The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-05

Iull-nedged carpenter at the same |
compemalOI All VINO will work az
night may earn IS ceuts an hour.
rNenIy Thousand is Il lalge number
vt men. RealizA it il you Gun. Ali
the grown men of n city OF II hundred |
Thousand SOUS Fifty tran roads OF |
workers, six "a ~ " The Uram, each !
Csr fun. Yet to look about the
grounds and within The buildings OF |
he White Cay you would not ,hinK
there were more than 1000 or 1900 OF
teen AL Told. They are swallowed |
mp Like tquirrel- in forest. III is
nJta bsu elml'e, Tor like squirrels |
tnOusauds q, turlu are-clHmOerlng
at dHly highIs, psrcued on great
IUIts, painting, rv-coatlug, repairing,
They are on Tue roofs Of the huge
bindings, fixing the leaks wnich the
storms have wuUuSh,. Though the
gales stlu DlOw they are hanging by
slender rope, s~ayIng 10 and fro,
from tne uOiue- OF the Mining AnG
Fec rlcal gu ldiug-, adding touches
Of c, lur where th9 spJls are dark aud
un,ignlly. Upon the roof OF the
ieviathau structure, called Manuf4c-
[ lultS anu l1lDtl Al "A y, u lVN OCOlO
objeu,s moving about, look like 70
many crows. They are men. This
mighty roof over shadows everything
ese in The city. Such are ltS proper
lions that ~ FIRST, even on a near
view, you do not realize its inmen-
! siiy. hut wherever you go it's tower
my outline follows you. 1t always
aud eve. rervades the sky line. Tie
crows are constantly before your eyer.
The practical Chicago man helps
us to realize this vnstness. "It Is q
pretty big root" lie excIalms, proud
", "thst IT Quired All expenditure Of
$4,000 in one winter to keep the snow
shoveled off it,"
1t is p. m. The glorious entrance
TO the MncnlDery Hall is forest Of
staging. The temporary work is
eight feet high and built in ten
stories. We pass that way an hour
later. Not stick vi timber is seen
in the entrance. 1t has not only
been taken down, but carried away.
This is'the way they do things at
the Worlds Fair.
was here yesterday morning. On
u nlcC6 VI 6iNuhh ONN"SNh WV
Administration building and the
railway station teams were unloading
lumber aud materials for the erection
OF large chocolate pavilion. In
the afternoon the pavilion was half
completed. 1t needed only the finish
ing strokes. To-day l expected to
see thing of beauty il not JOY for
ever. But not q vestige Of 1t re-
NAMED. Permit revoked. Ordered
torn down. This was the explana-
ton
Where yesterday were muddy roads
between the Jig buildings to-day are
paved streets. Two thousand men
are scraplng away The eurface accu'
mutation, pouring tar, laying asphalt
OF artificial stone. Tnis caYalcadt
advances like host. Each regiment
has a certain part Of the process t.
perform. 1t sweeps along at the rate
} OF mile an hour. Behind 1t is
= finished road on which my lady from
7 across the sea may walk with slip
: pered ieet, il she be- not afraid o
: catching cold from tue sharp wind
4 which come over the lake.
= The shores OF the lagOons or iulan(
= lakes. Oh which already hundred
! Of strange and pretty craft are begin
ming 10 hover, look like banks o
I mud Here comes flOtilla OF 1af
2 bOttomed srOws Their burden l
Y green shruO-, each with clod @
= black earth at its roots. In tel
e minutes a row of these green an
= growing thugs has been plante
= along TIE margin. Now lookln
more carefully We see that these mu
}. banks contain sprouting grass, vine
It and flowers. With some ones fore
e sipht-the foresight OF positive geniu
s winch has in u thousand ways /
t two wears transformed this swan
Re into a paradjse-these banks wer
- sowed aud planted aud impreRnate
d long ago with the things which,
l. another week OF sunshine, will bio
)f som like the rose. When you CON
y TO the fair the shores of the Lagoon
Al will remind you OF the most beaut
.e full old English park you ever 81"
IS dreamed of.
, One is not surprised to hear that
1t thousand men are employed in Il
y landscape departm' II alone, co
IL stantly at work beautltylhg u
- scene. ,,.
BIS There never WAS an exposition
III which so much energy aud inon'
y, we're devoted to beauty as IL TINS on
Some way or other We expected b
lg things out here in the bounding WEI
xt we hould have been dissppoint
TT had we not seen the biggest ouildln
id the bigge st gun, the biggest crow
o. and ali that. But few expected
lie see a million OF money devoted
n those little touches which enrich a.
r. beautify, but which are not absOiu
Id ly essential to success. Even no
ly in the tremendous pressure tor acco'
ed pli4hment, for finishing and lnst'
ut iaron, for making ready the gre
rs. hour of Monday next, the maLaI
I'M ment seems more concerned aoc
I'M the artistic effect than about the n
US terial.
nu At the end Of the matchless bal
Ia which spreads its waters between
III Administration building anu la
'e5 NIichigan, where centers the great
srchitecturAl aud landscape persp
II tive ever attempted by mau, h'
NV dreds CT workmen are engaged !
eu feeling the already famous hl
OF Mounies fountain aud the sea no
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