Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-20
Discuss Plans of Attacking
Great Exposition The
Usual Happens.
WILFUL WOMAN
HAS HER WAY
Inspiring Panorama ENROLLED To
the Eye While Intramural
Cars Make the Circuit.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.--I am glat
I had my way. We talked 1t all oyer
On the train while a Chinaman was
climbing out of the upper berth In
our section. We didn't know the
Chinaman slept over us. That's one
Of the pleasant surprises OF travling
on one OF these Worlds Fair sleeping
cars. | wouldn't be surprised next
time to wake up and find the foot OF
one Of these lgorot dog-eaters from
the Philippine village resting In my
face. For 1t must be kept in mind
that this Is a Worlds Fair, not a st.
Louis fair-and you rub elbows with
every race and nationality under the
sun.
But as ! said before. | had my way,
and that accounts for the fact that
we circled around the great Expo
sition like a vulture circles around
his pray before alighting. John wan
ted to wade right into the EXPOSE
tlon," as he expressed 1t, and Jane had
her mind set on the lagoons. The
gondoliers appealed to her romantic
instinct. But my plan was to first
take In the high lights" to view
The great exposition from lofty van
playground, marking the mountain.
tops OF achievement and measuring
Its plan and scope.
So we took the lntramural Rail.
way at the main entrance and right
glad We we're that I'VE" had the fore
thought to take IT, 1t Is an over
head trolley, electric road. seven
miles long. skirting the entire exposi-
ton grounds, running partly on the
surface and partly on an elevated
structure. following the topography Of
the great park in a way most delight
full 10 the sightseer, The Worlds
Fair at Chicago was built In a
morass. The Louisiana Purchase
Exposition was hills and natural for
est to give a picturesque effect. The
jutting ~prominences of these hills
are crowned by stately palaces and
beautiful pa tnony Awhile two ait
connected by a senoi,circular ridge
leading TO the lower level of the
and the cascade gardens pronounced
by many of the greatest architectu.
raj water and garden composition
ever executed by man. Nesting un.
der the shade of great trees are
state and foreign building represent
Ing varied types of ornate and state
iy architecture.
This was the picture presented to
the eye as the trolley carried us
swiftly along. These are yeritable
opSVi 'utioh this, tttHn COIUIOTt-
able and commodious. The spectacle
was beyond description. The sensa-
ton was indescribable. We were
viewing a ufty-million dollar show
from the hi!Ltops OF a 1850 acre for.
est, all for fifty cents, and as we went
cushing along we tried TO take In the
panorama OF sculptural and archi-
secturai splendor but II was too much
Tor the range Of human vision.
The a with a megaphone rat
tied" us OF course and 10 We started
on the Intramural the wrong way, |
We are not used Il c%onversing by
fog-horn methods at home. But |
have found that quite often the wrong
way Is the right way when 1t comes
20 seeing things, and so 1t proves in
this case. We started at the last
station instead OF the first and no
sooner had we started than the pla-
"a OF ST. Louis. the Louisiana Mo
nument. the Grand Basin, the Cas-
cades crowned by Festival Hall and
the Terrace Of States burst upon our
view, From that time on there was
a bewildering panorama of gardens.
Fountains. sculptural groups, terraces.
exhibit places. state and foreign bull. |
dings. We passed also coal mining
camps, zinc and lead mills. a Black
Hills gold reduction plant. the grea.
and agricultural palaces.
a model poultry farm. the famous
Wheel. the United States Life
exhibit. the buildings of Bra.
I'll, East India and Canada. As
We passed the Bridge of Spain leading
The walled city Of the Philippine
reservation we heard the yells OF tie
In the 1gorot village. On
he right We heard TO rapid ping-ping
u rifles and the booming OF cannon
which frff ne that fha kntsfo ~ N.a :