished. There is not a fieck of
dust visible on any exhibit. Even the
bronze statues of our great men look as if
they had just come from the bath. We en-
ter at Fifty-seventh street gate, and turn
ing to the left move around the Interstate
avenue to get to the lake shore while it is
still in its morning beauty.
To our left in succession are Nebraska,
North Dakota, Kansas and Texas, and in
che last they are all alive preparing for
Texas day. The women take the lead in
the ceremonies because they made it pos
sible for Texas to be represented here, and
if / may Judge from the strong, sometimes
profane, statements l have heard, the gov
ernor will not be in it very much. Mrs.
Benedette Tobn, president of the women's
organization of Texas, is to represent the
state and make the address of welcome
Then follow an invocation by Rev. Il. B.
Lee an Grafton by Ex-Governor John b.
Allen and speech of thanks and praise
for the women of Texas by ex-Govern-
or Hubbard. Next to the women the
most greatly honored will be Seymour
Thomas, who made the equestrian statue
of General Sam Houston, and for him the
old Roman decoration of laurel crown
has been revived. Elizabeth Nay will also
be honored for art work, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Katzenberger of San Antonio for their sue
cess in organizing the music. Both will
sing today, and he will lead the great
chorus.
Passing on eastward between Utah and
West Virginia, Missouri and the triterri-
sorial building (Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma), Idaho, Virginia and Maryland,
we find Iowa in the pleasantest place on
che grounds, both her large porches giving a
view of the lake. To our right the six New
England states and New Jersey are closely
set in a little triangle and do not attract
much attention, but there is something
well worth seeing in every one of them. IL
fact, the New Jersey building is quite sur
prise in embodied history. 1t is an exact
reproduction of Washington's headquar-
ters at Morristown and is perfect museum
of Revolutionary relics. The interior orna-
mentation consists very largely of views,
chiefly Photographic. of the states noted
scenes and seaside resorts. All the New
England states show much in the line of
historic relics. Thus Massachusetts has
reproduced John Hancock's house in Bos-
ton, Vermont has a strikingly original
building in which her marble is great
feature, Rhode Island shows us an annex
in imitation of the old stone mill at New
port, and Connecticut a fine specimen OF
the pure colonial style.
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Leaving Maine, which is the farthest
southeast of the state buildings instead of
northeast, as it should be, we enter the for
eign group and find nearly all the habitues
ON the sandy lake beach, for they do not
shrink from the sun, and this is their hour
of morning leisure. First are the Cinga-
lese, with hair SO very black and straight
and combed so tightly back and smooth
from the forehead that really it must hurt
them; then the Norwegians, Siamese and
others in turn down to the caravels, where
she fun has already begun. This is wash
day with the Spanish sailors on the Pinta,
and so the visitors are delayed an hour or
bwo till the changing out" is completed,
but the attendance has so increased of late
that even at $50 a. m. an eager crowd is
waiting to 90 on the caravels. There is
more spontaneous fun along here and in
the live fish department than anywhere
else out of the plaisance. In the Art pal
ace an almost funereal silence is observed,
and elsewhere there is but gentle muir
mur, but in these two places everybody
talks and laughs aloud, and jokes are ex-
changed with the freedom of county fair.
So early as o o'clock the sun is uncom.
fortably hot on this side and sends up a
sort of binding glare from the lake, so let
us saunter back across the grounds, taking
the north bridge, from which we have a
glorious view of the Art palace across the