The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-17
On to New Orleans.
TIE Worlds Exposition Nearly Ready
'pecial Corresp ondence to lhe Bulletin.

Special CorresP ondence to 1he Bulletin;
New ORLEANS, Dec. IA, 1894.
Three thousand carloads already received
and still they come az the rate of two hun
dred day. They cannot possibly get all
In place before the first of January, yet the
opening day, December 10, will be mag
niiicent'aifilr, for so vast and various mu-
scum BIS never been dreamed of before, The
exposition grounds every day by
THEIR BLOOMING BEAUTY
attract several thousand of idle citizens;
who are not allowed, of course, to enter the
buildings. There are now sixteen of these,
and their size, as everybody knows by this
time, eclipses all previous structures of sim
liar purpose.
Bret sketches of some of the buildings
will convey more emphaticaly to the gen.
eral intelligent reader the scope and mag
nitude of their attractions. The main
building IS unique there never was any
thing like it its paviicned facade 1878
feet long, its depth of 9O5 feet, its interior
arrangements of pillars instead of parti.
lions, its gradual rise of roof and conse-
quent adoption of light, its music hall seat
ing ten thousand with stage room for six
hundred musicians, its enormous organ and
chime of bells, its machinery hall 1873 by
800 feet 10 which has been ided an exten.
sion in iron of $40 by 100 feet, its dainty
coloring of chocolate and hight lilac that
seems 10 enrobe vastness in drapery OF
delicacy the broad galleries that encircle
it completely,
THE COUNTLESS CLUSTERS
of electric lights, the gimmefing aisles and
the costly and curious things with which
the exhibitors have embellshed them-al
combine to produce sn effect which is like
ly to last lifetime--aye, and more than
lifetime.
To the northeast by thousand feet
stands the United States and state exhibit
building. This was an afterthought, it
having been first supposed that the huge
ness Of the main building and the others
adjacent would hold all the contributions
of exhibitors. This is SS5 by 585 feet, and
in it United States officials are arranging a
composite picture Of the mechanism of the
most nearly perfect government that has
ever been beheld.
The horticultural hall, iron and glass,
with its two wings 800 feet each in length
by 80 in width, and body of l04 in diam
eter, spreads itself over the landscape in a
ordly grove Of centenarian live-oaks, like
some brilliant
| TROPICAL BUTTERFLY
magnlfed to the millonth power. Its in
terror where on tables will be grouped in
fine art $4,000 plates Of fruit, with the
rarest exotcs of the distant south in full
blaze Of beauty ranged around, and in the
central tower colossal fountain sprinkling
its diamond dews of GOODNESS over the per
fumes, rich to oppressiveness, will be a
sight and sensation few, if any, have ever
approached in their past experience.
The art gallery, $50 by 100 feet, built all
of iron, even its partitions, guaranteeing Sc
cunty to the rare pictures and statues lent
| from private families, and the work of
great French and Mexican artists-not for
getting orr own rising celebrities will
also to all, and to the ladies especially, of.
fer that foretaste of 'joy forever which
"things OF beauty" never fail to impart.
Two thousand of the finest pictures by
American artists have already been obtain
ed, and this department, which in most
eXpoSitions has been deemed rather weak,
will be found strong point here.
But the Mexican headquarters, a build
ing put up by the Mexican government,
will, perhaps, to the majority be
THE ARCHITECTURAL JEWEL
OF the collection. 1t favors the fashion of
a Mexican gentlemap's residence, having q
frontage of 100 feet, and depth Of 800,
with an open court inside ll5 by 1874 feet
around which runs gallery that will be
filed with the farest flowers and brightest
birds of Mexico, giving it the semblance of
a hanging garden. Light, graceful turre,s
at each corner and in the center, covered
with profuse ornamentation of carving,
and the whole painted In gold, green and
maroon, with dashes of intense red here
and there, will recall to the mind of the
gazer all the glow and grace of that Moor
ish period In Spanish history of whose art
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