Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-09

MODEL FARM IN WASHINGTON BUILDING.
also be seen for a quarter, but a tower is .
thing which most people prefer seeing in
reality. In the Iowa state building is a
beautiful model of M of the handsomest
structures in America, the state capitol at
Des Moines. 1t is done in grain, very ap-
propriately, for as it was the harvest from
the soil which produced the wealth to
build the capitol with, SO it is fitting to
use the golden corn and the white and
saffron small grains to fashion the model
with. Unless you have seen such work
You will be surprised at the artistic effects
that may be produced with grains. The
Iowa people appear to excel in this art,
and their state capitol is an exhibit of
which they may we'll be proud.
In the Illinois building is one of the
marvellous pictures to be found in the ex-
position. 1t is a picture rather than q
model, and yet it is a model, too. Imagine,
II you can, a farm painted complete in
grasses and grains. That is what this is.
The frame is of grain, too. Even artists
who work in oil or black and white, and
who are naturally critical or intolerant of
what might be termed imitation art, stand
amazed before the effectiveness of this
canvas of Ceres. 1t has color, perspective,
good drawing, and a remarkable horizon.
The scene is that of a country road in the
immediate foreground, just beyond the
farm house, barn and other buildings.
Then the fields with ripening grain and
tall grass dipping before the breeze. The
farm runs back to the top of a gentle hill
and there disappears, the bald horizon
thus created being admirably treated. At
the right is a path of woods and under
brush, made like all the remainder of the
picture out of the products of the field, in
winch the shadows appear to fall cool and
inviting. The Washington model farm,
which is horizontal and a perfect model,
n the Illinois grain and grass picture
model of farm, hung perpendicularly in a
Frame, are two Of the most fascinating ex-
hlblts in this great exposition.
In the architectural section of the Ger
man display in the Palace Of Fine Arts the
visitor will find a number of beautiful
models. One is of the new German parlia-
ment house in Berlin, one of the most
noble structures in the world, and another
shows the Emperor William memorial
church in the same city.
AS an exhibitor of models Uncle Sam
probably takes the lead. Besides the big
globe already spoken of he has here his
great battleship Illinois, built of brick but
a perfect facsimile of q modern fighting
vessel. He shows also a large collection Of
patent Office models which illustrate the
progress Of the world during
tne last century, progress in which
every WILL agree America has borne,a
leading part. There are models of camps
and hospitals, army posts and signal sta
lions. Scores of model horses carry figures
OF men, to show the uniforms and trap
pings OF u military officers and cavalry
men.
Extremely interesting are the models
shown by the engineering corps of the
army. There is a model of the new Sault
ste; Marie canal, connecting Lake Huron
with Lake Superior, and through whose
channel, many visitors are surprised to
learn, passes each year q TONNAGE greater
than that which uses the Suez. Other
models show work carried on by the gov
eminent in the Improvement of rivers and
harbors, including the famous He'll Gate
pass, the Eads jetties and other works on
the Mississippi river. Visitor who never.
before were able to understand whv Uncle
sam spent SO much each year under the
head of "rivers and harbors" will now
have no difficulty in realizing what be-
comes of the millions which congress- an
proprlates for that purpose.
WALTEK WELIMAN.
Three women from Samoa have arrived
on the Midway plaisance and Joined the
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