San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-06-02
THE MICHIGAN STATE BUILDING.

ana fronts to the north and west. The
Arss floor contains the Offices, mems re
ception and club rooms. a ladies' p&F-
lor, reading and reclining ro0sis,
toilet and check rooms; also a barber
shop, cigar and news stand, 4 post
ofice, bureau of information, where
every Michigan visitor is expected to
register. giving both his home and
ception room is being finished and Will
be furnished bv Saginaw County at an
expense of s. 1000, and Muskegon
County is doing the same thing with
the elub-room, spending $4,000. The
ladies' parlor and reading-room have
been decorated and furnished by the
leading society women of Grand
Rapids at a cost of $1,000. The main
corridor, 50 feet long and 40 feet wide,
has 6 large fireplace at one side, around
which is placed a $1,000 mantel fur
niShed by the Widdicomb ManteI Com
pany OF Grand Rapids There viii
also be fireplaees in the ladies parlor
and she Saginaw and Muskegon rooms.
This floors of the corridor ana Railways
are made of Michigan tile, all the wood
used in the building came from Michi-
gan, and most of the construction
work was done " Michigan workmen.
The interior finish of the first and
second stories is in Michigan red oak.
When passing up the broad stairway
leading to the second floor the visitor
will be confronted at halfway land
ing by an elegant marble bust of Gen
Cass On the second floor will be found
n newspaper exhibit in a large room
fitted and furnished with chairs.
tables, and other conveniences for the
comfort and convenience of newspaper
peop.e. The exhibit viii contain
the last copy of every paper in
the State printed prior to May l, as
well as subsequent copies OF every
paper giving an account of the OPEN
ing Of the fair. On this floor is also a
large assembly-room furnished with a
pipe organ by Farrand & Volty of De-
troit Here will be held the meetings,
social gatherings, and banquets; and
there is also a room for State exhibits,
sGx7O, in which the university at Ann
Arbor is making a natural history dis
play, and where exhibits from the
various State institutions will be made
in glass cases. A prospective map of
the State, i2xl4 feet in size and costing
$4,000 is a feature Of the show.
The third floor will be devoted to
rooms. The tower carries an
illuminated clock having a six-foot
dial
In the Mineral Department Mines
building Michigan exhibit will be
displayed in a pavilion made of stone,
iron ore, copper, crvstalized salt, silver.
gold, granite, marble, verde antique.
and other specimens of mineral taken
from the quarries and mines of Michi-
gan. One of the unique attractions
inside this pavilion viii be a biblical
OF Lots wife turned
to pillar of salt. There will also be
a specimen of copper ore as it comes
out of the mine, IS per cent pure and
10 1000 pounds. The cost of
this pavilion is estimated at $50, 600. /
IL will stand in the center of the build /
ing opposite Germany and England, |
and was constructed under the /
of Peter White, member of I
the board for Marquette, and Jay A. (
of Houghton
In the Agricultural Building Michi- /
gan has erected another fine booth on I
I, 900 square feet Of space, in the cen
ter of which stands a Corinthan tenn
DE surrounded by a shield with the 4
,oat of arms of the State. The booth |
S filed with the choicest collection of /
yrsins, grasses, and other products Of /
he farms of the Wolverine State. In
his collection the State Agricultural
College is represented by a fine dis
,lay. Vice-President E. II. Belding is
n charge of this part of the show.
at the Centennial Michigan captured l