The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-17
CURIOSITIES OF
THE EXPOSITION
JEW OF THE STRANGE AND IN
GREAT WORLDS FAIR.

1t is pretty safe to say that the peo-
pie who visited the Chicago Exposition
retained a more vivid impression of the
Midway" than of any other portion
of the grounds. Here was life and
light and notion and many strange and
curious things to catch the fancy and
kindle the imagination. The fascina
ton was not for grown ups alone, but
it was place where children and
young people delighted to linger
Mention the Midway" now and it
calls up delightful days a decade ago,
the memories of which are fast fading
away.
Well knowing the popularity Of the
Street of the Nations" the authorities
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
early set themselves the task of making
the Midway" look like thirty cents
How well this work has been accom-
plished may be cleaned from a partial
list of the attractions which will lend
color to the new Street OF Nations,
call The Pike"
To enumerate them all would require
a long list At St Louis there will be
a typical Irish village" there will be
y
Mining Gulch;" the visitor may also
make a tour of the "Tyrolean Alps" or
if inclined to an ocean trip, he can go
Under and over t-e Sea-" he can wan
der through the streets of Old Seville;
visit Asia; spend half hour in odd
st. l. us;" gaze upon Siberian VII
lage,' similar to those about which so
much has lately been written he can
stroll thr tugh CHaro's Ptreets; visit
Constantinople; wonder at the cliff
Dwellers;" stand in amazement before
the Galveston Glood;" he can glow
with enthusiasm at the brave deeds of
the Fire Fighters" or if futher in
clined to travel, he can go From New
York to the North Pole" he cannot
take a triD to the sun. but odd SOL
will be brought to him, by means of a
wonderful combinations of 1900 mir
rors, which will produce a degree of
heat higher than anything ever known
before; and, to crown all, one can go
back to the beginning of all things and
witness The Creation"
1t is estimated that these features,
together with others not here enumer-
ated, will cost more than $6,000000.
Other interesting exhibits are the
Jubilee presents of the late Queen Vic
tOria King Cotton, a statute in cotton,
80 feet high; the largest silver nugget,
weighing five tons; the largest gas
engine ever constructed. 10000 horse
rover; the revival of the Olympic
Games of ancient Greece; a Philippine
exhibit costing $1,OOO,OOO and covering
40 acres a livestock exhibit, covering
/ V,.fth ~ a
statue of Vulcan in coal, iron and coke,
80 feet in height; Hank Monks stage
coach. the one in which Horace Greeley
rode; a floral clock, with dial 100 feet
! in diameter and hands 80 feet long; and
a map of the United states in growing
crops, covering 8 acres.
All of these attractions will have
their thousands of admirers for six
months and more, after which time
they will pass away, save for the fact
that they will be caught by the camera
and recorded on the sensitive photo
graphic plate as a souvenir of a Won
derful Exposition. The best of the pho
tographs secured at the Fair have beer
taken by the Official 4 photographer fol
The Forest City Art FolioA" anC
the descriptions of the 4S0 selected
views thus secured are written by
Walter B. Stevens, the distinguished
journalist and Secretary of the Louis
llama Purchase Exposition. 1t will thu.
be seen that the series of views anC
descriptions constituting the Flores
City" collection are doubly official anC
well worth personal posse sioG an
study. They will prove equally valu
able as a souvenir and memento 70
those who visit the Fair, and as al
interesting and instructive record 70
those not so fortunate as to gaze upol
its glories
Readers of the star are strongly ad
vised to secure each one of these port
folios as issued. Part l, will be read,
tomorrow and they will come alon
weekly thereafter The cost to sta
readers will be only nominal, and 1t l
only necessary TO bring or send tn
little coupon printed in these columns
and ten cents to secure each of thes
parts, as they come out