Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-01-25
Echoes from ese@worlds Fair.

MARIETTA, OHIO, JAN. 90, 1894.
Before going to the Fair, ! sent
d got a map of Heafford, and.
ough it looked nice on paper, q
4 hardly realize the beauty and
andeur ofthe White City. The
,oon was considerably lower than
. grounds and full of all kinds OF
! sfts gliding neiselessly along like
| lie Swimming through the air;
en- again, they we're full of all
nds of ducks, swans, geese, etc.
seemed as if Chicago was doing
8 best to make everyone happy.
never heard an oath or q cross
ord on the ground. The Column
an guards had more patience than
y men i ever met. There we're
me buildings was continually
inning against, such as Puck,
! irck, White Star Line, The Wild
ills and Chocolate Menier
At the eastern end of the lagoon.
Q great golden statue of the Re-
bile rose msiestically to the
light of sixty feet. "A grand i'm
sing figure, costing ' e $1,000
gild Ut. 1t was near here that
e Peristyle stood-s great row of
nble columns, each column FIVE
SIX feet 10 diameter aud about
ty feet high -about 100 Of them
rmountsd by a heavy corniee on
lich ere large statutes. When
g lake was rough, it dashed its
ray against them.
The buildings were mostly white
d ut 4 distance resembled marble.
lie Illinois building was painted
various e%olors, yellow, red aud
ab. The stated voted $3.50, 900
erect it. The Transportation
ildlng was also of different eolors
lie golden door was the finest
,ht | ever saw. The arehway
3 nearly 100 feet across and was
,~nderfully ornsmented. The
.ures In has relief. we're rick in
Id and silver Imitation. At the
? OF the arch were figures of
rses in many positions. At sthe
les we're life sized panels-an old
Az drivinga yoke of oxen and
IT, by his eide satan old woman
d what was strange. they did not
pear tnsbe sshsmsa; q scene on a
lllman ~ and a scene on a shsp.
.hought asd passed in, if this
3 not the Gold City / heard the
eacher tell 90 much about, but q
aud / was mistaken. Inside,
ere we're representations Of every
,de of transportation, baby car
sges, bicycles, sleighs, ox-carts,
ggies, ships, locomotives, even to
iearse-all to carry a man from
p cradle TO the grave. The
iited States was ahead in r
ages. bnt | thiak England took
? lead in locomotives; one was l6
It from the top OF boiler to rail.
te war ship models we're icteres-
ig, also the first idea of steam en-
,es. There was Mexican OK carts
w York sally-hos, Spanish ycian-
and everything you cozid .con.
We. 1t was art supsrb.
The Manufactures building, the
t Gallery and the Agricultsral
ilding cook mp so mach of any
x that | could not note dorm
ieh.
Went on board the man-of.wa-
ineis and viewed those worderfa,
ath-dealing weapons and mag
ID | could hear the shriels OF the
ing and wounded and also the fog /
m down in Strand.
Took a stroll through Midway
! csnaot describe 1t bette. than
say Il represented my ideas of
i. AL the nations of the earth
re gathered there: the long tsed,
, shnr. .Sed, bug jaw bone, also
} dancing girl, the girl who dad
I dance and the girl that done
at | did rot see. The Ferris
eel was too high for me to risk
precious carcass, so | staid on
ground. TINS Is enough for
. time. w. NJ. D,