The Piker and World's fair guide ..an accurate account of the exposition, preliminary programme, Olympic games and world's championship contests .. . Congress of Nai Ions &Rough Riaersot the World WORLDS FAIR HANDY GUIDE. ?,?> THE PIKE. Frederick Remington, group of statuary cowboys, shooting up aWestern town, at the entrance to the Pike, the great center of amuse-ment at the Exposition, is peculiarly appropriate as an introduction tothis great street of life and merriment. More than forty amusements, which cost $6,000,000, nearly twomiles long. Peopled with over seven thousand nonedescript
The Piker and World's fair guide ..an accurate account of the exposition, preliminary programme, Olympic games and world's championship contests .. . Congress of Nai Ions &Rough Riaersot the World WORLDS FAIR HANDY GUIDE. ?,?> THE PIKE. Frederick Remington, group of statuary cowboys, shooting up aWestern town, at the entrance to the Pike, the great center of amuse-ment at the Exposition, is peculiarly appropriate as an introduction tothis great street of life and merriment. More than forty amusements, which cost $6,000,000, nearly twomiles long. Peopled with over seven thousand nonedescript charac-ters from all parts of the world. Many of the Pike features have cost very large sums to construct;$750,000 was expended in one. Many of the concessions have elegant theatres and all of them have some kind of refreshments for the Pikers. Fifty Geisha girls will entertain tea drinkers in EverythingComing My Wa^y At the Chinese Village the joss houses and temples. The famous Bazaars of Stamboul in eleven sections in Constan-tinople. Fashion and amusement in gay Paris. Hagenbecks Animal Paradise with a grand circus of trained ani-mals. The Blue Ozarks, with natural landscape, with game scared up forthe hunter. WORLDS FAIR HANDY GUIDE. The Siberian Railroad is an illusion, showing a train runninghundreds of miles through Siberia. Cairo is a reproduction of the Egyptian city. Esquimau and Laplanders is a view of the life of these strangepeople of the polar region. Deep Sea Dives is explained by its name. Ancient Rome is represented by a street of the Augustine period. Starting on the Pike from the Plaza of St. Louis mountain massesioo feet high overshadow a Tyrolean village. The Irish Village has several fine reproductions of the old Houseof Parliament at Dublin, the St. Lawrences Gate and Castle Cannaes. Asia, with her mysterious people from India, Burmad, Persia andCeyl
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