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The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
OTHER MIDWAY WONDERS.

| What the Ferris Wheel was to the
Chicago Exposition the Thompson
Aerio Cycle will be to the Pan-Ameri-
I can Exposition. 1t is the altitudlnous
wonder Of the Midway. At each end Of
q structural iron beam which in opera
ton is remindful of the "teeter" of boy
hood is a revolving wheel in which four
cars are hung after the manner of the
Ferris Wheel. When one wheel is down
taking on and discharsing passengers,
the other is revolving 275 feet in The air.
The Aerio Cycle will be Illuminated
with 1000 incandescent electric lights
and be operated by power from Niaga.
IA Falls.
To visit "The Beautiful Orient" will
seem like going~to the Old World. for
within the entrance everything Is char
acteristic of the East. The streets and
buildings are faithful reproductions Of
streets and editces typical of the ORR
ent. They will be inhabited by from
$50 to 800 Orientais. There will also be
a Bedouin Arab encampment and no.
mads from the Desert of Sahara.
In the Streets of Mexico" life will be
seen exactly as II is in that interesting
country. This is one of the largest con-
cessions on the Midway. covering 95.-
COO square feet of ground. The MeXi-
cans in charge of this concession will
wear their native costume, and all
kinds of wares peculiar to the country
will be sold in the faithfully reproduce
ed Mexican stores. There will be an
army headquarters for the convenience
of the company of 100 mounted men or
"rurales" who will attend the EXposl.
tion by order Of President Diaz of Mex.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
DREAMLAND.

One of the most novel as we'll as ar
tistic features of the Pan-American
Midway is called "Dreamand," and an
idea of the character of this concession
may be obtained from the front of the
building, which is representation of a
huge pillow upon which rests the head
of a beautiful woman. The pillow is So
feet long and so feet in height, and the
face of the woman is 80 feet in
length. This is about the size of the
head of the famous sphinx in Egypt,
and were the rest of the figure shown
the woman. to be in proportion to this
face, would be about 250 feet high, or
about twice as high as the tailest o1nce
building in Buffalo.
The face of the woman is finely mold
ed and conveys an impression of repose
and dreaminess which one would hard-
" look for in so massive figure.
Within the building the visitor finds
himself lost in maze produced by
mirrors. He can see apparently dis
tance of several hundred feet. and the
illusion produced by the arrangement
of the mirrors brings him up against
many startling surprises.
There is somewhere In the maze
hidden woman, and he who finds her
will obtain a valuable reward. Glimpses
of this woman are occasionally seen.
but she is as fleeting and elusive as the
tabled sirens of the age of Mythology.
After emerging from the maze the
visitor is mystified by large number
of very novel and startling illusions
which out Wiertz the famous Wiertz
Galleries of Brussels. The exact char
acter of these illusions will remain q
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
THE BEAvTIFUL ORIENT.

