The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-08-19
DOING THE BIG FeIR.
ITS MARVELLOUS WONDERS AS SEEN
THROUGH INF EYES OF OUR
LOCAL EDITOR.
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The fair in its entirety is the most
marvellous exhibition on earth and
is wonderfully beautiful.
Monday we started the week by
first going through the Varied In
dustries building and then the Elec-
trical building. The buildings are
almost too vast to conceive of and
one walks mile upon mile in one
building. The different exhibits are
truly wonderful and picturesquely
beautiful and one runs out of syno-
nyms and adjectives in trying to ade-
quateIy describe them.
At 1880 O'Clock we attended pipe
organ recital in the Festival Hall, the
musician being Mr.. Hamlin Hunt, of
Minneapolis, Mimi. He has studied
the organ with Middleschulte and
Grunicke; piano with Deppe and
Jedliczka and theory with Bussler in
Berlin. He plays divinely.
The grand organ used is the Festi-
val Hall is the largest and most
wonderful organ in the world and
was built by the Los Angles Art
Organ Company, California. 1t is 63
feet long. 80 feet deep, and so feet
high. Has 40 speaking stops, 80
mechanical movements, 1O059 pipes.
The combination switch board has
1916 electric switches, capable of pro-
duc1ng 17,17s, s67, 1873 distinct tonal
combinations.
In the afternoon we did, the Art
Gallery, the Horticultural and the
Machinery buildings and at five
O'Clock rested long enough to listen
to the concert given by the Mexican
Band, of which Capt. Ricardo Pache-
co is the leader. The music was
lovely.
The evening until eleven o'clock we
spent on the pike" The brilliant
Examinations, the thousands upon
thousands of people coming and go
ing all the time, the beautiful build
ing. the people of everynation on the
outside of the shows, the confusion
produced by the hundreds of "spiel-
ers'' and bands for these concerns, go
to make up one of the most fascinat-
ing scenes on this mundane sphere.
The excitement is intense and every
body enjoys life on the Pike.
We first took in Under and Over
the Sea- and the Hereafter. Both
ere extremely good illusions and in
the latter place one held ones breath
for fear of "spooks."
Fair Japan" we next visited. 1t
is by far to me the most interesting
concession on the Pike and for that
matter on the grounds.
The tea gardens presided over by
pretty Japanese girls, the many
booths. where all sorts of Japanese
ware, hand embroidery, drawn work
and beautiful articles of every des-
cription are on sale are a very
pleasing sight and make one long to
be a millionaire to buy every thing
in sight. Every thing in Fair Japan
is in charge of japanese and a small
city is exactly reproduced.
1t is truly fairyland. Be sure not to
miss visiting this concession, everyone
that comes to the fair. After looking
around at all the beautiful things,
visiting the tea gardens, drinking tea
and eating japanese rice cakes, we
were conducted into the japanese
theatre, which is quite a pretty one.
The first number was called the
dance of Cities" by eight Japanese
girls. Next was the Sword Dance"
by two Japanese women. We would
never call it a dance, it being more
in the nature of a duel-but the
of the women was grace
itself.
Ten girls then danced the national
dance of Japan, the flag dance. 1t
was very pretty and graceful. Usual
ly only Japanese flags are used in
this dance, but owing to the feeling