Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-24
ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTIES TO
BE DISPLAYED IN THE FAIR
GROUNDS AT THE COMING
CENTENNIAL.
The Dimensions of Some New Bull d.
ings and What They Are to be
Used For.
Work Progressing Rapidly on the Tx
position City.

permanency, ana large nunoeI Vi
new buildings are in course Of erection,
and will, when completed, give the
place an entirely different and very
handsome appearance. Since the let
ting of the contracts on the new build
ings, work has been pushed with great
rapidity, and the beginning has been
made of nearly every one OF them.
These buildings are ten in number,
and are of such character that they
can be looked upon as permanent inn
provements. The most important of
them, in fact, are built in thoroughly
substantial manner, and were intended
to be permanent. The commission
thought it would be poor economy to
spend thousands of dollars upon tenn
porary structures, so they just added
what was necessary and provided for
buildings which will always be hand
some and creditable.
The largest of these structures now
in course of making, is the agricultural
hall. 1t is built in the form of q
Chinese kite, with two wings and a
tail. 1t is $40 feet long and l2O feet
wide. Its length is SO great that when
one of the managers of the exposition
asked an employe to step off the dis
tance at the time of the location of the
building, the latter was stopped before
he had completed two-thirds of the
measurement and was requested to try
it again, as he must have made a mis-
take. The central portion of the build
ing is 100 by 800 feet. The hall is built
of wood, finished in good style, and
will be one story high. The roof will
be handsomely topped with a cupola
and will have very broad, projecting
ewes. There will be platforms and
walks inside and the whole will be
lighted through skylights. The cost
of the hall will be $4,000. 1t will! be
given I'D to the departments of agricul-
ture, horticulture and Horticulture.
Probably the most unique building
on the grounds will be the auditorium,
which is nothing more nor less than a
huge dome set on the ground, present.
ing much the appearance that would
have been presented if roc's egg, oi
which everybody has read in the
Arabian Nights, had been dyed black
for Easter, of course in two and
one of the halves set on its fiat end IN
the middle of the State Fair grounds
The building will be $50 feet in diane
ter and so feet high. The interior j:
innocent of timber, the ceiling form
ing, geometrically, an infinite number
ofarches which are perfect semi-circles
A segment of the hugh circle which !!
the floor will be taken up with stage
capable of seating 700 people. 1t il
here that the immense chorus will be
The rest of the auditorium will be HlleG
with circling seats, arranged, as in ar
amphitheater, in rising tiers. Stag
and audience hall will seat at one tim,
10000 people. The light will come
through skylights, and there will b
six enormous entrancesso that th'
lighting, ventilating and facilities TO
filing or emptying the hall rapidly
will be good. The building will cos
$4,000.
The carriage hall is another larg'
structure, its dimenions being 100 By
300 feet. It's form is rectangular, AM
the style will be the same as that o
the agricultural hall. 1t is inclosec
and will be lighted by skylights. Th'
building will cost $1,000. .
The amphitheater or cattle ring will
be very attractive and useful featur
of the exposition appointments ant
will be found very convenient at sue
eeeding State fairs. 1t is formed lik
one end of the Circus Maximus a
Rome-a statement which all classica
scholars and travelled persons will un
derstand. 1t is built in the shape of
small semi-circle with its circumferenc
carried on at each side in straigh
line, or, technically, in the direction g
tangents to the circle at these points
The building will be finished in tn
hest style and will be substantial an
permanent. 1t is Is feet wide and so
feet long, the diameter of the sem
circle being Is feet and the length { {
the tangents 291 feet. There will b
seats for about 1000 persons, the seal
peing raised in tiers like those OF tn
grand stand and auditorium, an
Underneath them will be booths, cloaf
rooms and offices. There is a ban
stand in the midst of the seating. tn
amphitheater is for ring displays of liv
stock. 1t costs 5000.
Mining hall is a building 50 by Il
feet on the ground and one story higI
It will be half open and one-ha
covered and will cost 81 800. ALI mil
ing products will be shown here-ti
heavier and rougher, such as coal an
iron, in the open, and the finer in IL
closed part.
Commercial hall, a handsome sht
so feet wide and 100 feet long, will CO
81. 1000 and will be one of the most i
teresting places to visit in the expos
tion. Here will be shown all the stel
in the immense advancement of Il
American people in the matter
transportation and travel. The ha
ness Of the pack mule, the rude wag!
of the Alleghenies, around which q
poetic genius of 7. Buchanan Reid b
thrown charm; the numbering, ca
vas-covered emigrRnt wagon whi
crossed the plains in '4D or stood G
serted on the prairie, its recent occ
pants murdered and scalped by the i
dians; the wooden sled, which slipp
over the roots and leaves of the prin
val forest where wagon could y
enter; the broad-tired, low-set lumh
wagon of the lumber camps, a
coaches of all grades and experient
will be set alongside q perfected LOGON
tive, copable of whirling q passens
crowded train along the steel highw
at the rate Of mile minute.
The department Of printing and joV
nalism will be well housed. The bui
ing to be occupied by the mode
mentors will have the form of q Gro
100 feet long one way and so feet
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