Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-02
MANUFACTURES.


CHICAGO, May l.-Collossai yet symmet-
rical in design, scope and proportions, the
Manufactures building looms up before the
visitor the leviathan of the Worlds Fair
structures. Forty acres of floor space are
here devoted TO the most representative pro-
du ts of the worlds skilled labor. Whether
handisork or the results of intricate ma
chinerv the display of the product of human
ing nuitj has here reached ITS eliminating
point. No comparison with previous expo
sitions can be drawn in the case of this de-
partment, because none other has ever had
snch space, such a setting. or such mag
nifcent surroundings. Great as the
space is it has proved scarcely
one tenth the amount that would have been
necessary to satisfy the demands of wonld-
be exhibitors. The rush of applications
has far exceeded that in any other depart
ment and the problem has been to discrim-
mate in favor of quality rather that guam
tity. The amount of space granted to for
eign governments was necessarily so large
that the monster floor of the building has
little more than one-fourth of its space
allotted to United States exhibits. Never
theless it is the greatest showing in manu-
factures that the United States has ever at.
tempted.
The exterior architecture of the vast
building has been so often described thai
the public is familiar with its gigantic pro
portions from the outside. Inside, how
ever, today's crowd OF visitors stoot
amazed. Streets and avenues are laid out
in the usual rectangular form of mode
| city. Along these interior thoroughbred
| specimens Of architecture by she worlI'l
| most famous designers vie with one another
at every step. Miniature temples, kiosks
| pavilions of modern design, columns ant
arches Of every conceivable quality Of ar
cbitecture meet the eye at every point
Many Of these are 30 striking and unique IL
design as to make them model for mucf
larger structures. In the foreign quarter
especially in the German and French acc
tons and the Indian and Ceylon exhibits
the booths and pavilions are frequentl,
marvels Of design and execution. Amons
| the domesti, exhibits, too. there are mag
nifcent psvilions which challenge compari
son with the finest in the foreign groups.
| On the floor of the building are collected
| thirty-four large groups or subdivisions
| These are divided into two hundred or m0rs
of the leading industries. Encircfing ths
vast structure on all four sides are space
devoted to Offices, restaurants, concessions
and various appliances for public comfort
There sre continuous promenades OUTSIDE
| in the covered loggia. Every known con
venience has been provided. In the centef
Of the building, along Columbia Avenue
there il series Of elevators to carry pas
sengers TO the outside Of the main roof, ~
feet above the floor, where promenad,
balcony extends around all four sides o
the building. giving a continuous walk o
over mile and half in making the circui
/ Of the building.
| But If the building is magnificent wha
shall be said Of the exhibits installed there
in, upon which the throngs today gazed il
amazement? Here the richest products o
skilled labor from every cline are gathere'
in endless profusion. Most Of the exhibit
are housed in pavilions. In some group
this interior architecture observes prevail
/ ing key throughout. Thus 10 the Germa
exhibit the prevailing style il tn
renaissance Of architecture, the rocco
decoration being frequently gorgeou
and profuSe. In the French exhibit
on tie section diagcnaIiy opposite, ,h
architecture is severely classic throughoui
4 In the English section and also in tn
Y United States secdon this uniformity d