Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-28
TWELVE DAYS AT ST. LOUIS
Continued from NoU. Il.

We now come to the great exhibits
of China and Japan. It seems as
though everything ever made is here
and of the best workmanship. The
tea alone is worth thousands of dol
lars. Their strange fruits and veoe-
tables ere in canned form. Picture
frames carved from bone, ivorv.
ebony, sandalwood, and brass are
here in all sizes and shapes. Manv
sets of ebony wood furniture inlaid
with ivory and the most beautiful
gold and silver ware I ever saw were
there, draperies and curtains made of
silk and woven to represent figures
beautiful beyond description.
The young lady who was demon
trating Pearline washing powder had
funny experience one day. A wom-
an from St. Louis who had ordered
package through her grocer came
back to know how it was cooked.
She had tried boiling it and had
served it with cream and sugar,
nearly killing the family.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
Fair can be gained by stopping co
think that seven large buildings are
set in the shape of fan with Festival
Hall for base and that along the
two sides is two and three fourths
miles, while. -four buildings have a
frontage of over mile.
The Indian School Building is POS
fit. long, II it. deep, with annex 97x30
f., three stories high with Mansard
roof. In the east front the children
are taught everything necessary to
civilization, while across the aisle the
older ones are busy in old style
school. Every day an Indian band
renders an excellent program.
Passing place where pink satin
corsets are exhibited, the woman in
front of me touched her husbands
arm and said, 'Pa, just see, these
folks have their dress and corset
alike and wear the corset on the out
side" That was all she understood
of the method of displaying goods.
The DeForest wireless telegraph
tower gives the best view of the
grounds; it is 300 TT. high, and an
elevator runs nearly to the top,
where winding stairs finish the
| ascent. could see for miles and the
whole park was visible; messages are
often sent to all parts of the grounds,
st. Louis, and Chicago. At night the
grounds are one blaze of light, and
looking down on the scene beneath
was like fairyland.
In Hagenbach's, one of the attrac-
tions is seeing the elephants shoot the
chute, which is steep incline to a
big pool of water; the elephants are
driven to the top where they raise
their trunks and with squeal slide
down the incline into the water. If it
is warm day it is hard work to make
them come out.
After one of the foreign ambassa
doris had been shown over the
grounds and buildings, he was asked
what had impressed him as the great
est things in America; to which he
replied, "President Roosevelt and the
Floral Clock, there never was any
thing before like them.n
The Floral Clock is north of the
Agricultural building on a side hill,
can be seen for long distance
and is considered one of the chief
attractions. The dial is a perfect
representation of clock and is done
in flowers. 1t is 112 feet in diameter:
the hands each weigh $500 pounds;
the minute spaces between the figures
are five feet apart, the mineral figures
| fifteen feet high, the minute hand "a
feet long. The hands are SO heavy
that in order to have them move
properly and keep accurate time a
balance of rock weighing 5000 pounds
was necessary. There is a large bell
which weighs 5000 pounds, on which
the hours and half-hours are struck.
Just above the figure twelve there is
a small building holding the electric
machinery which runs the clock: az
the hour strikes, door opens auto
matically and shows the working OF
the machinery. On one side is an
immense hour glass holding SOC
pounds of sand and turns every time
the hour strikes; on the other side is
large globe that turns once in "A
hours and on which the time of the
whole world can be told.
The Government building is full of
interesting things. One sight is a
perfect cavern, out of which rock
crystals are taken, near the famous
Hot Springs of AYkausns NJ,