The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04

however, the management has decided,
and that is that a gigantic buffalo is to
have the place of honor at the head OF
the grounds, and that this animal
and the night has fallen the light from
his eyes will shine out in two immense
searchlights that will make each corner
they penetrate as bright as day, With
in this animal there will be found many
strange things. The legs will be hol-
low stairways upon which the visitor
may mount to exhibition halls. In MS
huge body there will also be a theatre
in which continuous vaudeville Will be
given, and in the head there will be
restaurant, for the Buffalo grounds are
to resemble the Paris grounds in one
respect at least-reStaurantS and cafes
will be found at every turn and in the
most unexpected places.
Under such conditions it is safe to
say that the inner man will be well
cared for at Buffalo, and he who is
weary of dining in ordinary restaurants
may eat his dinner in the head of a
buffalo, in the stomach of a whale or
overlooking the bOttOmleSS pit from
the cries of the damned, that are to be
accurately reproduced by mechanical
invention, will play a somewhat novel
accom- paniment to his knife and fork
Not only has the United States Gov
eminent taken considerable interest in
the Buffalo project, enough to appro-
pirate $780, 600, $780, 900 of which is to
be used for building purposes, but
other of the American governments
have expressed their approval of the
Exposition. Already several represen-
tatives of the South American coun-
tries have visited Buffalo to select sites
for their buildings and to make arrange
ments for space for their exhibits, and
from all parts of the two continents,
from Canada, Mexico and even to the
farthest limits of South America, have
come words of approval and assurances
of support. Under these circums stances
there is no further doubt but that the
DIFF 10 that
name implies, a Pan-American exhibit
ton.
Many of the leading men in all Sec
tions of the State have also shown their
interest in the coming big show, and,
while the State Legislature has so 1ar
only appropriated $500, 900, the man
ayers are satisfied that this is but the
beginning of the assistance that viii be
received from that quarter. The State
officials have also decided to erect a
most attractive State building, and 1t IS
probable that this structure will be de-
voted to an exhibit showing the prog
ress of the State since it was first
founded by the Dutch. In such a case
there will be gathered together the
finest collections of historical rel1cS that
the people of this country have ever
seen.
There will be documents and por-
traits pictures and models, all tending
to give an accurate idea OF the conol-
tions that prevailed when the Bowery
was a COW path and the settlers went
to church with their guns over their
shoulders. Then there will be models
of the first steamboat the craft in
which Fulton piled the Hudson; models
showing the progress that has been
made in the building of locomotives and
canal boats, and an almost endless col
lection of material that will prove an
object lesson that will always be re-
membered.
It is believed that the selection of the
year 1901 for the Exposition Will prove
fn
1900 all the large exhibitors from every
part of the world will devote their at
tention to Paris, but when the French
Exposition closes there would be noth-
ing more natural for them to do than
to pack up their exhibits and ship them
over to this country. AS they would
have been already prepared, the cost
of sllch a second exhibition of the goods
would be comparatively small, and it is
believed that all the best exhibitors in
Paris will be glad to take advantage of
this opportunity to place their products
before the people of this country
While no particular effort is to be
made to interest the governments of
Europe and other parts of the world in
the exhibition any good exhibit will be
made welcome, and it is not believed
that the world will be at all slow in its
acceptance of the invitation. First and
foremost however, the Exposition is
intended to show the growth and prog
ress of the great American industries,
and in this respect an effort will be
made to keep it as much as possible
from becoming a show of finished prod
ucts.
Finished products will have their
Mace. it is true, but they will be kept
in their own place, and will not be per-
n7itted to overflow into every part of
the exhibition. In Buffalo one may
study the mechanical processes by
which these finished products were
made In other words, it will be a
mammoth exhibition of the methods of
manufacture along all lines, and there
can be no doubt but that the educa-
tionaI advantage of such an Exposition
would be immensely greater than that
of any exhibition that has yet been held
in this country
To achieve such a project in Buffalo
would be a perfectly simple matter.
There is no limit to the power that can
he obtained from the falls, and as by
this means the cost of running the ma
chinery can be reduced to minimum
there is nothing for the exhibitor to do
but to produce his latest mechanical
inventions and let the management at
tend to the rest
At present there are several problems
that are bothering the management,
and the most important of these is the
ouestiOn as to what viii be done with
the millions who are expected to visit
the city during the summer of 1901