Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-19
TRULY A WONDER.
Tho q AGdlfOrium ut the een,en-
niaI Park MaryeIous STRUCTURE,



Macaulay, In one of his stately peri
DDS. spoke Of the Thames as "the river
Of ten thousand masts.n His eloquence |
lin describing Centennial parkat Colnm- |
| tiee, joists and gihders. The enormous |
bowl shaped auditorium, whoseexterior |
has Just been completed, forms the |
lpicturesoue center of a scene filled with |
tgrcat masses Of lumber, huge bare
frame works and wilderness of
materials necessary to building on a
mammoth scale. The great, sprawling
agricultural. horticultural and fioricul-
\ tufaf halls, thecatt amphitheater, the
art hall, the building for mining and
metallurgy, the house to be occupied by
the department of printing and Journal
lism, carriage hall, commefce hall and a
score of more or less important struc-
lures are steadily creeping skyws rd and
4 each day throw up a thousand more
wooden shafts than on the day before.
The work is progressing with wonder
| ftIl rapidity and so smoothly as to sur
prise the veterans who are in manage
ment of the exposition, and who know
Ihow such matters sometimes go. The
ldirectors were fortunate in having such
Ian energetic man as Mr.. Hamburger to
take the contracts, as he is pushing the
twoFk forward in manner that insures
1.-THE completion of the buildings long
before the opening of the exposition
i Mr.. Saint, who has the contract for the
agricultural and horticultural halls, has
asmall army of men at work on the
4 tremendous structure, and will have
his buildings finished In good time. \
I People even in Columbus have very
Inadequate idea of the immensity ofthe,
exposition building, but a few figures
may open their eyes. When the con-
Etracts now under way, are completed
there will be on the exposition grounds
1.-THE following buildings for the accom-
a 'jmodation Of exhibits and exhibiters:
Agricultural hall, horticultural hall
and Horticultural hall, together form
ling an immense Chinese cross, the body
Iof which will be $40 feet long and 100
feet wide and the two wings each 120X
300 feet; Carriage hill, 300 feet long by
100 feet wide, for the exhibition of
carriages and other manufactured artic-
les; the dairy building, for the storing
% land working up of the products of the
dairy test. one of the most interesting
features of the live stock department.;
1.-THE COW stable, an immense structure
; for the stabling of the stock entered in
1.-The dairy test; the three cattle stables,
, each 240 feet long and so feet wide; two
large rectangular sheep pens and cir
Icular one; nine extensive swine build
fngs, capable of accommodating several
big droves; the cattle amphitheater, 800
: feet long, where all the cattle at the ex-
: lposition will from time to time be eX-
lhibited; the three tremendous eXposi-
l position halls, which alone. have space
l lenough for all the manufactured, art
l land farm exhibits of an ordinary State
= flair: the woman's building, 40 feet long
q bv 100 feet wide, where the industry
' itact. ingenuity, intelligence and all
. lother good qualities of the. noblest pro.
duct of Ohio will he given expressions
y the art, hail. a fine, large, permanent
Istructure,. in which the magnificent
t collection made under the supervision
! of Professor Goodnough will be dis
q played; the wonderful auditorium, 6
j. Quarter of a thousand feet in diameter
It and eighty feet high, forming third o
4 a perfect sphere; the home of printing
a and Journalism, in which will beshoWi
= the, progress of printing from Guten
= berg's wooden types to, Ben, franklin
. wooden pesss and from, that UP to The
Q Webb perfecting, press, more wonderful
g than anv one OF the strange thing
which the three princes of Abyssini'
J. secured i'm the competition for rhei
8, Icousin's hand; Power halls, 300 by 6
r feet and 1000 by "a feet respectively, ,iil
}, (which the .fairyland of mechanics WI
n. Ibe fully represented; machinery, &c
skc
.. |ings clustered around the center Q
o1 power; Mining hall, 100 feet long, wit
u, its exhibit from She bowels of the cart
e. and its machinery to draw the coal
1e Iiron and otherminerals and metals t
4he light; Commerce and Transports
le tion5 hall, where the progress in til
ID modes of transportion during the pa
hundred years will be shown, lncludin
sh everything from the wagon OF IL
m Alleghenies to the modern improve
: locomotive, and from the Indian birci
~ bark canoe anda model of the flr
~ steamboat to the modern swift Ewinge
tyach. and the working model Of tt
en- latest man-of-war made for the Unite
b. States government; the poultry bnllt
ts ing, 100 feet long and Of a proportion
a ate width; the bee building, a sp!end
to new STRUCTURE WIeEO Ll0 ttOLCy tAdhC
" in all their movements may be see
n. the grand stand, with its extensive a
~ commodations for those interested
no the races, and its huge dining tha
~ and privilege stands beneath; the hoI
Tn stables, twenty-five in number, lar
o. and roomy, and with each stall fit
a. out as handsomely and completely al
for comfortable parlor; the twins DIM
,he i1aails. kitchens, pioneer homes, num'
m fahs log eabins,I express and telegra
ed i Offices building fol, newspaper, corr
he, pendentsr 5secretary's aud treasure
II, Eoffices and head quarters and the haI
- some privilege stands and other bui
,1o y, tings for the convenience of the pub
me E-fn all over 150I handsome structur
lil+ yia5e1 Il In LillaL.. Z. aaEl.,s 3,rees
nd tgoOne of the interesting women of NJ
ose York is Mrs. Margaret, Moore, an Iri
ng woman and a corlaborer of Miss AM
rn- Parnell, in the founding Of the, Ladi
uid Land League, Mrs. Moore, is a t.
Md Islight woman Of graceful figure, wi
,si- clear, regular features. and bright, de
blue; beautiful Irish eyes. She
j, served threeomonths in TullamoreJ j.
lcn in the cause of Irish liberty, havi
y been arrested iii Donegal while add
| ~ evicted families Her sentence was
: six months, but she was released W
ted other suspects before its lexpirati
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