The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-16
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other growing edihces west of Skinker
 road and of the main section of the fair
 were pointed out to the visitor He was
 particularly delighted with the Grand Tri- anon of France, which he knows well. | The carryall then crossed Skinker road
 and stopped at gate where a ticket taker examined the pass for each occu- pant
 What are we going into now?" asked Eli Perkins, in surprise.
 I've are now going into the Worlds Fair grounds" l replied
 What is it, then, that we have just seen?'
 Upon being informed that the territory already covered was merely an overflow part of the Worlds Fair, the space that was added after the original site in For est Park was selected, MT. Perkins said:
 We'll! well! if this thing continues to grow I'll have to admit that it Is as big as that lie I told you about
 Please tell me the lie now" I insisted, still curious.
 Young man." said Ell Perkins, sternly,
 'I never tell lies."
 The red roof of the Palace of Machinery attracted the humorist. At first sight he thought the roof was made of tin, and that reminded him of a story.
 Did you ever hear the origin of the tin roof cocktail story?" he inquired. "The story, as every one knows. runs like this: man went into saloon in a small town and called for tin roof cocktail The bartender was unacquainted with that kind of a drink, but he supposed that it was something new from the city, and not caring to expose his ignorance he mixed a cocktail on a venture and set it before the customer. The man drank 1t down and started to walk away. The bartender asked him if he hadn't forgot ten something. The man kept on walk ing out. You have forgotten to pay for your drink" called the bartender. No I haven't the man replied; that was tin roof cocktail wasn't it? Tt was replied the bartender. Then said the man, its on the house, seer"
 What was the origin of that story, MT. Landon?' l asked. innocently
 That story" he replied, "originated just outside the garden of Eden. Adam was the man who got the free drink. Noah preserved the story, working the trick on his own bartender In the ark"
 The imposing hemicyce entrance to the Varied Industries Palace evoked an ex- clamation of delight from the visitor He declared that it was magnificent. As the palaces of Electricity, Education, Liberal Arts, Manufactures, and Mines and Metal lurgy were pointed out to him, the funny man in Eli Perkins disappeared entirely for the time and in it's place arose to dominance the appreciator of the artistic Mir Landon looked up to Art Hill and crowning the western summit, the beau tiful restaurant pavilion Then his eye roved across the central space where the great circular Hall of Festivals is being built, to the twin pavilion at the east.
 Those are splendid' he said. When they turn the water into these lagoons and those fountains on the hill. and the Cascades Gardens are bathed in the glory of electric illumination, there will be a scene of beauty such as the world has
 not known before. This is truly worth while"
 Driving around past the United States government building, with it's great steel girders spanning pillarless interior and its immense dome growing rapidly under the hands of the builders, we passed the Government Fisheries edifice of Roman classic pattern and the big state building of Kentucky. now receiving its staff treatment. A little farther on came into view a low log house. amid the trees surrounded by high picket fence. It was the house that Grant built That Is one of the most interesting buildings at the fair said Perkins. Tt looks as if 1t was always here. How long | since it was built?'
 About six months" I replied l I thought you told me that Ulysses &
 Grant built that cabn?" the humorist said, rather dubiously.
 |. Mir. Landon was informed that the
 cabin was built by Grant, forty years 1 oga, on farm in St Louis county about
 nine miles from the Worlds Fair grounds l but that it was torn down and rebuilt on l these grounds from the same material la st
 spring
 The fence is too high for the house. |" he said If Gen. Grant built that fence 1 he must have intended 1t for a stockade l to protect his home against the Indians '' l Reaching the summit of Art Hill where ! the Palace of Fine Arts is rapidly being
 brought to completion, we alighted and
 walked to a point under the colonnades | of the Terrace of States, from which a
 view of the main feature of the exposi- | ton picture could be seen, looking down | the hillside and beyond.
 | "1t will be great pity to destroy all | this magnticence after the fair" said | the visitor who was charmed beyond ex- | pression. Now at any rate they ought | to leave these colonnades; they will serve as lessons in beauty to the boys and girls
 of the future. This whole spectacle on Art Hill ought to be made permanent The world cannot afford to surrender so beautiful q creation as this Here we
 have the Milan Cathedral, the Parthenon
 the Creator Trianon all. and more
 grouped together with surpassing art" 
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