Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-06-26

is seen Un0 w oman s bulIQlIS. SlUltetu-
ed in the north western part of the
Park, separated from the Horticultu-
raj Building on the one side, and the
Illinois State Building on the other,
and facing the great Lagoon with the
Wooded Island as a vista.
Amongst a great number Of sketches
submitted in competition for this
building by women, it did did not take
the President of the Board of Lady
Managers, Mrs. Potter Palmer, long
to decide upon her choice. She quick
ly discovered in the sketch submitted
by Miss Sophia G.Hayden that harmo-
ny of grouping and gracefulness of
details which indicate the architect
uraI scholar, and to her was awarded
the first prize of a thousand dollars,
and also the execution of the design.
Miss Hayden graduated with high
honors in the architectural class in
the School of Technology in Boston.
Directly in front of the building the
Lagoon takes the form of bay, about
400 feet in width. From the center of
this bay grand landing and staircase
leads to a terrace six feet above the
water. Crossing this terrace other
staircases give access to the ground,
four feet above, on which, about 100
feet back, the building is situated.
The first terrace is designed in artistic
flower beds and low Shrubs, forming,
together with the creamy white bal
ustrades rising from the waters edge,
and also in front of the second ter
race, charming foreground for the
fine edifice. The principle facade has
an extreme length of 400 feet, the
depth of the building being half this
distance. It's delicacy of lines is we'll
adapted to represent this temple for
the fair sex.
The main grouping consists of
center pavilion fanked at each end
with corner pavilions connected in
the first story by open arcades in the
the curtains, forming shady prone
made the whole length of the struct-
ure. This pavilion, forming the main
triple arched entrance with an open
colonnade in the second story, is fin
ished with low and beautifully pro-
portioned pediment enriched with a
highly elaborate bas-relief. The cor
ner pavilions, being like the rest of
the building, two stories high, with an
elevator Of 60 feet, have each an open
colonnade added above the main cor
nice. Here are located the Hanging
Gardens, and also the committee
rooms of the Board Of Lady Managers.
A lobby 40 feet wide leads into the
open rotunda, 70x65 feet, reaching
through the height of the building and
protected by richly ornamented sky
light. This rotunda is surrounded by
two story open arcade, as delicate
and chaste in design as the exterior,
the whole having thoroughly Italian
courtyard effect, admitting abund-
ance of light to all rooms facing this
interior space. On the first floor, on
each side of the main entrance and
occupying the entire space Of curtains,
are located, on the left hand, model
hospital, on the right model kinder
garten, each occupying S0x60 feet.
The whole floor of the south pavil-
ion is devoted to the retrospective
exhibit, the one on the north, to re-
work and charity organization. Each
of these floors is s0x2O0 feet. The cur
tain opposite the main front contains
the library, bureau Of information,
records, etc.
The visitor to the Fair will be inter-
ested both in the exhibits and in the
Transportation Building itself. For
the first time in the history of
Worlds Fairs has large building been
built expressly for the exhibition of
those things that have to do with
transportation Of some sort, and one
is astonished when he sees how much
there is in the world that has to do
with this matter. It is estimated that
in the construction of railroads more
than twenty-five billion dollars has
not to mention many other things by
land, and all that has to do with ma
rine transportation, if possible
greater sum has been employed. When
this great building and all that it con
tains is looked over, the visitor will
have seen and learned something of
what the world has done and is doing
in these lines. The building is $50 #.
in length by 1885 feet in width, With
an immense annex. 1t is attractive
on account of its style of architecture,
ornamentation and its colorings It
has what is known as the ttGolden