The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-27

R. Stevens makes the following concise statement of his impressions during the inaugural trip of the famous Intramurai road through the Exposition grounds at Ss. Louis:
 Two Worlds Fair builders got off the street car at skinker road and started in different directions to their work. One called after the other: "Where are ye workin' Patr'
 And Pat replied cheerfuliy:
 con the Philippine Islands, two blocks this side of Kansas City" Distances on the worlds Fair grounds are more than magnificent. They are confounding Three street cars with signs reading: Direct to Worlds Fair" pass Fourth and Olive Streets. They carry people to three entrances any two of which are more than a mile apart. The t,2i0 acres enclosed mean mile and tiiree-cuarters one way and e mile and one-quarter another. There is a way to see all in thirty-six minutes. It will be birds eye view with the bird on the wing. There are ten entrances, two on the Park or east side. four on the north line. one on the west and three on the south side. Street cars will run when the Worlds Fair opens. direct to eight of these entrances.
 For a visit in which minutes count, the northeast or Lindell Boulevard entrance is the choice. It is the quick way to the midst of things. It Is the starting point for a complete tour of the Universal FIX. position, which includes a glimpse or every one of the 300 buildings.
 The turnstile clicks behind. An ave- nue. to the west between tall naples leads in a hundred yards to the grand plaza of St. Louis. And Saint Louiss tower ing upon Norman horse, holding high the cross upon his sword, guards the en- trance. Here ls great paved space on which to manoeuver brigade. On either side is the strip of lawn; then double rows of trees with walks beneath. facades Of exhibit palaces. sixty feet to the caves. On the left Is manufactures; with imposing columns. On. the right Is varied industries with its curious double colonade. it's many urns and low ,domes. These are palaces indeed. To be mater ial it Is six hundred feet across the plaza from front to front of these buildings. Where the plaza ends to the southward Is the Louisiana Purchase Monument. Beyond is the water of the main lagoon, bright and clear, with the shadows of the cornices and columns of palaces mir rored. Education is on the east; elec- tricity on the west.
 The lagoon broadens into the Grand Basin. The vision travels nngeringly over the plaza, along the fronts of palaces, across the water to be lifted up- ward to the central cascade, to the festival hall, with it's mighty dome, and to the Colonnade of States. It is the main picture of the Worlds Fair. It mazes the brain. It quickens the pulse. On the first visit the feeling is one of wonder. Each successive visit discovers some new effect and beauty. The final view. when the lights go out at mid night on the 30th of November, should be from this spot, to last for life.
 From the corner of the plaza a car of the fntramural moves westward every two minutes The moving picture of the Worlds Fair unrolls at the rate of ten miles an hour. Out Of the south window the northern front of varied ii- dustries, 1900 feet, slips by. Through theN north window are the peoples of the Pike and their hahitats. Contrasts are strong and strange, and at close range in this first mile of the Intramual. Mountains of Tyrol, with snow tops, are succeeded by government house at Dub- lin and Irish cottages, which give way to Byzantine architecture.
 One needs to have ambi-vision not to miss something of the poIyglot Pike. Japan and Siberia are as closely associat- ed as if there had never been danger of friction over Korea. The bazaars of Stamboui. the Egyptian market place, Old St. Louis. Mysterious Asia, and those
 modern flre-worshipers, the American Pompier men, who astonished the whole world at Paris in 1900. are near neigh bors. Each locality has It's typical con- struction and its distinctive people. The panorama Is of all-world life, and more than that 1t tells the story of life. Here Is Creation" great blue dome. There is the Galveston Flood" and beyond, by some strange fitness of things. ''The Hereafter"
 The concession amusement is no longer side show of the Exposition. It is CO., ordinate with the architectural triumph and the wonderful exhibit. Concessions have been elevated at this Worlds Fair to such o position in point of cost and character, that it is possible some visitors will carry away the impression that the Pike Is the greatest of all, if not the whole thing The other day an employe of the concession. Creation" was tell ing his friends downtown some of the wonderful facts about 1t. He was asked where this marvellous concession was located "Why," said he Don't you know7 The Worlds Fair is right next to it,"
 The car moves across the plaza of St. Anthony, giving just time enough to glance along the vista filled by the pavilion to the west end of the Colon- made of States, the beautiful structure rising from among the forest trees of the higher level and outlined against the blue of the Southern sky Palace of Trans portAtion. with it's 1.60o feet of length, fills the view on the South, building with massive archies at the ends and plain sides suggestive of a palatiai union station, having sixty doors. As the car passes, 1t Is possible to get Instantaneous views of train de luxe and the great col lection of vehicles and transportation devices covering many acres of space. In the center of all. high in the air. upon a turntabIe slowly revolving is a mogul engine, the wheels of which are moving at a speed of sixty miles an hour, while the electric searchliglits on locomotive and tender reach all parts of the building.
 The Intramural car has not travelled a miles until the visitor has been impressed with the fact that this Is an Exposition of life and motion. Across Skinker road the Place of Nations Is reached. The
 first building to be seen and the first one compieted is that of Mexico Our neigh