The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-29
THE WARPAIR At THE
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION

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Nothing 50 piesses tlie public a. ex;
! positions as the collection Of new,
lstrapge and Interesting feature hitch
| at Chicago and Buffalo was called the
| Midway. 1t st. Louis the Pike, al Port:
Ilandy The Trial, and at the jamestown
4 exposltion Is known as the Warpath.%
One Of the most expensive amuse7
ment enterprises on the War Path is
1 the reproduction Of the famous battle
between the FIRST ironclads, the Merri-
mao and Monitor. The building hous-
ing this attraction and the scene paint
ing required an expenditure Of $780,
900. Large ships, real guns and real
men are used in this production, and
1t Is realistic to the finest detail, even
to the drilling Of the waves and the
sound of the sblashlng upon the shore.
The electrical effects producing light
ming, sunrise and sunset are said to
| be the finest ever perfected. Partici-
pants in this famous engagement and
other eye witnesses declare this to be
a true and realistic representation Of
1.-THE battle.
There are two other reproductions
OF battles of Importance in the history
of the civil Gettysburg and Ma
nassas. Both Of these productions are
housed in fine buildings, and they rep
resent the very best work Of the scene
painter. The realism Of the panoram'
ic reproductions Of these battles is
added to by a plastic foreground built
up to meet the majestic painting III
such way as to be puzzling, and to
cause the observer to really imagine
himself looker-oE at these bloody
struggles.
| Col. Fsrari's Wild and Trained AMI
NAL Show offers to the lover Of this
sort of amusement absolute satlsfac.
ton. There is large arena where
men and women take their lives in
their hands, walk into steel cage and
mingle with the blue bloods Of the an
lmal kingdom, giants Of the forest, IT,
gers, lions, leopards, jaguarsj wolves
and bears, and cause them to go
through various maneuvres for the de-
lectation of the audience. The most
remarkable exhibition here shown of
trained wild animals performing is
that of a company Of seals and sea
lions, animals generally supposed to
be Of low order of intelligence, but
which here prove themselves on a
par with many of those animals long
considered the most intelligent Ex-
position visitors agree that in every
respect, Colonel FeraFis troupe is
without rival among exhibitions Of
Cts kind. IaBeIle sellca's lions, for
instance, seem endowed with almost
human perception and Mile Helene's
Ileopards are scarcely less remarkable
lin their work. Princess Pauline, the
animal queen, too, bends these hahi-
tants of the jungle to her verlest wish.
Captain Goldie's mixed group in feasts
astonishing and amusing, attract much
attention. Capt Kuneos by-brlds vie
for first place in favor and Capt
Dick Bass, with his performing bear,
Josephine, keeps interest on the
wi vive every minute. Add to these
| the dog and monkey circus, a show
which eclipses the best that has gone
before.
One Of the most instructive and nov
ell concessions on the War Path is the
Baby Incubator. This practically re-
cent invention means more to the sci.
entifc and medical world than any
discovery of the present century, and
one should not fail to see the machines
containing their tiny specimens OF hu.
manity, which have been placed there
to be nursed into spring life.
In "old jamestown" may be seen =
replica Of the old church tower, and
other landmarks Of the first English
settlement in this country, without
travelling forty miles up the James
river Through the streets of this nov.
Ell village walk men and women repre-
senting the first settlers, and. indians
walk and talk and trade with them
,ust as they did three hundred years
ago. An excellent idea has been car
ried out here in having the true de-
scendants Of that tribe Of Indians with
which John Smith and his followers
had to deal, the Paumunkies, herein
this reproduction Of the old settle
ment. These indians. twenty in mum.
Der, also enact drama which they
themselves have written from the story
handed down to them Of the Incident
of John Smiths rescue by Pocahontas,
and an Indian maid, a descendant OF
Powhattan, the father Of the original
Pocahontas-whose name is Pocahon'
tas-enacts the part of that noble
young Indian.