Nearly $1,000 900 will be required to
construct and equip the wonderful
, Midway at the Pan-American Exposi-
tion. The greatest care has been taken
to prevent any approach toward tie
fake" show. and the visitor may rest
assured that he will not be submitted
to fraud or extortion so long as he re-
mains upon the Exposition grounds. 1t
is difficult TO single out any attraction
in this section as more prominent or
worthy than another, for all have their
special merit and novelty.
The subject of the accompanying IL
lustration, the Beautiful Orient, will
represent life as it existed in the East
before the advent of the modern tour
ist CASTOR Akoun, director OF this
concession, is arranging to have native
representative characters to convey
proper impressions of oriental customs
and manners of living. He will have
plenty of room in which to display the
different salient features that would
appeal in the strongest terms to people
accustomed TO our western CIVILIZATION
A holy Mecca will be the meeting place
of tired and worn pilgrims who Will
constantly arrive, make their offerings
in the various mosques or religious
temples and disperse. Eight streets
will diverge from this objective point.
each representing a distinctive local
section of the orient A street in Con-
stantinople will be thoroughly Turkish,
even to the vagabond dogs. Morocco
aI I,,r q which
will illustrate the life and habits of the
Moors Algerian life win receive atten-
tion. and a street will be borrowed
from Algiers for the purpose. TypicaI
illustrations In like manner VIII De
taken from Egypt, Tunis, Persia, Tripo-
Ii and Turkey in Asia. While looking
through these sections visitors could
easily imagine themselves in the midst
of the ancient city, the counterpart OK
which they are visiting.
A Bedouin Arab encampment VIII
lend variety, and Sahara Desert no.
MAIDS will live in their interesting char
acteristic way. Natives from all coun-
tries will live on the grounds with their
camels and different domestic oriental
animals, cabins, tents and huts. Res
taurants, tea houses, shops and fruit
stands for the sale of oriental goods OK
great variety will be provided. The
Beautiful Orient is under the same
management as the Streets of Cairo,
which was so popular at the WorldH
Fair, though it will be three times as
large. About 300 orientals will be en-
pluyed in different ways with tins at
traction. a conglomerate eastern city
with distinct local features-a history
in a nutshell.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01

covered by the various amusement fea-
lures will be most extensive.
The Pan-American, tourist will be
fairly bewildered by the 'Bally Hoo
ing the fun caused by. the efforts of
the spoilers" or announcers to draw
the biggest crowds to their respective
attractions. There will be continu-
GUS throng of people passing down the
main street of the Midway, and on ei.
ther side OF this street will be the doz-
ems OF different exhibitions, which will
each and every one of them be pretty
good show in itself. Some of them viii
cost several hundred thousand dollars
each for production.
AS have said, this Is s3,00O,OO0
Midway, and in respect to both novelty,
expense of production and originality
the like of it has never been seen on
any continent.
II requires great deal Of inventive
faculty-in fact, something quite ap-
preaching inspiration itself-to create
such original exhibitions as many Of
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
THE GREAT INDIAN CONGRESS.

For white people of all classes and
pationalities the red man possesses
remarkable fascination, His history.
revealing so much of injustice and dou-
BILE dealing on the part of the whlte
settlers, brings us face to face with the
question of his future, and 1t is sad IN
some respects to think that Whatever
civilization may have in store for him
his life as a wild child of Nature has
about come to it's end. The young In
dams of the far West today have no
chance left to make names for them
selves as warriors. as their forefathers
had. for the tomahawk is being made
into a hoe, the wigwam is being dis
carded for the house, and instead OF
engaging as of old in the buffalo hunt
thew receive cattle from the govern
ment. But even with all these changes
the old chiefs who are survivors of an
era of warfare are still unreconciled to
civilization and its ways. and were they
not held in check by the strong arm of
the government the chances are they
would be Just as wild as in the days
when the great Tecumseh and his
brother planned to drive the whites
from this continent. The purpose of
the Creator in decreeing that one race
should be so different from another is
hard to understand. 1t almost seems
sometimes as If there were plausibility
in the idea entertained by some Indians
that there are two Gods. one for the
white man and one for the Indian. We
know that the ancient Hebrews believed
in the God of Abraham, Isaac and ia
cob, and it was exceedingly difficult for
the Jew to become reconciled to the
idea that his Jehovah was the God also
of the hated Gentiles. Why blame the
red man too much If he thinks that
should he desert hfs God, the God that
gave him life and created for his use
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
'=I'A IP'AN-AMERICANS MIDWAY

