The Newtown bee., 1901-07-26
CIRCULATION
TOWN TOPICS. GOING TO THE "PAN."
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GOING TO THE "PAN."
 aONDoLIERs-PUT SOME POETRY
 INTO YOUR LIFE-AN INVERTED IT
 AN HONEST RESPECT FOR UNCLE
 SAM AND HIS DOINGs-wHY DID WE
 GET INTO SUCH A TANGLE 1.-THE OLD
 AND THE NEw-THE BIG BULLY AND
 THE LITTLE FELLow-sH1Ps OF THE
 L1NE-THE FAMOUS SAIL AROUND
 LAKE HORN-A PROTEST AGAINST
 MARRYING WITHOUT A MINISTER
 GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT.
 We'll, now we are fairly within the gates of the great Exposition. It has taken us some time to get there, but we are there. The best way for you to enter the grounds for the first time is through the Water Gate. At that point it is best to get your first i'm pression, and the first impressions, you know, are everything. Several friends advised us to get our first view bypass ing in at that gate, and perhaps that is the reason why we did not go in that way. Nobody likes to take advice, but everybody likes to give it. What splendid lives we should all live if we would be willing to profit by the expe- rience of those who have passed over the road before us, but we don't profit. we hew out our own little path, and every life cuts line through the world never traced before. All this being true. don t believe you'll go in at the water gate; you'll climb up some other way. The water gate is little out of the way, somewhat hard to get at, and it's a good deal easier to go with the crowd. Then, here's another bit of advice, gratis: Take gondola ride be- fore you buckle on the harness and really settle down to the work Of s'doing" the Exposition. Lazily re- cling in the gondola and letting your jaunty gondolier do all the work, it is a first rate to get the general lay out of the grounds. Now under a bridge; now into the beautiful expanse of a lake; now by some heavy clump of foliage that dips it's green-embrOldered fringe in the rippling water; now in full view of the great electric tower; now OIl' OA UAC SlOu1Oo VASAS the stiffness is so profound that you would think the world with it's many distractions far, far away; now round- ing a point to have vision of lOveli- ness so entrancing burst upon you that you awake with start from your dream and say, quite unconscious of the effort: "Oh! Yes, it is dream, a dream that floats through the stilly air of the river that we call Old Times and stays with you for many a day. Upon that river are many craft and many sail that ever and anon come up from out the mist and loom before you in full view; but no ship is lovelier and none spreads it's white winged sails more fair than that which bears the name "Pan-American Expo sition, 1901" The whole fair is a dream. Everything is so different from the way you see things in this prosaic, monotonous old world. l would go to the fair, first, to have a little poetry put into my nature, just to al: low a few rough edges to be knocked of, and see how it feels to be for a while in place where every vision is a rapture and every moment delight. If you go into the Exposition as the crowd do, by the Elmwood avenue gate, you will not think that you have | missed much. It's pretty good way to go in, and certainly would make it appoint to enter that way at least once Passing over the bridge which spans the lake, you soon come to the en trance proper to the Exposition. From the Triumphal bridge, comprehen sive view of the grounds can be ob tained. I need not attempt to giyt you a plan of the grounds. It would be, when I had finished, all Greek tC you, and would be quite problem fol me to get it straightened out now my self. You can buy every morning al you enter, for five cents, program O what is going on during the day, an( on this is miniature plan which yOl will have some amusement with il making square with the buildings The beauty of the whole thing is though, that all begins and ends in tht Court of the Fountains. This is lik' the perpendicular line in an inverted T. The main buildings are grouped around and along it, the spaces be tween forming orinner courts, ant these minor inner courts opening ou on the park system. Whenever yo1 get lost, ask to be directed to the COur stand still and look around you and ge your bearings. It is rather amusin
 to go in at one door of huge building say the Manufacturers, come out a another door on the other side, and b as completely turned about and be logged as if you had been given thre
 rapid wheels on the Ferris wheel. think, if were you, should study
 little phrenology before went. Whel you come back, you will either decid
 that you bump of locality is prodigiou or that a microscope could not revea the slightest trace of it..
 They call the Buffalo Fair, yo, know, the Rainbow City" What in a name ?' Why, good deal, whel the name exactly describes what yol see. The blending of soft colors her is beautiful. The lightblue in tn
 lifted up against the sky is a charming
 relief to the fierce white glare of tn
 pavement at your feet. And, just b way of parenthesis, (as Prof Five used to remark to his class at Amhers
 College), let me suggest that you talk
 along some smoked glasses, you wi s thank me for the suggestion and fin ). them quite restful to the eyes.
 Let us go into theGOvernment built
 ing, seeing that we have begun to tai
 about 1t. It is 600 feet long by > I: wide; that is about as big as a1fys an
 that is pretty good place to- begil
 exhibits were not in place that V # found it quite delightful to take loc
 at the finished arrangements of Unc
 Sam. The old gentleman with tf
 striped pantaloons generally gets wh; = he aims at; and learned from what
 sawat the other end of "York State.
 to have great deal of respect for wh
 our government does. Do you knoI |. after saw the hospital tents and the 8 splendid equipment, everything suitt
 to do the right thing in the quicke