The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-02
TOUCHING THE BUTTON
TODAY It Starts the Machinery
for the Greatest EXposi-
ton Ever Known.
The Exhibits Are Not All in Place and II
will BE some Time Before They
Are Ready.

CHICAGO April 30. When President
Cleveland presses the electric button.
the signal for the formal opening of the
Worlds Columbian exposition. tomor-
row. the public will find the fair still IN .
a somewhat incomplete condition, but ,
this regretful situation is due more 10
tardness on the part Of tie exhibitors ,
than to any lack Of zeal on the part oi
the management OF the exposition
Nearly every building constructed by
the exposition proper IN the great "hite
city. is practically completed. and while
confusion stills rcigns IN most OF the
structures. it is in the matter OF the IN
stallation of exhibits and not delay
which can be attributed To any failure
of the construction department The
great buildings which constitute the vital
conception of the international eNposi-
tion. and which are a monument 10 thc
in lomitabc executive ability oi ChIei
Burnham and assistants. have Deeh
completed for weeks and ready for the
, installation Of exhibits. They are the
manufactures and liberal art building.
! machinery hail, electricity hail, the ish-
cries building. the art building the
woman's building. the forestry building
the mines and mining building. the
horticultural. the agricultural. and the
Transportation buildings. TIE admins
tration buildings are nearly all com
pleted or nearing completion ana MA
wa, plaisance shows dozens of Javancsc.
Turkish. Soudanese and other typlcai
villages which have sprung up IKE
mushrooms IL few weeks or days.
On all earth today there is probably
no buster community than that which
is working at top speed on the mahuiat-
lures and liberal arts building. Hun
dreds of trucks rumbled through the
streets and avenues of this thirty acre
} house today and thousands OF men
made the air ring with their hammers
For one writer. or twenty. to describe
the details Of the scene and the action IN
this, the largest building ever construct
ed. is not to be attempted The build
ing itself is completed, and the work
being done today has to- do with the con
struction of the city of booths houses
: and temples to hold the displays lie
ference TO the buildings in progress II
t this bIg building may suggest to thos'
who have not been here. only llttl
affairs. but when II is stated that I'M
golden eagle OF Australia is perched ol
top of towers seventy feet in height. am
- when il is known New York lewelr
firm has the noble American bird on 10
of column 100 feet high. the subJec
will assume a proper view 10 the h'h'
n Could Ajax but step within the POI
ID tails of the magnificent temple OF tn
f. electricity at the Worlds Columbia
=. exposition. he would scarcely have tn
: audacity to defy modern lighting
bridled as it is by science. The electr
: cal display far surpasses anything n
nd management of the great fair ev'
nd hoped to secure. In this building
- per cent. of the exhibits have been r
''' ceived. and according to statemel
prepared by Supt. Barrett. 20 per cen
n m' of them have been installed.
The mines and mining building
simply "A wilderness Of boxes. uniinlsh'
-, booths and unpacked exhibits. 1t W
II be "A month before the building Is
W. proper order. Throughout the enti
building there is but one exhibit
nj readiness and that is from the farthe
at end of the earth. New South Wal'
The delay in this building is due direct
ner to the tardiness of exhibitors. for I
building was finished completely o'
ice eight months ago. Some boxes ha
css been unpacked. but nothing has be
bone toward arranging the other eNl
bits. No other foreign countries are
anything like presentable shape. Up
the galleries matters are IN no bet
,a a,s shape. \ large force of men are
work in this portion of the building a
- it is expected everything will be in sha
! in in about two weeks. Down on the III
Fri Of the building. which covers nine acr
a tremendous force of men are work.
with desperate energy, but no force
o,a !. .nt arrange the exhibits in the mines d
mining building before June.
A NICE LITTLE JOKE.