Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-30
The St. Louis Pike, One Mile Trip Around the World

obounds IN contrasts, FOR just across
the way from thls solemn and impress
slve scene IS gay Paris, where the
French life Is literal and o. the bon
vivant order. Thence up in an airship
from whose height we behold the en-
chanting city spread beneath us. Here
is Old 81, Louis, and Just beyond It h a
typical Japanese vllagC--tea houses
geisha girls, sparkling life, airy little
houses brilliantly colored scenery and
all We are vertically In the Land OF
the Rising sun and eNpectantly listen
TO hear the crowds cheering IN the
streets over the latest Jap victory.
We have done the human; now FOR
the animal Who has not heard OF Ha-
genbeck2 We'll Hagenbeck is here, and
more too. Al the four footed world is
before US arranged In zones, from the
luxurlant tropics to the ice fields of the
farthest north And we SILVER as we
observe that there Ia absolutely moth
Ing between Us and the fierce beasts
that hungrily gaze at us.
And now come the monsters Of the
deep. This Is the famous concession
known as Under and over the Sea
Stepping into a submarine boat, the
matches are closed down, and IN a mo.
ment we are descending into the briny
at velocity that would make sea
serpent di2zy. We behold the floor of
the ocean and all the nightmare mon
sters that do there abide. Then we
shoot upward, upward, upward Till We
reach the surface, disembark, take an
airshlp and return to the place Of
starting
Passing through an Irish village.
where the scenes and customs Of the
Emerald Isle are reproduced with per-
lection OF lifelike detail, a wonderful
panorama suddenly bursts upon the
view. We are yeritably facing the Ty-
rolean Alps Description ceases here.
We may chatter about other things,
hut before this beautiful spectacle the
lips fall silent
After done the Pike, and likewise
having It DO us, We have uayersed a
street only little more than mile IN
length yet we have literally gone
around the world.
There are several other concessions
on the ground that in their nature are
really PIKE features, though not situ-
ated on this already famous thorough
fare, Returning to the Sklnker road, II
| IL only a few rods TO the spectacular
trip from New York to the north pole
Here the arctic regions are reproduced
| In manner TO make one genuinely
SILVER. The icebergs are on hand with
all their Accomplishments, cold includ-
ed. This trip freezes the blood in more
ways than one,
A half mile or more up the Skinker
road the Boer war Ia IN progress,
fought by the very burghers and Tom
mics who participated In the real thing.
I Generals Plet Cronje and NilJoen are
here and British officers almost as ia
nous. This Is the real Trensvaal,
veldts, koples and all, The battle OF Co.
lenso and Cronjes last stand at Paar'
deburg are reproduced.
one Of the most elaborate and unique
exhibits In the entire exposition ia that
Of the Philippines Here hundreds OF
Filipino natives some Of them OF the
most savage sort, are grouped amid the
exact surroundings that they know at
home. Yet there Is one exception. In
their own land many Of these people DO
not wear clothes Since arriving at
the fair they have been brought to see
the Importance of the sartorlal end OF
civilization, so we can visit them with.
out fear OF undue shock TO our sensi-
bllities.
The Indian exhibit also furnishes a
fine chronological study Of a fast dlsap
pearing race.
The reproduction OF ancient Jerusa-
lem Is as nearly perfect in detail as
such an exhibition can well be made.
This II certain TO be one Of the chief
centers Of interest In the entire fair,
especially TO those religiously inclined,
| TRUMAN L. ELTON,