The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-12-31
HATS Off TO THE FAIR.
The Great Building Used for
the Dedicatory Ceremonies.
THE MOST GLORIOUS SUCCESS.

EmbeIIished with Accurate Pictures
Furnished by The Illustrated Worlds
Fair-An Exact Statement of How
the Great Work Is Going On.
lCuts copyrighted by illustrated Worlds Fair.
1892
Four hundred years after the day on
which Columbus, first saw land in the
New World-to wit, on Oct. 81, 1S92-at
least 1875, 900 people win assemble in the
great hall of the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts building at Chicago, and
the imposing ceremonies of national and
official dedication will take place. II
will indeed be a memorable day, the
proudest in the history Of Chicago. 1t
will be preceded by an Introductory day
of street parades and followed by day
Of festivities and ejoicing-three days
of display outdoing by far everything
heretofore witnessed on this continent.
The audience itself will be historic.
President and cabinet, members of the
supreme court and Of both houses of
congress, governors, orators, generals
and statesmen, distinguished foreigners
of various ranks and eminent men and
women of our own land will be the CEN
trail figures. In the audience will be
people of almost every race on earth,
especially from our own $500, 900 square
miles of territory. There will indeed
be a union of states hearts and hands,
an ideally perfect representation of the
greatest republic, the greatest single ma
Uion the world has ever seen.
The orators will be worthy of the oc-
casion-the genial Channcey M. Depew
to deliver the Columbian grafton; the
venerable and eloquent William @. P.
Breckinridge, of Kentucky, to give the
dedicatory oration AM trace the up
buildinr aa-afre narf0lN 4 which his own,
family has held SO distinguished place
for more than a century. Poetry VIII
lend its aid, music of the grandest sort
will enliven the occasion, and art in ITS
highest development will add its ineffa-
BILE charm The rendition Of appropri-
ate selections from Haydn, Beethoven
and Handel will be by masters in their
art, the songs prepared for the occasion
will be most fitting, and the chorus will
consist of galaxy Of noted artists.
This will be the great day of the three,
as is proper for the commemoration of
an event by far the most important in
the history of the last eighteen centuries.
But the preceding and following days
will be only second to it in Importance
and display. On Oct. 90 will occur the
great civic procession, the principal or
ganizations in the nation passing in re-
view before the president and cabinet.
At night Jackson park will be illumi-
mated as no ground in America ever has
been, and the last day, Oct %, will be
devoted to military reviews and the
evening to grand social features.
The building for the department of
Manufactures and Liberal Al j, the
largest in the world, and ytt r.r nony
and beauty have not been sacrificed tC
size, for the architect, Mr.. George B.
Post, has succeeded in combining the
three so as to produce the finest effects
of grandeur. 1t will be the feature OF
this exposition, as the Eiffel tower was
of that at Paris in 1889. The bare state
ment of the geometrical and CONNER
cial figures reads like a romance in ma
terial construction. One must trave
within few rods Of mile to go around
it. 1t covers 3O15 acres, the area O
many valuable New England farm
and including galleries has forty-fou1
acres Of floor area To cover that foo
with average carpet would cost $201 ,S49
and putting down the carpet would COS
$50 600
One million men could stand on tn
floor space with ease, and 100000 coulc
be seated. The Roman Coliseum whel
crowded held but 8000O Under til
roof 900 cottages, % by 80 feet each
could be placed, and the area equal
that of four average city blocks. Their
are 1000, 600 feet of lumber in the floor
and five carloads of nails We're used l
fastening,it down. In the entire struC
ture are 17,0000O0 feet Of lumber, -
100000 pounds of steel and 100000
pounds of iron, the metal aggregatin
twice as much as was used in the Brool
lyn bridge. There are eleven acres c
skylight. in which are forty carloads {
iawless glass. No man need hope to r.
alize the grandeur of such building {
: one view. Like Niagara and Yosemite
it stuns the Imagination and must
studied for many days
The building is a rectangle, l,6S1 fe'
long and 7S7 feet wide. fronting IL
lake, with only lawns and promenade
between. At each corner Of the mai
building are paviliOns forming gre;
arched entrances, which are designed
harmony with the great portals II
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