The Clifton clarion., 1885-01-21
uaraftude of the Worlds Exposi-
 tim Buildings.


 ,eld. I doubt if even the men ,ho planned and built them fully their vastness and ,plendor. It is the fashion for ,olks who have not been abroad a yreat deal to go into raptures over ;he spread and general largeness ,f the Scala" at Milan. Well, 1t is a big and broad structure, a grand and glorious place Of song. But this main building Of the Worlds fair here is nearly 1Oo times as large. You could set the Gould and Vanderbilt opera house of New York right down on the floor of this Worlds fair editice, and if you would take the top and the chimneys off you might easily look upon it as a display of some sort of patent chair set up hero on exhibition.
 As you set out on your mile walk from the end of the big building, which is next to the Mississippi river, to the extreme end of the government building you pass nave or auditorium, to the left. You see what seems to be a little arch there and a few chairs. You might easily pass this large arch and platform and pile of chairs unseen, 1t is so small apparently-this whole ar rangement of platform and audi
 torium. And yet that apparently
 small auditorium has chairs for
 the comfortable seating of 10000
 persons. I only speak of this in
 order to give some faint notion of
 the vastness of the edi6ce.
 On this platform and in this little nave to the left, where 10000
 persons may be seated, the cere-
 monies of inauguration are to be held. Here, it is said, all the
 presidents of all the republics oi
 the land of Columbus are to be
 gathered together. Here judges
 and generals, men of science and
 of letters, teachers and thinkers
 a congress of all that is great ane
 illustrious shall be held. Abou
 this 10000, on either side, rise two
 vast wings that stretch far ava.
 and look down over the who'll
 scene. These lifted wings are t. ) be devoted to the press.
 It is fact that you could pu ! nearly the entire buildings c , Paris and Vienna which wer r devoted to their fairs into this on = main building of the New Orlean 8 exposition. It is about one-thir t larger than that of the Centenni; $ at Philadelphia It is by all odd D the largest edifice of which histor
 gives any account The Coliseu'
 at Rome, structure which gave
 word to the world by which 7 express magnitude, does not con pass half so much space as tn , exposition at New Orleans. Bu . of course, this is not as lofty al a substantial as the Coliseum wa = The engines to bc used here f ,t lighting the place alone are mo
 tremendous than all those set
 operation at the Philadelphia Ce
 tennial by the Emperor of Bra; D. and Gen. Grant at the moment h. opening the exhibition there. B pc one wearies of these repetitions to magnitude. Briefly, then, t D. whole arrangement is on this V; as plan. It is worthy of the count ed It is fashioned after it in its va CT ness and its splendor. Out the 's in the Mississippi, lording nt whole scene, will lie the Gr' he Eastern, from Europe-a fit co ot panion of the grand event. ed Perhaps some conception of
 largeness and the positiveness he the place might be arrived at nd contemplating the number of ac of involved. We have about 75 ac le' under roof. Now, if you will ut into the country and find a field ,n- large as this 75 acres you can ,rd some feeble sort of way und ,ty stand that here we have on hi ley the most colossal work that e 'ol- was.
 nit A smooth, level field of fer nb- green. Back of this level fielt de lakes and grass and gray-bear'
 old Druid oaks runs grassy
 bankment. This is the levee, b an at any time and at all times dur ,rt the last 200 years to keep ,m- Mississippi out. Around on ncs outer side of this crescent, cury ba here like drawn sword or cine