Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-16
THE FAIR IN FIGURES.

| which the Entire Standing Army of Germany Can be PIaced-mnlions | of Dollars' Worth of Jewelry-vaI-
 uable Paintings and Lace-The Big | Krupp Gun, the Wonder or the worId-The Moving sidewalk and | the BIg Ferris wheel.
 Il To the Editorof the JOURNAL AND COURIER. We form an estimate of thing by ss- certsining its value, and we are better able to comprehend 1t by subiecting it to com | psrisons.
 | Apparent inaccuracies appear in the statements presented by even such author ittes as the Youths Companion, Scientific American and Cosmopolitan. These dis crepaucies, however, do not imply that the statements always contradict each other, | as sometimes more or sometimes less is in- cluded in the computations.
 The Columbian is the ninth worlds ex- position and is the greatest the world has ever seen, taking it from nearly every | point of consideration. The greatest con- ! fisgrstion this world Is said to have seen was that of Chicago, in which twenty three thousand houses were destroyed, yet | S100, ,000,000 worth more of property would be destroyed should the small space | enclosed by the fair gates go up In flames. Forty-one nations and twenty-eight colo nies participate in this exposition. There are thirty main buildings and thirty-two state buildings. The electric plant cost a million dollars and the electric power here Is ten times ss great as that which the Paris exposition had, and represents three times as much as there is in the whole city of Chicago. Of the eight previous expo sitions there are three with which 1t is in l-terestipg to make comparisons; the first, which was held at London; the sixth, which was held at Philadelphia; tke eighth, which was held at Paris. It is forty-two years since the first worlds fair was hsld- A period of seventeen years | separates the frst great American exposi- | ton from this, the second; and brt four years separate this from its great prede- | cessor which was held at Paris. The sup | plement of the Scientific American, in comparing this with the Paris exposition | of 1889, in recent issue, states the site | is equal to six times that of Paris, and five l times greater than Paris in the amount of | space covered under roof. These build | ipgs axe said to have cost $19, ,500, 900, which Is five times what the buildings al the Paris exposition cost.
 | Taking the more conservative compsri sons of the Youths Companion In theil | Worlds Fair number, we find even with these the immensity of the present when | we compare with 1t the former worlds ex' positions. IL equals in the space that 1t deyotes to exhibits ss many acres as are | included In all the former ex positions taken together with the exception of Paris in 'S9. It hss four times the space that the Philadelphia Centennial had devoted to exhibits. And in comparing this, the last, with ths. of the first, which was held | in 1851, Chicago gives twelve times the amount of spsoe to exhibits that London gave. The expenses of the London expo sition were $1, ,460, 900, while the expenses of the Chicago are estimated at $2l, 900, 900.
 The attendance at the fair during Sep tenber is the largest ever recorded (-ix million) during month at a worlds expo | sition, and was about three times as grea. | as the sttsndapcs at the Centennial during | the same month.
 Chicago has the first Midway P.sissncs
 There is nothing to correspond to 1t at any previous exposition.
 Now @ few figures which will enable u
 to comprehend the buildings. Taking | merely the csnter aisles of the main build ings, not considering the other aisles nOl I the galleries, and emitting the state auC foreign buildings, and those of the Plsis | ance, and placing these center sisles iu oDt | straight line, we would have & center sisl' | that would bs three miles in length. Th'
 Manufactures and Liberal Arts building
 which presents to us the largest singl, l room in the world, is the csnter of inter est This building is the coetliest on tht
 fair grounds, )sting $l 500, 900 to erect | This building devotes twic9 ss many scret | to exhibits ss there were devoted to tn
 entire exposition in London in 1851. Th | building is & third of 8 mile in length snC over an eighth of a mile in width l placed In New Haven this one building
 would extend from State to College street
 and from the north side of Chapel to th south side of Crown, and would cover tn space included by these four streets bound ing in the above manner. In width tn | building would accommodate Madison
 Square Garden in New York, the Bosto 3 Commons and two of the largest Chicsg ? | blocks all taken together. The lumbe , | used in this building represents elevs | hundred acres of pine timber, and tn
 9lsse that is used in the tkylights woul
 cover eleven acres. Along tbe center sisl
 of the building there are placed three cc | ronas of arc lights. These coronas ar | respectively sixty, seventy. five and siIt
 feet in diameter, sud thess three oontai D four hundred arc lamps. It has in add @ ton twenty thousand incapdescent light e It is said that all the standing army
 Germany cc uld stand in this great room , Every man, woman and child in New Hi @ ven and Bridgeport could find sesting Ai .- commod stions in this building. It is sal in one of the magazines that the five thor V sand voices which formed the chorus f the opening of the fair, and was locate l. at the one end of the building, that the if singing was not heard at the other end,
 immense is the room. In comparing u
 superficial area of the Machinery buildi1 @ to that of the Houses of Parliament n Westminster the rstio Is ss five is to tw The Agriculture building bears the san
 ratio.
 The Art building with its immense ca
 lection of art is very interesting. IT
 collection of Great Britain is third in sii
 and is valued by the commissioner at | million QOllhfe- 1et tDle lt Onty Ouo
 the countries that has an exhibit in Il
 Art building.
 The Forestry building is constructed
 nothing but wood, and wooden pegs a
 used in place of nails. The veranda-
 supported by trees twenty five feet hig
 Each state and territory gave three Ire and many foreign countries did the sam These trees were surmounted by the D tionsl or state flags respectively, and Il
 name of the kind of the tree was tack
 on to the tree.
 From the buildings we turn to the e - hibits. A writer in the Cosmopolitan sa
 an estimate Is made that If person shou
 spend two minutes upon each exhibit, tn
 it would require thirty-two years to see
 the exhibits at the fair. If person shou
 spend one minute to each exhibit In |
 Art gallery 1t is said that 1t would requi
 two months to go through the Art gallel 70 In the Manufactures and Liberal Al D. building we see the following interesti Id exhibits: Italy has two paintings at t ce entrance to her exhibit which are valu a at $4e, e,O00, and shows lace valued at si O n. per yard. Switzerland has four jewelry ds hibits. One of these exhibits has $25
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