The herald., 1893-05-01
A WILDERNESS OF BOXES
Chaos Still Exists in the
Worlds Fair Grounds.
A Large Part of the Exhibits
Not Yet Installed.
The Delay Due Principally to the
Hardness of Exhibitors.
When Cleveland Presses the Button TO.
day the Great Exposition VIII Be
0pened-Busy Scenes In
the Buildings.
By the Associated Press. !

| By the Associated Pressl
CHICAGO, April 3O.-When President
Cleveland presses the electric button as
the signal for the formal opening OF the
Worlds Columbian exposition tomor-
row, the public will find the fair still in
rather incomplete condition, but this
regretful situation is due more to the
tardiness OF the exhibitors than any
lack OF zeal on the part of the mansge-
ment of the exposition. Nearly every
building constructed by the exposition
proper in the great white city is practi-
| cally completed, and while confusion
still reigns in most of the structures, it
is in the matter of installation OF ex-
hibits, and not delay which can be at
tributed to any failure of the con-
struction department..
The great buildings which constitute
the vital conception of the International
exposition, and which are monument
TO the indomitable executive ability of
Chief Burnham and his assistants have
been completed for weeks ready for the
installation of exhibits. They are the
manufacturers and liberal arts build
ing, machinery hall, electricity hall, the
fisheries building, art building, woman's
building. forestry, mines and mining,
horticultural, agricultural and transpor-
tation buildings and the administration
building-nearly all completed or near
ing mpletion--and the midway plsi-
sance shows dozens CT Japanese, Turk
ish, Soudanese and other typical viii
lagos, which sprung up like mushrooms
in few weeks or days.
THE GREAT MANUFACTURERS BUILDING.
On sll the earth today there was
probably no buster community than
that which was working at top spesd in
the manufacturers and liberal arts
building. Hundreds of trucks rumbled
through the streets and avenues of this
30 acre house, and thousands OF men
made the air ring with hammers. For
one writer, or 20, to describe the de-
tails OF the scene and action la this, the
largest building ever constructed, is not
to be attempted. The building itself is
completed, and the work being done to-
day has to do with the construction OF
the city of booths, houses and temples
to hold displays. Reference to the
buildings in progress in this big build
| ing may suggest to those who have not
been here only little affairs, but when
1t is stated that the golden eagles of
Australia are perched on top of towers
20 feet in height, and when it is known
that New York .jewelry firm has the
noble American bird on the top of
column 100 feet high. the subject will
assume proper view to the mind.
THE TEMPLE OF ELECTRICITY.
Gould Ajax but step within the por-
tails of the magnificent temple of elec-
tricity at the Worlds Columbian expo
sition, be would scarcely have the au-
dacity to DEFY the modern lightning,
bridled as it is by science. The elec-
trical display far surpasses anything the
management OF the great fair ever hoped
to secure. In this building so per cent
ing to statement prepared by Super
intendent Barrett, 60 per cent of them
have been installed.
IN THE ART GALLERY.
There is less confusion in the art gal
leries than in any other OF the buildings,
but this is owing much to the fact that
the exhibits are less cumbersome and
more easily handled than those in the
other buildings. some exhibits are in
excellent shape, notably those of Great
Britain and Germany. One trouble
with the galleries OF fine arts is that the
building itself is not yet finished. Some
of the men in charge of exhibits say
they will not unpsck their stuff until
the roof has been entirely finished. In
the space allotted to Austria the work is
we'll along. Vi the American pictures but
few are upon the walls. Spain 10 in the
worst shape. Italy and Belgium are not
nh
Is in very fair way to have everything
in shape in week. France win take 4
fortnight to get matters in good shape.
The paintings, as rule, are better pre-
pared for exhibition than the sculptures.
However, despite the confusion in the
buildings, the exhibition is even now q
great one.
THE MINES AND MINING EXHIBITS.
The mines and mining building is sim
ply swilderness of boxes, unfinished
booths and unpacked exhibits. 1t will
be q month before the building is in
proper order. Throughout the entire
building there is but one exhibit in
readiness, and that s from the farthest
end of the earth, New South Wales.
The delay in this building is due directly
to the tardiness of the exhibitors, for
the building was finished completely
over eight months ago. Some
boxes have been unpacked, but
many a.e still on the cara, and nothing
has been done toward arranging other
exhibits. No other foreign countries
are in anything like preaentable shape.
Up in the galleries matters are in no
better shape. A large force of men ia at
work ia this portion OF building, and it
is expected that everything will be in
shape in about two weeks. Down on
the floor Of the building, which covers
nine acres, a tremendous iorce of men
IS working with desperate energy, but
no force can arrange the exhibits in the
mines and mining build ng before June.
THE FIsHFRIEa BUILDING.
Situated on the island at the entrance
aorth Of the lagoon is the fisheries