The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-29
A MARIETTA MAN
Writes About the Sights at
the Worlds Fair.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF IT.
! Wonderful Exhibition and Can be
Seen at a Reasonable Cost, and
Worth the Time and Money.

EDITORS JoURNAL-No American
can enter jackson Park and view
this magnificent white city without
a thrill of national pride. For the
time being Chicago is the city OF the
Union to him and his interests cen.
ter in this prosperous Western met.
ropolis on the shore Of Lake Michi.
gan.
1t seems almost impossible that
less than two years ago this scene
OF grandeur and beauty was barren
sand waste and marsh, and that not
a vestige of these massive structures
was there. Quick eyes and busy
hands, architects, engineers, garden
ers, and the mass of mechanics, have
worked together to produce this
wonderful white city, the most won
derful the world has ever seen, at a
cost of nearly twenty millions of
dollars, and this for an enterprise
limited to six months existence.
So much has been written and
pictured of the Worlds Fair build
ings that nearly every one has. some
idea of their general structure, but
their artistic perfection and magnif-
cence must be seen to be appre:
ci$ted. Words afford but a meagre
description. 1t may be something
to know that 100000 feet of lum,.
Der have been used in the construc-
ton of the Exposition Buildings.
thousand acres Of standing trees.
Twenty thousand tons of iron and
steel were required, and one hmm.
area aud twenty car loads of glass
enough TO cover twenty-nine acres
were used in the roofs of the yar,onS
Fair buildings, beside the vast
amount of sheet iron and tin.
Inc great nations of the world
nave erected buildings of chara cter-
lstlc architecture, are filled with
typical displays Of their resources
and products. Germany's splendid
palace, beautiful, easily takes the
highest rank among these foreign |
buildings. Brazil, perhaps, has the
second finest structure among the
national buildings, although Sweden.
rance, and Spain, have done won,
deriul' England's building is rather
ordinary in appearance and is sur,
passed in beauty by the buildings of
many of its colonies. What Enc,
ana mas lost in praise to her build
ngs, she has made up in her display
4 exhibits. The States buildings
prm an important feature of the
air, that of Illinois being the most :
pposlng and almost worthy to take !
INK among the main buildings :
R!itornia and New York come next +
size, and Maine, although not c
|pong the largest, has yet very '
Ietty building, octagoDal in shane G
composed Of granite and polish !
pillars Of the same Ornament the +
mt entrance. | declare its almost g
rsh coming here to see Iowa's o
te building. | never woald Of b
leVed that such rich and beautiful VI
cts could of been wrought with b
P, until Iowa's Corn Palace burst t.
ny view. Corn in red, gold and n
te, and corn husks, in natures Il
colors alone, are used. and W
pics, tiles, scrolls, flowers and W
9 appear with dazzling vet bar- q,
aous effect. In the center of dj
IbnildlDg stands Iowa's> State is
SSal building, made of glass, and h,
y with grain of different kinds III
aEolors so as to represent the Of
3 building in ali its particulars, M
i IF the most complete and arts fu
t1ce OF work in shape of model re-
tAhas ever been produced an
Aag the palaces of the Exposi> he
tiithe Manufactures and Liberal or
Anliding, and yet so symmetri- he
Gag that one can scarcely realize tn
, 10 covers over thirty acres of m(
ga tair size farm for many a kO
lalot Georgia. Tho exterior of is
Tn ldlng and most OF the others na
is red with "staf'' which, 10 +n ~
.lt to represent marble. Ma Ia
GnHall, Agricultural Building. wa
lMl?9tural Building, Mines and see
E M the Electricity Building far
/, anhasportation Hall, each Gov. the
t. .Lsnve to nine acres. Among the