Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-16
WORLD IN A FRAME
Grandeur Of the Ar Palace at
the Worlds Fair.
EIGHT THOUSAND WORKS OF ART
At Ono Minute to Each Piece 1t Requires
Twenty-Five Days Of Six Hours to See
Them Allah Tint Is Beautiful in Nh
fnra Nr Tuteusa Nr HICtN rCnuue IN life.

AZ OnC Minute 10 I.alCn 11cC0 ~ Requires
twenty-five Days Of Six Hours to See
Them Allah That Is Beautiful In M
ture OF Intense or Picturesque in Life.
WORLDS FAIR, June IS. Especial. -
1t is worth our while today to take a little
run through the Art palace. We do we'll
10 60 early in the morning before the
crowds come, for there is no place in the
exposition where the people congregate so
quickly and in such vast numbers as here.
If n wanted proof of the love the people
even the plain, common people like our
selves-have for pictures and statuary, he
could find 1t in abundance here. I have
never been in the Art palace when it was
not thronged from one end to the other.
Even early in the morning the people are
here, sitting on the sofas or walking about,
as il entranced by the scene. It is easy to
see that a large majority of them are any
thing but professional lovers of art. They
know little about the history or the pro-
cesses or the technical excellencies of art.
They are the farmers, the tradesmen, the
mechanics, the busy, work-a-day people
who have discovered how great and glor.
ious this Art palace and its contents are.
Iwish my poor pen had the power of de-
scribing the scene for you so you might
realize it, SO you might see with my eyes.
But as this is manifestly impossible, there
is nothing for you TO Go but come and see
for yourself. When you do come you will
be amazed and delighted, just rs ] have
been, and as tens of thousands Of people
are amazed and delighted every day. For
without hesitation I say to you tie Palace
of Fine Arts ard its priceless ccatcc:s are
alone worth a journey to Chicago to see.
First as to the size of the c::::..ib;t. Size
Doesn't count for much in aVr. You see
that the first moment You are in the PAL
ace. Surprising you enter at the principal
entrance, u Of the first pieces to attract
your attention is a little bronze figure
which a man could almost put in the out
side pocket OF his %overcoat. Though tiny
it pleases the eye as mich as some of the
more colossal attractions which are to be
seen here. 1t is called "Tle Young Aero
bat" and it is always surrounded by ad-
mirers. A bronze forearm and hand stand
straight up from a pedestal. The hand is
held fiat, and within it is perched a nude
infant taking his first lessons in balancing
with his fathers palm for a trapeze. If
you ever saw a cherub in a position like
this you will at once see how admirably
the artist, an American, Douglas Tilden
by name, has one his work. On the face
is an expression of surprise, of timidity
and yet of pride in his power and of in
fantile realization that it is not all of life
to lie in a crib or in the nurses arms.
Howthe artist managed to depict all these
expressions with cold, hard bronze is a
wonder to ME, and yet there they are. And
how ife-like is the little chaps flesh, par.
ticularly the soft rolls pressing between
the fingers which support him! No won.
der the women gather in dense groups
about this work of genius to look, to love,
to exclaim.
But it was not to speak of individual
pieces that I began this letter. 1t was,
rather, my purpose to write of the Art
palace as q whole and of the manner in
which it impresses visitors. l mentioned
the little Acrobat" only to show how