The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-06-04
A SCENE OF sPLEND0R.
The Magnificent Spectacle Which
the Worlds Fair Will Present.
The Arts and Mechanics VIII Contribute
Their Ablest Productions to Beau
tify and Magnify the
Grand Affair.

BruntS description OF the OOluInDidn
exhibition in the Century, 1--WE have al
ready said that this vest.bule was in
tended to introduce the visitors to the
exposition into new world. AS they
emerge from its east archway and enter
the court, they must, if possible, receive
a memorable impression of architectural
harmony on q vast scale, To this end
the forums, basilicas and baths of the
Roman empire, the villas and gardens
of the princes of the italian Renais-
sance, the royal court yards of the
palaces of France and Spain, must yield
to the architects, sin that new world
which is the old, their rich inheritance
of ordered beauty, to make possible the
creation of bright picture of civic
splendor such as this great function OF
modern civilization would seem to re-
quire.
Sat the outset it was considered of
the first Importance that the people, in
circulating around the court or enter
ing or leaving the buildings, should so
far as possible be protected from the
heat of the midsummer sun. To assist
in accomplishing this object the great
quadrangle will be closed in by series
of sheltered ambulators, like the Greek
stoa, included in and forming part of
the facades of the palaces of machinery
and agriculture on the right, and of the
liberal arts and electricity on the left.
! The vast fronts of these buildings, far
exceeding in dimensions those of any
| other ancient or modern architectural
/ group, with their monumental colon
naded pavilions, their sculptured en-
REGIMENTS, their statuary, domes and
towers, will appear in mellowed ivory
marble, relieved by decorations in color
in the shadowy recesses of the porticos.
Immediately before him the stranger
viii behold the great basin $50 feet
wide and 1,1o0 feet long, stretching
eastward in the middle of the court,
bordered with doubled walled terraces,
of which the lower will be decorated
with shrubbery and flowers, and the
upper with balustrades, rCstral col
umns, vases and statuary. Broad stairs
descend from the main portieos of the
buildings to the water, and the canals,
which enter the basin on each side, are
crossed by monumental bridges On the
nearer margin Of the greater basin, and
in the axis of the court, he will see 81
smaller circular basin $50 feet in diam
eter, on q level with the upper terrace,
thanked by two lofty columns bearing
eagles. IN The center of this, on an an
tique galley of bronze 60 feet long,
eight colossal 'rowers, portraying The
arts and sciences, stand forr on q side,
bending to their long sweeps; in the
Prov is poised the herald Fame, with
trump and outspread wings; while, aft,
Time, the pilot, leans upon his helm, and
high aloft on throne, supported by
cherubs, sits Columbia, fair, youthful
figure, eager and alert, not reposing
upon the past, but poised in high ex-
pectation. Eight couriers precede the
barge, mounted upon marine horses
out Of the water. The whole
triumphal pageant is seen through a
mist OF intcrlacing fountain-jets, and
from the trimming basin the water |
falls fourteen feet in a series of steps
into the greater sheet below, q half
circle of dolphins spouting over the cas-
cade. This polnpous alegory is the
work of the sculptor Frederick Mac
Monnies. At the outer end OF the basin
a colossus of the republic, by the sculp-
tor Daniel C. French, rises from the
water. 1t is treated somewhat in the
Greek archaic manner, with strong
of vertical lines, bat with
j simplicity and breadth which give the
igurc an aspect CT majesty and power.
Beyond it, a double open colonnade, or
oeristyle, sixty feet high, like that Of
Bernini in front of st. Peters, forming
.hrec sides of a square closes in the
treat court toward the lake. Of the
,wo wings of this colonnade one is q
concert hall, and the other a casino or
waiting hall for passengers by boat. It's
columns typify the states OF the union.
n the center of this architectural screen
S triumphal arch thrown over the
anal which connects the basin with
he harbor. Through this and through
he open screen of the colonnade one
nay see the wide-spreading lake, the
vatery horizon, and still in the axis Of
he court and d thousand feet from the
hore, a lofty pharos with an island I
asino at its base. Animating the {
whole, banners and gonfalons flutter s
'ayly from innumerable stats; people
# all nations walk il the shadow of the
,orches, linger on the bridges, crowd
long the broad pavement Of the ter {
aces and watch from the balustrades ]
he incessant movement of many-colored l
oats and electric barges upon the I
gater." ]
Queer Justice.
The vagaries of South American JUS !
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