Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
A FINE ART EXHIBIT.
Mr.. Johns is Hanging Over 1,OOOiOriR-
inals at the Expositiou-Now for
the Grand Opening This Week.

Mr.. Johns is Hanging Over 1,OO0iOrig.
inaIs at the Expositiou-Now fol
the Grand Opening This Week.
The week just passed has brought abou
some wonderful changes in the Exposition
buildings, and noneare more marked thar
those about the great iron structure. Nat
ural gas was ignited in the great boilers
last evening in order to dry out the brick
walls surrounding them, and to test the
water connections. Both engines are now
in place though connections have not been
made.
The first exhibit to be shown in the great
hall rolled buoyantly into the building
Saturday in the shape Of handsomely fin.
ished engine from the works of Dilworth,
Porter & Co. The men gave cheer of de,
light when the stubborn "dinkey" was al
last dragged into place.
Progress at the main building, however,
has been even more marked. Contractors
have done their part on the interior, and it
is now the exhibitors turn to hustle, and,
judging from appearances, they are getting
an able-bodied move on. Bunting and flag
decorations are completed, and Mr. Lauten-
slayer is devoting his attention to fixing up
some of the prettlest French ideas In decora-
tions on Groetzinger's stand. Monday MORN
ing he, with other decorators, will turn
their attention to floral decorations in
the large entrance which, when finished,
will be a marvel. The iron fences are
going up abominably slow, but contractors
are sanguine all will be finished.
Lovers of art will be delighted to hear that
Mr.. Johns is once again in a good humor.
Electric lights will be finished for his rooms
Monday, and if the men had been at all in
clined to work overtime, they could have
been finished last night. Each room is to
be illuminated with from so to 120 electric
lights, and Mr.. Johns has hung them in
places guaranteed by mathematical calcula-
tion and an artistic eye to cast their beams
at such an angle as to produce the most
pleasing and telling effects
Probably one of the most unique exhibi-
tions in an artistic line ever shown, will be
the room in which some so TO 100 Century
originals will. be shown. These pictures
are impressions by the best artists, from
which the cuts that have made Century
famous have been taken. They are valued
very highly in New York, especially some
of the originals of the noted "war articles"
but New Workers showed their appreciation
of Pittsburg's great show by gladly loaning
them. In all, there will be between 800 and
]. 900 pictures on exhibition, not single one
OF which is copy. and it is claimed by
critics it is certainly the finest gallery ever
shown west of the mountains.
As regards the buildings, ticket offices
have been put up, and doors are on the
main building, and everything seems to
justify the Presidents remark: "We are as
nearly finished now as is the average Ex-
position"
One thing, however, is certain, human
nature cannot stand that gloomy cloud of
Point dust, and if the city doesn't turn in
and do the right thing by one of her great
est enterprises, then either her heart or her
head is in the wrong place.