Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-06-19

IN W1QCn, ana running from emu 10 CIV
of the building, between the three set
of arches, is a travelling iron crane o.
hosting apparatus propelled by elec
tricity This is used for hosting anC
putting in place the ponderous ma
chinery with which the building il
filed. For several hundred feet il
the power house great steam boilers
extend, of sufficient capacity to sup
ply engines that develop "a, 900 horse
power. The front of this great build
ing, adjoining the court is elaborately
finished with towers, and other orna
mentation.
"Staff." We have not mentioned
this material. AS it was one of the
commonest and most important mate
rials used in making the Exposi-
tion buildings, we will say that it is a
plaster composition, made largely Of
plaster, gypsum, treated with glycer-
inc, dextrine and other material, which
renders it tough and strong. 1t can be
mixed in cold water and then spread
like mortar, or cast in molds to form
anything desired. To add to the
strength when needed, a substance
like tow or sisal grass is laid between
the coatings of the material. The col
or is white, but it readily takes other
colorings desired. So much Of this
staff has been used on the exterior of
the buildings in it's natural color that
the Exposition buildings make what
is known as the "White City" Two
thousand carloads of staff were used
IN the construction of the works
The Electrical building, which is one
of the great buildings, one side of
which helps to form the Court of Hon
or, is structure made specially for
showing what has been accomplished
in electrical lines since the days of
Franklin. Here are exhibited the most
novel and brilliant exhibits in the Ex-
position. The dimensions of the build
ing are 345x69O feet; the cost was
$4O1, 900. Within there is a nave or
open height to the roof which extends
through the building and is 115 feet in
width; similar nave crosses the
structure in the middle. There are
wide galleries around the entire sides
of the building. The side walls are SO
feet in height. There are towers and
projections, and the whole outside is
beautifully and artistically finished. |
The scope of the exhibits in this build
ing is two-fold. One, an illustration
of the commercial and economic uses
of electricity, the other illustrates the |
development of electrical science and |
the progress made since the earliest |
and inventions.
Standing close beside the building |
above described is another very SINH |
lar in size and construction, called |
Mines and Mining building. This
building cost $265, 200 and required in
it's construction more than million
and a half lbs. of steel and iron. 1t is
used for the display of every sort of
mineral product, from the cheapest dirt
Up to the diamond. Here are displayed
immense quantities of precious min
erals, as we'll as common products
hat enter into the common materials
n general use.
Manufactures and Liberal Arts
building is the greatest on
he grounds and the greatest structure
If the kind ever erected. 1t is 1850
eet in length, 787 feet in width and
,ost in round numbers 81, 800, 900. It ,
s as noted for the beauty and symme
ry of its proportions as for it's size. !
The floor alone consumed 100000 ,
eet of lumber. The floor space on ,
he ground and in the galleries is A +
cres. The height of the walls is 66
eet, the height of the central pavil- ,
ons is 132 feet, the four corner ones,
z feet; the roof over the central hall
) 245 above the floor. The roof of the t
uilding is supported by immense r
teel and iron trusses that give clear r
pan of 354 feet, and swing up to a b
lear open height of more than 200 a
eet The weight of a single great S
russ with its purlines is 1900, 900 lbs. q
his line of trusses extends through b
ne building in its longest direction, Il
anked on either side by a lower and c.
arroWer set of trusses. On each side a
the truss work around the whole a
an extension that might in p
ommon terms be called a sleanton W
hich gives comparatively fat roof II
round the sides and ends of the build t;
lg. The high central roof is oval O.
nd is covered with iron and glass;
way up near the top on the outside
a surface, reached by elevators - :.
here visitors can overlook the =
-onn6s OF. take a promenade of near "