The herald., 1893-07-30
SCENES At THE GREAT DISPLAY
Some Features of the Worlds
Exhibit at Chicago.
The Opening at Last Of the Big
Agricultural Building.
The Sad Fate OF q Charming Chocolate
venus-Californis's Agricultural Dis
play Not Worth Mentioning.
Some Good Things to Eat.

or brewer the agricultural building has
claimed great deal of my attention.
And while the building itself is remark
ably striking in its architectural style Of
the classic renaissance, 1t Is the acres Of
interior and not the impressive exterior
that interest the visitor now. In the
early spring, before the exhibits were
installed and every insignificant en-
trance and magnificent portal was de-
faced with board inscribed with the
interesting Information. "No Admit
tance," and a Columbian guard sta
toned at every turn to phonograph
keep out!" then 1t was that the ad
miring crowds commented upon giddy
golden Diana. the mammoth Corinthisn
pillars which seemed to rice hundreds OF
feet but which, according to "bIue
print" were only 80 feet though five in
diameter, the beautiful 130-foet dome
Gaping, the rotunda that stretches
hundred feet from wall to- wall. the
splendid statuary, the four seasons, the
Horoscope, Abundance, Ceres and the
many, many others that grace every
ledge, dome. portal and pavilion.
But now that the doors are thrown
wide open to the world every one who
enters can find something to his pariicu-
lar fancy, for here one is impressed for
the first time that almost everything
comes under the head of agriculture
afterall. The building is 800x5o0 feet
and with the annex and galleries the ex-
hibit space must be some l5 or 20 acres.
OF the states, Iowa has reared by far
Tho sak,
sylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
fine displays. California is not worth
as poor. One might almost take 1t for
mausolsum, and the jars containing
specimens Of soil as urns with the ere.
mated ashes OF some fortunate persons
who did not live to see California out
shone by a satellite as an agricultural
state. Why, even Maine or Arizona
might "scare up" few pecks of grain,
beans and wispe Of wheat-but, bah it
is unworthy Of mention in any way.
"You nor / nor nobody knows, how
oats, peas, beans and barley grows" yet
such exquisite mosaics as can be pro.
duced by kernels OF vsfiegated corn
ropes and festoons, pillars and arches,
pediments, cornices, minsrets, walls.
ceilings, things and ornamentations az
can be constructed out. of com and
cereals in every form, and all the small
eeeds and beans, that one cannot help
but wonder who furnished the 'bfxins'
for such wonderful achievements as are
manifested in this direction.
Photographs OF these pavilions make
really very pretty pictures, and many
VISITORS would gladly buy them ii they
could be procured.
There are statues OF grains and grasses
as wen as statues Of lard, statues of
soap, statues OF butterins. statues OF
salt, statues of jelly, statues OF choco-
late, statnes OF pickles, statues of crack
ers, statues OF sugar, statues OF candle
,taliow and statues OF macaroni stufs,
with everything under the suu, and
even that renowned luminary itself
modelled from something that one hears
is an agricultural product.
A Venus di Milo, one OF the chocolate
figures, being summer girl and 'just
too sweet for anything" succumbed to
the July heat, fell from her pedestal and
was broken in several pieces. Her clas.
sic nose was Gattened. her fashionably
parted hair mussed out of all respecta-
bility, her beautiful lips became Afri-
canized, she broke her neck, her ankles
parted from her feet; but, O, young
ladies, take warning, she did not break
at the waist. Through wearing no stays
she stayed together. One always felt
sorry for her to have gone down through
the ages with no arms, but to see her
lying there more helpless than ever was
almost pitiabie. No doubt though many
a small boy would gladly have turned
nnibaland devoured tho remains. This
same firm has on exhibition five statuss,
each weighing between 1000 and 1000
pounds think OF 1900 pounds of solid
chocolate! One is perfect reproduce
tion OF the silver statue of Columbus by
Bartholdi, which is in the Gotham die
play in the manufacturers building.
In the annex are the farming tools,
implements and machinery, and such
an array of mowers, reapers, harrowe,
harvcsters and every other ancient and
modern appliance for the tilling and cul-
tivating OF land was never seen before,
and it is here that the genuine "hay-
seeds" hold con tinuous session and form
a unique exhibit in themselves.
At all former expositions and worlds
fairs the exhibitors have freely distrib.
uted small packages and samples of
their various wares az substantial ad-
vertisements to be taken home and in
vestigated at leisure. Here another
method is employed which in some
cases Is more satisfactory, while in
others 9 decided nuisance. 1t was in
Paris, first. believe, that In the Ali
mentary pavilion. tests were given on
the spot of the tempting, appetizinr and
toothsome articles on exhibition. Here
the eystem is carried out on a very much
enlarged scale, as one used to boarding
house diet can make more snan salts.
factory meal by systematically starting
out to sample everything. From bouii-
lon to the final cordial the menu is COM
plete. Various firms putting up canned,
condeQsed and evaporAted soups serve q
spoonful to all comers then at another
place one can get delicious breakfast
oats with cream and sugar, served by
demure and pretty Quaker maids; sliv-
ers OF pressed, smoked, salted and
canned meats are handed out at other
places; delicate biscuit, cake and bread
made with various yeasts, baking pow
ders and self.riaing fours; pickles,
chow-ehows, sauces and condiments
savory preserved game and potted
meats; somebody's butterine on some
one elss's crackers; table jellies, blanc
mango and plum pudding prepared with
out labor, and an almost endless asBort-
ment of table substantials and dainties.
Then OF the LIQUIDS you can sample. IL