Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-11
JIn CORBETT DOES WORLDS FAIR.
Former Champion Pugisf and Present Vaudeville Menologs
 Admires the Muscles of Certain Angelic Statuary.

had sense enough to offer a bigger I purse than that"
 Passing by the Grant log cabin, Cor l bett asked whose snack that was, and. upon being informed, he cried: Hurrah for Grant! Now there was a scrapper; he could fight, and he eer- tafnly did force Lee to the ropes. But I i've been told by some of nay southern 1 friends that Lee ought to have had the decision on points" Festival hall and the Cascades ] caught Cofbett's attention The sculp- I tIIre effects above the main fountain he particularly admired. "Now that's art," he observed. l Look at that fairy with the seashell at her mouth. Say. if I hadn't been a pugilist I might have been q sculptor. | I always did take m interest in the beauties of the human form. What are those great figures seated on plat l forms up there?" Those are figures representing each Of the states and territories included in the original Louisiana territory, NIT Corbett.''
 This woman here under the Mis- souri sign is all right said Corbett, but don't like the expression on the face of the big dame next to her. Why, she looks like Bob Eitzsimmons's wife did at Carson City when she invited her hubby to soak me in the slats. z Corbett admired the view from the top Of Art Hill, and remarked that Chi cago wasn't in 1t with St Louis for ex- positions. Then he walked past the l front of the Palace of Fine arts, which 1 edifice he insisted was q peachterina and came in sight of the reproduced city of Jerusalem. After inspecting 1 this eleven-acre city he was escorted westward to the California building, 1 patterned after one of the old-time mis- sions of the Golden Gate common wealth. 4 sign on the front door read Keep Out.
 Me keep out of California? Not on your life!" cried CoTbett. "I'm a Cali fornian from California, and-bnt the 1 doors locked on the inside, ain't it? Well, now, ain't that shame? Come on; what's that long white shed over there on the next hill? ?"
 Agriculture: twenty acres floor space. six miles of aisles--'' Good, we'll walk up and down each of the aisles, and Timber up our legs a little bit''
 "But you ought to go farther west and see the Filipino city, suggested. What? All those queer buildings wonder? Sure! But, say, will they have Aguinaldo on exhibition? I ad- mire Az; he's the greatest man for footwOrk I ever heard of Why, he was an artist in keeping away. They never could nab him till Funston played heather Chinee trick on him, and that wasn't according to tho rules of the game, was it?'
 When we reached the Stadium, that immense outdoor theater of the OIymDian games Corbett paused spell bound
 Now there's the place for the next championship battle.'' he said. "Jef- fries and Jack Munroe ought to fight there It would be big card for the exposition. I'd like to have the con- eession to pull off that mill right here, and meet the winner in the same ring"
 The Pike was the closing scene the ex-champion's visit Corbett Was interested in seeing the building wherein Bob Fitzsinlmons is to man. age restaurant
 "F'itz is great talker,'' he said, "and if they'd put him out in front as the chief barker for this enterprise it would mean big money F'itz, you know, would rather talk than eat-or fight, ,either''
 Corbett was still fresh when he fin ished the mile and a half stroll on the Pike, and insisted on walking back to his hotel, which is six miles from the Tyrolean Alps.
 ''But before we go," he suggested, ''lets just climb these mountains, for bot44 of Us need little exercise to give us an appetite for dinner. 7