The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-04-01

After passing this immense strucsu,e
which will be three times as large as.
the largest building at the Paris e1posl-
ton, being nearly 400 feet longer and
twice as wide, and covering more than
81 acres. the steamboat will drop along
side the pier. This, as designed by
Augustus st. Gaudeus, of Paris, will be
a thing of beauty and a source of much
ENJOYMENT to visitors Two parallel
piers will extend from the shore about
400 feet where, taking Outcurves, they
will partially inclose a circular harbOr,
from the center of which will rise. on =
great pedestal, a commanding statue or
Columbus or of the republic. On the
embracing portions of the piers will
stand "A exquisite, isolated columns
representing the A states, each one
bearing over its capital the coat OF
arms of the state it symbolizes> Be
yond the harbor, the north or main
pier will extend out into the lake to a
total distance of 1.5O0 feet, taking there
a detection several hundred feet to the
southwark, and having at its extrem-
ity. rising from the water on stone
foundation. an immense Greek pavll-
ion, 200 feet in diameter, gayly eOlored
and adorned. Here visitors may sit
and enjoy the cooling lake breezes,
listen to the finest music, and obtain a
magnificent view of the great exposi-
ton buildings and other shore attrac-
lions.
A VISTA OF sPLENDOR.
From the pier, extending westward
across the park, will be long avenue or
court, several hundred feet wide, af-
fording, Chief Burnham says, "a spec
tacle unparalleled in the world-a mar
vel of architectural grace and sublimity.
an exposition in itself" To the right,
at the entrance of this grand avenue,
will be the great manufactures build
ing, and farther back the other attrsc-
tons already referred to. To the left
will be the agricultural building, meas
uring SOOx5OO feet, designed by Archi-
tect McKim, of New York This, Chief
Burnham says, will be dream" 1t
will be severely rectangular in form,
but made deliberately ornate with
statues and other relief work. Its cost
will be half a million. Between this
and the huge manufactures building
| juts branch of the lagoon. All down
this grand avenue, encOmpassing a
beautiful sheet of water, will stand inn
posing buildings, along the majestic
facades of which will sweep the gaze
of the visitor until it rests upon the adj
ministration building of the exposition,
which terminates the vista nearly a
mile distant Upon traversing the
''long walk" as it may be called, after
he famous way from Windsor castle to
Ascot, the visitor will find it a veritable
Bots de Boulogne or Versailles in point
of beauty of effects produced by land
scape architecture and gardening.
Passing the agricultural building,
the visitor will come to the great ma
chinery hall, which lies to the west
ward of it and which is connected with
it by a horseshoe arcade doubling a
branch of the lagoon. 1t will be near
ly identical with it in size and cost, but
will differ from it considerably in ap-
pearance, being serious. impressive
and rich in architectural line and de-
tall" Chief Durham says, land the
best work of its designers. Peabody &
Stearns, of Boston"
THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
Opposite machinery hall and north of
it. in the center of the long walk, -
will stand the exposition administra-
ton building. This will be one of the
most imposing, and. in proportion to
it's size, the most expensive one of the
large structures. Richard NJ. Hunt, of
New York, president of the American
Institute of Architects, is its designer.
and he has made it stately and simple
yet exceedingly striking in appear
ance and an excellent representative of
Italian renaissance. 1t will cost $3.50,
! 900. be adorned with scores of statuary
figures and be surmounted by gilded
dome rising $50 feet, or about the height
of the Auditorium tower. In it will
be the offices of the national commits
sion and the local directory and the
headquarters of all the numerous Of
ficials connected with the management
and regulation of the exposition.
To the northward of the administra-
ton building. on either side and facing
the grand avenue, will be two more
immense buildings, one for the electric
al and the other for the mining exhibit
These will be about equal in size, COW
ering each little more than five acre ;
and half. Both will be of French
renaissance. The former. designed by
Van Brunt & Howe, of Kansas City,
will be the more expensive, however.
costing $3.50, 900: while the latter. de-
signed by S. S. Beman, of Chicago, viii
cost $3.50, 200. The board of architects
has declared that both will be excep-
tionally imposing structures.
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
North of these buildings in the main
lagoon will be an island of twenty or
thirty acres in area. 1t is the intention
to have this kept as wild and primitive
as possible. There the visitor NAV
wander through a miniature forest
primeval.' painless and untransformed