, 1898-09-30
ITS A GREAT SHOW
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
WRITES OF THE OMAHA
EXPOSITION.
Compares the Present View With That
Presented at the Time He Partook
of Boiled Pup With an Indian
Chief on the Very Same Spot
Where the Exposition Now Stands.


respondenceO-It is a far cry from this
day of fairyland, from this gathering
of palaces of white and gold, back to
the day some forty years ago, when
the writer took dinner with Old Man
White Cow" chief of tho Omaha In
dams, afte, whom Omaha gets its
name. on this very spot where now
stands in full and glorious bloom one
of the greatest expositions of modern
times. The great piece de resistance of
that ancient dinner was a boiled
brindle white-nosed pup; he, was a
good, tender. nice, s%ucculent pup and
was fully discussed by White Cow, Mrs.
White Cow and yours truly. Civilized
people talk after dinner; White Cow
talked too. After the pow-wow and
the bow-wow both were gone we look
ed far down the brown and muddy Mis-
souri, river silently Slipping to the sea.
then to the west at the green hills, but
his indeed would have been a powerful
imagination that could conceive the
change that could by fortunes favor
turn into such a scene of excitement as
it is the lot of those favored mortals
who have looked upon the Transmits
sissippi and International exposition
as exhibited at the youthful city Of
Omaha.
1t would, we feel be quite useless to
call attention to the different exhibits,
they are so numerous and far reaching
that they can hardly be catalogued
Understandings, let alone described.
We think. however, that the govern
ment exhibit easily takes the first prize,
as in this one building one can easily
put in days and days probably. A mar
or woman hat fully masters this one
exhibit has acquired a liberal educa-
ton.
For those who love agriculture there
is a feast Of large Dimensions spread
before them: everything is there, from
the forked wooden stick with which the
~semi-savage gently irritated the soil,
up W lHe Sldll sledHl Pio" Win "AAeA
the present generations are wont to
lacerate the bosom Of mother earth on
a much enlarged and aggravated scale.
The exhibits of electrical machinery
are very wonderful, showing a vast
leap ahead in that particular branch Of
science in even so short a time as has
elapsed since the Chicago Worlds fair.
All day long. and far into the night,
this ever varying kaleidoscope piano.
rama Of men and things Dungeons, bios
SONS and blooms. sways, swings and
has life, color and being around the
lagoon, over the bridges and arches,
up and down the east and west midway.
where you can see, hear and smell he
same old camels. htesame old strident
squawker still squawking away at full
blast, and smell the same. old assort-
ment of v%ariegated stinks. 1t is all
there, reproduced, slightly smaller,
but still the same picture that was pre-
scented to admiring millions in Chicago.
All day floats upon the circumbient
air the grandest music that modern
man can produce. You that have be-
lieved that %failryland only existed in
books can be convinced that this Is the
place of which you long have dreamed
yes, there are the palaces Of delight
yes, this is the happy valley n like
all happy valleys the wolves are there
guarding the sheep; all kinds and de-
grees of fakirs, fimf1ammers, pick
pockets, thieves of high and low de-
gree are ON hand to relieve the unwary.
There is no game SO new or none SO
ancient but what you can get a go at
it here. Many people are separated
from their dough daily and still the
supply of script and suckers keep not
quite up to the demand; but still 1t will
do, don't you know.
The crowds are daily on the increase;
nearly $4,000 a day is now the average.
The beautiful. cool September weather
is with us and we say to you all in
Wyoming. don't miss the big show"
it is worth crossing the ocean to enjoy.
Charlie Kuster look it in to a consider
able extent and like all the other great
men that have been up against 1t, is
willing to admit, when pressed to the
wall. that it is the real thing.
1T you should have the temerity to
publish these few lines and still escape
humiliation at the bands OF an en-
ragged public we will do 1t again some
more. REX.