About The Millen news. (Millen, Jenkins County, Ga.) 1903-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1904)
. I//?^S<A\ JBJ?? Zs\ < aj>C^jflfeV Lv®) £ <^ lf ^ ^L XZ? •sF§==r>-X xJVbb’Vk'?? ? 1 1 a 'w*%r A 0 fe^LtK- _“^ J^«~ 19 In I *■ — ~?. " ]n| j lug / — ay^v p Th&MillenNe^s P^Br Millen ON THE PIKE. Last week the Kjcker in truth went down the Pike, and visited the greatest and most gigantic ex hibition that has ever been gotten together on this terrestialball. Two thousand and five hundred miles was the distance covered by the Kicker including his “little flurry” on the Pike, There is no artist or word painter who can reproduce or describe to others this big and wonderful exposition at St. Louis. It is not only a beautiful and an as tonishing exhibition of the wonder ful creation of man, but a §reat educator, as seeing is knowing, but the enormity of the combined at tractions and exhibits passeth all undertanding. This exposition shows to telling effect the infinite greatness of the Creator and the created. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is an event of historic importance. Chicago commemorat ed the landing of Columbus, and Philadelphia that of the signing of the Declaration of Independance. What Spain was to the Columbian exposition of 1893 France is to the great St. Louis Eair of 1904. Italy gave to Spain the idea, as was rep resented in Columbus, but she had no share in the work which added to the world the American Conti nents. Spain yielded her authority to Fiance in 1800. Napolian saw that France was unable to maintain a colonial empire at so great a dis tance, negotiated with President Jefferson and in 1803 sold to the United States 1,183,000 square miles for the sum of about $12,000.- 000 dollars, which contained the ground on which now stands the mamoth buildings of this most magnificent Fair. The ground area covered, is 1,250 acres of land and cost of the build ings about $50,000,000. There are one thousand buildings, every state in the Union being represented be sides these there are more than fifty foreign governments participating. This gives you an idea of the loca tion, the number of buildings and the cost, but the Kicker goes “down and out” as to what exhibits and attractions these palaces and build ings contain. The palace of agriculture alone covers about twenty-one acres of land and cost nearly $600,000. It would be impossible to tell of the thousands of wonderful exhib its herein presented, but it is within the power of the Kicker to narrate a few “flickers” that revolted in the punny confines of his mental facul ties. In these monster buildings, where every inch of space is occu pied by some handsome exhibit, filled with a continuous throng of at least five thousand visitors, the Kicker stands amazed, and his heart has ‘ ‘several failures” and finally goes into “Bankruptcy,” when he discovers that Millen failed to “put on” a few heads of "Rot tou cabbage,” a few slices of "sour watermelon” rines and a string or two of horse racks with their hand some "accompaniments” that the tribe of zoolooes might have been apprised of Millen’s esthetic taste and thereby induced to locate. Transportation building that cov ers fifteen acres and cost $700,000 should be visited by all the ‘ ‘Sun day Morning Cotton Avenue Grand Standers” and "Train Rubber Neckera” as their cups would be: IE MILLEN NEWf, ®M»£R 23, W filled and in the future they could spare time for church and Sunday school services. The Grand Canal on which is located the lagoons and basins in which is plyed electric launches, gondolas, and the Cascades pouring floods of crystal water down a three hundred foot declivity through the lovely gardens and terraces swiped the ozone from the atmosphere that perculated the wind mills of the Kicker, and in blind stager mental stunts he wallowed for a moment in oblvious rest in the white sand on the Millen “Ditch.” Education Palace is a grand structure costing fully $500,000 where every thing of an educational Character is on exhibition from Kindergarten to the highest Univer sity work together with the training of the deaf, dumb arid blind and the mastery of fine arts. The entire town of Millen would do well to get in on the ground floor of this exhibition, whereby in the course of human events, some "bull bats” would disearn among the eternal fitness, the differance be tween a salamander hill and a doodle hole. • . Electric Palace covers between eight and ten acres and cost ab^tj a half million dollars. Here. is found every thing that is s&n and down with electricity. This is cue of the most beautiful