The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-07

AZ the average MiSS0urlant enthuSl-
sstically AYERS, there is sure a min
cling of the peoples of the earth's
ends lust now in st. Louis in general
and along the Pike in particular.
Along. not in the Pike, mind you,
Tn the Pike they are segregated for
The monetary benefit of the divers
concessionaires who brought them
across the various great waters, and
YOU have to pay literally tos.see the
SmhaIese stick dancers execute their
queer steps and the Esquimaux fight
realistically with Polar bears.
But you are not compelled to pay
a cent to enjoy the mingling and the
results thereof. All you have to do
is ningle yourse1f-strike the Pike
with the coming of night, and as you
wander from the Irish village toward
the panorama of the Galveston flood,
blocking the other end of the Pike
proper, almost a mile away, you will
rub shoulders and perhaps exchange
words with more strange human be-
ing than you ever dreamed of seeing
without making a journey around the
world and into its queer corners to
boot.
With the fall of night the Sioux
Indian, who all day long has patient
" nut himself on exhibition for ethno-
logical purposes in all his paint and
feathers in his tepee on the Indian
reservation, beckons to his squaw and
papooses and stalks maJestlcally Pike
ward The Patagonian Grapes his
precious guanaco robe around him,
after the fashion made famous by the
Roman senators, and follows in the
footsteps of his northern brother. The
Pike fever seizes the blue-robed,
hairy Ainu; he deserts his quaint lit
tie garden by the side of his still
ouainter straw hut, and patters upon
his stilt-like shoes away to the street
of dazzling light, his tattooed wife and
round-faced baby obediently follow
ing.
From the Philippines reservation the
native soldiery, spick and span in their
khaki uniforms, head the same way.
In fact, by the time you will have had
dinner and strolled lesurely on to the
Pike. some two thousand or more rep
Tesentatives of nearly every more or
less strange people under the sun will
have preceded you there in search of
amusement; and incidentally, as an at
traction, they are second to none on
the Pike, Judging from the way they
are followed about and eyed by white
folk in every walk of life, from the
slouch-hatted Missourian who wants to
be shown to the Immediately got up
English visitor whose "ah!" and "oh!
] say" and don't you know" are
pretty severely worked as he spies
queer people in front of him, baubaric
people on either side of him, and hears
cultural jabebrings behind him.
All Go "Dead Head"
These picturesque visitors to the
Pike do not deign to give the show
men their good money in exchange
for the pleasure of gaping at other
strange people doing their native an
tics within the Enthusiastically got up
enclosures behind the barkers' backs.
They leave that pleasure to- ebe en-
joyed by the whites, and this circum-
stance, among others, has led not a
few close observers to draw the con-
clusion that Indian and Ainu, Hindoo
and Soudanese, find their evenings
recreation in watching the Caucasian.
And why not? Isn't the white, after
all, an chronological exhibit to them
just as much as they are to the white?
That was the view evidently taken
by stalwart six foot six Patagonian
as he stood on the edge of a crowd
rapt in listening to the paean sung by
a barker in behalf or us particular
attraction.
1--WE have here, ladies ard gentle
men, he shouted in a voice that
drowned the noise of the drum being
industriously beaten on the other side
of the thoroughfare by an Egyptian
all the way from the New York Sy-
rian quarter, I'VE have here the grand
est, most glorious"
HUH" grunted the Patagonian.
Illusion that ever sprang full
fedged from the brain of man. It is
stupendous in conception, it's cost
would"
PatagOnian's Wonder.
HUH" grunted the Patagonian,
Bankrupt many famous million
are you read about in the papers. 1t
is, in fact
HUH" grunted the Patagonian.
The costliest amusement enter
prise that man ever dreamed of and
millions of gold made possible" with
a comprehensive sweep of the arms
Which seemed to take in all the wealth
OF the world from the Klondike to
the South African gold fields. Now,
ladies' and gentlemen"
HUH" grunted the Patagonian.
This marvellous creation, this stu
pendous production, this greatest OF
all great enterprises, this mammoth,
inns colossal record-breaker-"
HUH" grunted the Patagonian.
Is all yours for the sum-the in
intestinal recess sum of twenty-five
Gents-twenty-five. All yours, la
HUH" grunted the Patagonian.
And, gentlemen, for twenty-five
cents-twenty-fi
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