The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-11
PlTTSBURG EXPOSITION
rHE MOST SUCCESSFUL ONE IN ITS
HISTORY DRAWING TO a CLOSE
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Pho tenth annual OeAson Of tie RreAs indus'
briSl RzpoSltiuna t PittIburE Is drawing to .
close, after the most successful run In The hlF
tory of that popular Institution. Only two
weeks mora remain. and those who have not
seen tho big show should loSe no opportunity
to viSt PittsburE during the remaining dayh
Both sOuSa ana Dsnrosch closed emiHsntly
EucceSsful engagements at the Exposition and
Victor HerbaFt, the eminent conductor and
composer OF comio opera, is now ut the Expo
Gihon with his celebrated TWantyseeona
Regiment band OF New York This orEanl'
Eation IL tho growth Of years Of experience
and every member Of IL Il an artist on his par
tieular Instrument The hand was organized
by Mr.. Herbert aud has bSsn brought up I'M
der his personal direction. 1t Is acknowledge
today 70 DO tho Anslt concert band In Amst'
O., II not In the world.
Be&ides being q conductor OF FonoWn. Victor
herbert Is musician Of artistic ability hav'
ing played the vioIon Gallo for ysAS In lead
Ing organization in Europe and America no
ia said to have few equals on that instrumsn1,
and his cello solos Aru delightful features OF
bis concerts, ~ hsfrsquontly yields the Oas"a
20 his assistant conductor and takes srN
among the players. Tho4s WIN heard NE
famous band during It's nnSaEuInsnt ~ ne
EKpoHtion twO years nRO r1msnib1F che he''
bert Bolo ~ among thu must delightful tsS'
tures Of tho concerts.
A. composer SIR. Hrrtrrt's name has been
carried all AROUND THE world. Among D"
popular Opsrns that nearly everybody has
heard arc prince Ananias, "''The Idols Eye
"Ths Wizard OF the Nile" and "The ssren'
sde" The last named opera made small 'ot'
tune for the DostonisnB LAST season on thslE
western tour. The people Of the Pasiao coast
WsntHsiFiy wild over the opera and che hom'
age 70 Herbert was something most Tsmark'
able. 1.-THE Wizard OF the Nile" has prov'a
IN bo tho only American comic opsrA IhS'Aa'
met with success on the European eunt'nen]
It has been performed with phenomenal sac
coAs IN avery large European city from I'oE
encU and Naples, Italy, To Berlin 81 fe'e'',
burg and Paris Mr. HOrbert's lateNI h.'
his new opOrn This Fortune Teller, which
now ali tho rage at wnllucRN thrht"F' Ne"
York, and which will b0 heard IN lttspnrE
later in tho season, Sir, HOrbert and hts Sana
ore giving two concerts uvHry aitsFnoo" an"
evening NJ TIM EEpoSition and will FrmAh
there until tho close oE tho Institution on Sa''
urdAy evening, October - No onv can aHo'a
20 miN an opportunity to hTar the sru''s'
military band In America.
Thsru is a nav exhibit In Mechanical halt
Tho exposition, that n attracting no "na"
amount OF attention. During thu evening VIZ
itnra have bocu startled by hearing . cr"eH'
ling noise, like email ClAps Of thunler. InFh'
ing toward the Westinghouse exhibit 'asy
may have noticed large disk Of glass, over
which real lightning WIN playing IN All ~
cccentriritY, ntrcatS uf fire bursting 'or'h !"
rnndnm aud shooting ont In all dirHGt'uh''
jEst rs It does IN the heavens during teri'u0
electrical storm In midsummer. The Wr's
inghouse company recently built AOO,VJevo'
transformer, Ia lu usrd with uiGn, Tho NE
Of which has never hrrn Henn before AnTWhu''
on earth. Whom tho sR'rtY switch Is CLOSED
SERIES Ut beautiful flashes or dlasupllVs avs
charges OF electricity 81 swapping and smart
ting across the surface u the pHnali giving ."
cfiCct that purCan scarcely dHHeFiba' IhsH
wonderful flashes cannut DO compared V any
thing else than thu RrAnlpst display OF llEhF
ming of the .higivCnH II IL ono Of the mist W.
trrrsting exhibits that has ever been p'S'en
before the scientific mon, and ono OF rsaSs's'
wonder Ia thu general public
Other features Of the Exposition arr ths
HageuhCrk arena Of trained lions aud 'h'
dcup,scA diving CIVILIZATIONS which arc gwen
daily By Captain Louis SOTcho, . famous gov
rrnmoni diver Thuru will ba numerous eH
sarhions 70 PtssburE durInr The sioalaa aNN