Evening journal., 1904-08-03
ELLEN ORR" DESCRIBES
THE GREAT WORLDS FAIR
Sights aud Scenes to be Wit
messed Daily at Louisiana
Purchase Exposition


STAFF Correspondent Evening Journal.
st. Louis, Mo-. July 29-Notwith-
standing the diversity Of opinion which
has been expressed on the subject, the
Worlds Fair here is really great
and wonderful thing. 1t is matter
to marvel at, only that there can be but
lone opinion regarding the exposition.
! II Is great for many things-its size,
the beauty Of the buildings, the throngs
of people Of every nationality and the
/ immense collection OF things fiom the
four corners Of the earth--the unex-
pected things that one finds in unex-
pected corners.
1t would take anyone person a thou
sand months to see everything here.
One could never tire watching the
people alone. In the morning every
body seems wide-awake and alert and
grim determination to see everything
is plainly written on faces. BY middle
afternoon there is a pronounced weari-
ness and by night there is an express
sion of hopeless desperation-a "let me
rest or die" look.
/ It seems that there are about fifty
million things in one building to inter-
est and instruct. So many Of the for
eign countries have great exhibits
some of them really larger than the
United States. Japan. for instance,
outside her building. has exhibits In
/ all the other buildings, Industrial Va
ried Arts Educational. Fine Arts, Man
ufactures-in fact wherever one strays
one may find evidence Of this doughty
little nation.
/ The japanese seem to be enjoying the
/ fair, too. They are to be seen on The
Pike, in all parts Of the buildings and
grounds and one, a little chap, was at
the Boer War yesterday afternoon. He
was deeply interested I'm the military
manouevers and some predictions were
made that he would set up a howl
when the bombardment began. But
he didn't. That baby Jap had the
pluck of his race, and only blinked his
narrow bright eyes hard and fast when
the noise and smoke were at their
height
The Boer War.
! And speaking of the Boer War. it
is really the greatest thing at the Fair
/ in its line. The mimic warfare is so
intense and the hundreds Of partici-
pants so earnest, the animals so we'll
trained that by only a little flight of
magination one could believe it to be
the real thing. Then. after the SUI
premacy Of the British has been estab-
lished and Cronje rides off a prisoner
Of war everybody is invited to visit
the camp and sometimes General
Cronje holds a reception.
! This repetition of the history of a
lost cause must be rather trying for
him. He doesn't seem to enjoy It, and
he doesn't even smile when the thou
sands cheer and applaud him when he
is introduced by the young man who
is about seven feet tall and has a voice
Y like the horn of the Angel Gabriel. ]
shook hands with Cronje Everybody
Il seemed to file by and not say a word
told him l was glad to have the
honor, whereupon he gave me quick
short nod, and squeezed my hand SC
hard that my fingers ached. / didn'i
believe he understood a word 1 said
but took it for granted what ] meant.
It certainly it pity that Delawar,
isn't represented here. Even little ole
Rhode Island has an exhibit which
While 1t isn't as large as many of the
others, is really creditable. The only
INNS NhAAn nave lOulQ so lar Wnltf
bears the marks Of Delaware are some
vessels from the Agricultural Expert
ment Department at Delaware Col
lege and some phials of bacteria. ]
counted them and they numbered
twenty-seven in all. They were in the
Palace of Education and Social Econo-
my
One Of the most interesting and al
Fair is the school for the blind i'm the
Educational building. Two lads are
busy at bookbinding. Another PLAYS
"a piano and others are engaged other
wise. Three or four girls sit sewing
and knitting and one pretty little Gin
not more than eight or nine sits and
reads from a book. She swings her legs
as she runs her tiny fingers rapidlv
over the pages and reads in a bright
chirpy voice, so that 1t comes as a
shock when she turns her big, sight
less eyes upon one.
There is no need for one to go hum
cry az the fair. Every other place
nearly is a lunch counter or restaurant
but strangely enough, they do not seem
to interfere with the beauty and SYM
metry of these hundreds of fairy
uuHS-
ton of eating is really not an impor-
tant one here, as many people have
imagined. It's just a matter of drop-
ping In wherever you happen to be
and getting whatever you want The
prices are a little bit higher. but NOT
so much more than I'm the larger cities
II is easy enough to get board and
rooms i'm town, too, for nearly ever,
house is a boarding house and eraat
preparations have been made for this
immense floating population.
Railroad Trains Crowded.
One would think that all the world
was bound for the Fair, to judge from
the railroad trains All Of them are
lcrowded, but the officials have made So
many provisions that the discomfort
has been reduced to minimum. Thi,
is especially true of the Baltimore "a -
Ohio and Of the Illinois Central. botb q,
which are carrying immense crowds
All the roads are employing extra pre-.
cautions for the protection of them.
selves and their patrons. Some of IN.
tickets bear description Of their owner.
and on one Of mine / am described a.
"a female. white. young, slim. medium
height, and dark hair" The condur.
tor read the description. scrutinized M.
very closely. grunted his satisfactior
land passed on.
n The Pike is the greatest ever. II Il,
like fourteen Coney Islands. hits q,
Turkey, France, Germany, Ireland Ia.
I pan, India, Siam. the Wild Wet
Il China, Africa and the very rural Ale.
tricts rolled into one whole II si,..,.