Evening journal., 1892-06-25
EDGE MOOR CONTRACTS
Liberal Arts and Manufactures
Building too Small.
BRIDGE FOR THBL6N RAILROAD.

Iron work for the Media Electric Light
ana Power Plant Am space in the Man
ufacnres Building Taken Liberal Art.
WIN BE Crowded ont.
The Edge Moor Bridge Company has
secured and begun work upon a contract
for building the roof and floor of the
building for the Electric Light and Steam
Power Company OF Media, Pa
10 has also begun work on 1 four span
steel bridge for the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad Company The structure
will be 2e0 feet long It Is for the
Memphis division
Work upon the Liberal Arts and Man.
ufacturers Building for the Worlds Col
umbian Exposition is being rapidly
pushed tO completion lhc company has
not only handled Inc largest piece of
work connected with the Worlds Fair.
but 10 has also demonstrated the fact
that such work can be done in Delaware
ia a very short Time
Great Demand for Space.
One of the most surprising things i'm
connection with the great building is the
pressing demand for additional spoce.
NN'tM NNNNNNNiAN AiiH lN'N tllil Nt lN NNN
hy b5l feet covers 3D. 3 acres Of ground
and cost $1,000, 600 This most stupond.
ous structure. as far as size Is concerned,
now existing ina any civilized country,
Is $50 crowded even at His early
day that Director General Davis has
asked for the construction OF "a special
building 20 house the exhibit of the
Department of Liberal Arts. which was
I.If %
Building The dcmnnd is oncroaching
more and more uron ihe space set aside
in the same building for the Departments
of Liberal Arts and Elhnolory. The
greater part of these departments has
long been crowded into the galleries.
over i5O. 600 square feet have been as
signed To- foreign countries in the manu-.
lactures department and stll Russia
italy. Spain Persia. Turkey and an of
South America have TO be pro-
vidcd for i'm the foreign section
| The National Commission has attempted
TO relieve the pressure by permitting
/ foreign governments to- use the buildings
/ which they are going To- erect for pur-
poses of exhibition the general rule
I being that AN exhibits must go into the
/ respective department and the building
assigned therefor Still the pressure re.
mains great and Director General Davis
thinks the only way TO remedy il is To
erect another building i'm which 90 house
the Department of Liberal Arts. at least
if not the chronological Department as
well The director general says that the
disappointment win be acute unless SOME
provision is made Chief Allison of th,
Department of Manufactures. has repeat
edly called attention 90 the necessity OF
making adequate provision, and still has
some hupe that measures viii he takel
TO relieve the present condition
Better proof could not be desired of lh.
hugeness of the whole enterprise or o
the remarkable interest taken IN e b,
the people in this country and abroad
than that the room should be too small IN
so gigantic n building as the one erected
by the Edge Moor Company.
The Board win Find way.
Members of the Board of Control hav,
discovered way of letting Director
General Davis ont of the predicament
Tie asked the board FOR a new building
The members did not decide TO ask On,
directory 20 furnish one but authorized
DirectOr-Geueral Davis to allot space IN
foreign buildings for such exhibits as
would necessarily De crowded out of th'
Manufactures building. These exhihtl
win siiil be competitive There Is q hosN
of foreign countries yet 90 hear from
while room rs practically all taken Nor
way and Sweden viii erect stat,
pavilion, and in it be permitted 90 mak'
their manufactures and liberal arts dis
play