Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-07

money Tor the 0r0CC1On OF SCaU0 OuIIO'
ings, and many of them are such II
size, style of architecture and exhibits
as to be in themselves objects of great
interest to the visitor of the Fair. A
building that should serve only as
headquarters or a dropping in place,
where their own people might rendez-
vous while at the Exposition.
Illinois probably excels in the cost
of her building $3.50, 1000, if not in her
exhibits. The building itself is very
large. 1t stands in one of the pleas
antest localities and is an object that
some of the great Fair buildings. The
citizens, proud of the honors paid them
in locating the great Fair in Illinois,
spared neither labor or expense in
making display that should interest
the world. The great state itself can
almost all be seen in miniature in the
Illinois building. Here one gets an ex-
ceIlent idea of her agricultural and
mineral products, her progress in the
arts, her schools, her charitable insti-
tutions, her farms, stock raising in
dustry and almost all that pertains to
her growth and progress. AS one en-
ters the main entrance of the building
he will find cooling fountains, broad
doorways leading into either side of
the structure, and broad stairways
leading to the rooms and galleries
above. On one wing of the building
there is the representation of rocky
grotto, where the green moss and
ichens are clinging to the rocks, and
a stream of water is running down to
the pools below. Here are trout, pike
and other fish, with an occasional
pleasant to behold. The walks, bridge,
trees and surroundings are such as to
make one feel that he is in some cool
place in the forest; but if he walks on
little farther he will step out among
the grain, and he will be surprised at
the variety and quality of the grain
products. And here is what the ar
tist has been doing in building a pal
ace with the grains, grasses and corn
products of the state. No one who
can get any idea of the novelty and
beauty of structure made of the ma
terials mentioned. The reader may
imagine light frame structure put
up as artistically as possible, to be
covered, adorned and made beautiful
by finish made Of grains, grasses and
corn. The grain is used in the straw.
in the heads, in the grain; the corn in
the shelled product, in the whole cob,
and in the cob cut off crosswise and
building. Every color of corn is used,
so that by color, color contrast and
form almost everything can be repre-
sented. Whatever taste can do in the
formation of figures, flowers, ,wreathes,
panels, pictures and adornments is
done. A palace Of this sort serves as
a place to display fruits and fruit
products, and is made more beautiful
and attractive by these additions.
While speaking of this matter we will
ask our readers to go up the winding
stairway with US and see a remarkable
picture that some artist has made.
You can be seated and take in the pic
ture at your leisure. 1t is an Illinois
farm scene. There are the broad prai
RE fields; the grain is ripe and the
harvester is out with his horses and
reaper, cutting and binding the tall
wheat; a little farther away, and the
tall corn is waving (?) in the breeze.
Away beyond is the gold tinted sky,
and close beside you are the farm
buildings with the cattle in the pas
ture section, the carriage with it's in
mates, the farm wagons, the flowers
in the front yard, the farmer and his
family, the faithful shepherd dog, old
puss and her kittens, the hens and
old chanticleer, and everything
else that goes to make up the farm
and farmers home. While you are al
most entranced with the scene, and
feel that it is real, somebody breaks
the illusion by saying, ''It is wonder
full how they can make scene and a
picture as real as that with grains and
grasses" And yet it was all done by
the use of these materials AS the |
gallery runs through the middle of the |
building, we will cross over and see
on the opposite something the paint
ers have done in giving us the seen
cry of the state, and in painting the
portraits of some of her great men,
Lincoln, Douglass, Trumbull and
host of great men have their faces in