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Show The exhibit Will Be installed so that it ' may be darkened to show how remarkable light jefTcctssuca as fire dances and gassomer curtain presentations, are produced. A Model City,- prepared by the Municipal Mu-nicipal Art and Science association, showing ideal public-buildings and utilities and. their ideal arrangement; ar-rangement; embracing models of the leading thoroughfares thor-oughfares of the leading cities of the world, showing show-ing their paving, lamp lighting, street signs, parking park-ing trees, the facades of houses and their arcades; showing byjsectional views their subways for street cars, and for wires, sewage, gas, water, etc. Special Spe-cial instruction classes, being actual schoolroom work : with classes of Indians,, and with the deaf, dumb, blind and other detectives. A modern printing print-ing establishment issuing a journal on the grounds. A testing track for determining the speed and power of locomotives and for 'spectacular displays as two locomotives of equal rated power pulling against each other in a tug of war. A speedway for auto1 mobiles. A refrigerating plant with a capacity of 13,000 tons of ice per day, and a collective exhibit of refrigerating devices and processes by the manufacturers manu-facturers of the world. A garbage reducing plant in which the exposition's garbage is disposed of, so constructed that visitors may inspect it without encountering en-countering the disagreeable odors which make the inspection of any municipal garbage plant an unpleasant un-pleasant task, such as an ordinary sightseer shuns. The, subterranean workings of a gold mine with an actual tunnel with adits, slopes, hangings and shafts; the stamp mills, amalgamators, jigs, slime tables, etc., treating ore actually shipped into the ground. On the grounds there will be faithful reproduction repro-duction in actual size of the following historical places: France will reproduce a section of the Garden Gar-den of Versailles, including the Grand Trianon and five other beautiful chalets erected at Versailles by Marie Antoinette. Germany will reproduce Marien-burg Marien-burg pn the Xogat, one of the most picturesque of the Rhine castles. Louisiana will reproduce the Cabildo. where the formal transferW the Louisiana territory from -France to the United States took place, April 30, 1903. Mississippi will reproduce Beauvior, the home of Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy. Virginia will reproduce the rotunda ro-tunda of the University of Virginia, designated after af-ter the model of the Tantheon at Rome by Thomas Jefferson. The Burns Cottage association will produce the cottage of Robert Burns at Ayrshire, and Stirling castle. The cabin of Fresident Ulysses S. Grant at Old Orchard, and the cabin where President Pres-ident Abraham Lincoln was born in Larue county, Kentucky, will also be reproduced at the fair. If such ideas as these are carried out the St. Louis exposition will be an exposition in the real meaning mean-ing of the world, not a great exhibition of freaks of all kinds. Every young American should visit the fair. Such a trip means an education in itself. Tbs Fair as art Educational Factor. The world has come to take it for granted that in essential characteristics the Louisiana Purchase exposition will surpass all former expositions and inquiry is now for the brand new features which will be found there, and which will distinguish it from all others. The world has come to know that the exposition has a great "raison d' etre"; the largest total fair ground area ever included within fences; the biggest exhibit area held under roof; the largest sum of money ever available for an exposition; ex-position; that all the standard or classic exposition features which have demonstrated their worth will be present in excelling quality and quantity. It asks now for detailed account of the new and important im-portant components, They are many and various. The exposition will be an exposition of processes rather than products. The time honored towering pyramids of tomato cans will be replaced by the process of making, filling and selling tomato cans. This is the keynote of the exposition. And in following fol-lowing out this contmendable idea the promoters of the fair have wisely arranged a line of work which will tend to educate the masses with regard to the practical phases of American life. Actual working exhibit of a theater behind the scenes, showing the apparatus used for various stage effects, such as lightning, , thunder, rain, bombardments, battles, etc.: the mechanical setting for such triumphs of stage carpentry as the chariotrace in Ben Hur. |