Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-10-07

boats on lagoons and native actors in
japanese theater.
A vision Of two worlds is seen in
Hereafter. One of your party must
die to guide the living through the
shades of Hades, depicted with start.
ling reality by the most advanced
forms of mechanism and electricity.
The effect of vast distances is won
derful. A dream of the Groves OF
Daphne and the Celestial Dawn will
not be forgotten.
Weaving of glass into tablecloths,
fancy embroidery, napkins, handker-
chiefs, neckties and dresses, all plia-
bic as ordinary fabrics, are astonish-
ing sights done before the eyes of the
spectators by the wizards of the Glass
Weaving palace. 1t is education and
amusement combined.
There was an Old st. Louis. IL
is revived by historic dwellings,
town halls and block houses of the
time of Laclede and Chouteau, found
ers of the Exposition city. The
whipping post, the trading station,
with a motley crowd of Indians,
trappers and thrifty housewives of
the frontier, furnish the living in
terest.
Paris is lively reflection of the
gay center of fashion and amuse-
ment. In theater of gold and mir
rors opera is sung, the fun of the
Cafe Chantants wakes fast and furi-
Gus, Bohemians read their poems in
the Cabaret Brdsl.t, knights in armor
tilt IN tournaments, and street of
old provincial architecture shows the
France of long ago.
Ancient Rome is represented bv a
street of the Augustian period of
architecture filed with life typical
of that age. In an amphitheater,
seating $4,000 persons, gladiatoriai
conbats and sports of the hippo
drome make strong contrast to the
Burning Mountain of Kilauea, in
the Hawaiian islands, with its Spirit
of Fire.
Creation carries the spectator back
to the beginning of time. In a
grotesque craft on canal of water
1000 feet long the visitor glides
backward through 20 centuries
around dome $50 feet in diameter.
ending in the immense shell where a
voice repeats the divine commands of
Genesis. Out Of the void of steam
clouds the world is peopled with
growing nature and living things.
A history of fashion from the
period of the early Roman colonies
to the reign of the Paris gown is
shown in the Palais du Costume by
a series of living tableaux in settings
of the respective ages. The gowns
used in the display were imported
from Paris and cost 100000. The
display would not be complete with
out the history Of the coiffure.
Babies are the Joy of the earth, SO
that the Infant Incubator becomes
an intensely human display of the
actual incubation of tiny living fledg-
lings. The infants are seen through
the glass doors Of their strange nests,
where they remain for 40 days. They
are fed in public every two hours by
trained nurses.
A real locomotive and train of
Pullman coaches steams out of a
Siberian railway station and dashes
for hundreds ofmiles through beauti-
full Siberian scenery, stopping at cities
and way places The illusion is per-
feet. A Russian village with living
natives, a Russian theater with 40
actors are types of the land of the
czar.
Cairo reveals the true Egypt of the
khedive. Every detail is produced
with great fidelity, both architecture
ally and in its native population.
The industrial phases of this great
Mediterranean mart have never been
shown before on such lavish and
extensive scale Customs of the peo.
pie are reproduced with an exactness
readily recognized by the traveller.
China brings to the Pike it's Joss
houses and temples of bamboo, a
theater in which native players give
genuine drama of Cathay. Silk
weavers ply ancient looms, ivory
carvers are making small elephants,
dogs and cats. In cafe Chinese
walters and cooks provide the celestial
banquets. Dwarf trees no larger
than q wee baby adorn the village.
Eleven sections of the famous ba.
zaars of Stanboul are faithfully
reproduced from sketches by an aide.
de-camp to the sultan. The entrance
from the Pikeis that of the MOSQUE
OF Nouri Osmsneh. Narrow, tortuous
streets are crowded with Turkish
merchants crying their wares, dom
keys and the fighting dogs of
Constantinople dodge between the
spectators.
The Esquimau is' seen in his envi-
ronment of icebergs and polar land
scape, living in huts of reindeer skin.
The celebrated Alaskan sledge dogs
draw the visitor through an ice colon
made of arctic curiosities. Canoes
are piled on lake of real water. A
combat between Esquimaux and polar
bears is the exciting climax.
Fifty thousand gallons of water
are hurled into the air every minute
in the Magic Whirlpool. It is a
descent by boat around circular
plunge into a seething
maelstrom and a glide within water
falls 40 feet high, around a solid
column Of water thrown 80 feet above
the heads of the passengers.
Echoes of lost race are beheld in
the Cliff Dwellers. A frowning sec.
ton of the caves In the stone age in
the Mancos canyon, Colorado, rises
go feet above the Pike. Burros
ascend the trails with visitors. A
Pueblo village of Zuni and Woki
Indians perform the dramatic snake