Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-20
MANS ACHIEVEMENTS
SOME OF THEM ARE TOLD IN
WHIRRING WHEELS

Architecture and Landscape Adornment-ln
Exhibits of Universal as Well as Rare Prod
ucts-And in Presenting Evidences Of Ex-
pscted Development in the Near Future.
The story of mans achievement in
every part OF the world is now told
daily to the thousands who visit the
great Worlds Fair at st. Louis, the
gates to which were opened on April
30th.
1t is told in moving machinery, in
processes that are going forward to
completion, and in finished products !;
it is told again in flowers and in fruits !;
it is told in the peace products of edu-
cation and in the war products that
frown upon one from government hill
and those that are gathered under can
vas.
From the golden Victory, aloft on
the Hall of Festivals, to the silvery
surface Of the lagoons, the story is told
under the sunray; it is repeated at
night when the palaces seem ahame
and the Cascades are resplendent with
pEosphorescent fire.
Those to whom the story is told
stand spell-bound before some of the
chapters. The giant prime movers in
the Palace of Machinery cause ST.
lence that is akin to fear; the beauties
OF the throbbing water, tumbling fan
tsstically down the inclines from the
Colonnade of States. exercise a hyp.
motto spell, the wonders of the Orient,
spread before you by the workers from
China, Japan aud India, result in mys.
tification.
1t IS not until one leaves the Fair
grounds and his mind is free from the
ever-occurring attractions that he has
time to marvel at the glory and the
greatness OF it all.
Open to everyone now is this achieve.
ment OF century and a year-the
elimination OF all that has been done
in the wide expanse of territory pur.
chased from France in 1903 and the
achievements Of all nations in the
world since that day.
The gates are open. the crowds are
pouring in; it is gala scene every.
where, and the air pulses with sound
waves from martial bands that are
pealing forth the refrain of this great
peace conquest.
In comfortable, rapidly moving cars
visitors are carried over the Intramural
Railway and many thus obtain their
first idea of the magnitude OF this St.
Louis display. Starting near the Lin.
dell boulevard entrance, they are car
ried on staightaway track a distance
OF mile, between row of giant ex.
hibition palaces on the left and the
curious buildings on the Pike on the
right. Then the train skirts lawn,
crosses a trestle and curves around
the handsome buildings OF the Admin
istration group, structures OF pink
granite that have been universally ad-
mired for their architecture. Beyond
these field is reached and the Stad-
ium is pointed out, its wide expanse
already in condition for the interest
ing Olympic games and other athletic
contests.
Totem poles standing in front OF the
Alaskan village seem to nod at you as
the cars pass, and in the distance are
the thatched roofs of Filipino habita.
tions and the white walls OF Manila
buildings in replica. On the left
again is the giant Palace OF Agricult-
ure the largest building in the world
beyond which is Horticulture, and
after climbing a grade, the train pulls
into wooded area, to emerge behind
the Art Palace on the Plateau OF
States. Down grade again you 90 in
the vicinity of the government group,
and passing Mines and Metallurgy and
the Gulch adjacent you reach the
main entrance once more. The mag.
nitude of this Worlds Fair cannot be
better sent home to one than by the
statement that forty-fve minutes were
consumed in making that round trip
on the Intramural.
Follow that throng of people and
you come to the banks of the lagoons
that are dotted with gondolas and
electric launches. Hark to the med
ley OF sound as the swish Of the cas-.
cades joins the music of the band that
is playing on the plaza, and above all
rise the notes of song from the gon-
dolier who is swinging his craft under
the bridge on which you stand.
Alive is the water, alive are the
broad thoroughfares, alive are the
great buildings, and you are told that
in few weeks alive also will be the
air, Tor then the balloon contests WILL
be in full sway.
Now you fully comprehend what
was meant when word was sent forth
by the Exposition management that
this should be Worlds Fair in which
the revealment of processes should be
paramount. 1t is one continuous pan.
Drama from the time you enter the
gates until you leave again.
Visit the Palace of Machinery and
you see in motion giant enoipaa son,o