Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-04-28
IN THE DEPTHS OF HADES
The Prototype of Regions Internal to 30
shown on the Midway.

The Prototype of Regions Internal to 30
shown on the Midway.
When the conversation turns upon
the Trans Mississippi Exposition, some
one is sure to ask, 'And will there be
a Midway" and then "reminiscences
will he the order of the hour, and again
you will see the red fezes of the
Turks, the bewitching smile Of the
Partisan coQuette, the naughty glance
from the dark-eyed houri OF the Orient,
the seductive dances of the Spanish
senoritas, the slow revolving of the
massive Ferris wheel, the little hooks
from the other corners of the earth, the
swaying, sleepy camels with their
loads OF laughing. living freight, the
queer meals with egg-shell china and
chop-sticks served by shy. dainty bit
of Occidental beauty; again you can
hear the musical songs Of unknown
tongues-the monotonous chant OF GER
emonies in strange religions, the lusty
call of the "Orangeade" boy, the entic-
ing shouts of the fakirs, the growing
OF savage beasts whose tricks are almost
human, the hum Of thousands Of
voices, the laughter from thousands Of
thrOats-and all the rest that went to
make up that ever-changing kaleido-
scope of strange voices, strange people
and strange sights. We had never
thought to see its like again, but, af-
ter all, there was nothing that could
not be duplicated and, if one may judge
from the extensive preparations that
are under way, we shall see in Omaha,
not only reproduction of the most in
teresting features of the Midway, but
many novel ones anl-breathe it gently
minus the humbug and fake features
which were at once the bane and the
characteristic OF the Midway Plaisance.
If one has any curiosity as to their
ultimate destination after this life,
they have but to enter novel building
which represents one of the Egyptian
pyramids and is called "Night and
Morning." This building is l40 feet
square and 100 feet high, and in this
space there Is warranted to be crowded
sufficient celestial joys and awful ter
be never forgotten. On entering, one
is Immediately lost in a labyrinth
which represents the journey of life
from the cradle TO the grave, and
whether one walks quietly along
through pleasant paths with delightful
views, or becomes lost in dark byways
in the midst OF terrible scenes, depends
entirely upon chance. When at last he
has reached the end of the labyrinth he
is confronted by a winding flight of
golden stairs, which will lead him
straight to the Elysian fields, and on
his left he will see an elevator which
plunges him down to the lower regions.
1t will be safe guess to reason that
the visitor will take the elevator first,
and after descending 200 feet he will
find himself in an exact duplicate of
Dante's Inferno, with all of Dore's hor-
rible pictures realistically reproduced.
In the cafe he will find collins trans
formed into tables, widows and orphans
in gloomy weeds who are enacting the
parts of Mattresses, the menus printed
in white on black cards, and all the
symbolic gloominess that goes to make
up the internal regions. If, on the
other hand, the visitor prefers a
"Heavenly" meal, he has but to
ascend the golden stairs, to be ushered
into a beautiful room, hung with satin
draperies of white rose color, to find
the tables of golden harps, the watt
resses white-robed angels with wings
and everything lovely.