The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-02
Mines and Mining Building View taken from Northwest

~ l'oh ehtSie, iiit htiiitOuS OI uOllHfS VIII Dp
spent In the entertainment of visitors and
in formal banquets. Going southwark
are to be found three-quartcs of n mile of
structures representing manufactures, ma
chinery, electricity, mining, agriculture,
horticulture, forestry and minor material
interests, with buildings here and there
representing women, music and the gov
eminent of the grounds. The third lii
vision is the Midway plaisance, dedicated
TO Oriental villages, dancing girls, bal
looms, bear pits, glass blowers, panoramas
barbai'ic theaterS and everything that "ocs
to make up the side show life of an inter
national exposition. Here alone will the
visitor be forced to pay extra Outside of
the Midway plaisance everything is free
after the general admission fe.. is paid.
with he sole exception cf the Isquimau
village and the cave of the cliff dwellers.
1t was the genius of Frederick L.. Ohm
stead that turned the waters of Lake
Michigan into lagoons, ponds, basins and
canals with bridges and terraces to beau
tify the place. Every main building can
be reached by water. There are 80 electric
launches and scores of gondolas cared by
picturesque Ncnetians. 1t costs p cents a
trip on the launches and the gondolas can
be employed at so much an hour
An intermural elevated electric railway
penetratcs to all parts of the grounds, and
visitors can make their rounds with great
rapidity if they do not care to walk
Understandable Pom, and Sp,endor.
The pomp and splentlor of the Admins
tration building is beyond description. 1t
is in the form of four massive pavilions.
united and crowned by II mighty golden
dome that flashes go feet above the ground.
Each of the pavilions is 81 feet square and
the dome is 120 feet in diameter.
fIha cpl nj 4 til:
urcs, and the piers of he pnvilions are
crested with statuary This is the seat of
government. In the four pavilons are
the headquarters of the director general,
the foreign department and the depart
ment of publicity and promotion. Here
the purely executive work is carried on.
the construction headquarters being i'm
the service building. During the con
struction period Director General Davis
has commanded more than $1,000 men Mt
time, and Major Handy, of the bureau
of publicity, has supplied Il list of 40 900
correspondents. From this building mes
sages are going out constantly to the most
remote corners of the world
1t must be understood that the eyposi-
ton is city, with complete government
There are over $4,000 exhibitors, and two
persons for each interest represented
would give II fixed population of 100, 600
There are well organized and equipped DO
lice and fire departments. The Column
bian guard is an independent body of 20
lice numbering in the ncighborhood of
1000 men, largely made up of cX-soldiers.
This body is commanded by Colonel Ed
mund Price of the United States army.
and all of its superior officers are detailed
from the army. The men are uniformed
like soldiers, wear short swords and are
under strict military discipline They pre-
sent Il fine appearance scattered about the
grounds,
Lofty towers and splendid colonnados
give an air OF grandeur to Machinery hall,
although the cathedral effect is too marked
for such building and the attempt to
blend the Spanish renaissance and modern
railway depot architecture can hardly be
considered success
One impressive feature is the wonderful
battery of so big boilers built side by side
and joined together. They are all water
tube boilers and represent the seven styles
used in America. This row of monsters
can furnish 10000 horse power
The spectator is apt to bc mystifled when
he notices the spotless fronts of the boil
ers and engines and the snow white cos
Fumes of the iiremen. There is not Il heck
Of dirt in sight
The secret of it is that the furnaces are
fed with petroleum, which is blown into
them i'll an atomiZcd form and instantly
converted into fame.
This oil is pumped through pipes from
Whiting, Ind, so that the man who really
controls the acres of machinery and miles
of electricity of the exposition is the Hoo