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tions and all Sorts of Amusements on the famous Missouri Pike.Colorado Makes a Splendid Showing in Minerals, Agriculture, horticulture and Educational Departments.in company with a number of Colorado newspaper folka the editor of the Indicator and family visited the World’s Fair last week and came away feeling an though they had seen something worth while.On general principles the Exposition iH “the biggest show on earth” in reality. Barnum’s and Forepaogh’s shows uae to make that claim on bill posters and through the medium of the press, but none of the travelingaggregations will hardly have thenerve to do so this year.As a world’s show it ought to be a big one, of course, and so it is, embracing as it does people and thingsfrom everywhere.It is true that everything is not yet in readiness snd will not be for amonth or so yet. As a consequence there is not a large attendance, for the news has gone forth that St. Louis is slew and must have e little more time. The Fair was to have tagan a year ago bat the time was extended from May 1st, 1903 to May 1st. 1904, and then it wne too limited.Mod, slush end inclement weather,industrial trochlea and the like con-tributed to the tardiaea of cettkgready. None except those actually engaged in building and in getting exhibits to their places will ever know what had to be endured in the way of rain, slush and mud. strikes and extortions, delayed transportation and all the obstacles that go to prevent and obstruct.At one time the 1,250 acre grounds was a vast mud hole where four-horse teams stalled in mire up to the hubs of the transportation wagons and many anight the teamsters unhitched, leaving the loads of goods standing out iu the weather until morning.'President Francis says that if he had it to do over again he would first construct the paved roads and have the buildings and the exhibits follow. Now all the streets and roadways are paved and the grounds are being sodded to grass.The white city with its hundreds of lurge and imposing buildings, its statues and monuments, its cascades and lakes, its lswna and boulevards, presents a grand sight, and especially at night time when illuminated by thousands and tens of thousands of electric incandescent and arc lights.Yk* unmuBMnt auarters. the “Pike”
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The Indicator
Pueblo, Colorado, US
Sat, May 28, 1904
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