The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-07-12
IMNGNSE THINGS
ON EXHIBITION AT THE WORLDS
FAIR.

a Temple of Chocolate, Cheese lhat
Weighs Ton, $4,000 Nugget of Gold,
"a Plank Sixteen Feet Wide.
A Chicago letter, speaking OF the eA-
position, says;
The love If things enormous with
which Americans are credited should
fGl satisfaction if not surfeit at the fair
A normal size seems to be the central
idea If the whole conception, and almost
every Iuilding contains besides exhibits
collectively great single objects eclipsing
all others of the kind YET known. In
structures themselves, this type is shown
by the Manufactures and Liberal Arts
Building, which possesses dimensions
hitherto unapproached in the history Of
architecture.
Iii /, 687 feet, or nearly one-third of a
mile in lengs III, by 1877 feet in width; the
ground floor has an area of Ger thirty
ceres; the central hall is 1880 feet by
$50 feet, and this space is covered by one
tremendous roof 237 feet high in the
middle and wholly independent Of cen
tral support. The great trusses sustain
ing it have a span Of 3S2 feet. The build
ing is three times as large as St. Peters
in Rome, the pyramid OF Cheops could
be piled up inside its walls and the Ro-
man Colosseum, which seated $4,000
persons, would occupy but one-siXth Of
its space. To look casually at half the
exhibits in such a place is out OF the
question; both mind and body are I'M
equal to 1T. The roof is reached by
elevators, naturally of the worlds great
est. As one ascends, the lhrong below
is no longer Of human beings but pig
mics moving in and out Of toy bazars.
Upon the roof IS the great promenade,
half a mile in length At the corners arr
the four largest search-lights yet made,
one of which has an Illuminating power
equal to that of 194, 900, 900 candles,
1t throws its light upon Milwaukee,
linety miles to the NORTH, and to Lincoln
Park, but fifteen miles distant, it is
almost a MONDAY sun.
Everything is fearfully and
wonderfully immense Over in the agli-
cultural building, across the Grand Ba-
sin, one is reduced relatively to about
the size Of a rat before a monster cheese
weighing p, 600 pounds. This was made
at one of the government experimental
dairy stations in the Dominion Of Cana
da. 1t was brought to Chicago on a
special train timed to stop at various
places en- route, and bears upon its outer
case the autographs and affecriOnate
g0dspeed Of thousands of Ontario farm
ers who went to see its triumphal prog
ress. From Chicago it goes t. the great
English house Of Upton 4 Co., and will
then travS over the British Use. the
wonder Of wonders to the English yokel.
It is rather remarkable, considering its
size, that its quality should grade up, as
it does, with the best fancy cheese. In
the Dominion there are over ,500 sue
cessful cooperative factories The gov
ernment has five large experimental sta
tions and docs mncb to advance fba in
dnstrv perhans that accents for the
fact If Canada,s exnorino more cheese
than the entire United States
1i,.Io dis+,,oo ~, i ano+hor aaor.,i
rs This is = +omr,1a % feet bitlb made
oF3 oon nonnds Of cboooI,ro Under t5e
dome sits a finely executed figure Of Ger
,,,,,ia .ftor +ba famous hronza y+a+na a.
+ba Eaf4arvaId on the Rhine