The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-29
THE CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS.
Tho Status of Operations on tho or sunds.-
Self-Rekisterink Turn stiles-The Centen-
ninl Guard.

self.RekisterinK Turnstiles-The Centen.
ninl Guard.
The exposition grounds contain four
hundred and twenty acres and are near
ly triangular in shape, being bounded on
the north by Belmont drive, on the east
by Lansdowne drive, and on the south.
west by Elm avenue. The total number
of Centennial buildings now completed,
with those in course of construction and
others not yet begun, is about one hun
dred, and the total area covered by the
exhibition buildings proper-that is, not
including restaurants or other buildings
not intended to contain exhibits-win be
about seventy-fve acres, which is nearly
double the space covered by the build
ings OF the Vienna exposition. The Lat
ter covered 38. 8 acres, excluding inolosed
courts those of Paris, in 1867, covered
thirty-one acres !; London, 1852, 25.6
acres Paris, 1856, 22.1 acres, and Lon
don, 1851, %. g acres. The board fence
bounding the grounds is 5000 feet in
length, and contains thirteen entrances,
representing the thirteen original States.
These entrances or gates will be orna-
mented and fitted up for the sale of
tickets, and will have self-registering
turnstiles. by which the exact number Of
visitors to the exposition can be easily
ascertained. In 5ird'seye view the
buildings are seen to compose three dis
tinct groups, one in each corner OF the
triangle. In the first are the following
buildings, SC nearly completed that the
details of the interior ornamentation yet
to be finished are not worth mentioning:
Main exposition building, art gallery or
memorial hall, judges pavilion, Cen
tennial Photographic association pavl-
ion, office of the Centennial commission
and the restaurant Ludreau. Those well
forward in construction or upon which
works. just beginning are the Centennial
national bank, Vienna bakery, photo
graphic gallery, wagon and carriage
manufactory, Japanese bazaar, extension
to the art gallery, dairymen's association
buildings, Brazilian imperial pavilion,
German government building, and that
of Clark & Co. The grounds will be
dotted everywhere with soda water pavl-
ions. The second group contains the
following buildings, all completed !:
Machinery hall, United States govern
ment building, United States laboratory,
United States hospital, Office of the Cen
tennial board of finance and the three
buildings of the British government.
Those well forward in construction are,
the Pennsylvania railroad companies,
Centennial depot, shoe and leather build.
inp. three machine shops (annexes OF
machinery halD; the @. T. A. fountain,
tourists ticket office, New York pavilion,
the nailless, spikeless, bamboo dwelling
for the representatives, of his majesty the
emperor of Japan, and the pavilions OF
Connecticut and Massachusetts,. Those
upon which work either has begun, or
will shortly begin, are: Fuller, Warren
& Co.'S building, Liberty stove works,
Gillender & Sons glassware manufac-
tory, West Point cadets encampment,
Loisseau's pressed fuel building, Trois
Freres Proenceaux restaurant, news
paper buildings, United States signal
service pavilion, Spanish government
building and the State paviions of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan. Wisconsin, New Hampshire and
Delaware. The buildings in the third
and last group, which may be said to be
finished, are horticultural hall, womens
pavilion, women's schoolhouse, South
ern restaurant, Lauber's restaurant and
the American restaurant. Agricultural
hall, the largest in the group, would be
read y for exhibits now had it not met
with misfortune shortly after the be-
ginning of it's erection, in having the
framework of one of its wings blown
down, by the wind. 1t will however, be
entirely. completed before the middle OF
March. The buildings in this group,
the erection of which will soon begin,
are the paviions Of Kansas and New
Jersey, the American brewers building
and the New England loghouse, in which
the methods of conducting the old. time
and the modern kitchens will be placed
in contrast. A strong force of special
police are stationed on the grounds, but
the organization of the regular Centen-
NAL guard will probably not be effected
before the end Of April. Philadelphia
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