Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-26
TOUCHING UP THE GREAT HORSE,

TOUCHING UP THE GREAT HORSE.
acre-but you will never realize their vast
ness till you have seen them. You will
not perfectly appreciate their proportions
till you have seen them many times. They
are like mountains in one respect. They
possess the optical delusiveness which ac-
companies great hight or size. For in
stance, from the upper end of the grounds
the golden dome of the Administration
building and the mighty expanse of the
Manufactures or main building appear
but a little distance away. The stranger
has no doubt of his ability to walk to them
in two or three minutes. Yet they are
nearly a mile and a quarter distant in a
direct line. Every view and every build
ing on the grounds d~eceives you in the
same way.
If you stand at the peristyle and look up
the central basin at the .Administratiop
building your estimate of the distance will
be, probably, two or three hundred yards.
When you walk it you will find it the
longest 300 yards you ever saw. The exact
distance is $50 feet, or more than a third
of a mile, Similarly, the Administration
building will not seem to YOU a large
structure. It is so compact, so SYM
metrical, so perfect, and surrounded by
such magnificent palaces that your eye is
deceived. Consult your guide-book and
you will find that it is 262 feet square,
which means that it covers more than an
acre and q half of ground. Each of the
four pavilions which form it's corners is
eighty-four feet square, in itself as large
as a good-sized brick block Of five stories.
The beautiful dome rises $50 feet. How
vast must be the surrounding palaces
when they are able to dwarf an immense
structure like this!
turning your eye now toward the lake
the golden statue of the Republic is the
most striking object in view. It is beauti-
full, but does not seem very large. Ap-
proach it, and it appears to grow a foot
taller with every step you take. When
half way down the basin you see what Won
hitherto failed to notice; u workman is
perched upon the heed of the giant god.
dess, regilding a bit Of her wreath. There
is plenty OF room for him within the cir
clet, and when he permits Ills leg to dan
gle over the golden forehead his foot Goes
not reach hereyebrows.
so 1t IS with the other s%tutuary. On enc
SIDE OF the great basin, looking across at
the Agricultural palace. are II pair Of co
1ossal horses. You probably would not
notice their immense size if 4. couple CT
painters did not come up, and Vile one
puts q ladder against the animals body
n climbs via it to his back, another
STANDS under the huge trunk with room to
spare. Colossal buildings require colossal
statuary, n The Chicago people who
have pushed this work and shouldered the
burden and the responsibility found IL re-
quired a thick and fast-runnino stream of
golden dollars to carry It through. The
fair is just twice as big as thew started out
tomake 1t, and instead of costing them
ten millions of money it has cost them
twenty millions.
FIGURES sometimes fail to express vast
ness, but twenty millions of dollars NAV
De understood. Compare this sum with
the cost OF the finest public or private
Duiidlng IN your section of the country.
Aoo 10 this such summaries as two thou
y u po!icemen to guard the hundred and
n1ty millions of treasure here gathered
n on which fifty millions of insurance is
carried, three Thousand employees of the
restaurants which are to feed the people,
fifteen hundred young men to wheel visitors
about in rolling-chairs, and you begin to
realize the enormous proportions of the
Columbian exposition.
But the only true way to realize it's big
ness-and it's beauty rs WELLS to sse It
for Yourself.
The Trocadero is now one of the as
sured successes of the Worlds Fair
season in Chicago, and has attained
such popularity since the opening,
April 18th, as is rarely built up by any
amusement institution in half a year.
The entertainment offered is unique,
combining all the best features OF a
thoroughly high class vocal and instru-
mental concert with the more popular
elements OF a refined Vaudeville program.
The hall is one o: the handsomest ever
arranged for this purpose and it's fur
n!shiDgs embrace every comfort for those
of Bohemian inclination. II one Wills