Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-06-09
All the Pike for 81.

Aortland-Seven dollars will enable
the visitor to the Lewis and Clark ex-
position to see every concession on the
trail, the amusement thoroughfare of
the centennial. 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
admission. The Trail offers thirty-five
of the finest attractions ever included
in an exposition. Fancy seeing thirty
five shows for seven dollars.
The most expensive concessions on
the Trail is the carnival Of Venice,
spectacular production designed by the
King of the Ballet" Bolossy Kiralfy.
The price of admission to this attraction
is so cents, and after seeing the show
the fee will be pronounced reasonable.
Five hundred persons participate on
the stage. The scene is 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 carnival of
Venice is terpsichore- an extrava-
ganza Of the highest order.
Leaving the carnival Of Venice the
visitor meanders over to the Homer
Davenport farm. Paying twenty-five
cents he enters and beholds the fore
most cartoonist of the world comfort
ably seated on a rustic bench before
crudely built log house. Surrounding
the illustrous penman are hundreds OF
blooded fowls, several specimens of
horses OF Arabian blood and magnif-
cent Hamiltonian. Davenport will be
found affable, urbane and democratic,
and if the visitor is the right sort the
cartoonist may offer him modest
sketch as momento.
Across the way from Davenport's
is the Klondike mining exhibit. This
concession is pre-eminent from an ed
ucational standpoint ond offers the Wis
itor a truthful portrayal of mining
methods invogue in the gold fields of
Alaska. The building that honses the
show is designed inside is panorama
effect and full sized placer mine is
found in operation. Clean-ups OF real
gold worth $4,000 are made every
haur. The admission is 25 cents.
Following the Trail the visitor enters
the Streets Of Cairo, paying fee Of
fifteen cents. He is now in the midst
Of all that is Egyptian. Strangely
garbed people are seen on all sides,
now a diminutive donkey belabored
by boy in flowing robe dashes past,
or a monstrous camel loaded with hui
man freight lumbers through the street.
Ferocious looking warriors dance about
r in mock combat. The shrieking strains
of curious Oriental instruments are
wafed from the theatre on the soft
Oregon ozone. For twenty-five cents
the visitor gains entrance to this foreign
: show house and spends a pleasant hal
e hour viewing the antics of strange
: people.
A wonderful show is located almos
b opposite the streets of Cairo, the infant
u Incubators. There is no gaiety abou
'f this concession. 1t represents The
+ most astonishing achievement ol
n modern science, the maturing OF thu
u human being by artificial means. II
the pleasing little building housing
this attraction are several ingeniousl,
const ucted incubators containing rea
live infants. Visitors are allowed tt
gaze at them through plate glass, ant
at apparently the tots are content to re
~ main in their snug homes. The ad
er mission to the infant incubator
I twenty-five cents.
N And so on down the Trail the vlsitc
$ may meander. A great many OF tn
h shows offer admissions as low as te
ir cents. The visitor finds foolish show
v, and serious shows, or he may devot
as his time to instructive shows. N
e. matter how hard he hits the Trail,
re he cannot spend more than seve
+? dollars, which will admit him to thirty
is five attractions, unless he chooses
lie take in show more than once.