Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-25
HOW TO Do THE FAIR
A Timely Chapter for Vaca-
tionists to Read.
EXHIBITS IN ACRES
START THE RIGHT WAY OR YOU
WILL BE BEWILDERED.
How to Specialize and to See the
Things in Which You Have
Most Interest.

most Interest.
Written for The Evening Star by Guy T. visknskk
Don't delude yourself into thinking that
you can do the fair as you did the one at
Chicago. If you try 1t you will surely find.
as did the man from Idaho. that you have
bitten off more than you can chew and
spent your two vacation weeks for naught
He was an utterly cast-down westerner
as he sat on a bench under the shade of
the trees lining the plaza of st. Louis.
Finally he plucked up life enough to ex-
plain the cause of his detection.
Stranger, you may be thinking I'm
pretty glum for a sghtseer." he said and
a man who is on his vacation. but 1 Just
guess I've got right to be. Here 1 came
to this blowout expecting to take it in
like the one I did at Chicago" Gle called
1t Sheekagee) Say, l started going up
and down the buildings to see the things
and the first building 1 got into was the
agricultural my pap being a farmer. Guess
l 'moseyed' around there all day, got dead
petered out, and then didn't see ALL Got
twenty acres in it's insides. Stranger this
here fair is too big, and I've just wasted
two whole days trying to see 1t. I reckon
I'll hit the trail back to Idaho tonight"
Go about it the right way though and
the visitor will not be overpowered by the
bigness of the show, which is in evidence
on all hands. Behold the trolley line, seven
miles In length. that it was necessary to
build around the grounds in order to make
the various buildings and exhibits at all ac-
cessible without walking all the day. Gaze
on the Idaho silver nugget weight eight
tons; and consider the much heralded pike
whose press censor confidently proclaims is
three times as large as the celebrated Mid
way of Chicago, and quotes a string Of i'm
posing figures comparing the length
hrno ,hnr opd OF NJ ,@&t1
how much the Chicago attractions made
and how many more millions the pike pro-
motors hope to reap in profits. Become an
exposition specialist and you will see the
best OF the fair. which you cannot do In
toto, even though you spend month or six
weeks on the ground.
To Get a Picture.
This is the first thing you want to do
on entering the gates Of the fair-give heed
to the earnest invitation extended to you
by It's representative to Chamber to a seat
in the omnibus automobile after you have
paid the requisite sum of % cents. This
automobile takes you around and through
the central portion of the grounds. The
guide points out and shouts the names of
the various main buildings, the principal
statuary and other features, such as the
Sunken Gardens, the plaZas and the la
goons This ride takes up half hour, and
when you have been whisked back to the
starting place you have gained working
idea of the component parts of what has
been aptly styled The Picture of the ex-
position.
Now for general idea Of the entire fair
and this can be obtained only by ride on
the 1ntramural, the double-track electric
railway that enctrcles the grounds. There
are some seventeen stations on the line
and as the car approaches a station the
conductor sings out in this fashion: Station
No. 15-Government building, Missouri
building, liberal arts and mining and metal
IN.
hibit'' Give heed to what the man in blue
says, and, with a little assistance from
the map in your guide book you will have
no difficulty in picking out, rule, the
buildings and exhibits accredited to the
stations. Walking thither, however may
be different matter. Essay it, and you
may find that the station Is some half
mile removed from your destination; yet
you to reach there. And while you are
walking, when you expected to be landed
right at the door, remember that this Is
one of the results of st. Louis ambition
to fill up twice the space occupied by the
Chicago fair
Out for the Hill.
When you have concluded the trolley
ride 1t is incumbent upon you to make for
the hill on which stands Festival Hall and
the Terrace and Colonnade of States, and
there spend the afternoon of the first day
taking in the architectural splendors on the
hill itself and of the great buildings and
their magical setting, that radate thence
along three great avenues almost up to the
main entrance of the fair, half a mile
away. Gaze on the stretch of rounded
roof and long Corinthian colonnades, on
domes and towers. Imposing monuments
and statuary and columns, and behold the
green of the trees and grass and the cool
ing effect of the water in complete har-
mony with the cream-white facades, and
you will feel like the child whose mother
I.a.a ri Ing 70 in1l
But, mother, | can see my new brother
every day, and 1 can't these beautiful
buildings"
Remain on Festival Hill ENJOYING what
Is everywhere hailed as the leading feature
of the fair-the architecture-until twilight
Then descend, make for the Plaza of ST.
Louis, and once there, take electric
launch or a gondola for a view of the build
ings from the lagoon. which gracefully
winds its way for mile and a half past
the eight buildings forming the picture,
giving you excellent view of them, as
well as of the superb work topping Festi-
vail Hall Hill.
Perhaps, while your gondolier is sending
your boat noselessly through the water
and everything about you-imposing arches
gigantic obelisks, superb pedments and
beautiful porticoes-is bathed in the soft
glow of dusk all suddenly 100000 electric
lights will flash out all over the scene,
from the tip of the dome of Festival Hall
to the outermost edges of the great pic
ture In that event you will be extremely
fortunate; you can easily imagine that you
are some ethereal being fioated in space,
iridescently lighted up by tens Of thousands
of twinkling little stars
For Boat Trip.
But IL your boat trip has come to an end.
with the electrical display yet to come,
seat yourself on the Plaza of st. Louis.
facing toward Festival Hall, and wait for
the burst of light, whose like has never
before been seen-outstripping the Buffalo
illumination at least two to one. Here, too,
Is the proper place to view the wonderful
Cascades in operation, which by night is
Infinitely more impressive than by day.
You have now seen the second great
feature of the fair-the electrical-and
with 1t let the day end.
The first day for generalization; the rest