Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-10-07
THE PIKE In ITS GLORY.
POlyglOt Street of Nations Has Great
Amusement Enterprises-Mar-
vels and Wonders Of All the
World.

SCio anu HVtiuSiS vi Hi tne
World.
The Pike is at the height of its
glory. Its riot of color and its jargon
Of sound never cease from morning
to night. The temperature of the
polyglot street reached it's high
fever mark on June 4th, when the
Pikers owned the worlds fair for
"a hours.
Then its tribes and peoples went
forth into the City of Palaces to
awaken the silences of vast courts
and disturb the serenity of frozen
sculpture with the blare of lighter
folly and fanfare of the showmen's
trumpetry.
Those who have been held SPELL
bound by the Homeric majesty of
architectural and landscape splendor
will be drawn from these haunts of
dignity into the forgetfulness of the
Pixies pure abandon.
The brilliancy of far eastern life,
the alluring chatter of unfamiliar
tongues and the graceful garmentry
of flowing robes and turbans of in
Vulnerable winding, make a narcotic
dream wilder than any phantasm of
prosaic slumber. A galaxy of so
stupendous amusements bewilders the
imagination for distance of nearly
two miles.
The first glimpse of the Pike is
the skyline of towering minarets
and bulbous domes, or roofs askew
or tapering in serried gables into the
golden atmosphere of summer. Then
a jungle of sound like that we have
heard out Of the leaves of the story
books of nursery time swells louder
and fiercer as the visitor draws nigh
to the street of nations.
Mountain passes 100 feet high
overshadow weatherbeaten Tyro-
lean village with singing peasants in
dresses, chimes sounding the hour
from high towers, real noun tain tor
rents from the heights of Ortler aud
a tram car passes through some of
the loveliest scenes in the Tyrolean
Alps.
An Irish village has accurate repli-
cas- of Carmacs castle, the old house
of parliament at Dublin and st.
Lawrence's gate. Jaunting cars ira
verse the Killarney lake region. Irish
drama is played by Irish actors.
There is fine exhibition of Irish
linens, laces and carpets. A famous
Dublin band enlivens the scenes of
life.
Under and Over the Sea is a trip
in a submarine boat, sinking into
real water to begin it's voyage through
the coral reefs of the Atlantic to
Paris, where the bewildered passen-
gers re-embark on an airship from
the pinnacle of the Eiffel tower, re-
turning over the ocean in the midst
Of a terrific storm and a beautiful
dawn effect.
In the Streets of Seville smartly
gowned senoritas and gaudy Romanys
congest the Plaza de Torros at Mad
rid, the quaint market place of
Triana with its storekeepers Offering
their wares. The Gypsy Lane Of
Barcelona flutters with color. Span
ish dances are given in the Theatre
de los Flores.
Hunting in the Ozarks entices the
lover of sport to step out of the busv
Pike into the famous noun tain
region of Missouri, where his game
is scared up from a natural landscape
of forest and underbrush. A real
train dashes through the wilderness.
Hagenbeck's Zoo, Circus and Ami
NAL Paradise offers the thrilling SEN
sation Of meeting man-eating beasts
in a jungle of growing vegetation,
without 80 much as mosquito net
ting appearing to separate the specta-
tor from danger. Giant tortoises
carry little children, giant reptiles,
talking birds at perfect liberty and
a Gagged arena of trained wild animals
are striking features.
Mysterious Asia is a mammoth
representation of life in India, Bur
NAH, Persia and Ceylon, with grace
full architecture of the far East.
Devil dancers, the torture dance,
snake charmers and the Nautch girl
mingle with curious beasts of burden
and impossible conveyances, the sac
rifcial feast, wedding professions
and religious ceremonies.
Plastic art attains high perfection
in the Moorish palace, where historic
East Indian customs are illustrated.
Massive tableaux portray events in
the acquisition of the Louisiana
domsin-the Discovery of the Mis-
sissippi, the Burial of De Soto, the
transfer of Louisiana, and the Lewis
and Clarke expedition.
Forty Geishas entertain tea drink
ers in Japan, with its ancient tenn
pies and crowded streets. BOOSTERS
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