Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
A CITY OF PALACES,
That's the Name Carpenter
Gives to the Chicago Fair
After Visiting 1t.
ALADDIN is A FAILURE
When His Works Are Compared to
the Buildings on the Lake.
LARGEST STRUCTURES MADE.
Fortunes Are Being Spent Every Day Just
to Please the Eye.
THE ELECTRIC AND OTHER EXHIBITS,
ALADDIN is A FAILURE
LARGEST STRUCTURES MADE
Fortunes Are Being Spent Every Day Just
to Please the Eye.
TIE ELECTRIC AND OTHER EXHIBITS.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH!
CHICAGO, June 17-Wonderful, won
ierful, wonderful is the magic wand of Chi
cago. The Genii of the Lamp of Aladdin
IRE picmies beside it The widest dreams
of Monte Christie become tame and prosaic
before it, and the mightiest works of the
historic past in Rome, in Egypt and in
India dwindle under its spell!
Pharaoh kept his one hundred and odd
thousand laborers at work for decades under
the lash to build the great pyramid of Cheops
Slaves innumerable worked for many
years in con structing the Colosseum and the
Itones of Tai Manal and the great Fort at
Agra were cemented together with human
blood and with tens of thousands of human
lives.
The wand of Chicago in few months has
created massive structures which in mag
uifcence and splendor outrival anything
ever conceived by man, and the human
mind grows dizzy in trying to comprehend
the immensity of the mighty Exposition
she is building.
The Busiest Place in the World.
have spent the day in wandering in and
out among the massive palaces which are
springiug up like magic on the banks of the
lake aud the din of great hammers, the
Ihrieking of engines and the running to
and fro of 6,OO0 workmen still ring in nv
ears as 1 write. The Exposition grounds
cover just about the area of a section of
and and if they were square it would be
Just about four miles around them. This
space is to-day the busiest place in the
world. The crowded streets of Canton in
China are not more lively than it, and almost
everv kind of work under the sun is going
on in the building of this Exposition city of
great palaces. Hundreds of landscape
gardeners are digging and planting and on
one little island in the lake inside the
ground, there will be ten acres of flowers
A half million pansies will here turn up
their many colorei faces to the sun
and roses bv the thousands will bloom.
Hundreds of men are working in iron and
other hundreds are hammering, saving and
cutting in wood. There are scores of art
lists here modelling in clav the delicate carv-
ings which are to decorate the great build
ings and other arsists are making the
gigantic statues which are to stand guard
over the doors or upon the roofs
It's Too Big to Describe.
There are painters bv the hundreds, de-
signers of all kinds, workers in tin and
copper, masons and plumbers, and in short
Gaen of every trade and vocation required in
the building of city. 1t takes big restaur-
ants TO furnish the feed for the workmen
and corps Of policemen are present to keep
guard over the whole despair of giving
any adequate idea of the size of these build
ings. Figures alone are worth nothing ex-
cept to an Isaac Newton or to mathematical
minds, and L will try to describe their size
in homely, everyday language.
Take the average farm of a quarter sec
tion of land, or 100 acres, and put over the
whole roof and you will have just the
amount of space that will be under the
roofs of these Exposition buildings There
is a sawmill here that will cover an acre.
The machinery exhibits will be in
one hall under nine-acre roof,
and there will be an annex to this
which will have a roof of six acres in size.
The building devoted to fine arts will be
bigger than the Capitol at Washington, and
you could plant the Treasury, the Capitol
ing inside the exposition Agricultural Hall
and have room to spare to drive around
them inside its walls The electricity build
ing covers more space than John Wana-
makers Philadelphia store, and its five and
a halt acres of floor would give room for
more than the average city block, and the
building devoted to women is as big as the
great pension building at Washington,
which covers almost two acres.
Thirty Acres Under One Roof
The biggest building of all is that of man.
utactures, which covers 80 acres and which
Will be the biggest structure ever put up bv
man. A large part of the roofs of these
buildings is OF glass and it will take about