The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-03-03
TO SEE THE FAIR.
How to Put in a Week at the ST.
ses Louis Exposition. ~,
SuggestiOns That VIII Save Valuable
Time for Visitors A Six Days.
Itinerary Outlined The
Economy Of Minutes.

A question that perplexes those who
have seen the Worlds Fair during the
period of its construction is: How
can | see the exposition as it should
be seen in the few days that / shall
| have to devote to it?'
| This is indeed a perplexing ques-
| ton. Many persons are preparing to
move to St. Louis for the entire ex-
position period, or a considerable part
OF it, in order to see the fair prop
erly. But the great majority of those
who dwell at a distance will feel able
to spend only a few days, perhaps
week, in the grounds, and they are the
ones who must economic their time
SO that they may see the sights to the
best advantage AS a matter of fact,
no one will be able to do the ex-
| position thoroughly in week, or for
that matter in a month. So vast is
the thing that only those who have
watched it's growth closely during the
three years past can have any ade-
| quate conception of it's immensely.
However, as great many thou
sands of visitors will have only a
week or so in which to see the fair,
it is in order to offer few sugges-
tons that will enable them to make
the best Of the time at their disposal.
Let us assume that tho visitor has
one week-six days, beginning on
Monday.
| i0h hn %<< %o1> do
on the Intramural Railway, which
makes a circuit inside the grounds,
With fourteen miles Of track. A trip
OF little more than AN hour on one
OF these commodious electric cars,
specially constructed for observation
purposes, will give the visitor some
idea as to the surface vastness of the
exposition and the beauty Of its ex-
terror features.
1t is we'll, after the ride, to plunge
| at once into the maelstrom of mag
nificence. 1t will dazzle, but after the
| precautionary car rifle the visitor
| should be in measure prepared for
| it. Let him leave the car at one Of
| the stations adjacent to the chief
| group Of exhibit palaces, located on
| level ground north of Art Hill. Here
| are eight Of the most ma gnifcent ex
| position edifces ever conceived. The
| palaces are devoted to Education and
Social Economy, Varied Industries,
Liberal Arts, Transportation, Erec-
tricity, Machinery. Manufactures aud
| Mines. and Metallurgy. It is worth
| ones while to spend at least half a
day in merely looking at things from
| the outside, climbing the broad steps
up the slope of Art Fill, past the
tumbling, leaping, laughing waters of
the Cascade Gardens, to the towering
Festival Hall in the center, flanked
by the noble Colonnade of States and
the imposing Restaurant Paviaions.
In your one week you cam devote
only about two days to this main pic
ture and the Palace of Fine A rts back
| on the hill, to the rear of Festival
| Hall. Any one of these buildings con-
tains interesting things enough to
| keep one busy for a week in! seeing
them. Your Monday and Tuesday will
| pass swiftly.
Wednesday may be devoted to the
| Plateau OF States, the United States
| Government building and its Fisheries
| annex, and the New Jerusalem. In
| the governments main building many
| things of national interest will at
| tract you, but you must hasten on
| and step inside the Fisheries buiIcl-
| ing. There are nearly fifty state and
territory buildings, each surrounded
| by beautiful grounds. And then there
| is Jerusalem, an eleven-acre repro
duction of the Holy City, with a thou
sand natives Of the city dwelling in
the reproduction.
Long before Thursday you will have
wondered what huge building it is
that lies beyond Skinker road, up a
gentle hillside. That is the biggest
building ever devoted to one branch
OF industry at an exposition. 1t is the
Palace Of Agriculture, containing
| twenty acres Of floor space, packed
with exhibits. See as much as you
| can Of these exhibits on the fourth
day, but you can't stop to see every
thing, for just south is the Palace of
Horticulture and all around are out
door exhibits of flowers and shrubs
and graceful landscaping. And still
farther westward, across some bridges
that span a lake called the Laguna
de Bay, you will observe a great
group of buildings of curious construc-
ton. This is the Filipino tract, with
a reproduction of the walled city of
Manila, Moro village and many
other native scenes. Night will over
take you in the Philippines.
| Friday may be devoted profitably to
visiting the foreign buildings More 4
than forty nations are represented
You'll have to hurry" for on this
day you must see also the Admins
tration group of solid stone structures,
including the Hall Of Congresses and
the late Queen Victoria's Jubilee pres
ents In this vicinity also are the