Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-06-09
ALL THE TRAIL FOR 81
Lewis and Clark Fair Visitors Nav
See IS Shows for That
Small Amount.

Seven dollars will enable the visito
70 Vhe Lewis and Clark Exposition t,
see every concession on the Trail. th,
amusement thoroughfare of the Cen
tennlal. At st. Louis it cost in tb,
helghborhood of $4,000 to see tb,
Pike" with its seventy shows. man,
OF them which were not worth the
price OF admission. The Trail offer,
thlrty-fve of the finest attractions
ever included in an exposition.
Ihe most expensive concession on
the Trail is the Carnival of Venice. 3
spectacular production designed by
the King of the Ballet" Bolossy
Kiralfy. The price of admission to
thls attraction is so cents, and after
seeing the show the fee will be pro-
nounced 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 terpsichorean 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 oartoonist of the world comfort
ably seated on rustic bench before a
crudely built log house. Surrounding
the illustrious penman are hundreds
OF blooded fowls, several specimens of
horses of Arabian blood, and a
magnificent Hambletonian. Daven-
port will be found affable, ulbane and
democratic, 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
standpoint and offers the
visitor a 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 and a full-sized placer mine is
found in operation. Clean-ups of real
gold worth $4,000 are made every
hour. The admission is '25 cents.
Following the Trail the visitor enters
the streets of Cairo, paying a 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 a boy in flowing robe dashes past,
or a monstrous camel loaded with
human freight lumbers through the
street. Ferooious looking warriors
dance about in mock combat. The
strains of curious Oriental
instruments are waited 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 half hour view
ing the antics of strange people.
A wonderful show is located almost
opposite the streets of Cairo, the
Infant Incubators. There is no gaiety
about this concession. 1t represents
the most astonishing achievement of
modern science, the nurturing Of the
human being by artificial means. In
the pleasing little building housing
this attraction are several ingeniously |
incubators containing
real live infants. Visitors are allowed |
to gaze at them through plate glass,
and apparently the tots are content to
remain in their snug homes. The
admission to the infant incubators is
twenty five cents.
And so on down the Trail the visitor
may meander. A great many of the
shows offer admissions as low as ten |
cents. The visitor finds foolish shows
and serious shows, or he may devote !
his time to instructive shows. No
matter how hard he "hits the Trail,
he cannot spend more than seven doi-
lars. which will admit him to thirty
five attractions, unless he chooses to
lake in a show more than once. The
entire list of concessions, with their
prices of admission, follows;
Cav Paree, 25 cents; Concert Hall,
25: Infant Incubators, .25; Cascade
Gardens, .25; White Swan, 10; Japan
ese village and theater, .25; Diving
Elks. .25; New York Animal Show, .25;
Swing, .25; Streets Of Cairo,
Is: Theatre, .25; Donkey Ride, .25;
Camel Ride. 80; Carnival of Venice,
20. Land of Midnight Sun, .25; Telle-
rue .25: Davenport Farm, .25; Sistine
Madonna, 10; Trip to Niagara Falls,
o.. Galveston Flood, .25; California
Radium Exhibit, 10; Burns Cottage,
10: Shooting gallery, 10; Mirror
Maze. 10; White Slave or Glimpse Of
-be Harem. 10; Grand Siberian Rail
wav. .25; and Blue Grotto, .25.