The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-17
MANY ALLUSIONS
 ALONG TIE PIKE Wierd and Wonderful Trips
 Can be Made ALPINE SCENERY IS GRANT D The Traveller Can DO" Siberia, Visit the North Pole. or Take Trip
 in a Real Submarine
 Boat.

| make-believe in sure enough convey ances through real scenes to a strange place of which the story books tell-this is the sort of fairy travel to be enjoyed on The Pike.
 l 1t all comes about minus the dust, the annoyances of customs officers on unfa- mlliar frontiers and the wearisomeness of | tedious hours plus the motion, the excite ment of beholding something new at hagetelle expense. Where does your fancy roam--nto the Alps. Siberia, the Lakes of Killarney, to Paris. on Venetian lagoons or even to the North Pole, not to mention the creation of the world? The Pike will lead you to the goal of imagination.
 Board an airship and whirl away into space, take submarine boat and steam down into cool green depths to the coral reefs, be the first mortal whose eyes have seen the magnetic pole imprisoned in its frozen Notifications.
 Irish scenery from jaunting car offers it's rare novelty in the Great Irish Village on The Pike. An ingenious arrangement of moving sights carries the typical con- veyance of the Emerald Isle through the loveiest parts of the romantic land of song and ancient story.
 lreIand's Beauties Revealed.
 The guide points out the spots where patriotism has burned in the breasts of gallant patriots, remains of castles which legend calls the onetime homes of island kings and where the bards sung of heroic deeds. The glory of placid waters and the gleam of historic rivers shines along old battlehelds.
 Is it the Alps? A curious tram car doubling and redoubling upon it's gleaming way, reveals icy peaks, glaciers immem- orlal, wales of verdant beauty lying low between the realms of eternal snows. not mere panorama of flat canvas, but the lafthest advances in the art of the plastic Winch gives us rocks, growing grass and trees and the roar of mountain torrents.
 These scenes are most realistically spread before the wondering vision in the massive Tyrolean Alps a mighty show of the mountains which has never been approached before in it's proportions and m US truth to nature. Although the tray ! eler only travels a few thousand of feet. ne seems to be trayersing miles of AL pine panorama.
 when the visitor stops by a submarine side the Pike, he is amazed. Descend into the open hatchway hear it battened down over your head and become accustomed to the dim glow of artificial lights be- fore the craft is felt to be in motion Through glass portholes the mysteries or the deep are revealed by a remark able device of many moving gauges and unnatural illumination; monsters of the deep whose motion is independent of the water currents. stare through the nlate glass on the invaders and glide away in dismay.
 under and Over the Sea, as the show IS known. will not have been completed until the boat arrives at Havre, a train mas been taken to the gay French capi- tai, the Eiffel tower has been sealed and an airship entered for the return voyage through ether A terrific storm in midair experienced by the passengers is triumph of mechanical effect The awful helght above the angry ocean, the war or the elements in space are so vivid that It IS accompanied by positive thrills of apprehension in the most imaginative minds.
 Siberian Trip Realistic.
 None the less real is the trip hv tbe Siberian railway through Russian scenery very little appreciated by Americans and most Europeans. You buy your ticket at window of a pretty Russian railway denot on the Pike. Passing into a great train shed train of Pullman cars and a loco motive with steam up and throbbing for the run. awaits the passengers. The whistle sounds, the train starts The ae tual motion is eonveyed-the sway and lurch, the grind of the wheels on the rail and the gliding of the landscape.
 Five beautifully executed panora mas moving at different distances from the windows lend the effect of near and dis tant objects as the train either passes through cuts or close environments or clashes into the open country beyond towns. The ride Is full of live interest for the peasants are in the fields. Domestic animals are performing the burdens of man. Smoke is curling from hamlets and the stir of nature Is seen in the whole picture. You are actually doing Si- beria.
 The Trip to the North Pole is made in an ocean going liner 300 feet long by S0 feet wide, which lies along The Pike. towering 40 feet to the promenade docks Every detail of the genuine boat is car ried out in the big vessel. Captain and crew are in uniform. the cargo is being loaded. A dining salon, staterooms and other appointments satisfy the desire for creature comfort. When the ship is well under way, the passengers in the lower salons are treated te an extraordinary illusion which brings them to the pole.