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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 5: China

By |2021-04-02T11:22:03-05:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 4 Still traveling along the Midway, we see on the right hand at some distance as yet, a temple that looks as if it had jumped out of the old dogs-eared geography we studied at school.[1] Two square towers composed of little balconies one above the other, each a little smaller than the last one, and all surmounted by a curved projecting roof, hung thickly [...]

131. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Chinese Joss House

By |2021-12-05T10:28:52-06:00December 5th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , , , |

INTERIOR OF THE CHINESE JOSS HOUSE.—Even conservative and ancient China did not keep away from the World's Fair entirely, though the exhibit made was the result of private enterprise, the Chinese government manifesting no great interest in the friendly reunion of the rest of the world. What was known as the Wah Mee Exposition Company had the energy as well as the capital to erect a Chinese Village in the Plaisance, and the Theatre, Joss House, Garden and Café [...]

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