JERUSALEM AT ST. LOUIS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2581, 2 September 1903, Page 8 (Supplement)

JERUSALEM AT ST. LOUIS.

REPRESENTATIVES OF NO. 3 COMPANY N.Z.G.A. VOLUNTEERS (PORT CHALMERS NAVALS). Winners of Champion Challenge Bugle, Otago District. 1903.

The more one hears about the St. Louis Exhibition, to be held next year, the stronger grows the impression that it is in some danger of breaking down, financially, by its own weight. Money is apparently being spent like water upon the innumerable attractions, and al-

though all America and his wife will probably visit the great show, one cannot help remembering that the Chicago World's Fair, up till then the biggest thing of its kind that was ever held, left an uncomfortably large deficit. The latest idea in connection with the Centennial Show is to reproduce on ten acres of the Fair grounds, the Jerusalem of to-day. Dr. Palmore, the editor of a St. Louis religious paper, has

the matter in hand, and dropped into Sydney the other day on his rather roundabout way to the Holy Land, where he is to spend a month selecting people, animals, and objects to be used in reproducing in St. Louis the actual life of the streets of modern Jerusalem. American architects, artists, and tradesmen, he told a Sydney pressman, had already been to the Holy City, and secured all the mea-

THE PALMERSTON NORTH UMPIRES 1 ASSOCIATION. THE FIRST CRICKET UMPIRES' ASSOCIATION (See "Referee.") IN NEW ZEALAND.

surements of the walls and various buildings to be reproduced, such as the Mosque of Omar, the Mosque of El Aksa, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Jews' wailing place, the Via Dolorosa, and the Garden of Gethsemane, together with some of the principal streets and bazaars. "We intend to have hundreds of the natives representing the various nationalities 'of people now in Jerusalem, shepherds with herds of sheep (the shepherd knowing the names of each of his flock and every sheep answering to its own name), dromedaries, camels, donkeys, goldsmiths, and silversmiths, embroiderers, weavers, and even carvers of olive wood and mother-of-pearl — all doing their work in the exhibition, just as they are going about it every day ji Jerusalem." No reproduction of modern Jerusalem would be complete without a certain number uf tourists, but these would be easily obtainable in a land which supplies so many of the real article. The ancient swells of the city should also be reproduced without much difficulty, considering how many of the residents of the tenacre Jerusalem axe to be natives of the original. The Exhi ■ bition authorities . really need not have v gone to Palestine for a few hundred Jerusalem natives, for there are probably a far greater number already in the States, but no doubt the fact that the whole lot, people, camels, etc. , are to be brought from Joppa by special steamer . early next year, will add to the interest of the show. Dr. Palmore thinks the whole Exposition will contribute powerfully to the peace of the world. Considering, however, that he intends 'to have representations of the festivals of the various churches in Jerusalem enacted by hundreds of natives — Coptic, Greek, Jewish, Mahommedan,

Latin, and Roman Catholic — and that the advisory board consists of the most varied collection of clergymen that was probably ever got together, there v a chance that his particular part of the Exhibition will occasionally be very lively.