The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-19
Taking Of Notes at
The Pan.HmeriCan

TT WAS AT the Worlds Fair that
I remember seeing a woman TAX
ing notes. She was in the Liberal
Arts building and was of a tpye that
one couldn't but wonder what sort
of notes woman like that would
take. She had reached the Russian
division, where the exhibit was mag
nifiCent indeed. inadvertently, Of
course, l happened to see what she
was writing as we stood side by side
at the railing behind which was the
wonderful jade furniture, with the
translucent table-tops, the gorgeous
cabinets.
This headed the page in her note
book "Rooshy Lots of red and
greeen things here"
Naturally one was also compelled to
wonder what kind of a mental vision
this succinct memoranda would call
up in her mind after her return.
Would she sit with her family around
the lamp in some rural home and,
leafing over this little book, would
she be able to describe the splendors
of the White City from these some-
what remarkable notes? Or was she
a club-woman, who later on would
construct a clever paper from her
mcagre material?
At Buffalo, the note taking is
equally engaging to quiet observ-
er. Shoals of teachers are discovered
in the buildings whore school work
is exhibited, industrously scribbling
down ever possible detail that seems
to them new and interesting. One
would think that the tired eatures,
worn out after a long year of nerve
racking work, would want to so and
visit the permanent camp, where the
many handsome officers are to be
seen, or walk down the Midway and
look at the mutasCope prize fight, or
go up in the balloon, or do almost
anything except the same old things
they have been doing for ten months
past. But no, there they are, en-
deavoring more completely to stuff
their already overCrowded brains and
gain additional information to law
| ish on a perverse generation of
youngsters who don't half appreciate
the modern day methods of acquir-
ing knowledge. Yet there are school
! directors who complain about the
| lack of professional zeaT displayed
| by teachers. What they ought to do,
| these blessed teachers, is to go to
| the Pan-AmeriCan and leave the
| everlasting shop behind them, for
| once: to ride on the camels in the
| Streets of Cairo and the elephants in
| Bostock's: take a trip to the Moon or
| go on the "F'lip-hap" railway even
| but I'm not so sure about that,
%
OF all the fiendish contrivances ever
| devised by the heart of man, or his
brain, that "Flip-fap," or Loop the
Loop" or "Loup Garon," or what
ever its satanic name may be, is the
most utterly demoniacal 1t is a
sort of deceitful toboggan thing
which starts off harmlessly enough
and takes you to a high plane, down
which your car rushes. to fly around
| loop like the letter ''r' in script,
where part of the time you must
| necessarily be upside down. or
course, you are securely tied to the
car, but the sensation must be novel,
to say the least. AS encoura cement
| for those who expect to try this
| species of entertainment, it might be
| mentioned that nobody has tumbled
| out of the LOOP the Loop" in Buff
| falo as yet, and only a few have had
| that experience at Coney Island,
where the invention was first ex-
| plotted, 1t is situated outside the
exposition grounds, in what is known
as the Free Midway" The patron
age as yet consists chiefly of men,
| whose feminine relatives stand
screaming on the platfrom, while
their husband, brothers or sweet
hearts make the exciting trip.
| o.
Buffalo Bill will be in his name city
in September. He didn't propose to go
into the Exposition grounds as a con-
cestionaire and pay the eXorbitant
lrates, so very early in the stage of the