Come to pry into things, and look about and find out, that wuzn't a real ship a-sailin' round.
It is a exact full-sized model, three hundred and forty-eight feet long, of one of the new coast-line battle-ships now a-bein' built for the safety and protection of our country, at a cost of about three million dollars each.
The imitation ship is built on the lake front at the northeastern point of Jackson Park. It is all surrounded with water, and has all the appearance of bein' moored to the wharf.
It has all the fittin's that belong to the actual ship, and all the appliances for workin' it.
Officers, seamen, marines, mechanics, are sent there by the navy department, and the discipline and way of life on a naval vessel is fully shown.
I wuz glad to see that it had a woman for a figger-head.
I guess that the nation thought, after seein' how Miss Palmer went ahead and overcome the difficulties in her path, and kep her beautiful face serene, and above the swashin' waves of opposition all the time—they thought that they wuzn't afraid to let a woman be riz up on their ship, a-lookin' fur out over the waters, and a-takin' the lead.
It looked quite well. There wuz lots of lace-work and ornaments about her, but she carried herself first rate.