The Portland daily press., 1892-03-31

| sign is French. Each side has an en-
| trance. The galleries inside are oo 1eel
wide and raised 25 feet from the grounc
! floor. At each end of the main front are
| large pavilions, and between the mann
entrance and the pavilions are decorated
arcades. Covered promenades 70 feet
wide and 230 feet long afford access al
frequent intervals to the main building.
The main fronts are IS feet high, While
the central entrance is 80 feet high. The
interior space enclosed is $50 feet long by
$50 feet wide The roof is covered
mainly with glass. >,
The Government Building is situated
near the shore of. the lake. The archl-
lecture is decidedly classic in design.
The cost of the building when completed
will be 100000, The octagonal dome IN
centre, 12O feet in diameter and 100 feet
in height, will attract deserved attention.
This building will contain the exhibits
of the State, War, Postotfice, Treasury,
Agricultural and Interior Departments
of the general government. The exho,
it's of the Smithsonian Institute and
Fisheries Commission will find place
here, as also those of the Mint, Geodetic
Survey, Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, Bureau of Statistics, Life Saving
and Lighthouse Boards and Marine Hos
p1Udl. liz COdoU Rltl WY WAiSiA 100
have it's exhibit in this building will
present a Typographical map of the
United States 400 feet square, construc-
ted of plaster of Paris and placed hori-
zontally on the grounds with galleries
and paths, so that person may almost
in fact walk over the whole United
States, and note with the eye the rela-
tive height of mountains, length and
width of rivers and the location of States
and cities. The Ordnance Department
will exhibit here huge guns and explo-
sives of various kinds.
The Horticultural building is 1000 feet
long and 2S6 feet wide at the widest point
1t will have two interior courts, each ~
by 270 feet. These courts are to be
tastefully decorated and set out with Or
namental flowers and shrubs. The CEN
trail pavilion will have crystal dome lib
feet high. The end pavilion will have
cafes where, amid the odors of flowers
and with a delightful view of the grounds,
hungry visitors can refresh themselves
with the choicest productions of the
culinary art.
The Art Palace, as it is fifty called, will
from both outside and inside demand and
receive more than a casual look from the
visitor. The cost of this structure will
exceed half million dollars. The shape
of the building is oblong, 500 by 800 feet,
with dome 1913 feet high surmounted
by colossal figure of winged victory"
Inside the building will be galleries rum
ming entirely around it, thus giving
continuous promenade forty feet wide.
Upon the walls of the ground floors and
the galleries will be displayed the larger
paintings and other pictures, as also
statuary, while from the promenade one
may enter the smaller rooms containing
private collections. The south front of
the building faces the lagoon. The north
front faces the site of the state buildings
none of which have as yet been erected.
Around and near the Art Palace will be
groups of statuary all in keeping with
the rare works of art which will be found
inside the building. Each side of the
main building will have several one
stored anexes for large and small
galleries.
The United States Man-of-War, or
Nava. Exhibit, as it is called, will at
tract more attention than any structure
upon the grounds. From the name one
would suppose that floating man-of-
war has been constructed and launched
upon the waters of Lake Michigan, but
such is not the fact. This man-of-war or
more properly the U. S. Naval Exhibit
will be harmless SO far as feats of seaman
ship or navigation are concerned, as the
armed monster can never leave its moor
ings, its peculiar construction being such
as to render such a thing impossible. In
fact, the structure is built wholly of
wood upon piling on the lake front and
is as far as practicable fac smile of
by Cramp & Son, of Philadelphia, at a
cost to the government of $3,0O0,000
Being surrounded by water, the struc-
ture will appear like ship ahoat 1t
will have all the warlike fittings of a
modern man of war, including guns,
turrets, torpedoes and their appliances,
awnings, anchors, chains, &c. Naval
officers, sailors and marines will be de-
tailed for duty, and to all appearance,
this dummy" craft will be ready at a
moments notice to blow the whole
CHILEAN navy out of water. The battery
will include Is inch breech-loading
rifed cannon; 8-inch and 4 6-inch guns
of the same descriptions; two Calling
guns and several other similar engines of
destruction, all mounted and ready for
use should any state building attempt to
secede and walk off the grounds. Below
decks are to be found cabins, state-rooms,
mess-rooms, lockers and all the conven-
lSuCtS dllUWCu LII uIlC OlllUCl uhFy
The ship will be lighted by electricity and
heated by steam. The men on board
will be clothed in every variety of naval
uniform in use in our navy since its es-
tablishment. 1t must be understood,
however, that all the large guns on this
man-of-war will be made of wood, or
what is known as quaker guns.
The Fisheries Building and Aquarium.
This structure has high central dome
with an observation tower at the high
est point, and smaller similar towers on
the sides of the central tower. At each
end are semi-circular structures wider
even than the main building, each sur
mounted by a circular turret-shaped
cupola. Within this building will be
collected such variety of fishes as has
never been before gathered together.
The Administration Building will
Justly claim to surpass all others in its
situation, if not in its general attractive
ness. While other buildings may divide
the attention of visitors, this one will Sc
cure attention from everybody. AL
though covering an area of only 250 feet
square, it will cost over $500,000. Its
central dome is to be 120 feet in diameter
and 22O feet high. In style it follows the
architecture of the French renaissance.