Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . From the Bernese Alps to Turkey is quite a distance to cover in Europe, but the Midway PlaisanceIgnored time and space, and from one to the other was but a matter of a few steps. Great interest wastaken in the Turkish Village, and before the close of the Fair there was scarcely a Turkish face thatwas not familiar to frequenters of The Ice Railway was one of the speculative odd features of the Fair and achieved a degree ofpopularity toward the Expositions close. Sleighs assisted up an incline by machinery made a dizzycircuit at a trem
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . From the Bernese Alps to Turkey is quite a distance to cover in Europe, but the Midway PlaisanceIgnored time and space, and from one to the other was but a matter of a few steps. Great interest wastaken in the Turkish Village, and before the close of the Fair there was scarcely a Turkish face thatwas not familiar to frequenters of The Ice Railway was one of the speculative odd features of the Fair and achieved a degree ofpopularity toward the Expositions close. Sleighs assisted up an incline by machinery made a dizzycircuit at a tremendous pace along a roadway coated with ice, created by artilicial means. It wascurious even from a scientific point of view
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