The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-05-11
SOME OF the WONDERS
OF The WORLDS FAIR
Graphic Description of the Exposition
as q Whole and Few of the
Leading Features.
BY CLAUDE II. WETMoRE.

The story of mans achievement in
every part of the world is now told
daily to the thousands VINO visit the
great worlds fair at st. Louis, the gates
to which were opened on April 30.
1t is told in moving machinery, in pro-
cesses that are going forward to COM
pletion, and in finished products; it is
told again in flowers and in fruits; it
is told in the peace products of educa-
ton and in war products that frown up
on one from government hill and those
that are gathered under canvas. From
the golden victory, aloft on the hall of
festivals, to the silvery surface of the
lagoons, the story is told under the sun
ray; it is repeated at night when the
palaces seem afame and the cascades
are respondent with phosphorescent
fire.
e, Those to whom the story is told stand
,ll-bound before some of the chapters.
he giant prime movers in the palace
machinery cause a silence that is
Kin to fear; the beauties of the throb
ng water, tumbling Enthusiastically down
he inclines from the colonnade of states
exercise hypnotic spell; the wonders
of the Orient, spread before you by the
workers from China, Japan and India,
result in mystification. 1t is not until
one leaves the fair grounds and his mind
is free from the ever occurring attrac
lions that he mas time to marvel at the
glory and the greatness of it all.
Open to everyone now is this achieve
ment of a century and a year-the cul
mination of all that has been done in
the wide expanse of territory purchased
from France in 1903 and the achieve
ments of all nations in the world since
that day. The gates are open, the
crowds are pouring in; it is gala scene
everywhere, and the air pulses with
sound waves from martial bands that
are pealing forth the refrain of this
great peace conquest. In comfortable,
rapidly moving cars visitors are carried
over the intramural railway and many
thus obtain their first idea of the mag
nitude of this ST. Louis display. Start
ing near the Lindell boulevard entrance,
they are carried on the straightaway
track distance of a mile between row
of giant exhibition palaces on the left
and the curious buildings on the pike
on the right Then the train skirts
lawn, crosses a trestle and curves around
the handsome buildings of the admins
tration group, structures of pink granite
that have been universally admired for
their architecture. Beyond these a
field is reached and the stadium is point
ed ous its wide expanse already in con-
aAhte@. for the interesting Olympic games
and other athletic contests
Totum poles standing in front of the
Alaekan villages seem to nod at you as
ars pass, and in the distance are
hatched roofs OF Filipino habi-
and the white walls of Manila
tgs in replica. On the left again
de giant palace of agriculture, the
largest building in the world, beyond
which is horticulture, and after climb
ing grade, the train pulls into a wood
ed area, to merge behind the art pal
ace on the plateau of states. Down
grade again you 90 in the vicinity of the
government group, and passing mines
and metallurgy and the gulch adjacent
you reach the main entrance once more.
The magnitude Of this worlds fair can
not be better sent home to one than