buildings at the great fair. The brilliancy of the illuminations is a dazzle of splendor and out of sight—of the "moon eyed” and owly gazes of the inhabi tants of the glittering “Dark Spot.” No Millenite with “Black Eyes” and “shady” brows could stem the tide of this ocean of light. A re production of this wonderful flood of light will be given shortly, that will perhaps give the “Dark dwellers” a stemwinding case of “blinks” by having a lightening bug to give one faint “flick” on “Shady Winthrope.” Here at this stupendious aggre gration we find almost every nation on earth represented with buildings and exhibits but the Kicker saw none from Africa, and the negro race of that continent. Here in this vacancy we learned a lesson and find that the negro race of Africa has no constitutional govern ment or financial foundation, but out of dark Africa, through slavery, j this race is raised to the proud dis-1 tinction of an American citizen, and in that condition particpates in the! wounderful accomplis meats of our! nation. The nigger cuts no figgerl at the fair, but in Millen they can I dispence their buckish effluvia, loaf, eat popeyed mullet atthe“R-A.M”I and flounder in the mighty sea of “Coon-Shine.” The magnitude and construction of the many grand palaces and building staggers the mind and de fies description. To see them is the only medium by which a biwwn mind can fully appreciate the handy work of the most potential, power ful and-progressive race on earth— " The Americans.” ^he PIKE • The Pike is a living color page of the world and in it these living, moving pictures speak louder than any words from the Kicker. The first impression a piker geUof this I most stupendious combination of attractions and amusement i®, the enormous amount of money that I must have been exp ruled in is 'construction. It is said that there are three thousand performers from j foreign countries, ami the reproduc । tion of the I fe an 1 habits of thirty different people. There are fifteen hundred animals there to lend life end reality io the many varied scenes. The advanced ideas of presenting such attractions make the scientific, mechanical and spectacular features superior to those of proceeding expositions. Snow capped mountains throw their cool ing shadows over beautiful Alpine scenes, massive castles with great gray towers nr.d embattled walls, tiny houses and cottages of every design constitute the buildings, and the attractions go up into the thou sands. The kingdom of the beast is one of constant delight of mankind. Hayenbeck’s annimal pa. dise is the geeatest assembly of brutes that has ever been on exhibition, whe’e everything is on but a “blind Tiger”, from Waynesboro, a hog from Wadley and a hoot owl from the shades of Millen. The Galves ton Flood and Roltairs “Creation,” spectacular illusion are truly wonderful and appuling. Under and Over the Sea, a me chanical, electrical illusion imparts a sensation of a trip inasub-marine boat to Paris and a return to St. Louis in an air ship failed to work on the Kicker as he Lad done the “over and under” stunt at the Duck wallow ” and "hoise trough ’ ’ in the “fly” town of Millen. The battle of Santago, and Boar War were realistic and grand ex hibits of Carnage and distruction. The clash of arms, the flash of mus ketry and roar of cannon fully il lustrated the terror and distruction of war. Each of these attractions are grand and from a financial standpocint a sucess, but should have come to Millen as one per formance would no doubt have “Woke up” the “Church snooz ers.” The number of open air specta cles exceed anything that the Kicker has ever seen. The great Pike is one vast flood of electric light with that beauty ofmirried ofgliter ing designs of various colors—a panorama of entrancing brilliancy. It is here you meet a passing throng of fifty thousand people almost daily, a mighty sea for surging humanity, where a single mortal grasps the final conclusion of his in'dividual insignificant littleness. From an altitudinal standpoint the Kicker was a dandy Piker, and easily saw the sights, B —U —T Ypu must keep your eyes wide open, You must not even blink, You must keep moving, don’t stop to even think. You will need the eyes in the front of your head, And a couple of pair behind, Then you won’t see all the eights As you pass down the line; A little change will be needed You must have extra wind, You must work your brains like a billy goat and keep "a butting in;” You must “burn the wind” real lively, Get “balled upon “a hike,” And “do about” like “a loose cat in the sand,” If you wish to take in the “Pike.”
