Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-05-26
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

| lnere Is running NOW dt ~. LOUIS
the biggest fair ever instituted. Chi
cago had held the honors up till this
year. The Chicago fair covered 633
acres while the st. Louis fair has 1910
acres. The Chicago fair had under
roof of the big exhibit palaces 81
acres while st. Louis has 128 acres.
The palace of agriculture alone has
q acres, is nearly one-third of mile
long, has seven miles of aisles in 1t
and is said to be the biggest building
in the world. Then these monster
buildings are given plenty of space.
They are not crowded together. This
makes the city of the exposition one of
magnificent distances. 1t Is a long
way from one end to the other. One
becomes footsore and weary traveller
if he is ambitious and industrious.
But bigness is only one feature of the
show. It has symmetry, beauty and
nice proportion. Architecture, sculp-
ture and all the arts known to the
world have been employed to make it
attractive Festival hall with wonder
full waterfall in front of it, with groups
of statuary about it, with the biggest
dome you ever saw surmounting 1t,
rises at the head of the lagoon in
noble splendor. At night q hundred
thousand incandescent electric lights In
rows and circles and festoons set the
great scene aglow, and this illumina-
ton glistening on the splendid col
umns and stately, massive structures
makes one wonder about the grandeur
of the eternal city.
There is much talk about the expo
sition being unfinished. SO it
is. These great buildings are
done but the exhibits are not all placed
in them yet. Many of the minor
structures are not yet completed.
Some grading is yet to be done. 1t
appears like it would be several weeks
before the whole affair is completed.
OF course it will be nicer then. But
there is enough now and more than
any one person can see and compre-
bend.
What strikes us most forcibly in
connection with the exposition is its
world wide character 1t seems that
about every civilized nation on the
earth is represented in the exhibits in
some building or other, and many of
them have exhibits in several build
ings. If you meet q man If you do
not hear his brogue or closely notice
his garb or scan his features you will
not know whether he is from Vermont,
or Texas, or Carolina, or California,
or Missouri, or he may be from Eng
land, or Scotland, or France, or Ger
many, or Japan, or China, or Ceylon,
or Abysinia, or Farther India. 1t is
q worlds fair more completely than
any one ever before held in America.
To us the Philippine villages are
a very interesting feature. They have
at least three distinct tribes repre-
sented here in large numbers, the
Moros, the Negoretes and the Dog
eaters. The last named feast often on
roasted dog. They go nearly naked
and look like bronz statuary. The
Negoretes are the negroes of the
Philippines, are curley headed but
not very thick Tipped. The Moros are
warlike. All these tribes are COM
posed of persons small in stature,
almost pigmies. The huts OF the var
ious tribes and their ways OF living
are interesting.
The exposition is not only wonder
full in exhibits in industrial pursuits
but in art, science and all lines OF hu-
man knowledge that can be suggested.
If you have time to spare and some
money to spend, you will enjoy going.
1t surely adds much to ones informa-
ton. And to most it is pleasure.
However, don't work too hard In
looking at it. Rest some each day.
The endurance of the body and the
capacity of the mind have limitations
that are reached about as easily try
ing to do the exposition as anywhere
| else in the world