the bright side of slavery days will be
seen. That there was q bright side no
one can gainsay. and the negroes upon
many plantations In those times cer-
tainly led lives Of comparative happi-
ness. The picturesque scenes in cotton
picking times will be most graphically
portrayed. and the pickaninnies dane.
ing before the cabin doors and the
sweet voiced darkies singing to the ac-
compartment OF their banjos the old
time negro melodies will constitute an
attraction of which the visitor need
never tire. The historic interest Of this
feature Of the Midway will be increased
by the exhibition here of the famous
Shelby cabin, in which Uncle Tom. the
hero of Harriet Geecher Stoves thrill
ing story, lived.
Even more romantic to some in asso-
Citations will be the scenes int,"Venice
In America" which is to be as nearly
like Venice In Europe as inventive gen.
ius and the art of scenic painters and
architects can make 1t. One enters un-
der the Bridge of Signs. and our Condo
lier takes us by the Ducal Palace, the
Cathedral of San Marco and other IA
nous buildings of this once great GEN.
ter of trade until we come to the Rial
to, where so many Of the most famous
scenes in Shakespeares plays have
been located and about which. together
with the Bridge of Signs, poets and
novelists and descriptive writer's of all
sorts have penned lines in prose and
verse ad infinitum. Everything in
"venice In America" Is to be Venetian
except the water In the Grand Canal,
which will come from Lake Erie and
will no doubt be much better from a
sanitary point of view than the water
of the blue Adriatic. There will even
be pigeons flying about Venice In
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01

bellishment will be characteristic OF
Egypt, and in beauty of architecture
and color decoration it is likely to earn
the title of Gem of the Midway.
! have not space to tell in detail OF
the startling and original illusions Of
the House Upside Down, which has
been built contrary to all the laws Of
nature by the well known illusionist
Roltaire. and fitted out completely with
house furnishings all topsy turvy; or Of
the Panopticon, with its numerous his
toric groups in wax; or of the Beautiful
Orient. which will comprise what the
Streets of Cairo did at the Chicago
Worlds Fair and a great deal more.
making in all the most interesting and
instructive collection of the quaint
and picturesque life of the Orient ever
presented.
1t would be pleasant to go at length
into the curious, fascinating and his
torically interesting features of such
Midway exhibitions as the Streets Of
Mexico, representing a country whose
remarkable progress is now attracting
great deal of attention, or the Ha-
waiian Village and the Volcano of XII
lauea, representing the Paradise of the
Pacific, which has SO recently become
territory of the United States.
Our latest important acquisition. the
Philippines. will also be Illustrated in
the Philippine Village, and the life Of
the Eskimo and of the wild blacks in
Africa will be pictured in the Eskimo
and African Villages respectively.
The quaint scenes of German town
of the Middle Ages will be reproduced
in "Old Nuremberg" one of the larges!
of the Midway concessions and differ
ent visitors will find especial fascina-
tion in such exhibitions as the "Colora-
do Gold Mine," Jerusalem on the Morn
ing of the Cruciixion." THE Diving
Elks." THE Scenic Railway and Riv.
ers," 1.-The Incubator" 'The Japanese
Village" "The Miniature Worlds Fair"
THE Glass Factory THE Cinco-
graph" THE Gypsy Camp" the Cap
tive Balloon" and the 'Aerio Cycle"
which will be to the Pan American
what the Ferris Wheel was to the Chi
cago Fair. only more So" as they say.
Life is too short to say all that might
be said about the manifold features OF
this 81, 900, 900 Midway. There Is going
to be a world of entertainment and in
struction in it, and the opportunity OF
seeing such an exhibition of the strange
and curious things of the universe Is
not likely to be presented again in the
twentieth century.
EDWARD HALE BRUSH.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01

