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Show IT HAS A BAD LOOK. Governor Welle, so it is published, advises the people of Utah not to visit the St Louis exposition exposi-tion for yet two months, says it will require that much more time for the managers to get the articles arti-cles in place. This, too, notwithstanding the fact that the wires informed us some days since that everything was O K The question now is did His Excellency vi3it the Pike, In the exposition grounds' "The Pike " it must be understood cor responds with the Chicago Midway Plaisance B only more so. The Chicago Chronicle describes B II. It says:" One of the attraction of "The Pike" B is a tableau representation of the progress of wo- B man's dress beginning with Eve " Now the ques B tion is, did our grave executive go and watch the B proceedings on the Pike and conclude that it B would requre two months to get that drapery ad B justed? B In this connection the remarks of the Chron R icle are, it seems to us, singularly obtire it R says: "It requires only a moment's reflection to H see that the Midway and the Pike are totally for R eign to the avowed purpose if a world's fair. The H object is primarily to exhibit the progress made R by the world in science, art, manufactures and B learning since the last great world's fair was B held, or at least within a recent period. There is B absolutely no connection between this object and B a den of lions, a corps of athletes or a Ferris B wheel, much less a disgusting array of half clad B women." The poor Chronicle man. Did he imagine that if he could get to the exposition he would be able to get only half way down the line? By his own statement the procession startes at zero and ends with fully-draped dies. But he has overlooked the real object of the fail It is to commemorate not only the purchao but the advances made since What was the state of the apparrel of the ladies west of St Louis when the purchase was made? The progress of one hundred years is to be exhibited. What more typical than can be displayed in the evolution of ladies' apparrel? |