The Newtown bee., 1901-07-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS. GOING TO THE "PAN."

READERS ON THE NEW YORK GEN.
 TRAIL FLYER, THE EMPIRE STATE
 EMPHASIZING REPRESENTATIVES
 OF THE GENUS HOMO, THE MAN WITH
 THE VALIsE AND THE LADY WITH
 THE KIND WORD.-sO NEW
 FER LEFT BEHIND.
 We are now at the top of the gradu-
 ated scale. The Pan-American is
 the strutting chanticleer who pro-
 claims himself king of the roost, and
 nobody rises bold enough to dispute
 his claim. l have heard all sorts of
 opinions about the "Pan." One lady
 said: s"The walks are all muddy, and
 there isn't much there to see." An-
 other said: ''It cannot hold candle to
 the White City, of Chicago" My
 own impression is that the myriad
 arcs of light that transform the night
 into day and lift up a jewelled firma-
 ment of light betwixt the earth and
 heaven is pretty fair sort of candle
 to hold up anywhere. The Buffalo
 Exposition is much, claim, like Bar
 nuns aggregation, the biggest thing
 on earth. put it in the superlatiye
 degree; have stuck a pin in there,
 and there, as far as I am concerned, |
 the pin is going to stick. The Exposi- tlon area encloses $50 acres. It is a
 clean mile from east to west across the
 grounds; and if you will soil your
 dainty feet, my fair lady, on the
 muddy walks, and if you think, my
 farmer friend, that you could show
 better Baldwin apples down at Hard scrabble farm than you will find in the Horticulture Building, you cannot help but admire the layout of the grounds lakes, lagoons, canals, foun- talns, statuary, flowers, foliage, lawns-the tout ensemble of the thing. that is what you must admire. Dela- ware Park, of which the Bufalonians may we'll feel proud, composes one- third of enclosed area. Nature did a great deal for, the location to begin with, but man has done a good deal more. Much of what is now in the Exposition grounds, am told, a few months ago was swamp land and waste territory, not even good enough to raise cabbages on. It is wonderful what can be done with a poor thing when you get money and skill and enterprise joined. The contract reads that this land shall be left, when the exposition is over, just as it was be- lore spade was laid to it. When you contemplate the magnificent erections that have sprung up like Jonah's gourd and will as quickly vanish, you say: That's an awful pity;" but recollect that Is, ,0OO, 900 persons, gazing upon beautiful thing for SIX months s as good as 10000 people having the pleasure Of inspection for number of ears. Everything in life goes by 'roportlon. The question is not, How long?" but ''How well?" and How much can be gotten out of it while it lasts?" believe I should not ave minded owning a bit of that wamp land myself; it would have been lmoSt as good as the man who found he skeleton of a mastodon buried in IS COW pasture, and Harvard paid i'm big sum for allowing it to be ug out. A man went into Chicago. E rather, what there was of Chicago, = lo47. He sold drove of cattle and ro 'und himself banker with a capital o+ JOCK of l,5OO. He did not feel quite . a1e In taking his money home and WI uttlng it in the wildcat banks of an nat cay, which had great facility in sy lVlng to money wings He looked TO; round for an investment in Chicago. pr
 piece of swamp land was pointed out " hlch could be exactly covered by his ro1 ,5OO. He thought we'll of the offer. re, It concluded to sleep over it one of ght before deciding the matter. by omehow that $1, 800 felt better under art IS pillow than dreams of being a ale eat capitalist, through investments ml sWamps, felt good in his head. He ch ent out of the Windy City the next ed orning with his money in his pocket wt Id the chorus of frogs chanting their no or und1sturbed quiet left behind. Ne n that old swamp land now stands tn, le City Hall of Chicago, and the site as worth many millions! If you only are lew it, there's lots of swamp land in mo e United States to-day worth, in tic ospect, much more than the best wa akota prairie which can produce, to I e acre, 40 bushels of wheat. my All aboard for the "Pan!" I went gre the Empire State Express over the do> ew York Central railroad. I believe to said in my first article that because not u want to travel on such an aristo- Ex atlc train, your high notions compel me to stay at home. Shakespeare said: or
 could sooner show twenty what lin, re good to be done than be one of nat 70 to follow my own showing;' bel Shakespeare knew what he was sail King about. Everybody has the was Vllege of giving advice, and there boo 10 law to compel one to follow what No breaches to others. suppose it is ing le, as the timetable says about it, dox It the New York Central is "Amer- reg $ greatest railroad;" and most of ; 'ple prefer to go that way, but I Mrs nk some other route is better. no Q men were looking into the win no or a gents'Ifurnishing store when son sa1d to the other: ''I don't see go y they should have a railway ad- wit tlsement in this window" "Rail- gro advertisements" remarked the find