The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-01
INTERESTING FEATURES.
uvclorama Of Dewey's Victory and
= Mining Camp
Especial Correspondence.


q Mining Camp
Especial Correspondence
BUFFALO IN. ". Oct. 29.-Just for
fear that the rising generation would
not appreciate the wild and wonderfut
scenes which the romancera 0f ri the
blood and thunder 5-cent novels Were
wont to turn out in floods. eonces-
sionaire of morbid turn of mind mas
asked that he be given the privilege
of rearing somewhere on the midway
Of the Pan-American Exposition a typ
zeal Arizona mining camp.
From the outline submitted by De
rector Taylor Of the Concession De-
partment 1t can be seen at once that
the possibilities for q rear Roaring
Luck Camp are boundless The asplr-
ant asked that he be given q stretch or
land 200 feet in length, along Wnlch
the cabins Of the miners were TO De
arranged and that the Dead Mans sa-
loon and Emporium of Whisky ana
Blood were to be placed in artistic pro-
fusion about the narrow street. ba-ao
men, with hyphens between the "a s.
were to be engaged to wear red flannel
shirts and tangled whiskers and four
or Ave times each day the director OF
the entire show would fill the aggrega-
ton of death dealing Mikes and Blood
thirsty Petes up on imitation forty-rod
whisky and allow them to shoot blank
cartridges and in other manner con-
vince the onIookers that the Western
mining camp Of gorier days was a
place where death walked about by
day and night and murder was an af-
ter dinner recreation.
Besides this interesting feature,
which may or may not be seen along
the tortuous course of the 'Pano-
ramb1e," or the Midway, as it probably
will be known, there will be many other
interesting features, and one will be the
great cyclorama of Dewey's victory;
the plan being to have erected mag
nificent building in which stirring
scenes of the wonderful sea fight at
Manila Bay will be reproduced in such
grand style that the marvellous skill
and bravery of Dewey and his men Will
be brought closer to the attention OF
the visitors than any number of col
umns of newspaper writing could ever
bring it., To reproduce this great fea-
ture as planned at the present time
would involve an outlay of many thous-
ands of dollars, but the results could
not but be grand and the feeling OF
the man who wishes to spend the
money for the display is that Dewey's
fame will expand from day to day I'M
til in the year 1901 he will be SO strong
an idol with the American people that
the visitors would cheerfully pay to see
the reproduction of the destruction of
Montejo's fleet and that the financial
results would more than pay for the
original outlay.
And there is still another feature un-
der consideration that cannot but bring
about great results and great pleasure
for those attending, and that is the re-
production of a typical japanese tea
house. There are but few Americans
who have ever had he pleasure of ever
spending any time in the delightful lit
tie country of Japan. and the tea house
which is one of the features of the
sunny land was an unknown quantity
until the delightful comic opera The
Geisha" toured America a couple o.
seasons ago and brought home to The
pleasure loving men Of the country
the beauties of a sojourn in the Flow
cry Kingdom
Now all will be able to see what the
real Geisha girl is like, for at the Japa-
nese tea house which the concessionaire
hopes to erect he contemplates having
dainty balconies and cosy corners, and
as a pleasing adjunct there are to be
forty of the prettiest little almond eyed
beauties that can be found in Japan.
They are to be brought on to serve
the delicious tea that is brewed alone
in Japan and to sing sweet songs to
the visitors. 4Xi
1t ought to be well worth a visit.
There will be many interesting and
pleasing visiting and lounging places
along the Midway, but the manage
ment insists that that section of the
exposition will be merely a contributory
feature of the big fair; that 1t will not
in any way dominate the general whole
for the exposition is to be high grade;
sort of dignified magnificence, as it
We're, and the plans which are now
rapidly advancing are guarantee
that the managerial hopes will be full
filled to the uttermost.
The work is really now we'll under
way, and it will be pressed during the
winter as fast as the weather will per-
NIT. If favoring fortune sends an open
winter there will be a veritable trans
formation scene ere the spring time
flowers bloom again. Yesterday after
noon the contract for the service build
ing was let and the Director of Works
proved the haste which is demanded
and the desire to lose no time by bind
ing the contractor to have the structure
completed within thirty-five days. The
building will be the exposition work
shop, for the Fire Department and the
police headquarters will be there To-
Gated, as well as the offices of the Di-
rector of Works and his bureau chiefs
1t will be an enormous structure; COW
ering many thousands of square feet
of space, but as the work must be
pressed during the winter months the
contractor had to place a big bond te
guarantee that he would throw ar
army of men on the task bright anG
early tomorrow morning.
With that building completed and oc-