Show 4 ON hov how worlds fair visitors are carried about SIDEWALK OIT ON THE rim 4 tae sliding gilding Katli rny in midway rial ganco wilch which can attain it sed speed of ISO an iron superb Ifor ses dromedaries Dro rs and 0 ohice ber beasts of burden WORLDS world S fair may 13 special least interesting phase of the exposition Is its horsemanship we may seo bere a comparative display ot of the horses and d riders of many countries it Ib kappeas AV that a number of hussars or other caval mg hymen are attached to the foreign commis alons siona here to sen serve as official mess messengers hence one may sea see almost any flue day a german hussar bussar a russian Ilus sian cotsack coss acL an E anglish hono horse guards marl or an arab courier flying about in tho the vicinity of the exposition grounds there are american cavalrymen too the foreigners forc ignera all use big horses and resplendent trappings the american horse soldier alone looks as if bavero ho were outfitted for actual service the others being mere mero parada soldiers more serviceable than any of tho the military horsemen in tho the capacity of messengers aro are the cowboys of the plains twenty tw enty or thirty of them baa having ing been constantly employed in the days ot of construction carrying messages and orders to and fro they are today the most interesting horsemen in all this international menage their little mustangs or bronchus bron chos fly about with soft sure foot dodging obstructions and arians swift tod and intelligent 4 A magnificent specimen of the horsemanship Is to be found here in the outfit of colonel rice commandant of the columbian guards it is no small responsibility the colonel has undertaken aap ap of the troop of 2000 men who are a sort of cross between policemen en and sol diers in management and training 01 his menthe men the colonel finds it necessary togo to go rapidly from one part of the grounds to another in fact he be acts like a man who would it if he be co codd coald ald be at forty widespread I 1 spots in one minute of time ho ile rides a massive iron gray cli charger arger a noble animal who carries himself with a proud stride as it if he be were the bearer of the general of a great army it is indeed a cosmopolitan showing of horsemanship and beasts of burden which we have here buffalo bills co cowboys rough riders steer tamers and sioux horsemen are to lie he seen on the same bridle piths with the Cor cossacks macks and hus sars immediately after them may be a pack mule from the andes going over to state street for a load of feed tor for his fel lows or a dromedary from the I 1 egyptian village in the plaisance now and then at rare intervals a laplander may be seen out exercising a big reindeer in hagen backa backs famous animal show lions lion s maybe may be seen riding horseback and two or three of th the e elephants are often ridden about the ne neighborhood of the pl plaisance almace by their trainers tho horse show proper will not nt begin till late in august then it Is expected there will bo be here the greatest horse show ever seen een certainly the management of the exposition has been liberal enough in its provisions and prizes there are twenty alve div e acres of stock sheds and in a huge amphitheatre that will seat nearly persons hundreds of animals may bo be simultaneously exhibited it Is elliptical in fn shape WO feet wide and feet long and looks like an enclosed track no fewer than forty eix six barns are to be erected for the accommodation of horses and if these prove inadequate more v will be built the premiums offered for horses are very liberal consisting of both cash awards and medals there are cash premiums on single animals as high as M 41 there is a wonderful variety of contrivances tri vances and vehicles for people to ride upon with within in the enclosure of the exposition the th elevated electric railway which runs around the grounds the steam and electric launches on the lagoons the gondolas and the rolling chairs are all well known but this does not exhaust the list by any means one of the most interesting spots in the exposition is visited by only a small proportion of the people who como come hero here it Is the steamboat pier which runs more than half bal f a mile into lake michigan from the casino at the southern end of the one Is not surprised to learn that this is the greatest pier in the world for these chicago people have bare a habit labit of building everything a little larger than any similar thing was ever ev er built elsewhere this pier Is the landing place of the many big steamboats which run between i chicago and the fair and on a warm day dav this Is the best route to and from the city the I 1 he pier alone Is worth going to see its vast proportions may be better understood from the fact that it contains fifteen acres of space and that people may 41 t move about upon it without c crowding row ding the view of the lake and the exposition from this pier is very fine and one may go if out on the pier for the purpose of sight eight seeing v without taking passage on a steam ship for the city kit would not be like chicago to build a ar pier more than halt a mile long and provide vide no means of transportation from one aud to abe other of it A pier long that a passenger railway Is needed on its surface will be a novelty to most people but Jt a greater novelty is the raila railway ay itself it Is what is known as a movable sidewalk and isa Is a very Ingen lus contrivance two low platforms endless run side by side on a series of small wheels the outer one runs constantly at a speed of three miles an hour and though it does not stop to take on or let off passengers one has no difficult difficulty yin in stepping upon it with the came ease one may pass from this platform to the upper one which moves at a of six miles an hour this foster faster platform has comfortable seats and a better means of resting ones weary limbs