The Press., 1893-11-23
(Correspondence.) WORLDS FAIR SIGHTS.

| It seems to be the idea of many people who have not visited the worlds fair that everything there is wonderful, or at least should be, to be worth the necessary sac- rifice to see it.
 l imagined almost as much, and I saw enough to convince me that I was more | than half right. For instance, the statue of the "Republic," facing the administra- tion building. It is 65 feet tall, face, neck and arms are white, the rest of the figure is gilt bronze. Both hands are elevated, with globe in the right hand and spread eagle on it's top, and in the left pole tipped with liberty cap. From the chin to the top of the head is 15 feet, and the arms are 30 feet long. The head is 24 feet around it, and the nose is g feet long, The fore finger is B feet long, and 105 inches in diameter. It is lighted with electricity, and has an inner stairway and | ladder through the neck and head and a doorway in the crown of the head, where the man who attends the lights has to pass.
 Opposite this, and in front of the admin istration building, are the electric foun- tains, one on each side of the wonderful Columbian fountain. These cost $45, 900, and throw water 150 feet high, but are scarcely noticed, and never appreciated or admired, except when lighted. Then their glow of beauty is such that they almost seem to call for land filled with fairies to have the surroundings in harmony with them; and to witness them illuminated, as l did on Thursday evening, Oct. 9th, at the grand illumination and fireworks s. when the borders of the lagoon and the score of gondolas and electric pleasure boats, and the dome of the administration building, and the electric building in it's fanciful brilliancy, and the powerful search lights shooting out from the tops of five of the different buildings, some of which throw shaft of light ten miles, bright enough in dark night by which to see to read, and all these the product of electricity ; and in connection with these, fireworks, ordinary and extraordinary, some of them the grandest 1 ever witnessed and all these combined filling the heavens, as it were, with one grand glare of glory, could hardly fail to make the mind delirious with admiration and to eXclaim: truly, no spot on earth ever witnessed, and no spot ever was so appropriate for such grand demonstration of human Ingenuity, as the "court of honor" at the "world's fair of 1S93,"
 Those buildings, so quickly conceived, so artistically designed, so symmetrical, and so extravagantly large. The manu- factures' building has A acres of floor space and four floors, consumed 5000, ,00C feet of lumber and four car loads of nails. It is 1887 feet long aud 797 feet wide. Through its center is an avenue 50 feet wide; galleries 50 feet wide extend all around it, approached by 30 stairways 1s feet wide. It took 50,000 pounds of paint to paint it. It is filled with manufactured articles of all kinds ever conceived of. The pavilions in which the articles are | exhibited, many of them, are exceedingly rich, costly and beautiful. Different coun- | tries competed with each other in their construction, for prizes. The pavilion of the Gorham Mf'g Co.,, of Providence, R. l., was one grand show case filled with an endless variety of articles. from the tiniest article of silver to the wonderful century vase, valued at $25, 1000. Tiffany's, near by, with dazzling glare of diamonds topped with the $100,000 one, elevated above the rest and so arranged as to be constantly turning in order to show its brilliancy the French suits of furnished rooms, trimmings and upholstering of pink satin, another similar from New York yet different the exhibit of stoves of va rious makes, one especially of the Michi- gan Stove Co.,, the legs of the largest one being 28 feet apart, all in perfect propor- tion, elevated on posts four feet high, the bottom of the oven being a gilded dome under which was a finely furnished sitting or reception room, the Swiss hand carv- ings and hundreds of clocks and watches dress goods of different nations, silks satins and woolens, musical instruments these few and hundreds more of different artices, all arranged with aisles between so as to be approached from all sides, the grand clock tower in the center, the band playing from till p. m., the eager throngs moving in different directions without jostle, hinted at in this random manner, may serve to convey some faint idea of the extent of one building and it's contents. E. J. S.