Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-30
AT THE WORLDS FAIR
Conversation Overheard Between Ex- ].
 ecutive Officer and Rev Dr Stone

ecutive Officer and Rev Dr Stone
 St Louis, Aug BOA tranquil sum- mer twilight was settling over the spacious ivory palaces, the many hued Cascade Gardens and the mag nificent Colonnade of the States as we entered one of the electric launches at the main landing of the Grand Basin. Near by a swarthy gondolier from far Venice was strumming a guitar and keeping time, with his rich, southern voice, to the measured strokes of the oar.
 "Won't some of you pease sit over at the other side?" the launch conduc- tor asked, as his boat began to d1p all 1 most to the waters edge.
 l Two gentlemen complied promptly with the request, and so 1t came that I was seated in close proximity to two of the most enthusiastic worlds fair spectators I had ever seen.
 | "Now, Dr Stone," one of them be- gan, before we were well under way, ''are you sorry you came out to St Louis? Isn't the exposition all it pro- fesses to be?"
 "All that and infinitely more," the other responed. ''No ordinary mortal could conceive of such grandeur, such varied interest, such sublime dCu1GN0ucuL. bO you kllOW WudL | am going to do, MT Vaill? am go- ing back home and preach worlds fair. I know of at least one Baptist congregation in Hartford that will be thoroughly enlightened. You see, it will be much easier than making ser mons in the old-fashioned way, and I am sure it will be far more interest ing"
 "That isn't bad idea," the gentle man addressed <as MT Vaill returned. T heartily wish all our Connecticut people could be here to get their own sermons out of it. There is at least one sermon that has preached itself to me night after night. As I sit in the launch--and will confess that I often steal away from my duties up at the state house just at dusk to take a little ride on the water-as I sit here and watch the thousands of tiny points of light as they suddenly start into being on these wonderful build ings, as I watch them grow in luster and power, fancy have reached the Holy City. It is beyond my power to imagine a heaven that Is any more beautiful than this"
 "That sermon is worth all the word pictures the most eloquent speaker could paint" the Rev Dr George M. | SlO11G answered.. was CQ1Qk- ing of the sermons of earth. Our nls- sionary boards ought to come out here and study the Filipino. the In- dian, the Japanese and all the other nations of the earth. Every one who is interested in foreign missions must come. I never expected to see the whole subject brought within one days range, as it is here. No minis ter of the gospel can afford to stay away"
 "Your reference to the live anthro- biological exhibit reminds me of a most astonishing thing we happened to see few days ago." the executive officer of the Connecticut commission answered. q had heard of the South African pygnies who were brought over by Rev MT Werner, the first of those aborigines to be seen in Amer ica, so went out to- the reservation to see them. There are four of the little fellows, full grown men who look like negro boys of about six or seven. With them was the crown prince of the Congo, not q pygnny but one of the adult size. He wore noth- ing but little woven straw shirt and he danced and begged for nfckels just as if he had not been a kings son."
 "Oh, it certainly is marvellous ex- position, where one can see the re- ! motest corners of the earth brought I together, every man living in his ma I tive dwelling and wearing his GUS tomary garb," the divine said, enthus- I iasticaIly. ''No such thing has ever I before been attempted and 1 am afraid it never will be again The \ people who stay away from this worlds fair are missing a chance of lifetime"
 'T have been greatly pleased" MT VailI remarked, "'to note the great in- terest taken by the west in our Con- necticut building and our exhibits. To this part of the country we represent the very essence of the colonial, and | our reproduction of Mrs Sigourney's house in Hartford has been greatly enjoyed. You should see the ladies examine that old Chippendale secre- tary, and the fine old silver of over a century ago. believe the two pieces of our old furniture that arouse the greatest interest are George Washington's chair, from the first continental congress, and the bed on which Chief Justice Ellsworth died Ill 1872. You know, the only modern things in our building are the letter press and the typewriter And I should also mention the exquisite Cheney SIX tapestry OH Ihe Walls anu the fine collection of paintings that are not Colonial Old Masters by any means, but the work of our very best modern Connecticut artists.
 "There is one thing that every Toy al American should see," Dr. Stone responded. ''When the visitors go over to Pennsylvania to take a look at the grand old Leberty Bell, they should not fail to stop and see the frame, in your front hall the most valuable historic picture frame in the world. To me the idea of making that frame of the old original Charter Oak, and the trimmings of the c%ild of the Charter oak, is very beautiful. .'
 And they should not forget to go out on the lawn and see the grand child of the charter oak that we plan ted, to grow and flourish in Forest park as a lasting memento of Con. nectfcut at the Worlds fair" was MT. Vailrs response, as the launch touch Il -