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Trip on the
Exposition Grounds Visit to the Midway Plaisance Diamond Match Co,
Workingmen's Home Congress of Beauty, California Nursery and
Citrus Tree Exhibit Electric Scenic Theater, Libbey Glass Works Irish
Village and Donegal Castle, Japanese Bazaar Javanese Village,
German Village Pompeii Panorama. Persian Theater Model of the
Eiffel Tower, Street in Cairo Algerian and Tunisian Village, Kilauea
Panorama American Indian Village, Chinese Village Wild East Show,
Lapland Village Dahomey Village, Austrian Village Ferris Wheel, Ice
Railway Cathedral of St. Peter in miniature, Moorish Palace Turkish
Village, Panorama of the Bernese Alps South Sea Islanders' Village.
Hagenbeck's Zoological Arena Irish Village and Blarney Castle, etc.
Visit to the Exposition Structures. Manufactures Building and on
Manufactures U.S. Government Building and on the Development of
the Republic Fisheries Building and on Fisheries Agricultural Building
and on Agriculture Live Stock Exhibit, Dairy and Forestry Buildings
Palace of Mechanical Arts and on Machinery Administration Building
Electricity Building and on Electricity, the "Golden or Happy Age"
Mines and Mining Building and on Minerals Transportation Building
and on Railroad, Marine, and Ordinary Road Vehicle Conveyances
Palace of Horticulture and on Horticulture Liberal Arts Building.
Educational Exhibits _Chicago, its Growth and Importance_ Woman's

Building and on Women Art Palace and on Art Anthropological
Building Foreign and State Buildings Financial Account of the World's
Fair Statistical Table of International Expositions
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Experience, this greatest of all teachers, will undoubtedly have
convinced many of my readers that the most delightful voyage is only
capable of maintaining its charms when made amidst congenial
fellow-travelers. The grandest scenes can be fully enjoyed and duly
appreciated when viewed through an atmosphere of physical comfort.
Thus, in order to demonstrate the accuracy of the assertion:
Voyaging with Mr. James and his family was attractive and enjoyable
to me in every respect,
I must make the reader acquainted with my amiable traveling
companions, as well as with their floating home, the beautiful steam
yacht "Marguerite."
Her owner, _Captain S. R. James_, is a stately, fine-looking,
accomplished gentleman, and quite a linguist. To me it was a source of
unusual pleasure to discuss French and German literature occasionally
during our voyage with one who has given so much attention to these
languages.
Mr. James was styled by the Buffalo Courier "a typical New Yorker;"
but he impresses me more as a typified English gentleman of the
thorough school, and this impression is confirmed as I reflect upon his
conduct to those fortunate enough to be associated with him in any
capacity.
I trust the reader will pardon me if I warmly eulogize MR. JAMES, his
lovely WIFE and their FOUR sweet CHILDREN, together with Miss
SARAH E. CAMPBELL, the very amiable sister of Mrs. James--who
were my traveling companions on this eventful trip; for, certainly, I
was extremely fortunate in my _compagnons de voyage_, whom I have
thus introduced to the reader. They abandoned their lovely home for the
purpose of undertaking the gigantic enterprise of making a canal and
lake voyage to the White City.
The reader may well judge that sailing on a yacht presents innumerable
novelties and advantages not attainable by any other conveyance. Since

the parties on board a pleasure-boat concentrate all their thoughts to the
expected enjoyments they cast aside all irksome forms and strait-laced
habitudes, delivering themselves up to the free air to live less
conventionally than at home. The preferableness of such an existence,
freed from all unnecessary ceremonies, is still more perceptible when
the trip is of long duration and having, moreover, for its terminus the
World's Columbian Exposition, a place where the wonders, beauties,
and evidences of nature's power and man's skill are gathered from all
lands.
The great anticipations we had of our unique voyage were justified in
every respect. For it offered us the opportunity to store our memories
with that which will never die, and to adorn them with pictures whose
colors will never fade.
All this will be revealed subsequently to my courteous reader, who is
cordially invited to follow me now on board the steam yacht, which
formed our home for six eventful weeks.
What first strikes the observer on approaching the "Marguerite," are the
graceful lines which run from the sharp, slightly bent stem to the
well-rounded stern. So beautiful is her form, and so majestically does
she rest upon the water, that you will have no difficulty to recognize
her, even at a great distance. You observe that she is painted with taste,
and all the mouldings are gilded; you also perceive that the railings are
of oak wood, surmounted by finely polished brass, and the deck of
narrow deal planks is as white as snow. There is nothing wanting to
make her equipment harmonize with the requirements of the present era.
She has a length of a hundred