Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-03
The Editors Vacation.

Tuesday. we arose right early in the
morning, ate our breakfast, and imme
diately went the Fair. The first thing
we did this day was to encompass the
the grounds round about This we die
by means of the Intramural Railway
an elevated electric road, which run:
through and around the grounds, with
stations at convenient distances. A
every stopping place is a bulletin board
informing the public what building:
and places of interest are most accessi
BILE from that point. We didn't take
advantage of these, but made the round
trip (ten cents), our purpose being tc
get the general lay of things. The
road is necessarily full of curves, and
winds in and out in wonderful
way. The trains are many and run
at good speed, and the racket they
make is loud and incessant.
When the whole Fair had been duly
surrounded. we left the car, descended
the stairway to terra ,frna, and entered
the huge Manufacturers Building-the
greatest structure on the grounds, and
the largest building of the kind ever
erected. Its length is ,6S7 feet, and
It's width 7S7 feet. Its cost was 81 800,
900. It is as notable for the the sym
metry of its proportions as for its i'm
mense size. The floor alone consumed
over 5000, 900 feet of lumber, and five
carloads of nails. To say that this
giant structure contains forty-four acres
of floor space gives but faint idea of
its immensity. One thousand cottages,
each % by so feet could find room with
in its walls. The heighth of the wall
is 66 feet; of the four central pavilions,
1872 feet; Of the four corner pavilions,
81 feet; of the roof over central hall,
2O2.9. Height clear from the floor,
2O2.9 feet. The span of truss is 3S2
feet. Span in the clear, 354 feet. The
width of truss at base is IA feet; at hip,
80 feet; at apex, 10 feet. The weight
of truss is 100000 pounds; with pur-
lines, 100000 pounds. There are l2,-
OO0,O0O pounds of steel in the trusses
of central hall land 100000 pounds
nf Of h
in the building, a gallery 80 feet wide
extends around four sides, and project
ing from this are Sc smaller galleries,
II feet wide, from which visitors may
survey the vast array of exhibits and
upon the main floor by
thirty great staircases, the flights OF
which are - feet wide each. .'Colum-
bia Avenue" so feet wide. extends
the mammoth building longi-
and an avenue of like width
crosses it at right angle at the center.
The exhibition in this building embrac-
% of ldlSt SEOuPs' uIf1uSo ihto o'oi
200 classes of leading industries, the
products of machinery and handi-work.
Of course, we in few short hours
could not do justice to the exhibits,
and VIC didn't try to do it. Every ma
lion on earth is here represented, and
he whole forms grand object lesson
20 the beholder pulled up in the belief
If the exclusive greatness of his own
and. 1t teaches him that community |
If interest stri YES to bind together all |
he nations of earth, and that 1.-The
brotherhood of man. is not merely |
optimistic sentiment; but that ones
lesire for material welfare and comfort |
IS forcing all peoples, tongues and |
Kindred to tear down the walls built of
,rejudices and religions which have SO
ong separated them-whose inter-