The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-10-11
GRAND NEW FEATURES.
Attractions Added to the Pittsburg Ez-
position tsodfrey's Successful En-
eaeeu.~pt-- Dainrosch Arrived.

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With the coming of Walter Damrosch
and his New York Symphony orchestra
the Pittsbarg Exposition enters upon
the fourth week Of its eleventh annual
season T.,ns far the big industrial in
stitution has been an unqualified sue
cess and the Indications are that the sea-
son will prove &c be the most remarka-
bic IN many respects since the big autumn
nal show was established Thousands OF
people from lie country districts in Penn.
sylyania. OHIO and West Virginia and
from all LARGE towns and cities within
day siray.l Of PITT sbure have already Wis
itett the Dr.. stlow and Join with the people
of pl,.stnr ~ and Allegheny in praise OF
the excellence Of the features presented
this yeai he music has been particu-
lafiy pleasing. us the attractions this year
are ne very best that could b. found on
eithu, continent They art really inter
national 81 hafacter when one considers
The fact tiot Lieutenant Dan Godfrey
and his great band from the British army
came TO America expressly to play at the
Pittsbufg Exposition
Godfrey has Just closed an engaRemens
that has been remarkable In many re-
spects. He isas at the Exposition for ten
days. and they were ten days OF triumph
for never was a foreign organization so
royalty rcceiyed Last Saturday night,
at tDt FlOrt VI Ijir tHEttRtiHtut. V8uiiCy
was honored with n reception at the
hands of the leading members OF the
Order OF the sons OF st George, an Eng
lish organization that has great follow.
Ing In Pennsylvania and Ohio Several
thousand members of the order with
their families, spent the entire day OF the
Exposition, and 10 the evening the reccp-
ton commit ee. on behalf OF the order.
presented Conductor Godfrey with mag
nincent old me,al as token OF the
great eslrcil In which he Is held by them
Walker isafaresrh and his artists CONS
to tie Exposi ion Tor second time to re
Feat the triu = of last year, when they
drew the sar<e>t crowds that had ever
visited re exposition In one day Con
ductor Danto Oh is one OF the foremost
orchestr; 70 Ila.!ctors in America and is
really the ackno., lodged exponent of Ger
man opera on ills continent. having per
sonaiiY conducted several seasons of Ger
man OPERA y, h ONE OF the finest vocal
lists IN llc eo:lc, as all who heard his
perfol n,ni.cs III i'ittsburg will concede
There VIII be numerous excursions dur
Ing the DaMIoscii engagement and no oDa
who loves the classics and likes to heat
them played by acknowledged artists can
afford To miss herring Damrosch and his
orohss,ia The Exposition management
has tiscn especial care that there BE- no
disturbances Of any kind during the or
chestra concerts. TO that end seats have
been provided on the main floor In front
of the orchestra platform so that no one
can walk back and forth through that
portion of the building A passage waY
is afford, in the rear, under the balcony,
where the noise would not disturb eli her
the players or their auditors.
The famous carriage, or phaeton, In
which the Innrtyred president, Abraham
| Lincoln, took his last drive in the parks
of Washing on, Is now on exhibition tn
mechanical hail The machines for manu-.
fact nj 1iot "A mir n aho
to be placed in operation and these exhibit
tions of the new and wonderful power
promise to create quite sensation. There
will be practical demonstrations of the
varions US to which the liquid. air may
be applied, showing its marvellous powet
and tho simplicity OF it's operations
In the amusement line there various
features OF the Exposition worthy OF note
Located in the art gallery Is the cinemato-
graph with Its wonderful moving pictures
Many of these pictures are of humorous
nature, made so by freaks OF the camera
1t is rather astonishing to see man torn
to pieces bit by bit. and then have those
pieces thrown together again az II Nv
magic. and then to have the man act mp
and walk about as easily and gracefully
as though no such calamity had svei Ire
fallen him, yet suoh feats are accom-
plished by the cinematograph and they
are creating q decided sensation No npe
should miss seeing the famous picture:
The Man In the Moon " In the arr gal
lery annex IL the celebrated $25U paint
ing. Custer Last Rally"
Among the outside features are the ner.
ry go-round, the gravity railway. Pierce,
the magician, and the marvellous show
known MS the Cabaret de la Mort.
which has aroused much wonderment
The term means Cavern of the Dead.
and it is literally so, for spirits appear and
disappear and a human form Is as quiz kiy
transformed into skeleton Many mys-
tifying illusions ere practiced and the
show is alt eether one of the best OF thr
kind ever seen in Pittsburg
He saw Her aa0na.
On a rainy afternoon not long ago
one Of the pretty young matrons of
Connecticut avenue left the car from
which she had ridden up town and
darted through the drizzle toward her
home, a few doors from the corner. She
had no umbrella. A Willie of the char.
acteristic type, who was riding in the
same car, noticed that she had no UNI
brella- He was right after her with his
own umbrella up and extended.
May see you home, missy' he in
quired languishingly, stepping UP
alongside Of her.
She turned to him with dazzling
smile
Certainly" she replied. Watch
me-" And she ran up the steps Of her
| home and entered the vestibule door
without looking back.
"The rude.thingr' muttered the VIII
lie, blushing to the roots of its wavy
hair, as Laura Jean would say, and
then it took the next car.-Washington
Post.