. Book of the Royal blue . he heavy pain of striving and the ridicule that answers right , too, beneath the weary weight ha» e through the years have kept your spirit sweetWith love enough to fill the world complete. Your boys make answer from the tallest towers; This dear, good brother, father, friend of ours. THE PIKE. THE STREET OF THE CONCESSIONAIRES AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASEEXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS. It must Ik- kiiul o iiliiiiu\.Like an Or a solid miU- o Hanuini. iAnd Ijest tell you, h\ a-liopiii that I kin ao Ier a week or so to rul)he
. Book of the Royal blue . he heavy pain of striving and the ridicule that answers right , too, beneath the weary weight ha» e through the years have kept your spirit sweetWith love enough to fill the world complete. Your boys make answer from the tallest towers; This dear, good brother, father, friend of ours. THE PIKE. THE STREET OF THE CONCESSIONAIRES AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASEEXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS. It must Ik- kiiul o iiliiiiu\.Like an Or a solid miU- o Hanuini. iAnd Ijest tell you, h\ a-liopiii that I kin ao Ier a week or so to rul)her ( JHILE it is doubtful it many of theExposition visitors will desire torubber on the Pike for a weekor so, it is still more doubtful ifthere will be a single visitor there who willnot take a turn or two through that each, and scarcely any of them less thanS50,000. From these figures it will be seen thathigh-class attractions will be presented,and we ai-e assured by the Expositionmanagement that a special effort has been. interesting and picturesque thoroughfare,peopled by a miscellaneous collection ofmortals gathered from the far corners ofthe earth. The Louisiana Purchase Expositionstreet of the concessionaires presents abouttwo miles of attractions. There are forty-four distinct shows. Six thousand ])er-formers from foreign countries are engagedto reproduce the life of twenty-five differentpeoples, while fifteen hundred animals lendreality to the various scenes. Two of theseshows represent an outlay of Si,400,000:twenty of them cost not less than $100,000 made to ba^r the trivial and audacious sideshows which have been more or less afeature of some of the recent the class of attractionsoffered, popular prices will prevail. Theadmission fee of nearly all the attractionshas been announced, and we find theaverage general admission fee will be25 cents, the highest general admission 50cents, highest charge for seeing all theattractions in any one con
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