Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-05
THE WORLDS FAIR.
cit win De the Biggest and Most Beau
tiful Show of the Age"

in" said James w. Scott, publisher of the
Chicago Herald, land have associated it
with the stockyards, where so many hogs
are killed and packed per second, that the
idea of it's doing anything in the artistic
way seems ridiculous. But l want to say
to you that the Worlds fair will be the
most beautiful thing ever seen.
1.-THE Paris exposition was magnificent
but think the Worlds fair will be finer
It is generally conceded that American
architects are the best. We have more
styles and more style. Well. the best
architects in the country have been formed
into board, and while each has been &C
corded a free hand as to the building
Which he has to design, yet there has been
certain uniformity of design-say, for
example, In the size of the openings-which
makes all the buildings seem the work of
one great mind of wonderful versatility.
Already you can see and appreciate the
magnifcence of these buildings. They are
magnificent. There is nothing cheap look
ing about them. The material of which
they are built looks like marble or any
other kind Of stone you choose to make it,
and yet 1t doesn't seem shabby
"Here's a point. You know the iron
Orders of structures covering as much
ground as these do are usually ugly. The
architects realized that this ironwork
could not be hiddsa. They have frankly
exposed it, and they have glorified the
commonplace. AS you stand and look up
at the ironwork it aeems like lace.
'"The trouble in all these eXpositions has
been that there has been no grand scheme
of color or architecture. One building
would have been handsome if it had been
placed right or if its color had not Jared
with that of its neighbor. All that has
been avoided at Chicago Frederic Law
Olmsted, who is landscape architect,
has planned the site Of each building with
reference to the lagoon.
Crank D. Millet. whose position in
American art is we'll known, has charge of
the whole scheme of color and decoration.
There won't be popcorn stand the lines of
which won't be in harmony with that of
its surroundings There will be electric
launches plying on the lagoon to carry
people about, and even the color of their
awnings has been considered. know peo-
pie had an idea that anything Chicago
would do would be big, but they also
thought it would be sort of rough pine
lumber affair, decorated with red, white
it. 1t won't. Chicago people have made
their brags to their friends and then have
gone down to the grounds and come away
stupefied to find that their widest boast
ings have been double discounted.
"Why, take the matter of flowers. Your
Mr.. John Thorpe, of Flushing, a man
known to every florist in America, and
friend to every wealthy man who has an
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them, 1 want the best you've got' and
these rare plants he has set out in their
own earth already, so that by the time the
fair is opened for visitors those plants will
look as if they had been there hundred
years.
81 can't begin to tell you of all the won
derful things there will be to all, but / do
wish it could be understood that this is
distinctively an American work and a
demonstration to the whole world that
while we can make money we have the
very best artistic feeling, and can do any
thing we choose when we give our mind to
it. Exhibitors from the European govern
ments who have had experience in Paris,
in Vienna, in London, in Berlin, when
asked to make suggestions have thrown
up their hands in despair They have
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been of value, but they are amazed at the
way in which the thing has been handled.
"As q sample Of the artistic feeling of
the thing, let me tell you that the art
building, which is in the style of the
Parthenon, is the delight of all the archi-
tects, because it is more purely Greek than
the Parthenon. itself That was added to
by people vino took bits from outside
boil l,,,A , ha h. h.
building had the Greek feeling SO thor
oughly that he outbreaks the Greeks.
And yet it isn't stiff and formal, but full
of that, don't know what, that shows the
man took pleasure in his work and made
it almost living thing.
"There will be buildings devoted entirely
to departments that In other expositions
have been showed off in a corner. For ex-
ample, mines and mining will have
building 1000 feet long by nearly 400 feet
wide. Then the new art department of
modern engineering, dynamics and cleo
tricity will have building entirely to
itself 1t is worth it. Dairy products have
always been included in the agricultural
department. They will have separate
building.
"There will be Chinese streets and an
lrlSn village, WIN u CdSule; Japanese
town, with an entertainment, dances and
all that; street from Cairo reproduced
exactly; street from Bombay, the cliff
dwellers' homes and a hundred and one
things l cannot think of on the spur of the
moment. There will be every possible de-
vice known to man for locomotion-gon-
dolas, with real gondoliers; steam launch
es, electric launches, jinrickshas and ele-
plants carrying passengers. Perhaps the |
most curious of all will be the moving
sidewalk. Passengers brought down from |
the city by vessels on Lake Michigan will |
land at long pier. This sidewalk will |
carry them up into the grounds among the |
buildings. York World
The Rev. VIM. Stout, Wharton, !
Ont, states: After being Intellectual I
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