Mower County transcript., 1901-10-16
AT The PAN-AMERICAN.
Sightseeing at the Exposition Which
Reveals the Marvels of the
New Century.
BUFFALO, a. Y, Oct. II, 1901.


sightseeing here, early and late, will
by no means allow one to see every
thing, but in that time, IL wisely
used, one may get good general idea
Of the whole and also an excellent
idea Of some special departments Sc
lected for more thorough study. A
detailed description Of the various
displays has already appeared In the
TRANSCRIPT from another's pen and
I shall only jot down some personal
impressions.
One needs to remember, in visiting
the Pan-American, it's main purpose,
which is to illustrate fttingly the
marvellous development Of the west
ern hemisphere during the nineteenth
century, by display of the arts, ill.,
dustries, manufactures, and the prod
ucts of the soil, mines and sea. Hence
one is not disappointed in finding
comparatively little of European ex-
hibits while the extensive displays
from the many states and countries of
the three Americas prove c0nclusively
that in the line Of its purpose it is q
conspicuous success. And so we find
on every side an exhibition Of the
most modern achievements Of science
exemplified by the matchless genius
Of the western world. These exhibits
are arranged and classified in man.
ner wonderfully impressive.
The great exhibit groups are as fol-
lows: Electricity and electrical ap-
pliances; fine arts-painting, sculp-
ture and decoration; graphic arts
Typography, lithograghy. steel and
.copper-plate printing, photo-mechan-'
ical processes, drawing, engraving and
book. inding; liberal arts-education,
engineering, public works, construct
i've architecture, music and the
drama; ethnology, archaeology. pro-
gress of labor and tnventiou; agricul-.
ture: foods and their accessions; agri-
cultural machinery and appliances;
horticulture, viticulture, Horticulture;
live stock; forestry and forest prod
ucts; fish. fisheries, fish products and
apparatus for fishing; mines and
metallurgy; machinery; manufac-
lures, transportation exhibits-rail-
ways, vessels, vehicles; ordnance; and
exhibits from the Hawaiian islands,
Porto Rico and the Philippine islands.
In addition to these are numerous
collective exhibits from sta tes OF Gen.
tral and South America, Canada and
the Individual states of our own coun-
try.
The exposition grounds cover over
half a section of land, being half a
mile wide and mile and a quarter
long. The landscape and architec-
tural features are beautiful and i'm.
posing. The main group of buildings
is arranged in broad area one-third
Of a mile long, designated as the
a'Court of the Fountains" At the
north end stands the imposing steel
electrical tower, $50 feet high, from
the top of which I gained a superb
panorama not only OF the entire
grounds but Of the surround ding coun-
try including the Niagara river from
tier. Along either side of the court
are several of the principal buildings,
including the Temple of Music where
president Mckinley was shot, star
in the floor showing where he fell.
At the other end Of the court is the !
imposing Triumphal bridge. II there
was nothing else to see it would be
worth coming to enjoy the evening
illumination alone, sight which
president Roosevelt pronounced abso-
lutely unique in its electrical effects.
At half after six in the evening,
when the night has shut down, the
vast court of fountains is left tempo
rarily in complete darkness made
doub1y dark the first night I saw it
by dense clouds. As the moment for
the Illumination approaches there is 8
hush in the multitude. Suddenly
reddish threads Of electric light ap.
pear on the multitude of lamp. pillars.
The great tower shows in dim out
line and reddens into light most |
brilliant. The cascade is Illuminated
as it falls its seventy feet into the
basin filed with jets of changing |
colors and presently one sees that a |
like transformation has taken place
The architectural skele-
tons of the great buildings have been
picked out in lines ofaslight and as /
the currents flow stronger the whole;
effect mellows into q luminous vel
low. The material exposition has
been transfigured into 9 city Of light.
It ista sight neverato be forgotten.
In the electricity building are
teund3 3all the latsst oolsHof electricall,