It is also so popular that the young men who run this show have doubled their price to 50 cents and still fill every ship. They have undoubtedly made back their $52,000 investment, the largest of any on the Midway. Here is your tag, tie it around a button to keep it in view.

We’re inside the darkened auditorium now. A guide is telling us where we are going . It sounds a lot like that H.G. Wells story just in the Cosmopolitan magazine last winter, “First Men on the Moon.”

Behind us our ship is descending to our level. Our guide is directing us to get on board.

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