The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-04

isslppi. New Jersy, Oklahoma, In
dian Territory and Utah, yes, sir,
the Mormon state has bnilding,
but there are no apostles around.
We are now at the Inside Inn, o
hotel with $500 rooms and accomo-
dations for 5000 guests. Betting the
hotel we are soon at the mining sta
ton where are demonstrated coal
mining and mining of precious
metals. One building shows the
methods of turquoise mining. To
our LETT is native forest and we
speed along over ravines and mp hill
sides until the conductor shouts
"Palace of Fine Arts, Texas build
ing, Grants Cabin and the Hoo
Hoos." From this station you can
visit all the buildings mentioned in
Guiding Kentucky and the German
building to the east and Jerusalem
covering eleven acres of ground to
the west. Continuing our ride we
are carried by and around the Boer
reservation where Boer and British
soldiery give daily exhibitions of
the warfare in which they were not
long since engaged. Now we strike
Skinker road pass the live stock
exhibit, Horticultural and Agricul-
tural buildings on our left. Agri-
culture is the largest building on
the grounds, covering % acres, all
under one roof. AT the United
States life saving exhibit we turn
directly west, pass the Philippine
reservation and exhibit, the United
States bureau of plant industry, In
dians from Arizona and Patagonia,
belt Washington university, now in
use as the administration building,
pass a number of the foreign build
ings and find ourselves entering the
wide street just between the Pike
and the Transportation building. Ii
we get off here at station two we
will find just south Of the TranspoT-
tation building Machinery hall and
across south of that Japan, or we
can continue down to station one
and find ourselves within a few
rods of where we entered the grounds
forty minutes before. The exposi-
tion grounds cover l240 acres, and
l2S acres are under roof, 50 you can
readily see that il you expect to
cover It all on foot there's a likeli-
hood you1l need new pair OF shoes
or new set of feet before many
hours.
At the lain entrance also begins
the Pike, but don't visit the Pike
first. Spend your day viewing the
take in one or two attractions on
the Pike. 1t is q splendid change
from the sights of the palaces and
exhiIirates like the glass of cham
payne after a big banquet, .and
againlike the champagne il you
take too much at once 1t pals
on you. The exhibit places close at
6 O'Clock so that you have plenty OF
time to 80 "piking' before supper
and when the crowds on the broad,
well lighted avenue are largest and
jollest. If you want "a real enjoy
able rest step across the plaza to the
Grand Basin, get seat III one OF
the electric gondolas and take an
hours ride through the waterways
taking you directly around six Of
the large exhibit palaces.
From your rides and by consult
ing your vest pocket map You have
by this time acquired fairly
good knowledge Of the grounds and
the location OF the buildings. II.
you are In doubt ask Jefferson .
Guard. There are hundreds Of them .
on the grounds, soldiers Of Uncle .
San, and IT il their duty To direct
you, and protect you AZ well, II in .
need of il. One guard on duty at .
the Administration building claimed .
To have answered 1870 questions the .
last day Of my stay there, but / 4
want it distinctly understood that i
none ~ those questions are charge 4
able 90 me. / have long time .
since learned that the best way TO .
hide your greenuess is e. keep your
mouth shut aud ask few questions.
W. J. h.