The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-21

man villages, not 10 mention such baga-
telles as a reproduction of old Cairo, a
Turkish play house, a Moorish mirror
maze. a tomato house. a Colorado mine.
an ostrich farm and other wonderful en-
terprises, like Jones children, too numer-
Gus TO mention
The first intimation that you are in the
vicinity Of the mining camp is the sight
, of wildly yelling and excited mob of
tattered and muddy miners stringing one
of their number up by the neck to a tree.
This is a mock lynching. The visitor is
at perfect liberty to join any of the crowds
surrounding such mock affairs as duels,
trials, cOmhats and So forth. These re-
minders of gold fever days are enacted in
a space of $50 feet long and 230 feet wide.
This is called the camp, and its principal
street, $50 feet long, is occupied by shan
ties which do duty as gambling houses,
saloon, miners cabins and such other
structures as appertain TO forty-nine
settlement. They have even the shanties
in which Mackay, Jones, Perkins and
other millionaires of to-day tOiled for pay
dirt 1t was thought when this idea was
| first exploited that the guard-again a
digestion of the Columbian Guard
would have trials in maintaining even a
mock order, but so far the camp has been
the scene of mock disturbance merely.
Returning to the exhibition proper, it
seems likely that the ultimate result will
be pecuniary gain-that is the losers will
be merely individuals and not the enter
prise as a whole. 1t will not close until
June 30, and the rapidity of its growth is
| seen from the fact that it was not even
thought of seriously until last May. The
| first shovelful of dirt was upturned in
the presence of Sc, 900 people on Aug. "a.
Gov. Markham was to have formally
opened the fair on New Years day, but
! the weather having proved unprOpitious
and many eastern exhibitors having been
so tardy as to have bales and boxes piled
up oonfusedly where exhibitors should
have been, the formal opening had to be
postponed. Now. however, through the
night and day industry of gangs of work
men, everything is shipshape, flags are
flying, bands are playing and the crowds
{ wander about at will
The rainy season has passed away and
bathed in dreamy gold of silver rays dur
! ing every hour of the twenty-four.
In this confusion of exhibits, it is i'm
possible to mention particulars except at
I haphaZard. Thus there is a figure of
justice $50 feet high, upholding in one
Outstretched hand the typical scales of
which the cross beam is 300 feet long. 1t
is one of the most unique things seen on
the grounds, as there is a seating capa-
city for fifty persons on each scale and
they are elevated a distance of 2SS feet at
each dipping of the scales. The quick
silver lake has it's shores strewn with
cannon balls, sledge hammers, and other
ponderous OBJECTS which visitors set float
ing on the.weird, glinty waves. Then
there is a pine board house $50 feet long
and not a cross crack in all that distance
One has but TO think of any feature that
bestowed distinction upon the world S
fair to see it reproduced, with a varia-
ton, in Golden Gate Park, and, of course,
on smaller scale. France, Germany,
Austria, Great Britain and the greater
powers show up well with such exhibits
as are appropriate to a worlds fair. For
ii is, after all, an International exposi-
tion, great in itself, and only local in the