Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-10-06
WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
Manufacturers and Liberal Art
Building.

building SO gigantic IN It's pro-
portions that if 1t were dropped
in Kirksville, it would cover an
area reaching farther IN one direc-
ton than from POOLS hotel to the
NJ. L. Church South, and from
there to the first street north of
the square in the otherp lie you
can then you have some idea of
the Manufacturers building. For
ty-four acres under one roofl
More than a quarter of d quarter
section of land. Within its walls
could be placed the public square,
the store buildings that surround
it, the two Ward schools all
the church ediices of Kirksville,
the Normal, and still there would
be room for more over and
around.
Life is too short, time too fleet
ing, to dwell at length, or even
mention sll this building contains.
Here is great fair in itself. One
coming here with very limited
time and visiting this building
alone would carry away very
complete idea of the great nations
cf the earth as they now exist.
| Aroond the central monument
cluster the four greatest nations
| of the earth. Orr own Columbia
first, because she is our own. Ger
many next, because of the many
nations that SO promptly and
willingly responded to the invita-
ton of our government, her ex-
hibit is most full, complete, mas
sive. Not in this building alone
is this manifest. In her own
building which is modelled after
the plan of Nuramburg Castle,
she has spared neither care nor
expense to have it complete i'll
every department. Her Krupp
gun exhibit occupies an entire
building, and on the Plaisance,
| the German village, with its types
of modern and medieval architec-
ture and furnishings is free to all
who choose to enter.
France, with her Goblein tap
estries, her seyres china, her
bronze's, her great Dove vase, her
magnificent costumes, her ex-
quisitely upholstered furniture,
and her relics of the association
between Washington and LaFay-
cite, come next. If this building
alone were considered, she would
be the equal at this charmed spot
of the young Kaiser's realm. Last
of the four is England. Why
last? Because aside from private
exhibits, her display all through
is one that reflects comparative
ly little credit On the country
whose sons are continually boast
ing her great possessions. He1
special building, Victoria House
SO called, contains nothing of spe-
cial merit and at the portals you
are greeted by an English guard
who IN stentorian tones bids you
keep to the left and pass out the
other door. Really he had as well
bid you remain outside, for there
is nothing at which you take the
second glance save an oil painting
of garden party at Landrigham
the house of the Prince of Wales,
and one only looks at that because
of it's size. Then such woeful
disregard of ones feelings should
not pass unnoticed. Does he not
know that it is bad luck to enter
a building at one door and pass
out at another?
Germany and France both show
the skill of the architects who in
planning their displays consider
ed not only the space to be occu-
pied but the length of the build
| ing as we'll. There each country
that is represented at all, and
nearly all civilized countries are,
has placed in prominence the par
ticular work for which il is espe-
cially noted, besides much b that
| deserves attention because of his
torical significance. To us to
whom foreign travel has been
denied, much interest centers
around these exhibits. Here are
the famous Italian sculptures and
mosaics, and before the latter let
me say, [ went down on my knees
to satisfy myself they were not
paintings, so delicate is the shad-
ing, so perfect the representations.
| In this exhibit also are the
Neapolitan coral that we admire
and being women, return to ad-
mire again. Here is hand carved
furniture, so massive that we
groan inwardly to think of the
backaches at house cleaning time.
Now we are IN Denmark, stand
ing before the corner devoted TO
the memory of Hans Andersen.
Plain and unostentatious were his
surroundings. Here is fond
mother telling her little daughter
that the life size bronze figure be-
fore, is the likeness of the man
whose Fairy Tales she loves.
No one recalls that the present
Czarins of Russia WAS Danish
i born and bred, nor that the COM