The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-17
SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.

Description of the Main Build nR in Lou
willie ut which The Great Fn,r il II Ell
Held.
To person who has not seen the Southf
exposition building it is difficult to give
intelligent conception of it in its immensi
its arrangement and its general make-l
A man unused to calculate the size of hot
or the dimensions of space
feet gathers but a vague idea of
bigness of a structure from the SIM
statement that it is so many feet long and
many wide. To the farmer who measu
his possessions by acres, there may co
some conception of the general largeness
the structure fr om the statement that t
up thirteen-acre lot. Such is t re fact: /
roof actually covers over ten acres CT gre
The Southern exposition at Louisville
not only big thing as an enterprise, but
Southern exposition buiding at Louisvi
is, in point of immensely, among the FOL
most in the worlds catalogue OF big str,|
lures of like kind. Barring the London 4
position of 1851 and 1882 and the Centenn|
at Philadelphia in 1876, the area Is secoI
10 none n the history of the wor
The main building is GOO feet wid
and 100 feet long. Situated $50 feet frd|
the outer boundaries of the building d
open courts, four in number, 2f5 by 10 n
in size. The cross shaped figure in the cd
ter of the structure is higher Than the
mainder of the building, having around
outside boundary gallery which will
us ed as promenade. The central pavlll|
is 100 feet square, and the corner paving
are each ninety feet square. The curta1
! he nnrfh
! are each 80 feet ong, and those conn q
| ing east aud west are each LOO feet lon
| The central cross is 400 feet by 600 feet,
| it is ITO feet wide by forty-tive feet high
at the bottom of the trusses. Twenty-H
feet above the first floor there are 800 70
of galleries extending around the buildiI1
The arrangements for light as well as
ventilation are most complete. Inc
/ 2.70) feet of continuous skylght, even I'd
wide. and nearly double the same area
monitor lights. sid lights in the roof, a.
equally as much again of regular window
/ One half of these Windows hang on tru
| Mons or pivots, Sd that they can be throy
OF @ 1, admitting a current Ct air. At mig
the entire building will he illuminated
| theia d s ut electric light Furnished
! the Edisol company Tor is )lat light NJ
New York. The contract is the large
that was er made for lighting a builuii
with ell, ctric lights. The building a
anreos irl lighted with 4.6)O Ellis
gAts Of sixt, en- candle lover eaS
In Other vo d., The plant used "
firm b more light than any 9th
pant ever did. 1t is even larg
Ian the comb ned plants used at IN gre
electric light exhibition at l. ndon | YET
Some idea of the undertaking may be gain
when it s announced that the wire us
would aci forty miles in length ifsIe c.
cut in rlight line. The wire is all
c 1pper. aid much If it is v ny dick.
weigl is 40 20 % pounds. The number of {
naIno II .hine is fife en-. worth about 81,
each. ToIul them re. uires four of the 4
ming on d SINS engines used by
Edison company. and one very large RI
nolds Co-liss engine, furnished by thu ext
st on. TIE cot of the entire plant v
about $1,000, ard il required about
men, We King CONSTANT, a moata to sri
the w.ras an put the tlectrical me clin,
Ill or ler.-Louisri.ie Courter-Journdt.