these on the Pan-American Midway are
to be. For instance, let me cite the
story of how "A Trip to the Moon"
came to be suggested to the inventor Of
this Midway feature, MIR. Frederic
Thompson.
One day Mr.. Thompson was studying
on how to create some new and star
tling effects for the Darkness and
Dawn" concession, in which he is also
interested and in which is a represen-
tation of Dante's Inferno revised and
brought up to date. Throwing himself
upon q couch in his office and gazing
dreamiy through half closed eyes at
the circles of smoke from his pipe. he
was seeking a solution to the problem
how to carry his passengers over
deep and almost bottomless gulch he
had created in the very heart of the in
fernal regions. Suddenly he hit upon a
grand idea. Starting from his couch,
he exclaimed: II have it! But this
will never do for Darkness and Dawn
I'll make it "A Trip to the Moon
Thus was born the idea which re-
suited in the construction of the large
building one sees among the first on
entering the Midway and which Is call
ed "A Trip to the Moon" 1t contains
within it some of the most weird and
mysterious Illusions one could find in
travelling the whole world around. Mr..
Thompson will carry his visitors to the
Moon by the airship Luna. The scien-
tiflc principle which he has developed
in planning this voyage is one which
renders it possible to make the trip a
very delightful as well as exciting ex-
perience.
Strange to say. Mr.. Thompson con-
ceived almost the Identical ideas of the
possibilities of interest in an UNDER
ground City Of the Moon which have
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01

the buffalo, bear, elk and deer, he
might expect that the God of his fore
fathers, the God who sends his spirit
warriors to act as guides for each In
dian spirit over the long trail to the
happy hunting ground" would desert
him?
What, argues the Indian. does the
white mans God know of him and the
wants of the Indians? If they desert
their own God, they will. so many be-
lieve. be like children lost in a wilder
ness, none to care for them in time Of
sickness, none should they die to pre-
vent their outcast spirits being driven
about by the winds that come from the
four corners of the earth. Such being
his belief, Is 1t strange that he feels
sorrowful and perhaps somewhat sui
len when he sits in his wigwam and re-
fleets that the mightiest nation upon
earth, the nation that has driven away
the buffalo. elk, deer and bear, the In
dams food. wigwam and clothing, IL
trying to force him to believe in a new
God, to tread In the white mans road
and discard the old trails Travelled for
many ages and worn smooth by the
spirit feet Of the fathers? One must not
wonder in view of this at the Indians
antipathy to civilization. Geronimo.
Red Cloud. Chief Joseph and other ia
nous chiefs now living are just as wild
In spirit today as when they were lead
ing their warriors In battle years ago.
and when you see old Geronimo at the
head of his band of warriors at the In
dian Congress at the Pan-American
Exposition you will see the same willy
old chief who led his followers in raids
through the mountains of New Mexico
and Arizona and would do SO again had
he but the opportunity.
The era of wild Indian life on the
plains Is fast passing, as ! have said.
and soon 1t will be impossible to give
such a reproduction of 1t as is to be
feature of the Pan-American Midway. |
There will be represented In this Con-
gress AZ different tribes. and the 500 or
600 Indians will live as they do in the
West. the Sioux in their tepees. the
Winnebagoes in their wigwams. the Pi-
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
Some of the Amusement Features For
the Big Buffalo Exposition Both
the Grave and the Gay Are
Well Provided For.

pended upon the creation of the Pan
American Midway and the wisdom IN
this vast expenditure resulting from
the experience of past Expositions, the
visitor to the Pan American next sum-
mer can be assured that this part of
the great All American Exposition will
be not only full of entertainment for
him, but full of instruction and profit
as well.
The purpose of this article is not to
present catalogue of the numerous
features Of the Pan-American Midway.
but to give the reader an account of
what is in store for him which will not
weary in the reading and from which
he can gauge the character of the pro-
gramme now in course of preparation
There is strange fascination In the
Midway-in the seeming confusion. the
grand medley of tongues, music, archi-
lecture and customs that one finds In
this part of an Exposition and particu-
larly such a Midway as that at the
Pan American is to be. The eXhibi-
tions of the Midway will be found on
one street, which will have over a mile
of frontage, and while in this way ev-
erything will be brought into close
proximity for the convenience as well
as amusement of the visitor the space
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
GRANGE INTERESTS
AT THE EXPOSITION.

