Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-04-18
The Second ssworId,s Fair.v

The designs for the great exhibition
building of 1862, to be erected at Ken
sington, London, are now completed and
drawn. The building will cover little
over twenty-six acres. There will be some
five hundred thousand feet of flooring
more in 1862 than in 1851. The greatest
height of the proposed building will be
two hundred feet, and the nave will be
twelve hundred feet long by eighty-five
feet wide, and one hundred feet high. The
dimensions are to be twelve hundred feet
long by seven hundred broad, exclusive of
the place set apart for the display of ag-
ricaltural implements, which is in rough
numbers one thousand feet long by two
hundred and twent broad. Messrs Kelk
& Lucas contract to furnish, the edi6ce for
two hundred thousand pounds, though in
reality it will cost three hundred thousaad
pounds, but the payment of the extra one
hundred thousand pounds is conditional
on the gross profits exceeding five hundred
pounds, as they did in 1851.
Taking one of the main sides of the
building, on the Exhibition road, as an ex-
ample, it will present lofty recessed facade,
from the center of which will rise suburb
dome of glass and iron to the immense
height of two hundred and fifty feet, with
the base of the dome not less than one
hundred and sixty feet in diameter. These,
for there are to be two, one at each end of
the building, will be the largest domes ev-
or built. That of st. Paul's is only 1Os
feet in diameter at the base, and even St.
Peters is only 139. These domes are to
be reared over the intersection of the nave
and transepts at right angles, and, as the
floors beneath both will be elevated above
the levels of the floors of the rest of the
building, an unequalled view will be got
from here through almost every part of
the vast interior. One magnificent nave
will be continued from the enterance in
the Exhibition road to the extreme end of
the building in the grounds of the Hortic-
ultural Society, and at the termination of
this the second dome will rise. The nave
is therefore to be twelve hundred fee tlong
by eighty-five wide and one hundred high.
All ths roofs will be of wool coated with
felt, and meeting ip the center at an angle,
like the roof of Westminster Hall and
most of our old cathedrals. The ef
feet, however, from the interior will not be
that of an angular roof as the girders will
will be arched and colored, and on these
the eye will naturally rest. The whole de-
sign and all the plans connected with the
building are the work of the Capt. Fowke,
R. E. The time fixed for the exhipition
is the same as that 1s51-vis., from the
1st of May to the 18th of October.
The guarantee fund now amounts to
nearly three hundred thousand pounds, and
it is anticipated that it will extend to
much larger sum in course of week or
two. One fact sufficiently illustrates the
progress made by this country since the ex-
hibition of ls4l. In that year the rail
ways to London were only equal to bring
ing and taking away forty-two thousand
persons daily; now one hundred and forty
thousand travellers could be brought to the
metropolis by rail, and the same number
taken back each day.-London Paper.