Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-09-22
THE PITTSBUr3 EXPOSITION.
sousa Is Gone, but Damrosc!I Is Coming.
Excursions to BE Run.

sousa Is Cane, but DamroscA Is Coming.
Excursions to BE Run.
The great Pitrsburg Industrial Exposi-
ton is now unGer full swing for its tenth
season, the gates having ben opened to
th public on WCdn. evening sept Z.
Thousands Of p oplr rom Western Penn
sylvania have already visited t he lgg show
and the attendance daily THIS Asir gives
promise that the season will DE Il record.
breaker in this respect as in many othe.s.
for the hig au. ulnual show is better and
Erander in c,Cry way this year than ever
Ec ore. john Philip Sousl and his cele
bga'e1 band proved n strong magnet for
the opening dars, He is gone, hut 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 considcra-
ton, for without it the Exposition would
seem rather tame and lifclcss This year
the management has exceeded all its
former efforts in its arrangements for the
entertainment of the public Following
the engagement of Sousa came Prof Will
lam Gucnther and his Greater Pittsburg
band, which is now giving two concerts
daily. Their engagement closes on Satur-
day evening, sept. "a, after which Walter
DamrosGh and the celebrated New York
symphony orchestra will occupy the band
platform Ior week from Sept 26 to Oct.
l. Damrosch is 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
!)alnrosch VIII bc followed by Il ChCee
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 i'll the line of
exhibits that will be sure to interest and at
tract visitors are the exhibitions daily of deep-
sea diving by Captain Adams. A large tank
is provided in mechanical hall for these exhi-
hitions, and Captain Adams illustrates TO the
visitors how divers ply their perilous occu.
patton, showing how submarine operations are
conducted. During his stay at the Exposition
there will also be spectacular displays OF fire
works on the Allegheny river. The battle of
Manila, in which the Spanish fleet was de
stroyed by Dewey, will be realistically repro
duced. Other amusement features that will be
found in various parts of the grounds will be
the cinematographe, which will display views
br scenes taken during the recent war IN Cuba
and Porto Rico, the merry go-round and the
gravity railway and score of other interest
ing things that provided by various eT
hibitOrs.
y is matter af apen eammenF among the
Exposition visitors this season that the exhibits
as a rule are finer and better than any ever be
fore seen there. Among the mechanical ex-
hibits that are especially noteworthy is a box
making plant, where half a dozen machines are
kept IN operation daily, making boxes, stamp
ing and printing them for commercial uses
This plant occupies a large space in mechan-
zeal hall and is attended daily 10y hundreds
OF people who stand and marvel at the
rapidity with which the workmen turn ont
the boxes. In another section of the hall is a
Phlim&n palace sleeping car of the latest As
sign, seat direct from the shops at Pullman,
Ills, to the exposition porter and Il maid
are in charge of the and visitors per
mltted to pass through and inspect the ex
pensive and beautiful Punishment of the in
terror. The electrical display in mechanical
hall Is also worthy of comment. The West
nghouse company has magnificent display
of engines, dynamos and electrical machin-
cry, perhaps the finest ever exhibited at the
Exposition. Other manufacturing concerns
also have attractive exhibits
An amusement feature of the Exposition
that comes on Sept. 10, to remain to the closs
of the-season, will be an arena Of trained ami
mails to give exhibitions daily at the west end
of the grounds, These animals form part OF
the Hlgen5ack collection, which aroused so
inuch interest at the Worlds fair.
Excursions have been arranged on ali ths
lines entering Pittsburg and there is no rea
son why everybody in Western Pennsylvania.
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia should not
accept an opportunity to see the greatest ex
position ever given in Pennsylvania outside Of
the centennial, at Philadelphia in 1875. Every
line Will run excursions on Thursdays and on
Saturdays the schedule will be as follows:
Sept. "a Pittsburg and Lake Erie and the Bal
timore ard Ohio Oct. I, PittsbrrC and Wesf-
ern and Panhandle; Oct 5. Pennsylvania com
pany and Baltimore and Ohio. oct. Is, Pittsburg
anl Lake Erie and Panhandle Oct. p, Pitts
burg and Western and Baltimore and Ohio.
rrlFA No. fri
the admission to the Exposition added.