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Show I : Impre'ssions of a Trolley Ride : Irsside the World's Fair Grounds I Ppcclal to The Tribune. I T. LOUIS. Slay 21. I have juotj W completed my fln?t i-fdo on Uie J most wonderful trolley lino In the 1 world. It runs around and through a city of magic and marvel, a I fairyland, a wonderland, a domain of dreams, and yet withal a solid, sub- I stantlal. real city that has been bullded for the delectation of all the peoples of I the earth. Some ono has named it the t "Ivory City," because aomc of the pal aces which It contains are painted in P 1VIUb worth coming half way across tho world just to ride seven and a- half, miles in a sort of fluted circle In the ; Intramural railway that furnlBheB ! transportation Inside the grounds of the Univeraal exposition. The car In which 1 rode contained persons who had como from the other side of the earth. I There was a Chinaman of high rank I at Peking, and across the aisle 1 ob- I &rved a Japanese gentleman whose M decorations denoted that he Is held in M excellent esteem by the Mikado. There -was also a Thlinget Indian from Alaska, I and a Boer patriot from South Africa. 1 and a Turk from Constantinople. One 1 of the Americans was a very pretty girl I from Boston. I learned her place of I residence not by seeing her spectacles: I for she wore none, but by overhearing I her remark to her escort: 1 "We can write books In Boston, and I JJcw England can produce Emersons 1 and Thoreaus; but I wonder whether we could build an exposition like this. Isn't it beautiful? "Beautiful" replied the young man, who did wear glasses, and who knew. "'Beautiful Is not the word; it ia aub- Indorsed by the Foreigners. The Bostonese opinion, both feminine nnd masculine, was Indorsed heartily by China, Japan, Turkey, and Alaska, not orally, because those foreigners did not understand the words, If we except the decorated gentleman from Toklo; I but It was evident that they Indorsed both opinions from the rupt attention they paid to" the vlewH alone: the route. I The Intramural has seventeen stations, sta-tions, and the cars atop only at the eta-I eta-I tlons, like elevated railway trains. Some parts of the road, by the way, are elevated. ele-vated. The trip has the variety of elevated, ele-vated, surface and underground track, the latter being deep cuts instoad of tunnols. If any passenger falls to see scenery along the route milted to his particular tasto, ho may bo pronounced unregencrate, for the whole gamut of views Is run by these cars. . Starting from station No. 1. at the right of the Llndell entrance to the grounds, one travels seven nnd a half miles to reach Station No. 17, at the left of that entrance, nlthough It is but a minute's walk between the two stations. On the awing around the circles there Is a greater variety of views than there are kinds of weather In Connecticut. The World's fair Infinite variety makea the trolloy trip an experience for one to tell one's grandchildren about in the sere days of 19-14 ; or for the proud patriarch of 1S50 to say to the young Lochlnvar. who comes out of the West on a steed of aerial propulsion, otherwise other-wise an improved airship; "Ah, but I rodv on the Intramural at St. LouisP Thoroughly to enjoy this trolloy ride a person should have his ears In tune as well as his eyes alert, for If he boards a car containing such a cosmopolitan passenger list as the ono I took he will find the conversation of his fellow-passengers almost as entertaining as the sights along the way. At the risk of being be-ing denounced as an eavesdropper, I propose to tell some of the things I heard. Plaza of St. Anthony. Gliding past the Palace of Varied Industries, In-dustries, the car passed a wide space affording a prospect of lagoons, bridges and a stately pavilion on a hill, the- part nearest the track being a landscaped area of grass and flowora and statury. ; ""'That's the Plaza of St. Anthony," volunteered one who know. "Why do they name It after St. Anthony?" An-thony?" Inquired .the girl from Boston. "Because It looks eo tempting, I presume," pre-sume," said the young man In spectacles. specta-cles. The car speeds around the corner of iho big concession enterprise labeled "Hale Fire Fighters," at the wc-frtorn end of the Pike. "Most fire flghtcry are hale,' or they should be," commented the man from Oshkosh. not