Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-08

DOME OF THE MISSOURI BUILDING.
rewarded labor. Then the great floors were
laid or laying, with here and there joist
standing in t. , wind. Today the snow
clad domes sit as silent about the island as
sat the Indians at council on these prairies
a century ago.
For six months the contours of the thir-
teen large houses have been visible. But
only lately has the hamlet of villas for the
states come upon the scene. How do they
look? Like any residence part of smart
town, saving the awe you may feel in hear
ing that New York is to live here instead of
John Doe. If we were to enter this village
in the north end of jackson park not
knowing it to be 1.-The United States," we
would say the art palace in the center must
be the court house, and we would say New
York must be the banker Of the town.
Massachusetts the leading merchant and
California the chairman of the board Of
trustees.
1t Is very pleasant and proper to stop at
every doorstep and ask who lives there
Wisconsin or Indiana? And the workmen
seem as glad to tell u.s. Now in what other
town would it be dignifed to do thing
like that? The houses of the states are of
all forms and colors, but none are more
than stopping places-meeting places for
friends. California New York and Massa-.
chusetts, as has been intimated, have the
best sites and make good appearance.
We have not included Illinois in these
remarks because the Illinois structure must
be reckoned as one of the main buildings of
the great fair, and not the least command
ing. Six of the halls have domestic Ad
ministration, the Agricultural, the Horti
cultural, the Government, the Art and the
Illinois. The Art palace is praised highly,
because it is an Ionic temple with dome
on it, and it looks uncommonly we'll from
the SOUTH but the Fisheries, into whose
tanks the water was recently let, has won
everybody's praise for it's originality and
fitness. Whether we should iken it to
three Chinese pagodas, with the central
one twice as large as the lateral ones, and
the three fixed in curving line of beauty
-whether or not that gives to the reader
any earidea of the composite structure of
the Fisheries-he must decide when he
comes; but certainly a pagoda is not so
graceful in its lines and ornaments as is
each of the Fishery pavilions.
The newest large thing at the fair is the
depot that now fronts along the inside thor
oughfare leading lakeward toward the Ad-
ministration building and the basin. This
structure, with the harbor screen, the south
screen, and some raisings and roofings in
the northern or state end of the park, are
the fall and winter novelties.
AS winter came on the heroic statue of
the Republic, standing in the water before
the Administration building, was finished
and boxed up for next May. The columns,
in imitation of Venice, were erected at vari-
Gus corners. MacMonnies' white fountain,
with its barge of state and it's sea horses,
was set on the circular platform, which will
anon be covered with water The big
angels and heroes were mounted on the
corners of the Administration building;
Diana "a New York goddess set foot
on the dome of the Agricultural building,
and found herself outgrown by the bevies
of figures holding their spheres on the four
corners of the roof; the three finished gi-
gantic facades OF south fronts of the Mines,
the Electricity and the Manufactures got in
straight line across the wide park; the vast
cats and the lions of st. Mark were couched
on the Venetian bridges; the Transports
tion building was painted an iron rust red,
strangely out of harmony in ''The White
City," the dome of the Illinois grew like
girl at school until every one was alarmed;
the liberty pole from Washington state was
raised; the Convent of La Rabida rose out
of the waves of this western sea-but why
should we weary the mind with lists of de-
tails? Why not note rather that the cara
vel called Santa Maria was named after St.
Mary-that is, Holy Mary of the Cross,
which healed those who had hydrophobia--
who were rabid, and the convent was built
on the site of that cross-hence the Convent
of Santa Maria de la Rabida.