The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-06-08
A WHIRL AT THE FAIR
AND ON THE PIKE
The St. Louis Exposition the Biggest
Thing Of the Kind Since the
Dawn Of the World.
Suggestions How to Speed Through and
Something About the High
Prices.

To visit the st. Louis exposition
now, after previous visit to the
grounds of fifteen months ago, re-
calls the stories of the Arabian
Nights. Fifteen months ago there
was nothing but the elements of the
exposition in their crudest state.
Buildings were but partially COM
pleted, even if commenced. The
vast field of 1900 acres or more,
was of brownish tinted clay, and
then being thrown about to make
the sub-structure of what is to-day
places of green grass, of flowers, of
waterways, of walks, of mammoth
buildings and the like, and from
which, at night, nearly half mil
lion of incandescent lights send out
their prisms in the most wonderful
electrical display ever conceived by
the human mind. And as a gorge
Gus center-piece for all this vast
lighting system the cascades stand
out prominently, separately, as a
watch over the lagoon, and the
buildings where the world is en-
gagged in the peaceful battles for
the prizes the red, white and blue
ribbons of the big show. Still more,
from these cascades, connected by
the terrace of states in the louisa
ma Purchase, the waters at night,
fall down over glass plates behind
which are myriads of lights to i'm
part the most beautiful color to the
| falling water that can be depicted
by paint and brush, or by nature,
itself. Standing at the base of the
monument concentrating the i'm
portant purchase, and gazing over
the lagoon with its gondolas, launch
es and other crafts loaded with peo-
pie, to the cascades, over which the
water is falling in foaming torrents,
where fountains, hushed by day,
and called forth into activity by the
Goddess of Night, the sublimest
stories of mythology are fulfilled L
the dream becomes a realism, and
you pass from the reflective to the
contemplative-in wondering where
man is to stop in his wild career of
progress and the Harvesting of Ma
ture.
THE ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS.
You can leave Redwood Falls at
1920 any week day and be in ST.
Louis, right on the grounds the
next day at o'clock. The short
line by which this is accomplished
is the North Star limited train of
the Minneapolis & ST. Louis rail-
road, which is the short line to the
fair for the entire northwest. The
limited train leaves Minneapolis at
7:45-St. Paul half an hour earlier,
and is complete with sleeping cars,
chair cars. buffet aud day coaches
every evening. It whirls down
through southern Minnesota to AL
bert Lea, then proceeds south to
Abba, where the Wabash system
assumes control and runs the train
into the exposition grounds so that
you can engage rooms, wash up and
have the major portion of the after
noon at the fair. The train travels
through portion of the country
that is superbly beautiful at this
time of the year, and touches sever
ell of the manufacturing towns of
Missouri, going through St. Charles,
one of the oldest points in the pur-
chase, and at which place it crosses
the famous Wabash bridge, consid-
cred among the greatest pieces of
railroad engineering.
DO SYSTEMATICALLY.
You can easily do the show, every
portion of it, in six days, and if you
hurry, you can do it in three, but
the latter will not permit of you
tarryiDg long in the art galleries
and other intensely interesting
places. Let lis start at the InnSide