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700,000 hogs, fowls innumerable and
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A COLLECTION OF SIDE SHOWS
AT THE FAIR.
Arabs, Turks and Moors Found Liv
ing as in the Orient The Javan
ese Village An International
Beauty Shw The Wonderful Re
volving Wheel Other Exhibits.
here are many strange things at the fair
with queer names. There is the ''Midway
Plaisaace," for instance. "What on earth
does that mean?" mot people ask when they
hear it for the first time. Whatever it may
mean elsewhere, in Chicago. 3ay3 the New
York Herald, it means simply a collection of
side shows. The "Plaisanoe" is an avenue
lined with buildings in which entertainments
are piven. but where the -midway" comes in
it is hard to ffuess. The name was selected
by a committer of leading citizens who
wanted to get up something hi?h toned, or,
as they put it. "nobby' It is certainly a
verv nobby name, and no other word so well
describes it. To call the thing an avenve. it
was decided, was too commonplace. Indian
names r re considered vulgar by many Illi
nois people, and so they borrowed a word
from the French.
This side show avenue is a mile Ion and it
smacks just a little bit of Coney Island. It is
operated under the eye of the fair manage
ment and it is in the grounds, strictly speak
ing, admission being included with a fifty
i
1 V-
IBISH VILLAGE AND BLABNET CASTLE.
cent World's Fair ticket. It is very broad ;
6G0 feet wide over all. Every ''concession
aire" more French pays a percentage
of his receipts to the World's Fair Ways
and Means Committee. Guarantees are af
forded that the exhibits are worth the price
of admission.
A Tower of Babel is built near the entrance
to the Plaisance. It is 400 feet high and has
a diameter at the base of 100 feet. This
tower deviates from the plan of the original
by having a double track electrical circular
railway from the base to the top. A chime
of bells is installed at the top, from which a
good view of the ground is had.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen have been inter
ested in making a display of the cottage in
dustries of Ireland. Towering over a row of
Irish cottages in fac-simile is a reproduction
of Donegal Castle. Throughout this exhibit
there are specimens of the work of Irish
peasants and some of the people themselves.
A Kerry cow has been brought over specially to
show one of the means of livelihood. Laces
and shawls are made and sold here. The
simple architecture of these homes, like
that of the convent of La Kabida, is a pleas
ant relief to the eye after the stucco flowers
and figures crowded on too many of the
buildings.
Come with me to Cairo. It is shown by a
street scene peopled with more than one hun
dred and fltty Egyptians who were taken
from the midst of their dancing, smoking and
trading and dumped into the Windy City.
Dark brown beauties fro tn the banks of the
Nile, who dance oriental measures, look
coquettishly upon the Yaukee, their big eyes
winning his attention as soon as they flash
them upon him. They wear spangles, chains,
beads and gilt bands. Black slave boys wait
upon the dainty ladies, some of whom cover
their faces in the modest fashion of the East.
Arab traders, donkey boy3 and camel
drivers are there. While the dancers are
performing ia the theatre the merchants sell
beads, turbans or shells from the Red Sea
and other curiosities, and the snake charmers
subdue reptiles and the magicians show
their familiarity with the black art. There
are performing monkeys, too, and parrots.
It is truly a glimpse of an Eastern city, and
here and there one gets a whiff of it.
An old priest goes up into the tower of
the mosque at daybreak and calls upon all
believers in Mohammed to pray. The people
perform their ablutions and. then bless the
prophet. When they have done this the
long-bearded merchants take their pipes and
squat in the bazaars, looking indolently at
the passers-by, while the women and chil
dren gaze in wonder and. smile knowingly at
the ignorance of their ways betrayed by the
Americans, who are as great a show to them
as they are to the purchasers of admission
tickets.
Fanda, a gaudily dressed woman, rather
fat is the beauty of the party, and among
them are Egyptians bearing such names as
Fahima Osman. Hosma Bint, Mitwali Naba
weih and Falini Houri. Curiosities of divers
sorts from the museums of Cairo and Alex
andria can be seen.
One of the old streets o' Stamboul is repro
duced and tenanted with people from that
city and from Constantinople, who show
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A3C ABCH IS THE M00BISH PALACE.
pretty much the same sort of entertainment
as their Egyptian neighbors. One of their
features is a fire department such as is
in service at the City of the Golden
jdorn. The fire pump, which has a
fcig capacity, is slung, on poles
on the shoulders of the natives, who trot
through the streets astonish in glj fast. When
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they reach the fire tne water ia supplied to
them by carriers, who bear leather ba3 that
are refilled from the wells as fast as their con
tents are used up.
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WOEEMAr IX THE cAIBO STREET.
Turkish luncheons are peddled by costumed
natives, who serve them from a tray.
