Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-22
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

10. 600, 900 pounds of iron. 1t is only pos
sible to appreciate the immensely OF TINS
structure bv comparison, and when one Is
told that it is four times larger than the
old Roman Coliseum, which seated $4,000,
that the great pyramid Cheops could be
comfortably housed in its inside and still
leave room for the Sphinx, Cleopatra's 8
Needle, Liberty Statue on Bedloe's Island
and Notre Dame of Paris as additional
attractions, an adequate appreciation
is received OF its magnitude.
Ten thousand electric lights will be neces-
sary to illuminate the building. If the
fantasy had led the Exposition officials to
have indeed constructed a city beneath this
roof along the various avenues and streets,
1000 colleges could have found room within
its walls and population of 5000 people
could have existed here without single
discomfort of an overcrowded city. The
Corinthian style of architecture is the one
that prevails in this building. Three
hundred thousand people can be comfort
ably seated il this building, and the largest
standing army in the world-that OF Russia
could be mobilized beneath its roof Only
half the space is utilized in seating the
5000 guests of the dedication ceremonies,
within the sound OF the speakers voices in
this great building Of overa quarter OF a
mile in length.
The Electricity Building.
In the Electricity building is to be ex-
hibited the crowning glory of the nine
teenth century. No other industry or
science has made such progress within the
last decade, and this building and its ex-
hbits may be declared monument to men
already living 10 Edison, of America;
Werner Sicmens, of Germany, and Sir
William Thompson, of England, the men
who have led the van in electrical dis
coveries and inventions. This building is
erected at a cost of $3.50, 900, and is over $50
feet long and $50 feet wide. The anchi-
lecture, in which the Ionic and Corinthian
prevail, is calculated to harmoniza perfectly
with the intended use of the building The
interior decorations, moreover, have been
designed especially with a view to the
artistic lighting, which will be one OF
the main features Of the exhibit.
Four hundred and fifty arc lamps
for the general illumination of the
building, or one lamp to every SO feet square
OF space and 10000 or more incandescent
lamps besides all of the special efforts of
lighting among the exhibits, will make the
building veritable blaze of light. But
electricity, as exempllfed in the exhibits
and in its power for usefulness, does not end
with the electricity building. Its appllca-
ton begins at the mammoth power mouse
situated in the Machinery Hall and extends
by means OF wires to convey light, heat
power and signals to every part of the
grounds and all of the buildings and it then
goes outside the grounds by means of the
Al md al fao rtc Of
world. This great power plant is to in
clude electrical machinery aggregating N,-
600 horse power. Steam will not be allowed
in any part of the grounds or in any of the
buildings excepting at this central power sta
tion. All pouer at other points will be by
electrical transmission. The machinery OF
exhibitors in all the other departments will
be driven by electric motors, 1000 to 6,000
electrical horse power being supplied for
that purpose. The grounds and buildings
Will be lighted by electricity, 1000 arc
lamps of 1000 candle power each and be-
tween 100000 and 10000 incandescent
lamps. The general illumination in all the
buildings will be by arc light excepting in
the art galleries, the Woman's building, the
Administration building and some of the
State and Foreign buildings. In these e1-
ceptions the lighting will be by incandes-
cent lamps
The elevated railway which will traverse
the grounds of the Exposition, will be
operated by electricitv,th the boats OF the omni-
bus line, which are to ply the waters OF the
lagoon and the inner harbor, will be oper-
ated by storage batteries, many OF the pas
scnger and freight elevators in the larger
buildings will be electrically propelled, the
great central fountain in trout of the Ad
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electricity, and the two spectacular iount-
aims at either side of this will also be
electrical.
The Art Building a Beauty.
The most substantial building of the
Worlds Fair and the one likely to remain
permanent structure in Jackson Park is
the Art building. 1t is the only fre-proof
building on the grounds and great pains
have been taken to notify and assure Euro
pean art exhibitors that their treasures
would be secure IRON any possible conAar-
ration that might break out during the ex-
position. o. Grecian-Ionic style which
will receive as much artistic praise as the
exhibits on the inside. this building of
classic architecture has been constructed at
an expense OF 500, 0G0. 1t is 500 feet long
and $40 feet wide and has two annexes each
of which is 200 by 120 feet. The floor SPACE
OF the main building and anncxes is SIX ana
one-halt acres. OF oblong structure, the
Art building is intersected, north, south
east and west by great nave and transept
100 feet wide and 20 feet high. A colossal
winged figure of Victory surmounts the
dome, and the corners made by the crossing
of the nave and transept are utilized for
small picture galleries Sculpture is to be
displayed upon the main floors OF the nave
and transept, and paintings and panels in
bas relief will be exhibited on the ground
floors of both the galleries. Outside gal
leries, 40 feet wide, form a continuous
promenade around the classic structure.
Machinery Hall and Its Expanse,
The inventive genius of the closing decade
of the century is to be displayed in Ma
chinery Hall; and when this building is
open to visitors its interior will be enc
great maze of moving machinery. It is
located at the extreme south end of the
grounds and in the center of the park from
side to side. Over 500 feet long and 500
feet wide, with an annex of $50 feet in
length and 400 feet in width, this vast
structure cost 81, 100000, and has a floor
space of over IL acres. One of the features
OF this building is that the vast arched
trusses which support the roof of the main
building are built sepatately Of iron and