The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-08

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| lifetime.
Next in the rounds is the agricultural
and horticultural building, where Cali
fornia'S wealth of fruit and grain IS
lfittingly typified. The counties are Well
represented, Monterey especially doing
herself proud. Specimens of everything
in the vegetable kingdom known to
| California are here shown.
The art building is the last in this
circle and has some fine work by Rus
sian, French and local artists. Por-
traits and busts of Californiaas prom
inent in past and current history are
there in great numbers, the director
general of the greatest show on earth"
| being represented in various poses.
Arizona has a small section of the
building of mechanical arts, and her
showing of agricultural and mineral
resources is fair. Nevada has a neat
/ building and highly creditable eXhlb-
it. Montana holds down a corner of the
agricultural and horticultural building
with a small mining exhibit.
| The Chinese building contains many
wonders of barbaric art. The Hawaiian
village, with its matched houses, its
museum and throne room, its native
musicians and enchanting (?) hula hula
! dances, is unique, and the Midway
I Plaisance rewards devotees of Turkish
grace and Indian languages for small
outlay of time and money. The Wen
ma and Chinese theatres attract the
curious. There is a mystic maze"
| where people are warranted to get lost
and be found again, and scenic rail-
way that gives people the chance to
! indulge in the luxury of being dizzy.
! The Firth Wheel a Ferris wheel in
miniature, performs its eVolutionS
when there is sufficient inducement in
| the way of money.
! A distinctive feature of the fair is
! al i,3, Tho CiUbt nj
this reproduction of the old time settle
ment among the Sierras fires the old
| timers as does the play Shenandoah,
a veteran of the late war. On board
above the door of the first cabin is
painted in rude letters these words:
! Like Jason's Argonauts they Went
Each sinew strained, each hardy mus
! Gle bent,
With courage, youth and vigor. who
| could fail?
The long low building with the sig
nificant sign Keno here tonight and
from within the tum tum of a fiddle
with two strings the first settlers pro-
nounce true to life. The boarding house
| of one room with ten hunks about the
walls and a rusty stove in the middle
also aWakens recollections. The cabins
once occupied by john w. Mackay
and George c. Perkins are to be seen
and the weather-beaten boards are
IOOh6Q upon WIFI COuSlueIdDlG I6NSI-
| ence by the sons and daughters of
california. "Orofino,' cit in quick
mo back talk are the startling le-
gendS on a door of one of the rival
play houses, and we are notified that
we can see a, genuine can can within.
There is store where flour and hams
are sold at fabulous prices. The stage
lcoach makes frequent trips to and
from the camp. the driver loudly an
tnouncing that this goes direct to Gold
Gulch The old vehicle upset load
of adventurous experience seekers not
long ago and the EXPLANATIONS that
followed We're suggestive of the en-
phatic language used by the Argo-
lnauts-- Man Friday" who crossed the
plains with a wheel barrow in 1850 is
always TO be seen and heard in the
camp A museum has some interest
ling relics, among them the first rocker
fused in gold washing, a copy of the
| Placerville American which was the
first newspaper published in California,
some wild cat mining stocks worth a
little less than confederate scrip and a
picture of John w. Marshall, who dis
covered the first gold in California A
icleverly arranged canvas in the rear
jof the camp represents grand old
Shasta, and the whole effect of camp
and background is intensely realistic.
! The San Franciscan and his sweet
heart view all these wonders and will
return to this city this evening tired but
lproud and happy and the stranger
Twill take the next train for the east
He is still more tired but entirely sat-
listed that California has mastered the
Tart of advertising.