The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-04-21
AT THE FAIR.
roNpERs OF THE GREAT ST.
LOUIS EXPOSITION.
,,ere Are q Sufficient Number of In
se,cstina Features to Occupy Ones
Entire Time, No Matter How Long
His Stay aIay BE.
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Louis correspondence:
# No matter how carefully one may have
aAsN Mad of the wonders of the Worlds Fair,
sahe visitor cannot conceive Of its great
sS #n agnitllde, impressive beauty and in
ss&s#sansely interesting character until he
FTgisits it.
The 1904 Worlds Fair Is the only
treat exposition to be complete and ready
ssor the opening of the gates on the time
appointed. In a newspapers limited
SSESSspace it is absolutely impossible to de-
sA#Scribe, or even catalogue, all of the fea-
lures that VIII appeal TO the visitor.
S8 The Inside Inn solves one great prob
s9em-hotcl accommodations. A month
before the opening this great hostclry,
"a Ssyith accommodations for 5000 guests,
81 Swas ready for the reception of guests.
I'm is the largest hotel in the world, and
@@ss entirely within the exposition grounds.
i catures of its equipment arc $500
MsIenning rooms. The kitchen is 260 feet
and 70 feet wide. There are Sd
Mfeet of range, thirty steam roasters, veg
%etable cookers and soup stock kettles;
Sfour dish washing machines with a ca
%pacity OF 10000 pieces of china an hour:
do battery of 10 mammoth coffee urns.
%Thcre is q sub-kitchen, a laundry, a bak-
#ery and n store ROOM, all in the base
#ment. A force of 1900 trained employees
n are required to operate the hotel.
u The rates prevailing at the Inside Inn
q are controlled by the Exposition man
D egemcut, and they do not exceed those
\ charged at any first-class hotel in st.
d Louis in ordinary times. On the Euro
1 pean plan the Worlds Fair visitor may
4 be comfortably located for $3.50 per day.
4 including admission to the exposition.
4 Prices for 4 luxurious room With bath
1 range up TO So per day.
1 Thirty-eight of the States of the Union
i have erected magnificent club houses in
Z the wooded section Of Forest Park. and
4 have created what is called the Plateau
I Of States. Every type of approved ar
4 chitecture is represented. The Worlds
4 Fair visitor, no matter from what sec
ton, will find the h~ospitable portals of
L these mansions always open to him.
I Despite the immensely of the Worlds
Fair grounds, covering, as they do, 1,240
4 acras-two square miles-cvery section
is OF easy access. Thirty-6ve miles Of
| splendid roadway intersect the grounds,
The lntra-Mnral Railroad, with ii miles
of tracks, whisks the visitors TO any see
ton in rapid time on the payment of one
fare. The miniature steam railways
have II miles of track and complete the
most elaborate transportation scheme
ever designed for any exposition,
The Cascade feature of the Worlds
Fair, the center of the main picture"
for beauty and grandeur totally eclipses.
all the. courts of honor of former great
cxpositions. Crystal waters, springing
from three monumental fountains, plunge
down IA many cascades a distance of 300
feet, with a fall Of so feet. and enter
the grand basin. Here the waters di-
vide and fill two miles OF marblc-revettcd
lagoons two miles in length. Beautiful
and picturesque small craft ply these
waters and afford the Worlds Fair Wis
itor an unriyalled view OF the majestic
architecture Of the splendid structure o.
the main exhibit palaces.
Eleven million dollars will scarcely
cover the United States governments
participation in this greatest of allI
Worlds Fairs. The government building
10 the largest, handsomest and most ex-
pensive' ever built for exposition pur-
poses by any government. In it are uni
rivalled displays by the Smithsonian In
%stlt1te, the Navy, War, Postoflce, Treas
ury, Agriculture and other departments.
Inc display of big guns is made outside
OF the building, and the largest and
most powerful guns ever made are
mounted and manned by Uncle SAINTS
most expert artillery men. The Govern
ment Fisheries, in one of the most grace
WI OF the many handsome structures,
possesses exhibits of the keenest interest.
"A groupI Of sea lions, a school Of stur-
geois and other animals and fish of the
sea sport in an immense pool in the
center OF the structure. The denizcns of
me sea, lakes and streams are shown in
great glass tanks of clear water. Inter