The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-23
GRAND CANAL AND GRoTToEs.
Scenes Of Beauty and Interest at
the Buffalo Exposition.

A grand canal encircling the great
exhibition buildings, mirror lakes and
grottoes, through which visitors are
taken for pleasure trips in electric
launches, is one of the many enjoyable
features of the Pan-American Expo
sition.
The grottoes are the work of Mr.
Rudolph Ulrich, the landscape arch
visit them will pronounce them most
realistic.
The Triumphal Causeway is one of
the finest structures of the kind ever
erected, SURPRISING the Great Alex
ander Bridge of the Paris Exposition,
which was deemed magnificent work
1t spans the neck of water between the
two delightful Mirror Lakes, near the
southern entrance to the Exposition
grounds and 1t rests upon four mon
umental piers each 100 feet in height
All of the electric launches on the
canals of the Exposition will pass be-
meath the bridge, and in doing so will
wonderfully weird and fascinating
grottoes.
There are two channels running be-
meath the bridge, one of which is trav-
ersed by boats going westward. the
other by boats going toward the east.
Each of the channels has length of
400 feet, and one has a pink light eff
green, all of the lighting done by lamps
deftly concealed by the magic hands
of skillful electricians.
Extending off from the main chan
nels, here and there, are short open
| ings reaching out toward the opposite
channel, through which beautiful views
are obtained. On the sides of the chan
tor a lie a n
cascades, where the water leaps over
rocks that glisten under the light ef-
fects. All about, on every side, weird
| effects are created by scraggy tree
| trunks, stumps and crooked limbs. all
! arranged in the most unusual forms,
| giving the impression that the caverns
! were created by a great upheayal or
by the erosion of swift running, power
full streams of water forced through
this subterranean passageway. Rocks
| stand about as though left there by
the mighty flood. Stalactites hane
from the roof of the grottoes, and
! staIagmites are there.
All who have visited the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky or other similar
strange and wonderful places in the
earth will enjoy anew the delightful
experience of cave travel, only that the
entire trip will be by boat propelled
by that modern power, electricity. III
| fancy the mind will run back to tht
ride on the famous Echo River of Ken
tucky's remarkable cave, but the hear
will feel glad that there are no places
like the Fat Mans Misery to pas
through.
These grottoes of the Pan-Am erical
are surprising and delightful at ever!
| point and every turn. The pink ant
green illumination of the RESPECTIVE
| channels give a weirdness to the grot
toes that make the experience OF IN
trip all the more thrilling.
To pass from bright sunlight into tn
depths of either channel of the grot
toes is momentarily startling, for tn
ewes of all have to become accus
toned to the light of thes grottoes De
fore the full beauty and grandeur o
the creation is appreciated. But wne
the ewes have familiariZed themseive
| with the pink or the green light, IN
| wonders of the place are appreciate
and. there comes a feeling of amaze
ment that such a scene is possible O
the grounds of the Exposition. IN
|. goblin-like effect, the scraggy appear
, anee of the grottoes, fascinate al
rendering the trip beneath the tn
umphaI Causeway memorable. Man
will say that on account of its oW
beautiful appearance and creation IN
> Triumphal Bridge is we'll named, pu
!, after passing through the grottoes the
will associate the name of the orloe
with the triumph and glory attained !
| the subterranean paSSageways.