The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-09-12
PAN-AMERIOAN EXPOSITION.
A Great Show, Well Worth Trip TO Buffalo

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Buffalo, is certainly great show. The
illumination of the buildings at night
by electricity is alone worth the trip
1t surpasses anything of the kind ever
before seen.
On Monday, September and, the
editor OF this paper and his son went
to Buffalo over the Lackawanna Rail
road. Leaving here at Io:45 a. m.
the train is due at Buffalo at 8 p. m.
1t is a charming ride through beauti.
iul country, and over a well equipped
road. Vestibule trains with dining
cars are run through from New York
We would suggest to any one desiring
chair in parlor car, that it is ad-
visable to secure it several days in ad-
vance.
Statler's Hotel is one of the most
desirable places to stop. Trolley cars
run from the depot direct to the hotel
by getting a transfer at Niagara street.
Coming back, Main street car will
land you at the depot without change
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are excellent, and the rooms as com
Portable as can be made in a temper
airy structure. One advantage IN
stopping there is that no time is lost
in riding back and forth on the street
cars. The hotel is just outside the
Lincoln Park entrance. The rates
are from So 90 a day up.
1t is not our intention to attempt a
description of the exposition. What
requires at least one week to see can
not be described in single article. 1t
is great show, and everybody who can
should see it.
1t was our privilege to be present
while President Mckinley and party
were there. We saw them arrive on
Wednesday afternoon, at which time
the salute OF 81 guns fired in honor OF
the President broke some of the win
dows in his car, and Mrs. Mckinley
tainted away believing that 1t was an
attempt to blow up the Car with dyna-
mite. We heard the President de-
liver his address on Thursday morning,
being only about IS feet from him,
and almost directly in front. We saw
the President pass in his carriage, bow
ing right and lett to the applauding
thousands, on his way TO the Stadium;
We saw him at the Stadium where he
reviewed the 65th and 74th Regiments
of New York Militia, and but for
change of plans we might have been
in the Temple. of Music when the hand
of the dastardly assassin was raised
against him.
On Thursday over 10000 people
were on the grounds, cheering, ap-
plauding, good natured crowd of
American citizens, willing to endure
the scorching rays of the sun, and to
be packed together like sardines in a
box, for the sake of seeing and doing
homage to the executive head of the
nation. Everywhere the President
was greeted with tumultuous applause,
and no one dreamed that there was
lurking in the crowd a villainous an.
archist with murder in his heart and a
pistol in his pocket, seeking an oppor-
tunity to strike down the President.
His opportunity came on Friday,
when public reception was held in
the Temple of Music. With his right
hand covered with a handkerchief
under which was concealed pistol, he
approached the President, and as the
latter extended friendly hand, and
bestowed upon him kindly smile,
this fiend in human form fired two
balls into the abdomen of President
Mckinley, with intent TO kill hun. A
more outrageous, unjustihable, villain
GUS, dastardly, contemplate act was
never committed. By what would
seem to be direct interposltlon OF
Divine Providence, the wounds were
not fatal, and the whole country is re-
joicing today that the President has
been spared, and IS rapidly recovering.
A trip to Niagara Falls, OF course,
is always included when you go to
Buffalo. At Prospect Park govern
ment carriages carry passengers
around Goat Island, with stop-over
privileges, for IS cents. The Gorge
Route by trolley to Queenstown and
Lewiston costs $I.oo, and is well
worth it. The road goes down the
Canadian side on the cliff, and comes
up the American side along the very
edge fthe rapids.
A trip around Buffalo on the "See
ing Buffalo Coaches" costs but sc
cents, and gives one an excellent idea
of the city. The coaches start from
Statler's and make two hours TRIP
through the city and along the lake
front. They are the same ones used
in Chicago during the Worlds Fair in
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