hereinbefore mentioned. "That Is a man's name," explained another passenger. "He used to be Chief of the Kansas City Fire department, depart-ment, and he conceived the Idea of giving giv-ing an exhibition of modern lire fighting on the Pike. Great notion hey?" But the trolley car flashed on past tho reproduced cot of Bobby Burns, while the young lady from Boston quoted from "The Cotter's Saturday Night," and her escort reminded her that the Scottish bard was responsible' for her Tarn O'Shanter hat. A brief view of tho buildings in the foreign section, the administration group and the aerial concourse came next, and then the car was whisked past an enormous open-air affair which the passengers discovered was the Stadium where the Olympian games are to bo played. Evidences of the Bed Man. To the south tho route runs between various Indian villages, where the wigwams wig-wams and tepees and dirt lodges of America's picturesque past give evidence evi-dence that the red man still lingers on the. outskirts of Caucasian civilization, and that just at present he Is decidedly "In our mldBt" here at the exposition. On these acres at the western end of the grounds are the queer huts of Pata-gonians, Pata-gonians, African pigmies, hairy AInus and sinery Alaskan?. Our Thllnget from Alaska alighted at station No 7 and walked north to his own reservation, where a score of tall totem poles, gorgeously painted and generously carved, made the premises seem like home to him. At this station a group of new passengers got abroad; they were Filipinos from the big reservation reser-vation on the southern hill. Some wore the uniform of the Macabeo scouts, others the garb of the American civilian. Just at this point one should be Argus-eyed, for there Is a great diversity diver-sity of views. At the left Is a map of the United States covering five acres, Avhereon men are engaged in tending various cereal crops. On the right la the Luguna de Bay, with a bridge leading lead-ing to the walls of Old Manila, and on otIlt6 In the water rise the quaint dwellings of Filipino natives, who ply Btrange-looklng craft on the lake. The Palace of ForcBtry, Fish and Game is on the left, and up the hill on i the other nlde the giant Agriculture rears Its Imposing facade; while In front of this biggest building in the world is i the floral clock, the 100-foot dial of which la belnif planted with flowers that will bloom In June, tra-la, and tell the time of day with tho aid of the huge metalllo clock hands that move around the sipping dial. Life-Saving- Station. On we go, with the United States Life-Saving Service station and lake on ono side and the French national pavilion pavil-ion on the other, and in front as we turn south on Sklnker road the Observation wheel rises nearly 300 feet Into the air. The cackle of chickens greets the ear as the car passes the Model Poultry farm, and on the other side the eye finds solace In the ten-acre rose garden, where in June millions of roses will be blooming. The Palace of Horticulture, with water Illy ponds in tho foreground, fore-ground, loome up next, and on tho other side is a monstrous stockade or enclosure enclo-sure with a solid board fence similar to that which surrounds the World's fair. "That's the Boer war," remarked a St Louis youth. The enclosure Is a quarter of a mile long and nearly as wide. At ono side Is erected the biggest grand stand ever seen on American soil. "Gosh! but ain't that a whopper!" exclaimed ex-claimed the man from Oshkosh. The battles of Colenso and Paardc-burg Paardc-burg are to be re-enacted there every clay during1 the exposition, with Gen. Cronje and hundreds of other Boers who took part In the nctual battles participating; par-ticipating; not to speak of th hundreds of Britishers, who also have come over to help reproduce In sham fighting the battles in which they engaged while on the veldts and behind the kopjes of the Transvaal. Through Primeval "Woods. Now our car turns into green fields and pastures new. It Is a sudden change, but not unpleasing, for we ride through the primeval woods. A natural nat-ural forest surrounds us, though here and there are the rude huts and tents of colonies of World's fair workmen, who have built hero within the grounds of tho exposition little towns of their own, each bearing its own name, unofficially unoffi-cially conferred. "What a fine place for