Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-16
Note Book Sketches.

busy With other matters since his
return from the Worlds fair that
he had not found time to write
anything concerning the big show.
From now on we'll endeave1
however to furnish our readers with
a column or two each week about
the fair in general and our en-
joyable trip to and from st. Louis
with few side issues thrown in tt
season the bunch as long as oul
supply of material thoughts lasts
It's a pretty hard matter to &C
through Chicago without looking
the town over and we made stoI
going and returning. The parks
and other places of amusement are
running full blast just the same as il
the St. Louis fair was not on at all
We joined the crowd that was
bound for one of the parks and
watched the performances for an
hour or more.
We saw chunky red devil shoot
down an inclined plane, swapping
his fingers at the law of gravity
rode upside down half the distance
between an early breakfast and 9
broken neck, while a few minutes
before, just outside the charmed
spot, we had seen portly citizen
fall over his own feet and break his
eyeglasses, while walking on terra
frma.
We also rubbered at a stoutly
built female, whose airy costume
had been doped with gasoline and
deliberately set on fire as she stood
on platform 100 feet more or less
from the ground, and saw her drop,
all ablaze, head first into a tank OF
water below, without even mussing
her back hair, and yet short time
before we had read in the papers
about a st. Paul woman nearly
losing her life because she cleaned
her gloves in the same subtle fluid
and then dried them over the fire
in the kitchen stove.
We saw five scantily clad people
of both sexes throw each other
about recklessly in midair, turn
fipfops while standing on nothing
but atmosphere, and hurl them
selves headlong so feet into a coarse
rope net, and they appeared te
enjoy it; and yet later we saw kid
fall out Of a baby carriage onto 8
bag of peanuts it held in it's hand
and nearly scare it's mother te
death.
We also saw man, attired in ar
incandescent bicycle suit, ride :
wheel similarly attired, across .
tight wire, so feet from the ground
without batting an eye or turning
a hair; while on the way home VIZ
saw another man try to mount hiI
wheel from the curbstone and Skin
both shins nearly to the elbow.
An old granger endeavored tx
board train at the Chicago termina
station bound for ST. Louis and hi
had a scalper's ticket which he ha(
purchased across the way for 1925
The trainmen would not let hin
get aboard and in the crush at the
gate he WIS robbed of his gOli
watch and $40 in money by a pick
pocket. He is Of the opinion nov
that he will travel like other people
If you go to St. Louis via Chicago
take the Chicago & Alton out 0.
Chicago. This system is the mos
direct route between the two cities
and you have your choice of foul
magnificent trains each way daily
For accommodations the Alton il
unsurpassed and the road bed is thu
best in the world. Leaving Chicago
at night one is in st. Louis in time
for breakfast in the morning. Or
if you prefer to take a daylight
ride and see some of the fine
Illinois farm land, leave Chicago
in the morning and arrive at ST
Louis for your evening meal.
i
The one point on which visitors
almost unanimously criticise the St
! Louis worlds fair is it's size. The
exposition has been conceived an6
executed on scale of such magni
tude that the very end which in
spired this course has been defeated
Instead of astounding the world
by a vastness of display hitherto
unknown in enterprises Of this
nature, the immensely has in reality
proved irritating rather than impress
Sive. The unending viStaS, the