Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1904-05-27
STORY OF MANS ACHIEVEMENTS
Daily it is Told in Whirling
Wheels And World Won
ders at The Worlds
Fair.

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ders at The Worlds
Fair.
The story of mans achievements il
in every part of the world is now tolt
daily to the thousands who visit th'
great Worlds Fair at St. Louis, the
gates to which were opened April 30
It is told IN moving machinery, il
processes that are going forward tt
completion, and in finished products
it is told again in flowers and fruits
it is told in the peace products of edu
cation and in the war products that
frown upon one from government hill
and those that are gathered under can
vas
From the golden Victory, aloft on
the Hall of Festivals, to the silvery sur.
face of the lagoons. the story is told
under the sunray; it is repeated at
night when the palaces seem afiame
and the Cascades are resplendent with
phosphorscent fire.
Those to whom the story is told
stand spell bound before some Of the
chapters. The giant prime movers in
the Palace Of Machinery cause silence
that is akin to fear; the beauties of the
throbbing water, tumbling fantasti-
cally down the inclines from the Col
onnade of States, exercise hyponotic
spell; the wonders of the Orient, spread
before you by the workers from China,
Japan and India,res in mystitication.
IL is not until one leaves the Fair
grounds and his mind is free from the
ever.occuring attractions that he has
time to marvel at the glory and great
ness of it all.
Open TO everyone now is this achieve
ment of 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 every
where, and the air pulses with SCUM d
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 magnitude of this st.
Louis display. Starting near the Lin
dell boulevard entrance, they are car.
ried on q straight away track a dis
tance of q 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 trestle and curves around the
handsome buildings of the Administra-
tion group, structures of pink granite
and have been universally admired for
their architecture. Beyond these q
field is reached and the Stadium is
pointed out, its wide expance already
in condition for the interesting Olym-
pic games and other athletic contests.
Totem poles standing in front of the
Alaskan village seem to nod at you as
the cars pass and in the distance are
thatched roofs of Filipino habitaIons
and the white walls of Manila buildings
in replica. On the left again is the
giant Palace of Agriculture, the larg-
est building in the world, beyond
which is Horticulture, and after climb
ing grade the train pulls into wood
ed erea, to emerge behind the Art Pal
ace on the Plateau of States. Down
grade again you go 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 connot be better sent
home to one than by the statement
that forty. five minutes were consumed
in making that round trip on the Intra-
mural.
Follow that throng of people and you
come to the banks of the lagoons that
are dotted with gondoulas and electric
launches. Hark to the medley of sound
as the swish of the cascades joins the
music of the band that is playing on
the plaza, and above all rise the notes
of song from the gondollier who is
swinging his craft under the bridge on
which you stand.
Alive is the water, alive are the
broad thorouehfares, alive are the great
buildings, and you are told that in q
few weeks alive also will be the fair,
for then the balloon contests will be in
full sway.
Now You fully comprehend what was
meant when word was sent forth by
the Exposition management that this
should be a Worlds Fair in which the
revealment of processes should be para
mount. It is one continuous pano-
roma from the time you enter the gates
until you leave again.
Visit the Palace of Machinery and
You see in motion giant engines, some
of them occupying as mach space as
does three.story house. Their pom
derous beams rise and fall, great fly
wheels revolve and glittering pistons
glance in and out. They are living ex.
hibits from all the manufacturing CEN
ters of the world and are supplying
power to everything on the site-a