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Show fH "THE PIKE" AT ST. LOUIS. H Oriental Splendor and Yankee Ingenuity Combine If , to Make "The Pike" Entertaining and In- Iff structive. tt (By Thomas R. MacMechen. B "The Pike" at the World's Fair Is an amuse- H ment boulevard In the forest. Its wondrous pln- S nuflis and domes -will glitter far above the J5icsl- n tJon City, riOng a vooden plateau. Its murmur- " oim Rounds will come to the gaiet?-.s kr il'iough Wt charming bits of woodland. Ill In one unbroken arc, nearly a mile long, it mm sweeps through giant monarchs of the primeval HI landscape. Constantly pursuing its swerving II course, the Exposition visitor will each moment IK of his quest for sensation, have new architecture IB, thrust into his bewildered vision. Iff Strange climes and dissimilar peoples will I ff come into view each minute. Music typical to the iff v. great list of foreign lands, to be shown on "The In Pike," will tingle and clash on the surprised ear f so that the central motive of this immense amuse- Hl, ment section, will impress one with the sense of a ma - delightful trip around the whole world. H( Twenty-five vast ihows have been provided, N each one of which it will cost more than ?100,000 HU to build and equip. Stately facades, astonishing H ' the senses with their harmonies of color and ab- H sence of mawkish signs, will raise "The Pike" to D the dignity of an educational theatre of universal m features. No circus that was ever sent on the 18 road, no stupendous spectacle of ancient Rome, Iff will compare with the gigantic combined human B interest shows of the World's Fair. H When you "go down the Pike" you will have Br done the circuit of the globe. Entering the great- V est amusement street of any exposition at the B v Remington sculptural group depicting American Kf ( cowboys "Shooting Up a Frontier Town," you im- HP1 mediately become Infected with the fever of its HIP whirl and spirit. Set in the heart of the forest Wf- that makes the St. Louis Fair exquisite with ver- Mf nal charm, the Imaginative visitor may dream that HI here In an American forest, tue fairies have jfffl reared the gossamer fabric of remote isles and SB darkest jungles. B Alpine summits, snow-capped, with Typolean B villa nestling at their feet; Jerusalem, the Holy B City, with its Mosque of Omar, and the Church ft. of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mount of Olives, and By its Garden of Gethsemane, all the scenes of the Wt divine passion; India the Mystic, Persia with its B Arabian Nights memories; Burmah, the land of m the White Elephant; Japan, the Idylic; China, the m: curious; the crowded Stamboui of Constantinople; W Cairo, the city of the Khedive; Thibet, the impene- MP j ford but a mere glimpse of the Oriental scope of "The Pike.' These things have nothing to do with the illusions "Paris by Submarine Boat and Return on an Airship," "A Voyage to the North Pole," "The Magic Whirlpool," "The Battle Abbey," Ab-bey," "The Destruction of Galveston" such shows appeal to the imagination more peculiarly. It will J n take $500,000 to build Jerusalem, and as much J money to erect the Typolean Alps, to say nothing "f- of at least $3,000,000 more for constructing attrac- i tions, some of which have been mentioned. |
