The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-05

It's walls there Is space for picture hang
ing oil l45,So2 square feet, and as this is
covered with the greatest display OF art
ever seen at one time the art building
alone 10 worthy OF days Of study. Now
there are ready the sections Of Great
Britain, France, Spain, Italy, The
Netherlands, and America, The high
est types Of art by the best artists Of
the world are there displayed.
Upon leaving the art building the
home OF fish and fisheries then present
itself, This structure was designed by
Henry Ives Cobb, a Chicago architect,
and il contains more than three acres OF
the most interesting exhibits pertain
ing TO live fish and prepared products
OF the finny tribe,
In the west annex is the angling de.
partment, while along the lagoon will
be a model fishing camp with its para
phernalla OF boats and fishing tackle.
On this same lagoon Is q l%ife-saving
station regularly equipped for service,
II Is q section OF the government eX-
hibit, and is realistic and complete in
every detail. Then there ia u Light
house and a little way beyond the
brick battle ship Illinois, This appears
TO be moored to the pier some dis
lance out in the lake, 1t il a model,
lite'siEe. OF the latest addition 10 naval
architecture, and contains an exhaust
i've exhibit OF "our navy" 1t is an OK
act reproduction OF the United States
coast line battle ship OF 10000 tons bur
den, and Is manned bv q crew OF Jack
tars, and is supplied with a full battery
Of gnns OF the size and calibro Of an
actual ship, Four OF its guns are OF the
new pattern breech,loadlng, ll0'ton
style, warranted to PUNK q bulls'eye at
fifteen miles. Naval officers command
it, and life on board illustrates the
doings OF the sailors OF the white
squadron.
UNCLE SANS EXHIBIT.
From the battle ship the tendency OF
the visitor will naturally be toward the
government building, which fronts the
lake near by. What it doesn't contain
would be easier to write than its con-
tents, Us "Uncle SAM has on parade
something from all OF the governmental
departments, and the national museums
as we'll. California has distinguished
herself in this building by supplying a
section OF redwood fifty feet high and
thirty feet in diameter, This is fitted
up with n circular fight OF stairs, and
you can climb to the top ii so desired.
The exhibit Of the wal department
claims the visitor for a long time. 1t is
all arranged in an instructive manner
that claims and interests as well as 1t
enlightens.
Stopping a moment to SEQ how Uncle
Sam takes car Of his ailing Jack Tars."
which is shown in the marine hospital,
tho visitor then enters the largest ex.
position building ever ereCted-that
devoted to manufactures and the liberal
arts.
II F~oRTY-AcRE COTTAGE.
Weeks can be spent in wandering
about its forty acres of floor space and
its maze OF galleries, and each day will
develop new attractions, each more
shrinking than the last. Under the
huge steel arches OF its roof, which
forms q horizon 200 feet in mid air,
there is good sized city Of pavllions,
booths and structures, in which all na-
tons are represented and every style Of
architecture is displayed. In the CEN
ter OF the building is a clock tower 1870
feet in height, from the topmost plat
form OF which nine silver toned bells
chime the Quarter.hours, h%alf-hours,
and full hours during the day and night,
From the German exhibit it is almost
impossible to tear ones self away. 1t is
complete, artistic, massive in design,
and elegant in conception.
Entrance is through q portal OF
wrought iron. each gate OF which
weighs thirty tons. The Germans have
arranged their exhibit on the collective
plan. Each group represents a distinct
industry, so arranged as to lend har-
mony 10 the decorations. Inside the
portals are the exhibits OF the Royal
Berlin potteries and the famous Dres-
den works, owned by the king OF Sax
ony. Silver and gold iewelry are also
given prominent positions, and the
booths OF Germany's famous furniture
manufactures help to make the picture
complete.
The heroic figure of "Germania,"
which will ornament the new Reich
stag building after the close OF the fair,
is overlooking the pavilion from a ped
estal ninety feet high. The corner next
the clock tower contains the compart-
ment in which will be shown the Ger
man crown jewels.
Great Britain has a great collection OF
individual exhibits, OF which those de-
voted to pottery and ceramics are the
most interesting. France shows the
artistic creative powers OF her people in
the great space that the French exhibit
covers, and presses her old.time rival,
Germany. hard for first place. 1t is
needless to say that II the visitor be
feminine the French section will be her
Mecca, for one OF its chief attractions
will be the display OF woman'a gowns
and millinery sent direct from Paris
every week rs the fashions change. Bel
GUM and Switzerland have attractive
exhibits, and Holland has o display OF
blue art tiles that Is hard to duplicate.
Spain is n little behind as yet, but in a
few days everything will DO in order.
Erudite persons and those Interested in
educational matters will 60 upstairs and
through the galleries, where every
school system ever invented is com-
pletely shown in the department OF lib
eral arts. Others who are not will go
into tho electricity building and sec
what Ben Franklin's kite experiment
has resulted in.
MINES AND MINING
Mines and mining is one Of the most
interesting Of the many buildings OF
Jackson Park, stumm Bros, the Ger
man metallurgists, have tho most prom
inent exhibit on the floor. They have
demonstrated what forms cast ron can
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