Show 1101dr > 5 w COLUMBUS TOOK A TUMBLE It Was tho Last Day of the California Pair and Ho Was All Broke Up Truth crushed to earth will rise jigain but there is no such hope for the statue of Columbus at the fair It lay on the ground in the grand court recently recent-ly shattered to a thousand pieces Columbus Co-lumbus came off his perch about 10 oclock in the forenoon and as he was large and portly he struck the ground with a dull thud His right leg clung to the pedestal the indications being that that limb had been pulled the fracture being committed at the knee Columbus wore no whiskers at the exposition ex-position but the wind was attracted to him nevertheless It sought to lift the long locks that hung over his shoulders and in this effort it toppled their big owner from his commanding elevation in the valley of the court People who are affected by coincidences did not fail to comment on his passing way on the day that was practically tho last of the fair He had seen tb glories of the exposition come and go and some persons imagined that the memories he cherished overcame him as if he were an animate being The knowledge that the fair was over and that he was to be taken away to some obscure and strange place broke him all up they said He had been ailing for several days When it was evident by the inclination in-clination of his head that ho was unbalanced unbal-anced measures were taken to keep him from injuring himself but he finally broke from the ropes that restrained him and the fall of Caesar was nothing in comparison to his The statue wa made of a sort of plaster and was partly part-ly hollow being devoid of lungs and other internal organsSau Francisco Chronicle |