Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-31

new MEXICO
SHOWS UP WELL
In Every Department Exhibits
Reflect Great Credit On
Territory.

ST LOUIS, Oct. Ell have heard
not a few loyal Americans who had
the good fortune to see both the
Worlds Fair at Chicago and the
last Paris Exposition declare that the
foreign effort wasn't circumstance
TO Americas big show. Their zeal
for things American was pleasing to
an American who was compelled to
admit that Paris had outdone us. In
the variety and beauty of buildings.
in the abundance, magnificence and
scope of exhibits, in the display Of
fine arts, of manufactures. of agri-
cultural products, Of things scientific
and educational, Paris far surpassed
Chicago. In the seven years between
the Columbian Fair and the interna-
tiona exposition at the brilliant
French capital the world had ad-
vanced far. Paris was in surprising
ly ample degree, the exponent CT this
advancement
The American who feels chagrin
that the old world should have
achieved the honor and distinction Of
preparing the greatest exposition in
history, will find comfort in the un-
doubted fact that the honor has been
short lived The distinction is once
more Americas. For in quite as full
measure as Paris was bigger and bet
ter than Chicago, so is st. Louis big
ger and better than Paris.
Chicago, however, still prided her
self that nothing in the arrangement
of the gorgeous many lowered build
ings at Paris quite equalled her Court
OF Honor. But the place of the cas-
cades and the lagoons quite over
shadows the pride Of the vanished
White City
Buffalo came to the front with an
exposition much smaller, much less
complete than those of Chicago and
Paris, but with the just claim, that
her electrical display and electrical
illuminations established new rec
ord. But Buffalo's record mark is
far below that inscribed by st.
Louis.
The magnificent beauty of the cleo
trical illuminations of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition is beyond the
scope of the imagination. Before the
shadows of evening have darkened,
millions of lights burst out As the
night deepens the golden glory be-
comes as radiant as the borealis that
sweeps its countless streamers of daz-
zling light through an arctic sky.
Throughout the great expanse of the
fair grounds every lordly white pal
ace is gemmed in fire. There are
miles of shining avenues. golden
lanes that wind through brilliant
meadows, thousands of gorgeous pin
nacles and blazing towern, all molt-
en- rivers more Lovely than the lashes
of light that trim the stars. The SUI
perb palace OF electricity Is the ceI'.
ter OF all this beauty. Ropes of bril-
liant lights stretch rom ;s top To
the lagoons and the cascade building.
Its walls are almost buried in a
shimmering. electric sea.
On the beautiful building of the
cascades radiant color effects are
displayed. At intervals the myriad
lights which outline the structure IN
fire turn to red. the rushing river
flows red, the FLASHING fountains be-
come ,od and the same brilliant nue.
traces the lanes of light far on either
side OF the building. Then for few
moments the whole fairland scene
changes to green and back again to
yellow. One misses the constant
play, and change and blend OF bril-
liant colors that formed the most
striking feature of the illumination oi
the Paris palace Of the fountains, bu'
the general effect is more than mag
nificent-
This letter aims to deal briefly
with one or two impressions of the
fair and not at all with facts and fig
ures. From that, perhaps, hazardous
viewpoint. with due allowance, also,
for possible prejudice. New Mexico
shows up well at st. Louis. In the
registry book at the New Mexico