A saddie belonging to the Sultan of Turkey
is placed in the Transportation Building. It
is covered with red plush and gold and is
used by its owner only on the most solemn
occasions. Arab horses of pure blood were
allowed by the Sultan to be exported.
A silver bed, owned by oie of the sultans
of Turkey, and said to weigh two tons, is in
the collection, and a Turkish tent once be
longing to a Persian Shah, and used by him
in traveling. It is made almost wholly of
embroidered cloth.
Near the Tunisian and Algerian section is
a Moorish palace modeled after one of the
old style temples which are found in Spain
and Northern Africa. A restaurant, accom
modating five hundred people, in the palace
shows that the Moors are a practical race. In
THE WOXDEBFUL
II
the building is an immense collection of gold
coins.
An Algerian merchant who erected villages
at the three last Paris expositions has put up
a building in which are quartered a large sup
ply of natives who maintain a bazaar, in
which are displayed precious stones, swords,
pistols with antiquo flint locks, daggers,
laces, brocades, cushions and table covers. In
another store are found perfumery, seraglio
pastilles, attar of roses and sweetmeats,
though these are not half as sweet as the
dreamy damsels who sell them to you. A
Bedouin camp, presided over by a real Be
douin chief, who, of course, would cut a
throat with no compunction, is shown. The
dancing girls keep the hall crowded with
spectators.
Javanese, to the number of seventy, have
built a village in the style of their country on
the Midway Piaisance. It is made of bamboo
poles, split bamboo and palm leaves and
thatched with native grasses. A screen of
split bamboo and leaves encircles the village
to keep out those who haven't paid. The
Javanese girls dance to the music of an or
chestra and puff cigarettes. They are little
bits of creatures with black shiny "hair.
In the centre of the settlement are two big
bamboo poles with holes cut through them.
When the wind whistles through these holes
a strange melody is produced that makes the
Javans feel homesick and romantic.
With the Javanese is an old priest named
Hadji, who has a great influence over his
flock. They are a very lazy race and get
tired of work about once a day, throwing
down their tools and saying they have had
enough. But the old priest knows his busi
ness. Just as soon as they quit he has a vis
ion in which it is revealed to him that if
they do not at once resume tney will be de
voured by red devils or develop horns and a
taiL Humility and paucity of clothing are
characteristic of the Javanese and both char
acteristics have been carefully encouraged by
the Hollanders who control the island. One
of them, a real Prince named Baden Soekma
dilaga speaks Dutch and German, but no
English. Some of the dancing girls are
quite comely. They wear their black hair in
knot3 and cut away the bangs from the fore
head with a razor.
A remarkable display in the Plaisance is
that of feminine beauty. A building has
been put up and in it are installed fifty young
women, who represent the style of face of va
rious Nations and their fashions in costumes.
They were got together by a Chicago beauty
collector who spent some months in Europe
advertising for types of the different races.
'Minister Lincoln when the party were in
Southampton notified them that they were
vioiating the Contract Labor law In coming
to America, which was not so, as Congress
exempted the World's Fair from the law.
After they arrived in Chicago all their cos
tumes were burned in a fire that very nearly
burned them, too. All these had to be du
plicated and the girls sit in their pavilions
and smile day after day. The management
contractel for etiiles lasting six monthi Tire
Vienna girl is a musician, and others have
accomplishments as dancers. Boscla. Greece,
Italy, Germany, France. England. Austria,
Bohemia. Hcngaria and Chicago are equally
well represented, and ther are beauties from,
different parts of the United States.
Carl Hagenbeck. a famous German ftnm.l
tamer has a building with a hall seating 5000
people ia which he gives his performances,
lie domesticates the lion so that he will lie
down with the lamb, and tigers and wildcats
become so tame under his care, it is said,
that they are no more dangersous than
guinea pigs. Such animals as these he does
not coop up in their e&srs. but gives them
plenty of breethinsr space and they live to
gether without fighting.
Germany has a village ia which the artis
tic and mercantile tastes of her people are
combined. The Germans have put up a
model of a town of the Middle Ages, and
there are houses of the Black Forest and the
other divisions of the empire. The houses
are tilled with original furniture. Dr. Ulric
Jahn, o." Berluj. manages a German ethno
logical museum.
The Ferris wheel is the real triumph of the
3Iidway riaisanee. It represents better than
any other exhibit the genius of American in
vention. It looks something like the paddle
wheel of a steamer, multiplied, however, a
hundredfold. Instead of the paddles it bears
passenger cars, and when it revolves the
passengers get something of the sensation
that a fly mu?t have that sits on the side of a
cart wheel and feels it revolve.
