The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-01
AT The OMAHA EXPOSITION
Octave Thanet Describes Some of the Features--The
Government Exhibits.

/ keep clean, one wonders). and there are
/ two deliciously comfortable MARYLAND and
/ Kentucky ritiemen. in soft flexible buck
skin, green and white, who fought during
! the revolution; and there ere our boys
/ IN blue today. Looking at them ALL one S
/ nrst reflection is how much neediess us
comfort heat and risk to life soldiers
have endured in order to be fine. The av-
erage military uniform of the first cen
fury of the republic is stiff, heavy. I'M
comfortable in every sense. Look at the
chimney pots with cockades which decked
their poor patriotic and perspiring brows
IN 1872, Look at the lace ruffles on our
revolutionary forefathers wrists Then
compare the canvas-shirted or woolen-
Dloused soldier of the Cuban war, and ii
Is apparent that even the fnery-loving
sex is beginning TO feel the need of ra-
tional dress.
With the war exhibit is an imposing
display of ordnance, rifles and guns, shot
and shell. Always / found a little crowd
around the rapid-fire guns. and generally
some patriot was explaining their action
curing the late naval engagements.
For the pacific, who remember that
wars VIII go as they came. but letters
must always be sent, the postoffice ex-
hlDlt has great attractions. Lay figures
OF the carriers of all countries prefer en-
veiopes bearing all kinds of stamps One
group SHOWS an Indian carrier driving a
three tandem team of dogs to a tobog-
gan. There is a melancholy collection
from the dead letter office including two
cases of photographs of soldiers which
war. Looking at them, 1 thought how
young were most of the faces; no Young
er, however. than the faces that were so
Iearlessly turned TO the Spanish fire at
The naval exhibit shows models of a
number of battleShipS and cruisers and
an ordnance exhibit similar to that of the
war department
One may also see pictures of all the
postmaster generals, the attorney gener-
ais ana others In general, they are not
int
of art, and the hanging is mostly as bad
as it well can be-
The department of justice has a prison
exhibit, showing some of the articles
manufactured in prisons fingered a long
while over the pathetic embroidery made
by poor devil in an Illinois penitentiary
and a silver tea kettle made out of a 10
cent piece and the like painstaking in
genuities wherein perhaps the makers
had found solace.
SOME INTERESTING LETTERS.
In fact, every time 1 visited the gov
eminent building, l found some new fea-
lures of interest But were one to pass
through tly government building with
should not neglect the United States
museum. And he will find in the large
collection of letters shown by the state
department some very curious documents
beginning with a letter from Louis of
France and continuing through letters |
from representatives of the French peo-
through glittering line of princes and |
potentates to the modest epistle of San |
ford b. Dole, announcing his accession to |
the presidency of the Hawaiian Espublic !
showing the growth of the territory of the |
United States. And there are divers in
teresting relics The morning Can be
passed in this one building taking merely
a 2urSory survey.
BY l O'Clock the visitor is both tired and
aungry.
ITO thav have INV daoan+ ras+a,,-,,,+-
here?' is an inquiry frequently heard. cor
is it like the Worlds fair?"
At the Worlds fair the average Ameri-
can citizen of modest means was reduced
TO shoe box and a sandwich. To judge
from the groups in every collonade he of
Omaha has gone the same way. There
IS something particularly repulsive in the
luncheon litter which strews the beauti-
full lawn and the gravel of every COLON
ade There are baskets at intervals; but |
the hungry citizen does not heed them. he
1ings peonut shells and banana skins and
the remnants of ham sandwiches and the
good cookies which mother makes to the
wonders why the Spaniards call him a
pig And patiently the exposition police |
clean up after him all day and all night.
One wonders sometimes whether Few
more baskets or cans for receptacles
would not excuse an imperative demand
hat no litter whatever be left on the
grounds, with a penalty of arrest and fine
n case of disobedience.
There are large number or restauraz.-
n the exposition. Markell or Miiiard has
he general restaurant privileges. He has
been provided with very attractive roof
gardens and cafes by the management
Ind claims to furnish admirable meals at
-easonable prices. The Flemish cafe and
he Moorish cafe are clean ana cnea
And there are several little hot beef sand
yich stands of which l have heard much
'raise. But the best food on the place is
cooked in the manufacturing building in
he Home Kitchen, where a most appe-
ling display of breads is constantly dis
ributed, and at the big barrel where Aunt
emima serves pancakes hot from the
riddle. Unluckily. one cannot buy meal
t either place and, although the portions
re liberal. they do not take the place of ;
substantial luncheon.
On one side of the government build
ng is the beautiful structure given to the
ne arts. Then comes the arch of states
his is one of the finest of the buildings +.
ichly decorated with a freize composed
f the coats of arms of the trans Missis- 7
ippi states, the whole surmounted by ! :
reat shield of the nation. Next comes .
he manufactureS-but this demands an
Their letter. OCTAVE THANET {
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