The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-09-22
lHE PITTSBURG EXPOSITION.
sousa Is Gone, but Damrosch Is Coming.
Excursions to BE Run.


Excursions to BE Run.
The great Pittsburg Industrial Exposi.
tlOn Is now under full swing for its tenIL
season, the gates having been opened 10
che public on Wednc IVY evening, Sept. z
Thousands of people from Western Penn
sylvania have already visited the big show
and the attendance daily thus far gives
promise that tine season will be record
breaker in this respect as in many Othe s.
for the big aurumnal show is better and
grander in every way this year than ever
before. john Philip Sousl and his ce!e-
brated band proved strong magnet for
the opening days. He is gone, but the at.
tendance is Keeping up, for the people
have discovered that there are other inter
esting features about the Exposition this
year that deserve more than passing
notice.
Music Is naturally the first considera
tion, for without 1t the Exposition woulo
seem rather tame and lifelGss. This year
the management has exceeded all its
former efforts In its arrangements for the
entertainment of the public. Following
the engagement Of Sousa camo Prof. Will.
lam Guenther and his Greater Pittsburg
fand, which is now giving two concerts
daily. Their engagement closes on Satur.
day evening, sept "a, after which Walter
Damrosch and the celebrated New York
Symphony orchestra will occupy the band
platform Ior week from Sept. 26 TO Oct
!. Damrosch Ia the champion of German
opera in America, having made several
successful tours with German opera com
panies, with his own New York Symphony
orchestra for accompaniment and support
Damrosch Will be followed by three
weeks season. during which concerts will
| be given daily by the celebrated composer Of
operas, Victor Herbert of New York and his
| Twenty'second Regiment band.
Among the special features in the line o
exhibits that will be sure to interest and at
tract visitors are the exhibitions daily OF deep
| sea diving by Captain Adams. A large tanl
| is provided in mechanical hall for these exhi
| bitions, and Captain Adams illustrates to tn,
| visitors how divers ply their perilous occu
| patton, showing how submarine operations ar,
conducted. During his stay at the Exposition
| there will also be spectacular displays OF fire
works ON the Allegheny river. The battle o
| Manila, In which the Spanish feet was de
| stroyed by Dewey, will be realistically repro
| duced. Other amusement features that will b,
| found in various parts OF the grounds will b,
the cinematographe, which will display view,
Of scenes taken during the recent war IN Cub
| and Porto Rico, the merry-go-round and TIN
| gravity railway and a score of other interest
ing things that are provided by various ex
! hibitOrs
1t is a matter OF open comment among tn
| Exposition visitors this season that the exhibit
| as "A rule are finer and better than any ever be
| fore seen there. Among the mechanical ex
| hibits tha6are especially noteworthy is a box
making plant, where half dozen machines ar
| kept in operation daily, making boxes, stamp
| ing and printing them for commercial uses
| This plant occupies a large space in mechan
| ical hall and is attended daily by hundred
| OF people who stand and marvel at tn
| rapidity with which the worlsmen turn on
tn,
Pullman palace sleeping car Of the latest dc
sign, sent direct from the shops at Pullman
| Ills, to the exposition. A porter and mai
are in charge Of the car and visitors are per
mitted to pass through and inspect the az
| pensive and beautiful Punishment of the IN
terror. The electrical display in mechanics
| hall is also worthy Of comment, The West
inghouse company has magnificent displa
Of engines dynamos and electrical machir
| cry, perhaps the finest ever exhibited at til
Exposition. Other manufacturing concern
also have attractive exhibits.
An amusement feature of the Expositio
that comes on sept. 10, TO remain to the clos
of the season, will be an arena of trained an
mails, TO give exhibitions daily at the west en-
OF the grounds. These animals form part {
| the HagonbaclS collection, which aroused 5
much interest at tho Worlds fair.
Excursions have been arranged on all th
lines entering Pittsburg and there Is no rel
son why everybody in Western Pennsylvania
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia should nC
accept an opportunity to see the greatest o.
position ever given in Pennsylvania outside
the centennial, ut Philadelphia, In 1873. Ever
line will run excursions ON Thursdays and O
Saturdays, the schedule win be as followi
Sept. "a, Pittsburg and Lake Erie and tho Ba
timore and Ohio; oct /, Pttsburg and Wes
ern and Panhandle; Oct, 8, Pennsylvania con
pany and Baltimore and Ohio Oct, Is, PittsbuT
and Lake Eric and Panhandle Oct 22 Pitt
burg and Western and Baltimore and Obi
: The rate Is one fare for the round trip VII
the admission 70 the Exposition added.