Later I learned that there were to be magnificent buildings, bigger than
any I had ever seen, even in Chicago and New York, Palaces of Music, and
Education, and Fine Arts, and Mining, and Domestic Industries, and
Foreign Industries, of Liberal Arts, and Electricity, and Engineering,
and Food Products, and that, besides, all the countries that took part,
would have their own buildings. Then there were to be magnificent courts
and fountains and arches and columns and domes and statues and
bas-reliefs and pools and flower-gardens and trees, and at night-time
searchlights and fireworks, and steam-works and illuminations more
beautiful than anything of the kind men had ever seen before. So, even
though I was only a horse, I was anxious to go and see it all.
Then Chili told me there was to be one whole long street devoted to
pleasures and amusements, that they were to call the ZONE, and we were
to appear there. There was to be a wonderful exhibit showing the
appearance and working of the Panama Canal, villages of strange people
from all over the world, Cowboy shows, Mining Camps, a representation of
the seven days of Creation, and the Battle of Gettysburg, Capt. Scott’s
Trip to the South Pole, the fight of the Dreadnoughts and Submarines, an
Incubator for babies—human babies, mind, the tiniest little humans you
ever saw,—the Grand Canyon, the Pueblo Indian village, the Yellowstone
National Park, the Streets of Cairo, Toyland, the Japanese town, and
lots of others that I do not now recall. We were to have our show right
on the Zone, and be one of these many marvelous and wonderful
attractions. The more I heard about these things the more anxious I was
to go, and yet I wondered a good deal as to whether I should be as
attractive to the crowd among so many other interesting things as I had
been where there were not so many. But my master and Chili seemed
satisfied, so I stuck to my motto and “Quit Worrying.”
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