Handsome Buildings Erected on the
Grounds-Excursions Planned Ia
Many Localities - The Grangers'
Wide Awake. ~
Owing TO the peculiar and allied In
terests of the Grange in Agricultural
and Live Stock matters it has been
definitely determined to locate the
Grange Building just east of the Dairy
Building on the Pan-American Ex-l
position grounds. In the regular
classification of the Exposition Farm-
ers' Organizations are recognized in the
Division of Agriculture.
Superintendent Converse has taken
this matter up with the different
Grange officials in the various States
and also with the National Grange. A
Pam American Grange Committee has
been appointed in every state, with the
state master as chairman of such COM Il
mittee These committees are working
assiduously in their own interests as
well as the interests of the Exposition,
particularly with reference to the d.
visions that are OF the greatest impor-
tance to them. 85
The plan is to run frequent excursions
from the various states where the order
is strongest and this is particularly
true with reference to the Eastern, Mid
die and Central Western States. At a
meeting of the New York State Grange
held at Poughkeepsie a resolution was
passed placing in the hands of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the State Grange
the matter of caring for the Head
quarters established on the Exposition
grounds and of assisting the different
committees whose duty 1t is to mpafS
such information as shall be of interest
to the visiting members of the order
and receive them in such way as
shall reflect great credit upon the hos
pitality of the New York State Grange
with reference to the visiting members
from other states. III
The building from an architectural
standpoint compares very favorabiy
with the style of architecture which s
manifests itself in the various build-
ings of the Exposition. The plan OF
the building is such that the main floor
is devoted to a large reception room.
with smoking room. offices and check
room conveniently located for the use
of the members 81
superintendent corgerse is constant
ly in receipt of lett% from the Masters
of the State Gral#&s indicating that AZ
widespread interest is being manifested
in this matter
The New York State Grange has al
ready begun preparations to have,
cheap excursions run to Buffalo fronk
the different localities in the State, an
it is thought advisable to have state
Grange day and which will be the lat y
ter part of June.
oct 10 is the day set aside as the Ma
tonal Grange day, and efforts Will be
made to have the greatest number OF
Grangers from the various states at 4
tend the Exposition at this particular
time, and it Is confident that from the
number of Changers, the total num- &
ber being over a million, more than
one half will visit the Pan-Ameriesn.-
Exposition some time during its prog-
II
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
THREE MILLION DOLLAR MIDWAY.

mas in their wickiups, the cliff dWellers
in their cliff caves and each tribe in It's
peculiar abode. The Navajoes Will be
seen weaving their blankets. the Mo-
quis making pottery, the Sioux bows.
arrows and stone pipes. Then there
will be the daily performances, the re-
productions of battle scenes, which Will
be wild and picturesque in the extreme
and in every way accurate and truth
full portrayals of Indian methods OF
warfare. The various dances. when
are SO conspicuous an institution
among the Indians, will also be repro
duced, as well as their games ana
sports. Indeed there will be nothing
lacking which is needed to give COM
plete picture of the American Indian as
he exists on the plains of the West to-
day.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01

ate enthusiasm from mere numbers and
the feeling that the trip is an event.
Twenty or thirty make a satisfactory
number for club tour. A party of
this size commands attention and re.
spect from landlords and yet is not SO
numerous that the members cannot be
comfortably housed and fed.
Set each days run at fifty miles and
under.-under is better. In order to
reach a certain point a few long runs
may be Necessary, but do not think
that the average wheelman can ride
seyeltN-Gve .l.i!es day for week and
snend his evenings doing the sights
Making advance arrangements not
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-04-01
EXPOSITION FIRE PROTECTION.

From the annual message of Mayor Dieh OF Buf.
tao.
During the past year the following
additional apparatus was purchased
and placed in service: Fireboat w. 8.
Grattan, Engine 80, with combination
chemical and hose wagon; Engine 81,
with combination chemical and hose
wagon. and Hook and Ladder No. 10.
These last named five pieces of appara-
tus are located at the Pan-American
Exposition grounds. Engines Nos. Z,
and Chemical Engine No were rebuilt
and are practically as good as new.
sixty additional fire alarm signal
boxes were added to the service. thirty
five Of which are located at convenient
points at the Pan-Amelican grounds