Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-07-02

side consists mostly of fruits and grain
and is by far one of the finest of the
kind that you can find any place. Co
ing to the Fair and not going through
the Spokane building would be like go
ing to Shoshone and not going through
the >age Brush Tonic factory.
after this from there one would go
up past the Utah building and then on
to the Japan exhibit where you will
find every thing that is made in that
far away country and looked after by
the little brown men and women. You
will find them ready to show you
through and give you every attention
and when you get out you can truly
say that you have not wasted any of
your time. After this you will no
doubt begin to wonder what you had
better do and will look around to see
which way to 90, then what will attract
your attention is a large stream of
water rushing apparently toward the
lake with walks and drives upon either
side all covered with flowers. In fact
the ground from the time that you en-
ter is a mass of beautiful flowers of
every known variety.
'In fact every foot of ground that is
not used for buildings and walks Is
covered with flowers, | do no. think
that l would over estimate if | was to
say that if they were one body that
they would cover thirty acres. Now
you are getting close to Pay Streak and
the noise and music that you hear will
cause you to start with the rest of the
crowd. About the first thing that you
see will attract your attention, especi-
ally if you are from Shoshone, is large
life size statue of John l.. Sullivan.
You will than wander on to the Esquimo
village and see the little people of the
frozen regions living as they do in the
far north. You will then go on to the
battlefelds of Gettysburg and see the
people killed and hear the roar of the
battle and it will make you think that
you are living over the times that you
read about away back in the sixties.
From there you really enter the
heart of pay street where you will find
the house that is up side down and all
of the freaks that ever existed. One
thing that attracted my attention was
that in front of every building there
were lot of people standing waving
their hands for you to come over Of
course thought at first that they were
waving at me as it was my first ap-
ance on that street but | found out
after | asked few what they wanted
that they were waving for every body
to come and see their show.
II saw street car with lots of peo-
pie getting on so | thought | would go
myself and | want to tell you right
now that we went some, through tun-
nels aud up and down hills and through
gorges, | only had time to breathe
twice until | was back where started.
There was man standing at the gate
when | got off the car and he asked me
how l liked the scenery; l told him that
we went so fast that could not see it.
"From thereI went to the place that
they call the foolish house, the bug
house, and all such names. Every
body else seemed to be going through
so | thought would try it and l tell
you it was rightly named and | will
say that if any of you are little off,
you had better stay away from there or
you will never get any closer to Sho-
shone than Blackfoot
when got out of there | was so
dry that | could hardly spit and right
ahead | saw large building with
sign across the front Klondike Saloon
and Gambling House. and there | went
in, walked up to the bar and told them
to give me drink. The fellow handed
me a glass of ice water and said
twenty cents, please. | said, L
thought you were running saloon, he
said, no, just showing how things were
in the Klondike country.
''Now hope that this will be of
some good to some of my friends and
after they have been through the big
show will be able to say this is true
and even more.