Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . aters, in which the latest ingenuity of tiie master showman is displayed. Five millions ofdollars were spent in merely erecting buildings in harmony with the dignity-and magnitude of the greater pageant. This is the busiest, merriest and most crowded spot on the grounds. We hear the chant of Opiiental music of unknowntongues; see the weird costumes of strange lands; hear the roar of savage beasts, the grotesque shouts of fakirs andsquealers, the hum of innumerable voices, and are thrown among all the rest of that kaleidoscopic of strange peoples—
Louisiana purchase exposition, St Louis, 1904 . aters, in which the latest ingenuity of tiie master showman is displayed. Five millions ofdollars were spent in merely erecting buildings in harmony with the dignity-and magnitude of the greater pageant. This is the busiest, merriest and most crowded spot on the grounds. We hear the chant of Opiiental music of unknowntongues; see the weird costumes of strange lands; hear the roar of savage beasts, the grotesque shouts of fakirs andsquealers, the hum of innumerable voices, and are thrown among all the rest of that kaleidoscopic of strange peoples—a mir-ror of the lighter mood of many nations. At the entrance to the Street of Concessions is a Wild West group inbronze, by Frederic Remington. It represents four cowbo3S, mounted on bronchos, dashing in full gallop up the street,waving their cocked six-shooters. It is an apotheosis ofdevil-may-care recklessness, a portraj-al of a phase of life on the plains. This | work will attract * much attention/. CT d £k from Westerners. i.
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