the while refreshing body and soul in the cool breezes which nearly always blow over lake Alle michigan higan could not well be devised the fare on this novel railway Is only a r nickel and already it is quite popular the road is four fifths of a mile long and deax passengers may ride upon the platforms I 1 orm a together Overia over in the plaisance or sideshow side show eco tiona of the exposition la Is another bortel means of transportation it is known as the sliding railway and is the same system that created such a sensation at the paris exposition tour four years ago the structure much resembles an ordinary ele vatch bated railroad but the speed attained Is something tremendous one hundred and sixty miles an hour may bo be reached under press pressure ure but about ninety or m miles lies Is the speed at which passengers are carried everyday every day the cars have no wheels instead there aro are shoes which closely fit tho the ralla rails the latter being bout about eight inelss vide wide into each shoo shoe leads a small 11 pipe bearing water under preaulo pre pres auro sura of pounds to the square inch and thus a film of water probably no more than a sixteenth of an inch thick Is produced between the shoe shoo and the rail in other words the car is lifted from the track and floated routed along upon a street of water thus reducing friction to an ideal minimum averting av erting all lar jar and rumble it la 13 literally a sliding or floating train the motive power Is water also under every cv cry other car of 0 a train Is a sm email a 11 turbine motor which rec receives c ives tho the force forc e of the jets of water auto automatically marlc thrown out of a piro pipe running between alo tracks PI toj irao there re ra ly af t pieces in wb which lell 0 M may WY e a 16 ift a ati 0 o n cons considerable Id erable light for a view yiew of the expo ekpo 4 atio 1 and d the city there Is no eiffe eiffel t tower w r except a model of that famor famo structure but the gigantic ferris wheel la is an even greater curiosity one may go i ina in a captive balloon along with fourteen other curious passengers and rise to a hight light of 1 1500 feet or on ti third higher than the top of the eiffel tower the balloon seems seem perfectly eafe safe and is al always w ays kept safely anchored to the earth by heavy cables then there la is curious looking structure which la Is called tho the tower of babel and it Is 1 something liko like feet high uke like the ancient structure upon the alms plains of shinar it has a walk or road winding about it like the threads of a screw from bottom to top this tower of 0 babel has or will have it if its owner ever finishes it an equipment which it is safe to say the original structure did no not t have lave namely an electric railway on which c h one may rido ride corkscrew style to the su sum m mit F for or those visitors who are fond of going UP to great bights hights and this appears to be a widespread wide spread aspiration in the human race I 1 would recommend use of the rie vator in tho the northern end of the big manufactures fractures fac tures and liberal arts building two hundred and fifty feet straight up from N CORKSCREW the floor Y with ith the forty acres of exhibits sad d people spread out below like a valloy valley seen from a mountain side ride Is of itself a spectacle most impressive but the best is at the top passing through the of one of tho five great coronas of hundred of electric lamps and through the root roof a little farther on the traveler finds himself lathe in the open air hundreds of people are there before him and now if never before they appreciate the vastness and the beauty of this great exposition which is before them like a par panorama orama it if one wishes to follow the transportation question still further he be has only to go into the immense building devoted to this purpose outside the buildings la Is an exhibit of transportation in actual use ranging from the mule and the burro tin the dromedary and the elephant the gondola and the savage dugout dug out to the electric launches the elevated the hydraulic the continuously moving railways Insi inside dethe the transportation building is a series of object lessons which show the history of all of mans efforts to move hie his goods and himself to and fro by mechanical appliances there la Is no more fascinating spot in all the exposition than this and some day I 1 mean to come in here and w write rite you a story about it that I 1 think you will be glad to read probably nine persons out of ten art arf strangely fascinated by the railway and the steamship common as they are lu ill thie this and mast most other civilized countries man never ceases to watch them to won wonder n deraud and admire in traveling about the country how often will you see men and even women peering under the huge boilers of the locomotives which haul theil their train gazing between the driving wheels at the machinery there halt half concealed and trying to study out by what legerdemain or magic these ponderous creature creatures ar art made to fly like birds OP or you will set passengers aboard steamships begging th privilege of going down into the hot grimy greasy hold to see the marine engines the boiler rooms the half naked stokers smokers sto kers ass aa a railway train whizzes by a locomotive roundhouse round house bouse how many passengers glance within and eay say to the themselves they should like to visit that stab stable leof of tin iron horse or how many note the big r switch witch towers with their innumerable levers controlling the tracks and the feiy big nals and have a desire to know the secret of f the operation well all these and countless othea things are spread before the eye from th tbt transportation of the ancients to that ol 01 the m moderns on onlan barild d andrea and sea through all air or under water in the transportation department part ment walten |