Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19


had no conception of how they will look.
The general impression over the country 10
that they will be massive factory-ltke struo-
lures of iron and glass. The truth is they
are to be palaces which will look as though
ages had been consumed In their building.
By the aid OF a sort of stucco material made
of plaster and hair in such composition
that it will take all the wonderful finish of
marble and the molding of plaster of paris,
every iron bone in the great skeletons of
these buildings will be covered by the most
beautiful of architectural flesh, and the
whole will be a grand creation of carvings,
statuary, beautiful pillars and graceful
forms
These carvings Will be decorated in colors
and many of them will be plated with gold
leaf and bronze. The Administration
Building is crowned by great dome 220
feet high and 120 feet in diameter and this
is to be gilded at cost of $50, 900 for gold
leaf while the interior is to be decorated
with paintings representing the arts and
sciences and the walls will be covered with
sculpture The sculpture on the various
buildings will be one of the sights of the
Fair and the work now being done is won-
dertul in its beauty. The capitals OF the
columns of the Fisheries Building are de-
signs of fishes heads and each building has
W AtoChi.
The golden door of the transportation
Building will surpass in its carvings and in
its gold leaf decoration the famed temples
of Bangkok in Siam, and it will take days
to note the beauties of these buildings to
say nothing of their contents
The Age of Electricity.
Twenty years ago little was known of
electricity outside of the telegraph. At
this exposition 1t requires building of
nearly six acres to hold the different cleo
trical inventions, and Edison alone will use
about an acre of space. An electricity nrm
of Berlin wants nearly an acre. and this
firm has offered to spend 5000, 900 on its
electrical exhibit. Edison is getting up new
matter for the Fair and he proposes to show
his kinetograph and other things which will
be new. The exhibition of electricity in
lighting and in power production will be
shown in the different buildings in a way
never dreamt of before
The electric plant of the Worlds Fair
will cost more than s., ,000, 900 and electricity
will turn night into day. The Manufactures
Building alone will have $4,000 lights and
there will be 127, 900 electric lamps blazing
away every night The effect of these lights
will be wonderful beyond description.
There are quarter of million panes of
glass on the Exposition buildings, and these
will be turned into gold by the glare of
electricity, and the 40, 600 panes of glass in
the Electricity Building will fairly blaze.
Fountains of Jewels and Lakes of Gold.
The electrical water display will surpass
anything ever attempted. The great basin
which runs from the lake to the Admins
tration Building will be encircled with cleo
trio lights and lights will be sunk under
the water, and the effect will be lake of
gold. The fountains will flow over electric
rays of all the colors of the rainbow, and
there will be search lights, arc lights and
all sorts of electrical appliances, even to
the most wonderful fireworks operated by
electricity and made to go off by the play
ing of the keys of a piano-like instrument,
SO that they will change at the will OF the
player and produce wonderful fire pictures.
The prospect of an immense crowd at Chi
cago grows better and better, and the man.
ayers are now prophesying that there will
tickets sold. The Exposition has been ad-
vertised as no exposition has ever been ad-
vertised before, and all the newspapers of
the world have been publishing articles
about it. Major Moses P. Handy has in his
Bureau of Publicity and Property writers
of all languages, and letters and news are sent
out every day in Spanish, Russian, French,
German, English and italian.
What Major Handy Is Doing.
The mail of this department. is bigger than
that of any factory in the country and it
has 81 900 addresses to which matter is
regularly sent. Among these addresses are
%, 600 people in the United States and
about IL, 600 foreigners, representing 80 diff
ferent nations in different parts of the
world. There are 1900 newspapers on
the list, and during the past month abont
1000 words days have been sent on the
average to these papers, or about one and
half columns a day. This average has been
kept up for nearly year.
The bureau gets newspaper clippings
showing that at least 8, 900, 900 words day
are printed about the Exposition and that
about half this is matter sent out by its
departments. Information is sent regularly
to all possible exhibitors The whole world
is studied and the class of information
likely to move certain people is sent them,
The result is the foreign attendance at the
Exposition will be very large and the peo-
pie of every part of the United States are
preparing to come to Chicago in prester
crowds than were at the Philadelphia Ex-
position.
Will Have Royalty to Entertain.
Quite q number of nobility will be among
the foreigners Some of the royal family
of England will probably be here. The
Emperor of Germany, who is a great ira
veler, is thinking Of coming, and President
Diaz, Of Mexico, will very likely visit the
and be is doing all he can to