Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-14
SMALL BUILDINGS
b Ee Seen ST the Worlds Co
lumbar Exposition.
HEY ARE WORTHY OF ATTENTION.

building In Which All the Rules of
Architecture Have been yiolatcd-CaIi-
fEornia Day at the Exposition.
SWoRLD's FAIR. Sept. IA. Special -
here are many small buildings in the
Fir grounds which are rarely mentioned
the press and yet are worthy OF atten-
bn. There, for instance, is the alleged
Bureau of Public Comfort which is re-
Arded as q huge joke, but there Is plenty
room and chairs and as no business is
one there find it very conducive to com
Krt. The intention was that it should
Eve visitors information about getting
btels and avoiding swindles, but as they
ID the former before entering the park
Fd take their chances ON The latter, the
sicials have a sinecure. Near il is the
luck building, which is a perfect little
bm, and the display of newspapers and
Ne processes shown are well worth seeing.
Is considered a trife odd that "a humor-
As paper should receive such a conces-
*on, but that kind of a show was needed
4 fill up the set.
FThe only building left of Old Fort Dear
Drn is set up just as it stood at the time
the massacre, and long afterwards at
ne corner of State and Twenty-third.
When 1t was taken dowea for removal q
lumber of a~rrowheads, knives and other
F.dian relics were found and these are ex-
bited in 1t. AS the nucleus Of Chicago
is well worth seeing. Inc >ew England
sslambake company occupies an artistic
Etle building and so do the local agents
81 the International Sunday School asso-
Nation. The Tonquin building was orig.
II ally put mp in China and was trans
brted in sections for the French exposi-
fon of 1889, and after being exhibited in
Slrious places was brought here. It is
id TO be an exact model of the palace Of
ochin China. The Pavilion of Tunis. is
bother reproduction and il the largest
ructure in the French colonial exhibit.
a5The Police station is not onlya model
1T that sort OF thing, but is the head
s~iarters for the ambulance, patrol wagon
nd a full squad of policemen. Visitors
san there see a first-class illustration of
blice life and action. The great White
Morse inn, near the southwest corner Of
g park, is a pretty fair copy Of the Eng
EAsh original, but owingto its remote situ-
Jon has few visitors, The cooking is
~llaranteed to be strictly English" and
therefore, i have not sampled it. On the
ske front, near the Manufactures build
sg, is one of the queerest pavilions in the
ark, erected and maintained by Van
fouten 81 Zoon, Of Weesp, Holland. to adj
frtise their cocoa trade. It. is in the style
a Dutch house of the fifteenth century,
nd Is n regular museum of relics of that
Rme; but the business part of it is the
pit Dec served by Dutch girls in native
kstume. The Merchant Tailors' building
another business enterprise and SO, |
is the Homeopathic model hos
I ftal near the Woman's building.
SMuch might be said of the japanese tea
buses which look like mere booths, and
10 are SO deliberately ornamented with
Srvings and other delicate handiwork
bat 600 men were busy for two months in
baking them; of the Shoe and Leather
sNlilding, which is q small affair but
III owded with objects of interest; OF the
Japanese Hooden, which is an exact repro
flction of the oldest monastery In Japan,
NAected in 1890; of the Hunters camp
Hhich is almost hidden in the scrubby
.Jnbcr OF the south end OF the island, or
III many other little buildings stuck in va
ous corners and are the more charming,
~catlsa one cnil.es N them unexpectedly.
the extreme south end of the park are
m Nvral very interesting things which afs
fsspt seen by more than one visitor Ia fifty,
aad just outside Of the grounds at the
brtheast corner is the only great failure
IN the exposition era. This is theso-called
apectatorium which covers $50, 600 square
Yet, is in tolerable completion to the third
cory and was abandoned when S5J9,099
I I'D been expended on it. IL was designed
83r concerts and great spectacular dis
IL avs, and the story goes that two or three
\ oted actors are Tin it" for about 100000
1Ach.
The Illinois building had from the start
Sa tracted more visitors than any other
kkate building because it is really one OF
he main structures of the fair, with Cali
\ @rnia's building second; but since her
\ boat display on the 9th, California has
III ben the chief attraction. The building is
bit easily described. The central plan is
bat of a regular old mission of adobes.
int to relieve the sombreness of such a
}&ructure Moorish features have been
s<1ded and a low central dome with roof
srden and outer platform for restaurant
purposes. The whole affair is said by ex-
srts TO violate all the rules of architecture
k&hish can be violated in one building, and
at the general effect is pleasing. 1t
Mems like a bit of Granada in Moorish
mes, Of Mexico and Mission California
EI I'm one.
The feor space, including gallery, is
1 10000 square feet, and it is well filled
ith every sort Of semi-tropical growth
I'D mineral output from Yreka to. Los
{ngeles-fhe figand the lemon, the orange,
ie grape and the prune, the great pampas
rass with heecyplumes eighteen inches in
W myth, the dark green palm and trailing
M mes and dewers of all forms and hines.
IA the most conspicuous place is the noted
huestrian statae of prunes which l can
ut admire, bat most people do If I may
!Ss;dgs from the crowd always about it; and
| around are minesals of suck variety
n only o Dana or q Hitchcock coule de-