The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
YE EDITOR TRAVELS.
He Has a Royal Good Time While
the Devil Runs the Shop.
BUFFALO AND TORONTO GIVE WELCOME
The Minnesota Building at the Pan-Amer-
lean Exposition Formally Dedicated
by the Scribes and Gov. Van
SAINT and His STAFF.

Rightly is it called the Rainbow City,"
Ornate in it's architecture, beautiful in its
coloring, the Pan-American city delights
and satisfies the eye and holds the prom
ise of good fortune to all the Americas.
Chicago for its white City had the
help of all the world. The federal gov
eminent and the state of Illinois made
muniicent donations, and all foreign
countries were directly interested in that
great exposition But the Pan-Amerlcan
is the creation of Buffalo, and almost I'M
aided this single city, not OF the nrsl
magnitude in population, has carried 10
completion one of the very few really
great expositions. 1t has in so doing
placed itself in the first rank of Amerl-
can cities in its self-reliance, energy ana
accomplishment of great undertakings. It's
exposition in its beauty and interest lot
visitors rivals the Chicago fair and Whol-
ly eclipses any other ever known in this
country.
The "all-American" idea is distinctly
carved out in the architecture and the
color designs, and as the classic outlines
of the Grecian architecture of the 'Whlte
City was distinct triumph for Amerl-
can art, so are the terretted, mineretted
buildings and beautiful color schemes or
the Rainbow City" 1t is unusually rest
full to the eye and satisfying to the mind.
AS you enter the grounds over the ap-
proach to the triumphal arch and the
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tains bursts upon the view, with the
graceful lines of the lofty electrical tow
er marking the far end, you cannot but
exclaim. How beautiful! To see 1t IN
fits glory you must see it from this point;
the plan evidently contemplates that. AT
this end, too, you find the ruder and
eruder architecture, palmer and less or
nate OF design, and without color, repre-
senting the earliest times. The principal
arch is indeed triumph of architecture,
but here is no color, no glamor of the
creation, but from here on the color be-
gins, as does the intricacy of ornament,
until both reach their climax in the cleo
trical tower. 1t is all a study in south
ern architecture and is as distinct and
true and consistent as was the White
City" You come away with clear inn
preston, bearing the exact picture in
memory. which is harmonious and pleas
ing and carries the impression of his
toric completeness.
We wish to say with the utmost ear
nestness. that no one who, by any rea-
month at the Pan-American will ever re-
greet doing so.
The Minnesota Party.
The representatives of $50 Minnesota
newspapers have just spent nearly
week at the exposition. With US were
hundred ladies, our wives and daughters.
With us also were Gov. Van SAINT and
sons. Every one, without exception, was
delighted. We Of this western country,
have had no real conception of the mag
nitude and completeness of this expost-
ton, nor of its educational value, other
wise tens of thousands would go from
this state alone. Every one of the 300 of
our excursion has come home to urge
every friend he has to go, to see and en-
Joy.
To aid those who may contemplate the
trip, we wish to tell the plain, unvar-
nished tale of this 1901 editorial outing,
and to give simple facts that will be
most useful to the visitor, saving him
many delays, annoyances and consider
able expense. We take it that most who
will visit the Pan-American from Mime
sofa will have limited time and limited
means. They will wish to see the most
they can for their money, with the maxi
mum of personal comfort.
The Route.
First, then, as to your route. You can
pot possibly do better than to take the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road to
Chicago. and the Grand Trunk from
there on. The service on these roads is
not excelled in the whole world, nor are
there any better equipments, or smooth
er roadbeds. If you have never realized
what a good roadbed means to the
traveller, outside of safety to life, just
notice as you ride over the Milwaukee
and Grand Trunk, that after you reach
Buffalo, you are as fresh as when you
left home. Or, if you started tired, you
will reach there rested and refreshed,
ready for tramping and sightseeing. You
do not have to hang onto your seat all
day, nor lay awake all night, to stay in
your berth. You can read with ease,
watch the landscape with comfort, and
sleep as peacefully as in your own bed
at home.
The Milwaukee runs five solid passenger
trains daily each way between st. Paul
and Chicago. 1t gives you a daylight
ride If you wish in chair cars down the
Mississippi river, passing Hastings, Red
Wing, Winona and La Crosse, a route
that for scenic beauty is unexcelled. Its
great Pioneer Limited leaves st. Paul at
$40 p. m. and arrives in Chicago at $3.50
the following morning. 1t is the pride of
the road and the admiration of all rail-
road men. But just to show what It can
do when put to the test, our special was
whirled from st. Paul to Chicago in just
twelve hours after a run that was as easy
and smooth as rubber tires on macadam.
This road also is the only one having the
block signal system for the entire st.
Paul-Chicago route, making collisions i'm
possible. The elegance of it's trains, the
completeness Of its service, the courtesy
Of its employees and the effort made in
every way for your comfort and enjoy
ment, cost YOU nothing-they are that
uuCn extra LOT your money. IL Is a Sig
ntfcant fact that no other road ever
claims to excel the Milwaukee, the ut
most of the pretentions being that they
are 'just as good" 1t is the model and
its limited train is indeed the Pioneer"
1t lead the way and still leads it.
The Grand Trunk.
What the Milwaukee is northwest of
Chicago. that the Grand Trunk railway
system is to the northern east. It's
splendid roadbed insures your ease and
safety. 1t is differed and managed al
most wholly by young men, and they
have amazed the railroad world by max
ing it the most popular road east of
Chicago, and they have done this in just
the few last years. They have done 1t
by providing everything the travelling
public could reasonably or even unreal
sonably ask for. Keen and alert they
have looked to see where others have
lacked and worked to provide that for
their road. They handle the large ex-
cursion party and the single passenger
Just the same. Every bit of their knowl-
edge and help is at their service, and
every employee looks to see that they
are cared for and reach their destination
quickly and comfortably. With our party
Mr.. David Brown, the roads travelling
passenger agent at st. Paul, went through
to Buffalo and back, personally attend
ing to the train service and the hun
dreds of little details that conduce so
much to the smoothness of such a trip.
At Chicago, Mr.. Cookson, the assistant
to the general passenger agent at that
city, met us there and accompanied the
train to Buffalo. The Milwaukee road
was equally attentive, Mr.. ]. T. Conley
the general passenger agent. having been
with US while on his road.
The Grand Trunks Chicago depot is
known az the Dearborn street station
and is in this heart of the city. It has
three splendid trains daily out of Chicago
east and each has a through Ruffala