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Show 70RZ OP-DISMJIILniG -;.:V;-'782Y- CITY-T0:D2Gm . - ' Promptly "at !!idniiht Workmen Will Ccancncc Hc-moVing Hc-moVing Exhibits From ttc Tcrll's Fair. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26. PrompUy at midnight, December 1, a force of seventy-five men employed by the. General Service company of the Louisiana Purchase Pur-chase exposition, will shunt 200 freight cars loaded with empty packing cases Into the several exhibit palaces and the work of dismantling the World's fair will begin. Piled at different parts of the exposition expo-sition grounds are 1500 carloads of empty packing cases, while outside the grounds are others, aggregating 10O carloads car-loads more. These will be distributed as rapidly as possible and the packing of exhibits will b rushed. 1 At daylight, December t. another large force of men will begin to tear up the walks that conceal the tracks about the exposition grounds. They will also tear up the switches in the rear of the stadium and lay tracks connecting the main line with each of the exhibit buildings. build-ings. A bond has been filed with the United States Government, through the Treasury Treas-ury department, by the World's Fair Terminal railway, making it a common carrier, which will facilitate the removal re-moval ef the exhibits as freight cars can be dispatched direct from the exposition grounds to their destinations. With the exception of Germany, ta which case special permission was secured, se-cured, not a single exhlbitrbas been withdrawn, nor will be allowed to be withdrawn until December 1. Only a few of the German exhibits have been taken away from the World's fair grounds and they were shipped directly di-rectly to the Imperial palace at Rots-dam. Rots-dam. P. E. Phennegar of Seattle has been appointed general superintendent of the General Service company and declares that all the exhibits wtTI be out of the exposition rrounds by March L WHAT THE SIAMESE EAT. ' Siamese food principally consists of dried, frequently rotted fish, and rice, done into curries which comprise a little of about every kind of condiment, ana especially a very popular sauce called namphrink, a 1 chutney-like and thoroughly thor-oughly mixed thing, made of red pepper, ehrimp, garlic, onions, citron, ginger and tamarind seeds. The only reason for the fish being putrid Is because the natives na-tives like It so, for fish are plentiful in the rivers and fishermen numerous, though their ways of catching are rather rath-er amusing and antique. One favorite method, borrowed from the Chinese, is beating the waters with long bamboo sticks to frighten the fish into an eight or ten foot squarish net which is lowered low-ered into the river from a framework on the bank by a system of wheels and ropes and pulleys, and hosted up again when the catch is complete. I must confess that when the flah In the curry chanced to be dried Instead of decayed, I found the concoction decidedly tooth- I some. In fact, a really good curry Is in a class apart, and one must go to India or the Far East to get It at its best. . Sometimes the natives eat pork and oftentimes chicken, but for the most part lice and the flsh curry constitute their chief diet, supplemented by the fruit of the country, of which there are many kinds mangosteen, mango, pineapple, pine-apple, banana, orange, bread fruit, and that most healthful and serving of all Siamese fruits, the papaya, which grows back from the water and is a greenish cval melon that suggests cantaloupe when opened. Outing. |