The Newtown bee., 1893-12-08

sl50, GOO. It was offered as gift to the lady managers of the exposition and re- fused. Refused? Yes. refused. What could they do with it? It would cost thousands of dollars to remove it, as il must be removed from the grounds. IL was not what they wanted and it would only embarrass them to have the respon- sibility of it and so they wisely refused it. It is now for sale. The furniture has been returned to the original donors.
 IT Is A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING
 covering an area of II, ,53S feet, exclusive of terraces, pOrtcoes or exedras, which cover an additional area of 3G7G feet. l. is 2l4 feet long, 142 feet deep and 9G feet high. 1 ascended to the roof in an elt- vator. The roof forms q triple terr' ce garden, enriched by terra-cotta pots, decorated with palms, bay trees and flow ering shrubs and furnished with awnings, arb0rs, tables ani chairs. On either side of the main entrance, in the niches out side the buildings, are placed the busts of George Clinton and Roswell P. Flow CT, the first and present governors of the state. In the other inches in the facade of the second story are two heroic-siZe figures of Henry Hudson and Christopher Columbus, the four works of art being the production of Olin Warner. On the first floor the entrance hall is 46xS4 feet and 20 high. On the second floor the re- ception hall is S4X46 feet and 45 feet high These halls are elegant. We simply all Jude to these features of this great build ing which is to be sold under the hammer or at private sale to the highest bidder. If no more than S50O0 is offered it will be sold. The Montana building cost Sl5. .125 It has been sold for $500 to Thomas J. Miller of West Virginia. He proposes to give it conspicuous place on some peak of the Blue Ridge.
 THE ILLINOIS BUILDING,
 which cost S21O,OOO. is tt be sold at pub lie auction December 2S, as provided by an act of the legislature. It is one of the most conspicuous buildings on the grounds, it's dome rising 10 the height Cf 234 feet. It was complete exposition in itself. The New Jersey building, which is an exact reproduction of Washington headquarters at MorristOwn, is to be talk en down, transported to New Jersey, and located at some popular summer resort and be presented to the governor in per petuity, for 4 summer reside nc,-. This was Washington's headquarters during the winter, 1779 and 17S0. It is said that it has sheltered more people celebrated in the Colonial times than any building in America, among them Alexander Hamil ton, Generals Greene, Knox, Lafayette. Steuben, KOscinsko, Schuyler, Light Horse, Harry Lee, Mad Anthony. Wayne. Israel Putnam and Benedict Arnold. Its reproduction is a nice thing, and its after use displays a fine vein of patriotism Mount Vernon, Virginia s reproduction of the home of Washington, which we have carefully described in the White City papers, has been purchased by John McGuire of Chicago for SI00 and is to be rebuilt out on 70 h street.
 IDAHO's TYPICAL LOG HOUSE,
 so unique and approprIate, is for sale. Twenty kinds of logs enter into its con struction. The Ohio building with its architecture of the.style of the Italian re- naissance, has been sold for $500 by par ties in Cincinnatti and is to be moved there December 10. When will the end come to tell of these things-when? Good night.-[ Rev A. Gardner, W are r,