The big blue dome marked Creation, one of the elaborate exhibitions on the Pike. The visitors entered a boat that bore them gently away through a labyrinth of underground passages lined with clever scenery. When they disembarked, with a sense of having made a voyage, they found themselves in a roomy cavern where they were diverted by illusions in the form of living heads that seemed to have no bodies to support them. They ascended a stairway and came out upon a revolving platform. Water was before them, in a circular canal. Across the canal were scenes from remote parts of the world. On the water were live ducks and alluring boats. Something or everything was moving -- they couldn't be certain just what they saw. Down into the cavern the visitors went again, and up a little stairway they came, and then they found themselves in one of those very boats -- a boat with a cellar stairway. Undoubtedly they were in motion now, but who ever saw a boat with a back staircase? When they had solved the puzzle to their individual satisfaction, they made their way to the serious part of the exhibition. Seated in a comfortable auditorium, they saw unrolled before their eyes the really glorious pictures of creation as narrated in Genesis.
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