The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-09-28
OUR WORLDS FAIR WANDERERS
They Discuss Plans Of Attacking the
Great Exposition.

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Great Exposition.
The Astorian has arranged for a Sc
ries OF letters from a party OF wei
known tourists now visiting the world
fair at ST. Louis. Following is tn
first OF the series:
At the worlds Fair. st. Louis, Sept
al am glad had my way. W,
talked 1t all over on the train whil'
Chinaman was climbing out of tn,
upper berth in our section. We didnt
know the Chinaman slept over us
That's one of the pleasant surprises OF
travelling on one of these worlds fai,
sleeping cars. l wouldn't be surprised
next time to wake up and find the
foot Of one of these Igorot dog eaters
from the Philippine village resting In
my face For it must be kept in mind
that this is a worlds fair--not st.
Louis fair-and you rub elbows with
every race and nationality under the
sun.
But as said before, had my way,
and that accounts for the fact that We
circled around the great exposition
like a vulture circles around his prey
before alighting. John wanted to wade
right into the exposition" as he ex-
pressed Il, and Jane had her mind set
90 the lagooas, The gondoliers ap-
peaied to her romantic instinct. But
my plan was to irst take in the high
lights" to view the gres! exposition,
from lofty vantage ground. marking
the mountain tops of achievement and
measuring its plan ana scope.
So we took the fntramural railway at
the main entrance and right glad we
were that I'VE" had the forethought TO
take 1t. 1t is an overhead trolley, elec-
trio road, seven miles long. skirting
the entire exposition grounds, running
partly on the Surface and partly on an
elevated structure, following the topo-
graphy of the great park in way most
delightful to the sightseer. The worlds
fair at Chicago was built in morass.
The Louisiana exposition has hills'and
natural forest to give picturesque eff
feet. The jutting prominences of these
hills aer crowned by stately palaces
and beautiful pavilions, while two are
leading to the lower level of the
grounds, used to form the cascades and
the cascade gardens pronounced by
many to be the greatest architectural
water and garden composition ever
executed by man. Nesting under the
shade of great trees are state and for
eign buildings representing varied
types Of ornate and stately architec-
ture. -'s' So - 49, 49,
This was the picture presented to the
eye as the trolley carried US swiftly
along. These are veritable "observa-
ton cars" clean, comfortable and COM
modious. The spectacle was beyond
description. The sensation was inde-
scribable. We were viewing a fifty
million dollar show from the hilltops of
1850 acre forest, all for so cents, and
as we went rushing along we tried to
take in the panorama Of sculptural and
architectural splendor, but 1t was too
much for the range of human vision.
The man with megaphone 'rattled"
us of course and so we started on the
Intramural the wrong way. We are not
used to conversing by fog-horn methods
at home. But have found that quite
often the wrong way is the right way
when it comes to seeing things. and so
1t proved in this case. We started at
the last station instead of the first
and no sooner had we started than the
plaza Of st. Louis, the Louisiana mon
ument, the Grand basin, the Cascades
crowned by Festival hall and the ter
race sof states burst upon our view.
From that time on there was a bewil-
dering panorama of gardens, fountains,
sculptural groups, terraces, exhibit pal
aces. state9and foreign buildings. We
passed also coal mining camps, zinc !
and lead Euilis;sa Black Hills gold re-
1uction plant, the great horticultural
and agffcufturaf palaces, model poul-
Try farm, the famous Ferris wheel, the
United states fffe saving exhibit, the
buildings of Brazil, East India and Can
ida. AS wepasssdItre bridge of Spain
eadIhg to the walled city of the Phil
ppihe reserystidn We heard the yells
IT the dog-dapee, in the Igorot village.
On the right We Heard the rapid PIN
ping of rifles and the, booming of can
ION which told us that the battle of
Nodder river was in progress, in which
he brave Beers were fighting under
cronje and Kiljoen.