Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-19
THE CRESCENT CITY.
MAGNITUDE OF THE WORLDS EXPO
sITIoN BUILDINGS.
A Structure Worthy Of the Country, sd
Fashioned After II IN Its vastnen
and Its Splendor-Tho Out
side Scenery.
uoaouin NIEer,s New orleans Letter

wonder IL any one understands the COM
parstive magnitude Of the buildings
IL which the Worlds fair here at New
ORLEANS il 10 lie held. | doubt il even
the men who plsnned and built them
fIlly appreciate their vnstness and splendor.
l. i the fashion for folks vino have not been
abroad very great deal 20 go into rap
lures over the spread and general largeness
Of the scala" at Milan. Well, it is a big
AMI broad structure. grand and glori-
Gus place Of song. Blu: this main building
of ths Worlds fair here is nearly 100 times
rs large. You could set the Gould and Van
Geroil. pera houSs of New York right down
On the floor of this Worlds fair edifice, and
il you would take the top and the chimnsys
OF you might easily LOOK upon If as dis
play of some sort Of u patent chair set up
here exhibition
As You sc. 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, OF
au litorium, to the left. You see what seems
TO lie little arch there and a few chairs
You might easily pass this large arch and
platform AMI pile Of ciairs unseen, it is SC
small apparently-this whole arrangement
Of platform and auditorium. And yet that
the comfortable seating of 1000 persons l
only speak o! tli5 in order 10 give some
faint notion of the vastness Of the edifice
On this platform aud in this little nave to
the left, where lJ.0o) persons may be seated,
the ceremonies of inauguration are to be
he'll Here, 1t is said, all the Presidents OF
all the republics of the land OF Columbus are
to be gathered together. Her. judges and
generals, men Of Science md of letters,
teachers and thinkers-a congress Of all that
Is great and iilustriOus shall be held About
this 1890, on either side, rise two vast
VIM that stretch far away AMI look down
over the whole scene. These lifted wings are
to he devoted to the press.
1t Is u fact that you could put nearly the
entire buildings OF Paris AMI Vienna which
were devoted To their fairs into this one main
bull ling of the New Orleans exposition Ii
Is about one-third larger than that of the
ce:.t ,nnial at Philadelphia. II is by all odds
IT, largest editice Of which history gives any
acgsIn:. The Coliseum at Rome q structure
which gave word TO the world by which to
express magnitude, does MT compass half SC
much space as this exposition at New
Orleans. But, of course, this i, not as lofty
AM substantial as the Coliseum was
TIE engines to DO used here for lighting
tho place alone are more tremendous than
all those set in operation ut the Philadelphia
centennial by the emperor OF Brazil ana
Gen Grant at the moment of opening the
exhibition there. Rut one wearies of these
repettiols OF IN gnituie. Briefly then, the
whole arrangement Is on this vast plan. II
is worthy of the country IL is fashioned
after it in its vastne>s and in its splendor.
Out there in the Mis- 5issippi, lording the
whole scene. will lie the Great Eastern,
from Europe-a tit companion of the grand
event
Perhaps some conception of the largeness
and the pcSitiveness OF tie place might be
arrived ut by contemplating the number Of
acres involved W. have about seventy-five
acres under roof Now, if you viii 20 into
the country and iini field as large a.
this seventy-iive acres Won can in some feeble
sort of way understand that here we have on
hand the m st col sal work tlat ever was.
A smooth. level falt OF ferviI green
Back of this level Eel Of lakct AMI grass
and gray-bearded OH Druid oaks runs a
grassy embankmelt TN, ) the ievee, built
any time AMI at al Times during the last
POO years 70 keep the Mississippi
out Around on III. outer side Of
this crescent, curving here ike drawn
sword or cimeter, Won see ships sweeping
past. And they look Is if they were walking
On the bank Of the river. They appear pre-
cisely as If they Were saunterins along the
banks AMI looking down into the tree tops
from their lofty prominence on the levee
They are higher than your head, these ship.
that sweep by AMI AROUND the swift crescent
when the river is booming full. The scene is
unique, startling, and without example in