The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-16
A WONDERLAND OF 1904
MYSTERIOUS AND INTERESTING
SIGHTS AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Many Things to Entertain and In
struct ChfIdren-An Imaginary
Party Escorted About.
Worlds Fair Bulletin.

Worlds Fair Bulletin.
Somewhere in Africa there Is large lake
of clear water into which several rivers
are constantly emptying, but which never
overfiows. although there is no visible out
let Those who have visited the place say
that subterranean passage probably pro-
vides an escape, and that very still days
they have heard roar like that of a dis
tant cataract, and they believe the sound
is caused by the rush of water through this
mysterious channel.
Something like this has attracted a great
deal of attention at the worlds fair grounds
at ST. Louis, and will attract much more
when visitors are arriving by the hundreds
of thousands. There will be no lake i'm
sight, but there will be hidden river, and
IL the crowd only remains still long enough
you will hear the roar beneath your feet;
if not, you can make out the sound dis
tinctly by pressing your ear to the ground
at certain points which the guides will in
dicate.
If you wish to see this river, before it
makes plunge into the dark channel under
the worlds fair city, go to the north side
of The Pike and then, a day after a
heavy rain, you will see it tossing and
great jaws of wood. then disappearing from
view. Would you like to see it again?
Then walk along that roadway, which
bends like a bow. and which will take you
between the main buildings. and i'm fifteen
or twenty minutes you will reach the east
era limits of the site. where the water will
be seen once more tossing and foaming as
it escapes from its buried passage way. 1t
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wind around the southern part of st. Louis
until ii reaches the Mississippi
This river has been made a mysterious
underground stream by the work of man.
1t flowed through the grounds where the
worlds fair is situated long before anyone
ever thought of celebrating the Louisiana
purchase, yes long before white men ever
came to Missouri. 1t was a very crooked
stream. flowing east, west. north and south.
and when the directors had decided upon
the exposition site. the men who were en-
gagged TO erect the buildings were in despair
| and cried out, why. that river will wash
! away all our foundations.
ENGINEERS At WORK.
So a number of engineers were called
upon to decide what was best to do and
their verdict was that the River des Peres
1 FOR tnat is It's name. meaning the River
Our Fathers--Dust be put underground.
This then the first work done the
| exposition grounds and IL cost nearly sla0-
900 To build the huge aqueduct and divert
| the stream from its natural channel. 1t
was work that does not show and you
wouldn't have known anything about it il
somebody hadn't told. but now that you do.
just listen, after heavy rain, and hear
| the roar of the water or 60 To the places
| | have mentioned and see the swirling cur
| rent leap i'm and out the wooden mouths.
| Can flowers tell the time OF day? TO be
sure they can. and they are going TO do
| I'm two ways at the great fair next year.
| In the first place there Is TO be great
| floral clock on the grounds. one that IL a
hundred feet in diameter. The face of this
clock will be OF flowers that grow close
to the soil: the numerals will be Of aowers