The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-01
SIGHTSEEING MADE EASY.
New Mode Of Conveyance Introduced
BY an Omaha Man for the Con-
venienee Of Visitors at the
Greater America EX-

New Mode OF Conveyance Introduced
BY an Omaha Man for the Con-
yenience OF Visitors at the
Greater America Ex-
position.
One Of the most popular modes of
travel provided for visitors at the
Greater America Exposition, which
opens in Omaha on July /, for a period
of four months, is a curious Japanese
vehicle, known as the j~inrikisha. In
Japan the vehicle is used in the imperial
parks and its manufacture and sale has
been a great source of profit in the pro-
motion of Bible distribution and other
missionary work. In Toxic alone there
are not less than half a million Of these
queer little man-pOwer cars. The jim
rikisha is the invention Of IN American
clergyman who accompanied COmmo-
dore Perry Of the United States navy, in
his expedition to Japan in 1858. A tax of
so cents each per annum is levied by the
Japanese government on these little
carts, the sum received from this source
: forming an important item of the ma
! tiOnal revenue. An enterprising and
bright young American, named Fred 4.
Cummins, of Omaha, first conceived the
idea of using this manner of vehicle
for carrying visitors about the grounds,
9 and after much trouble and expense
9 succeeded in closing arrangements with
the japanese government, in securing a
9 number for use in this country. MIR.
o Cummins has been granted the conces-
sion to use them on the grounds of the
y Greater America Exposition, where they
N will supercede the wheeling chairs here
tofore used at some of the expositions.
10 For a small sum the visitor can travel
d the entire grounds, being freed from any
tired feeling whatever,
81 In many ways the ~jinrikisha is ever
% more comfortable than the wheeling
car, and as the former is of recent in.
as PRODUCTION from that faraway land il
D. which the American people are nov
commercially interested, it is fair to be
ie lieve that in addition to a live Japanes
ct village with a number of native Jap
anese men, women and children in cos
lis tune, the jinrikisha will prove quit
,e, popular to slght-seers.
The First American Colonial exhibi
lis will consist of many interesting arti
'rt Giles Of commerce, industry and manu-
err ~facture from our foreign possessions
ter Implements of agriculture, arms, We
ay hicles, native dress and ornaments, pre-
lie, ducts, plants and fruits are a few of th
many interesting things now on th
Ter way from Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaiia
en- islands, and the far-off Philippines. !
we large number of the natives of thes
several islands of the seas will be at tn
Ter exposition, and will doubtless make OIL
eek of the most interesting features of IL
a great exposition.
The numerous railroads enteriI
for Omaha have %signideu a willingness
st" assist the exposition by granting
ed low rate, and the city of Omaha
amply prepared to care for the crow
ter, of visitors. Hotel accommodations a
ing good, and rates will be reasonable. Z
street railway facilities are ample
handle enormous crowds safely, quick
nm and comfortably. Omaha and the FIJI
Greater America Colonial Expositi,
will join in a cordial welcome to all.