The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-25

The wand OF Chicago in few
months has created massive structures
which in magnifcence and splen Tor
outrival anything ever conceived by
man, and the human mind grows dizzy
in trying to comprehend the immens-
ity Of the mighty Exposition she is
building.
have spent the day in wandering
in and out among the massive palaces
which are springing up like magic on
the banks of the lake and the dim of
great hammers,the shrieking Of engines
and the running to aud fro of 5000
workmen still ring in my ears as /
write. The Exposition grounds cover
just about the area Of section of land
and if they were square it would be
just about four miles around them.
This space to-day is the busiest place
in the world. The crowded streets of
Canton in China are not more lively
than it, and almost every kind Of work
under the sun is going on in the build
ing of this Exposition city of great
palaces. Hundred Of landscape gar
deners are digging and planting and on
one little island ON the lake inside the
ground, there will be ten acres offowers.
A half million pansies will here turn
up their many co1ored faces to the sun
and roses by the thousands viii. bloom.
Hundreds of men are working in iron
and other hundreds are hammering,
saving and cutting in wood. There
are scores of artists here modelling in
clay the delicate carvings which are to
decorate the great buildings, and other
artists are making the gigantic statues
which are to stand guard over the
doors or upon the roofs.
There are painters by the hundreds,
designers of all kinds. workers in tin
and copper, masons and plumbers, and
in short men of every trade and voca-
tion required in the building of a city.
1t takes big restaurants 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
buildings. Figures alone are worth
nothing except to an Isaac Newton or
to mathematical minds, and will try
to describe their size in homely, every
day language.
Take the average farm of quarter
section of land, or 100 acres, and put
and you will have Just
the amount Of space that will be under
the roofs of these Exposition build
ings. There is sawmill here that
will cover an acre. The machinery
exhibits will be in one hall under a
nine-acre roof, and there will be an
annex to this which will have 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 and the great State, War and
Navy buildings insideo of the exposi-
ton Agricultural Hall and have room
to spare to drive around them inside
its walls. The electricity building
covers more space than John Wanna
makers Philadelphia store, and its
five and a half yacres of floor would
give room for more than the average
city block, and the building devoted
to women is as big as hegreat pension
building at Washington, which covers
almost two acres.
The biggest building ofall is that
of manufactures, which covers 80 acres
and which will be the biggest struc-
ture ever put up by man. A large
part of the roofs of these buildings is
Of glass and it will take about 80 acres
of plate glass for this purpose, and
there will be 100 carloa DIS of glass REL
ouired, or train load of glass over
half mile long. The amount of tim
Der used in the buildings would give
some idea of their size. There will be
enough lumber to make a boardwalk
two feet wide from London to San
Francisco, or one four feet wide from
New York to Seattle or Portland. A
nlank walk foot wide could be run
around the outside of the Chinese wall
with this lumber, and if it were all in
big pine trees, they would make a
virgin forest of 5000 acres.
/ spent long time in wandering
about the manufactures building. II is
the biggest building ever planned, and
Il win have one roof covering 30 acres
Senator Ingalls, came out and looked