The wheel is 264 feet hih cn 254 feet in
diameter. It bears thirty-six passenger cars,
each larger than a railroad coach, and with a
seating capacity of sixty persons. When the
wheel is 'loaded" it contains 2160 citizens.
They are carried up and then down like birds
sitting in their nest.
It is steel throughout and is not unlike a bi
cycle wheel revolving between two huge
towers. There are really two wheels placed ou
the same axle and 2S feet apart, and held to
gether by struts and ties. The cars arj built
of wood and steel, upholstered and artisti
cally finished, and each weighs 19 tons. The
great axle, it is said, is the largest piece of
steel ever forged. It is 33 inched in diameter,
45 feet "2 inches long and weighs 56 tons.
Arranged in groups on the rods around the
crown of the wheel are 3000 incandescent
lights of various colors, which are extin
guished and relighted at intervals as the wheel
revolves, producing at a distance an effect
like that of huge fireworks. Six cars can be
loaded at a time from the platforms. The
REVOLVING WHEEL.
t wheel takes ten minutes to make a revolution,
j so there is no danger of the passengers being
empuea out oi tneir nests, xne engines are
of 2000 horse power. The wheel was the in
vention of G. W. G. Ferris, a bridge engineer
of Pittsburg, Penn. It is said that the cost
of construction was 3400,000.
fetes
PART OF THE CHIXESE TILLAGE.
Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, has besides
his large assortment of performing animals
an ethnological collection consisting of arms,
implements, household goods, theatrical
goods and utensils. Of these 490 numbera
come from Africa, 373 from New Caledonia,
40 from New Guinea, 40r, from Islands of the
South Seas, 823 from British Columbia, 80
from Greenland and 128 from Cevlon, mak
ing a total of 2340. There i3 also an artifi
cial aquarium forty feet long, showing
fish, corals, gorgomas, ets., from the
Indian Ocean, and a number of hunt
ing trophies, skulls, horns and skins. The
trained animals are a group of six lions, two
tigers, two leopards, one sloth bear, one Thi
bet bear, six large boarhounds sind one polar
bear, all trained at one time in the great
arena cage, and a group of three tigers, two
lions, three panthers, goats, sheep, bulls,
I onies and dogs, five lions and two boar
hounds performing ; six male lions ; a lion
riding on horseback, and a lion riding on
horseback, trained with a large boarhoand.
There are a number of other features such as
a collection of two thousand parrots and two
hundred monkeys.
BlOXDIX. thf fctvm r. mart tra i-talin c Tr-itH
Cole's Circus, died at Lake Placid, N. Y.,
. holding a powerful team of horses together,
acu oemg iea in opposite directions. Ifcese
horses had been lately purchased and were
unused to the act. They tore violently, and
numerous blood vessels in Blondin's head
?d chest were ruptured.
A
AUacked by Wild Ho?!?.
Charles St oil if o pioneer ttler of
Hnngrj Hollow. He is only forty -K'ven
years of age anil there are many resi
dents there now who are his senior?,
but he was the first man to tnrn the
virjrin Foil of that prosperous section
- of Yolo County.
Dnrinp all of Mr. Stoll's residence in
HungTy nollow he never experienced
a more thrilling adventure that oc
curred to him lat Tn tlay. Arming
himst-If with his rifle he went for a
hnnt among the chnpparal and tinder
hmsh that abound in the neighboring
hills. He had not proceeded far before
ho started up a drove of wild hog.
At firt he imagined he had arotwd a
den of bruin. The hogs made n vicious
attack, and drove Mr. Stoll to the
bought of a tree. Not until he had
killed three of the brutes did the rest
take to cover and permit him to descend.
He returned to his home, secured tho
services of a hired man and a wagon
and returned for his game. Arriving
at the scene of his adventure, he wan
anin set upon by wild hogs. Of course
he was safe in the wagon, but tho
herses were iit.t oidv i nraivzed with
fear, but liable tc be crippled by the
vicious attacks of the hos. so Mr.
Stoll concluded to beat a hasty retreat
:ind leave his game to be devoured by
vultures and wild beasts. Woodland
(Cal.) Democrat.
The Traveling of Koots.
Nature gives a curious instance of
the traveling of roots. While a coun
try house was being demolished it was
noticed that large quantities of vege
table fiber adhered to parts of some of
the walls, further scrutiny revealed
the fact that the root of a wistaria had
entered the dining room by a small
chink of the window near the ceiling,
and on removing the paper from tho
walls the whole of the plaster around
the room was found to be covered with
a tine net work of rootlets. The most
singular part of the discovery was that
not a trace of the intruding growth
was visible on the paper inside Um)
room, which had been constantly in
habited. Chicago Record.
The latest record-breaking time be
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thirteen days.
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Troy. TT. T.
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