picnics!" exclaimed ex-claimed tho Boston beauty, "and, oh! wouldn't It be delightful to bring a copy of Emerson'n poems and alt on one of those benches beneath the trees?" Not far away to the north Ih the Trail. This thoroughfare, though picturesquely picturesque-ly named, llko the Pike, is not so widely known Just now as it will be later in the season. It Is a wide road leading up Into the forest, poat the Japanese national na-tional buildings and gardens. Along the Trail are several handsome State buildings Illinois. Idaho, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, California; also the Temple of Fraternity, the Lincoln Museum Mu-seum and othor Interesting structures. Up through the woods we went, breathing the fragrance of wild ilowcrs and carcBaed by the softest of southern breezes, until rhe car stopped at station No. i2, from which the passengers obtained ob-tained a view of several highly Interesting Interest-ing objects. Ono is the original building that served as the first courthouse In Illinois, Illi-nois, which has been brought over from Cahokla, a few miles across the Mississippi Missis-sippi from St. Louis, and set up near the Intramural tracks, in the woods. Lincoln practiced law there, we were told by a gentleman aboard. Grant's Log Cabin. On the top of the hill near the Palaco of' Fine Arts we saw a lou house still more intereatlng. Ulysses S. Grant, a retired army Captain, cut those logs, hauled them to a site only a few miles from the spot where the house now Btands and had an old-fashioned house-raising, house-raising, the Captain himself taking one corner and doing more work than any other man present. East of tho Grant cabin we beheld another an-other and larger structure, also of logs. "The Oregon State building," said a passenger. No one need go to Colorado to see a gold mlno, or to Illinois or Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia to find a coal mlno, or to southern Missouri to Inspect a lead or zinc mine. Just take a trip on the World's Fair trolley, and you will find all these mines, with more. They are In the Mlnlnrj Gulch, where for the first time on earth a collection of mining plants has been built, Just to show people how the precious and useful metals are mined and smelted. The whole Mining Gulch Is visible from the Intramural, and you can step down Into It from station No. 12. Those mining plants ore of actual size, too, and one of them is an actual mine, a vein of coal having boon atniek on the spot. All tho planto roduco and smelt their respective ores. Gold Is turned out while you wait. Lead Is run Into pigs. Copper Is refined and sliver. I "slugged" before your eyes. Where else In all the wide world can you sec such sights as those on one trolley ride? 1 The Big Insido Inn. Now we are at nation No, 13. and that Is a few feet from the rear end of tho biggest hotel on earth the Inside i Inn, which Is on the inside of the World's Fair grounds. Although the Intramural stations are quite a distance apart, there being but seventeen of them In tho sven and a half miles of road, station No. 14 lu Just in front of tho Inside Inn at the other end of the huge hotel. Leaving the Inn, the car plunges down on I he eastern odce of the Plateau Pla-teau of SUites. The passengers point out each State building, i East of the railway line Is that part of Forest park which Is not occupied by the exposition. One enjoys a vlow of highly Improved landscape on that side, and on the other are acres of State nnd Territorial buildings build-ings surrounded by beautiful grounds. Our friend from Oshkosh got off the car at station No. 15, and made rapid tracks in front of the imposing Missouri Mis-souri building, past the old Cabildo of Louisiana, to his own World's Fair home, the Wisconsin, pavilion. Others alighted at the Plaza of Orleans Or-leans and disappeared Into the main picture of the Falrm, while a few remained re-mained with me, determined to complete com-plete the trip. At station 17. with the Louirdnna Purchase monument and the towering Festival hall and Cascades In the distance, the trolloy trip ended. "We have just seen a part of the out-sldo out-sldo of things." said the Boston young man. "But let's go on a car goinjc: the other way and make nhe !&und trip in that direction," tho girl pleaded. "It's so beautiful." "Sublime, you mean," corrected the man with the eye-glasses. |