The Pan-American Exposition.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 132, 23 November 1901, Page 3

The Pan-American Exposition.

A WAIMATE BOY’S VISIT. A letter has been received fnm Mr Robert Nicol (son of Me R , Niool, of .his town), describing a visit to the ’arnoua Pan American Exposition, which las been open lor some months past in Buffalo City, U.S.A. The writer says )v, September 27th I went to Buffalo to Buffalo to see the Exposition. I left , Hitchel! »t 8 30 a.m. br the Grand Trunk rlailw >y and had a rao-t enjoyable rule , ibreugh one of the finest countries one touid wish to see—nutuing else but ( ‘arms, bush, villages, towns >nd cities all. he way. We had an enormous train on. Che country near Niagara a .d Welland Bmal is dfvoted principally to fruitgrowing, an t it is fine to see the great orchards and vineyards A most deioinus bask t of grapes, or pe-.ctibs is sold for from tea to twenty cents, and ,ve made the most of the opportunity. Do ing pari of the time we passed along die shores of Like Erie, an ! to IoA over t was like looking out over the sea. We mossed the suspension bridge intv the Dnit-d States territory and reached Buffalo at 1 30. The first thing mat itruck me about tho city was the great jlouds of am ke that hung over it. The dty i? right on the lake, and you should iee the grain ehvatofS, smelting works,, md goodness knows what else. They ill work night and_ day, Sundays ucluded. I never was in such a busy dace; everyone seems to be going “ eyes >ut ” in a truly American fa-hmu. Crains were rushing in at the rate of ibotio 300 per day, and the hum and juEtla were something tremendous, kfter getting located, as the Yanis say; [ caught the electric car for the centre of ihe city, and spent all that afternoon walking up and down, dodging cars and mto cars, of which latter there are Hundreds of gas and electrical. I went lown to the docks and saw those great jraih boats 'from away up the -lake iul’-ading, and counted over twelve grain alrtvators, and each ono would hold anywhere between SCO.OOO to 1,209,000 btuhels of wheat or corn- Ttrit is wh'ira'you see wheal handled: A 'sack is a thing never he ird- of : v the •' heat is ill in hblk;and it is a common t-diu bo se-i a tug bringing three 6r four greit bnrgea alo g-ide an elevator and_ eiv e -gine drawing a line of twenty or thirty tons I tell y u that is where you can aeo bueiccss bairg .-one.' 1 whndecscj till I was ah ml d ad beat, and then mutt the car back to my digging*/ In the et;=iniin^ tfhi< h I ttfif p] JP ** Hwi Mia V>, >'■ - r •a* t secure ;vi*K

and I can assure you this play was no exception. Tne acting was superb, sad the orchestra an extra flue one. On S*turday morning at 8.30 I started •for the Pan-American, nor electric car,; and these cars do not catch flies I can tell you. Fifty cents admit -you to the greatest sight the, world has ever-seen. I was prepared for eoxn -thing pretty fine, but it wis grand beyond words. It ia a most magnificent sight. The first thing you see is the triumphal bridge; you think nothing could pxasibly be grander than those four immense columns with their statuary and fountains. Ou the tup ot each tower is a horse and rider, the horses rearing up and the riders holding aloft the flags ot the Republic The nest building I visited was the Government buildings, in which are exhibited models of the army and the navy battleships, wth their guns. There is a grand collection of coins and stamps. Outside this building -are exhibited a great many guns of ad sizes and patterns. One immense one was the disappearing gun, adapted for coastal defence and cap ible of carrying a projectile. 15 miles.. All around the buildings are groups of statuary symbolising man’s evolution from barbarism to civi isalion. I next went to tin emple of music, and heard the finest music it has ever bten mv privilege to hear, played by Brook’s Chicago Murine Band, 'ln this, building, as you uo doubt are aware, President McKi ley wasahot. It seems almost impossible that such a deed c mid he done in sucii a keautifui budding. The place where the crime was committed ia railed of: and poop e walk, round to see whore that great 1 aud good man last stood. One of the la'gest organs in the world m in this budding. It is of enormous size mid compass, but so bsautifcUv built that although it. may he one moment thundering like the‘Niagara Falls, me next it may be trilling like some small sweetvoiced bird.

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