St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-21

etc., and each floor is slightly inclined and
provided with seats. furnishing accommo-
dation for about 10000 people. By this
arrangement an excellent opportunity is Of
fered for seeing and hearing without the
necessity of removing the visitors from the
main building to the separate music hall to
their discomfort and to the detriment of the
interests of the exhibitors.
THE ART GALLERY,
situated on the right of the main building,
as shown in the cut. is separated from it by
an open court, 30x160 and 40 feet in height
This court is rooted with glass, and is used
for the display of tropical plants, statuary,
etc. The art gallery itself is 40x1SO feet
and is constructed of entirely fire-proof ma
terial in the best possible manner for the
best exhibition of works of art 1t con-
taihS fourteen fine galleries for oil paintings.
The lower floor, lighted by side lights, is to
be filled with etchings, engravings, water
colorS, photographs, architectural drawings
ETC., with a few pieces of the casts in each
room. and the main body of the casts will
be placed in the glazed court, 30x165 feet in
size. One wall 40X165 feet will be covered
with bas-reliefs, frieZeS and busts and the
largest pieces will be placed upon the
ground. Two rooms or galleries will be
devoted to oil painting from Munich, three
rooms to the production of New York artists
and those from outside cities, one room to
unique collections of architectural pictures
and paintings by home artists. Another room
will be devoted to very attractive collec-
ton of the most noted paintings to be had
in this country. but the contents in this
apartment will be kept profound secret
until the opening. The casts are 236 in
number and were purchased for the Metro
politan museum of New York by Gen.
Cesnola with the assistance of the most
competent experts of the British museum,
so that the Exposition will have the choicest
collection of casts that has ever been
brought to this country. A duplicate set
will be ordered Immediately for the Metro
politan museum. The collection for Mime
apoliS was secured through the kindness of
MI. Albert Bierstadt and Gen. Cesnola. 1t
comprises the most famous sculpture from
ancient Assyria Greece and Rome now in
the museums of Europe.
The building is provided with a number
of fre-proof vaults, freight and passenger
elevators, wash rooms, reading rooms, retir-
ing rooms, observation galleries, etc.,
which will make it more convenient than
any other exposition building ever con-
structed. The ventilation will be of the
best possible character, and ample power
will be furnished for running all the ma
chinery that can be accommodated in the
amount of space devoted to it, which will
be principally the great basement floor. p,
THE EXHIBITS. b
From the first moment the board of di-
rectors announced itself ready to receive
applications for space, responses began to
pour in from all parts of the Union and
long before the building was ready for the
reception of exhibits the demand for space
exceeded the supply by nearly so per cent.
The splendid opportunity was quickly en-;
braced by enterprisihg manufacturers all
over the Union and space was snapped with
an avidity unequaled in the exposition an
nails of the world. The result is the great
building will contain fully equipped boot
and shoe establishment, watch factory.
laundry, shirt and overalls factory, CANDY
manufactory and bakery, gas, sewing.
shingle. brick. hoop and threShing machines:
sawmills and dairy apparatus; electric
clocks, drug specialties. household conven-
fences, musical instruments; fully
equipped printing Office; agricultural imple-
ments of every kind; silk looms. knitting
aud embroidering machines, flour mill
machinery, bag factory, barrel making.
wood and iron working machinery, and
hundreds of new and useful contrivances
for tightening labor, increasing production.
and improving the condition of all men.
women and children who work.
Besides these and hundreds of other
exhibits in actual operation, there will be
hundreds of others, comprising all that Is