The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-06
HIT THE TRAIL HARD
SEVEN DOLLARS WILL TAKE
YOU CLEAN ACROSS
The Trail Offers hirty-Five of the
Finest Attractions Ever Included
In An Exhibition.

Seven dollars will enable the visitor
to the Lewis and Clark exposition to
see every concession on the trail, the
amusement thoroughfaIe of the cen
tennial. At st. Louis it cost in the
neighborhood of $50 to see the "Pike"
with its seventy shows many of them
which were not worth the price of ad-
mission. The Trail offers rs Of the
finest attractions ever included in an
exposition. Fancy seeing 35 shows for
81.
The most expensive concession on
the Trail is the Carnival of Venice, a
spectacular production designed by
the "King of the Ballet" Bolossy
Kiralfy. The price of admission to
this attraction is 80 cents, and after
seeing the show the fee will be pro-
nounced reasonable. Five hundred
persons participate on the stage. The
scene ia laid in Venice and by means
Of some very fine scenic offerings the
illusion is faithfully carried out, even
to the canals of that Italian city. The
canals are of real water. The canal
of Venice is a terpsichore an extra
vaganza of the highest order.
Leaving the Carnival of Venice the
visitor meanders over to the Homer
Davenport farm. Paying 25 cents he
enters and beholds the foremost car
toonist of the world comfortably seat
ed on rustic bench before crudely
built log house. Surrounding the il
lustrious penman are hundreds Of
blooded fowls, several specimens of
horses Of Arabian blood and magni-
ficent Hambletonian. Davenport will
be found affable, urbane and domestic,
and if the visitor is of the right sort
the cartoonist may offer him modest
sketch as a memento.
Across the way from Davenport's is
the Klondike mining exhibit. This
concession is pre-eminent from an
educational stand point and offers the
visitor truthful portrayal of mining
methods in vogue in the gold fields of
Alaska. The building that houses the
show is designed inside in panorama
effect aud full sized placer mine is
found in operation. Cleanups of real
gold worth $4,000 are made every
hour. The admission is 20 cents.
Following the trail the visitor en-
ters the streets of Cairo, paying fee
Of Is cents. He is now in the midst
Of all that is EGYPTIAN. Strangely
garbed people are seen on all sides
now diminutive donkey belabored
by boy in flowing robe dashes past
or monstrous camel loaded with hu
man freight lumbers through the
street. Ferocious looking warriors
dance about in mock combat. Tht
shrieking strains of curious orienta
instruments are waited from the
theatre on the soft Oregon ozone. Fol
25 cents the visitor gains entrance tt
this foreign show house and spends {
pleasant half hour viewing the antics
of a strange people.
A wonderful show is located almos
opposite the streets of Cairo, the in
FAINT incubators. There is no gait.
about this concern. 1t represents tn
most astonishing achievements o
modern science, the nurturing of tn
human being by artificial means. Ii
the pleasing little building housing
this attraction are several ingeniousl,
constructed incubators containing rea
living infants. Visitors are allowed t.
gaze at them through plate glass, ant
apparently the tots are content to re
main in their snug homes. The ad
mission to the infant incubators is 2
cents.
And so ON down the trail the visitor
may meander. A great many of th
shows offer admissions as low as /
cents. The visitor finds foolish show
and serious shows, or he may devot
his time to instructive shows. N
matter how hard he "hits the trail
he cannot spend more than ~, whicl
will admit him to 30 attractions, un
less he chooses to take III show NOR
than once. The entire list of conces
sions, with their prices of admission
follow:
Gay Paree, 25c; Concert Hall, 200
Infant Incubators, s5c Cascade Gard
ems, 200 White Swan, l0c; Japanes
village and theatre, 25c; Diving Elks
25c; New York Animal Show, 25c
Haunted Swing, goo; Streets of Cairo
15c Theatre, 25c; Donkey ride, 25c
Camel ride, SOC; Carnival of Venice
soc; Land of Midnight Sun, 25c; la
lovue, 25c; Davenport's Farm, s5C
Sistine Manonnad, l0c; Trip to Mag
ara Falls, 25c; Galveston Flood, zoe
California Radium Exhibit. l0c
Burns Cottage, l0c; Shooting Gallery
l0c; Mirror Maze SOC; White Slav
or Glimpse of the Harem, l0c; Gran
Siberian Railway, 25c; Blue GrottC
az