Arizona republican., 1893-07-27
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 the island is the Woman's building, an unpretentious yet effective monument of the part women have played in the exposition. Sweeping around the cir cle come the Horticultural, with its mammoth dome; the Transportation, polychromatic in decoration and ques- tionably valuable as a work of art. though doubtless its sky rocket hues are a relief to eyes tired of the dag. zling white of countless other walls AL most due south are the Mines and Elec- tricity buildings, and to the east again the leviathan of Manufactures and the hideous squattiness of the United States building. This circle is bound ed on the south by the Court of Honor always the Mecca of the wide-eyed tourist. On the north, beyond the Art galleries, are the homes of the states, and ranging to the west of the Wom- ans building is the long narrow spur of ground that holds the kaleidoscope of nations-the Midway Plaisance. It may be seen from the bare enumera- tion of groups that definite order has been observed in their arrangement. For instance, mines, manufactures, electricity, agriculture, machinery and transportation form the main group about the Court of Honor, be- cause they are allied industries, in a certain sense, and because the mind in- stinctively groups them when it turns to thought of human productive ener- gies. The state buildings are group of themselves, and the Plaisance, seem- ingly the most incongruous aggrega- tion of polyglot freaks, is in reality an orderly and most interesting exposi- tion in itself of the commercial and | ethnological traits of diverse peoples. | At the other extreme of the park, way down in the southeast corner, is an- other group of apparently inharmoni- ous elements which is splanned to show the anthropological view of the na- covery of the continent down to the present day. Close to these, for evil l dent reasons, the live stock barns and arena are ill evidence.
 These groups have been enumerated with such detail because the unin- formed fail to see how simple the plan is and lose themselves in the mass of the fair because they lack such knowl- edge as enables one to classify the things that naturally interest him.
 It would be very hard to say which of all these arrays is the strong est in spectacular impression. The Court of Honor, intended as the dominating note of beauty, can not be eulogized in any language, because it is beyond language. Sit ting beside the MacMonnies foun- tain looking through the serried col umns of the peristyle, out over the blue sheen of Lake Michigan; resting the gaze on the pure outline of Agri- cultural hall, with it's golden goddess pointing her arrow windward; swinging the glance to the majesty of the Man ufactures whose dimensions fitly rep resent the ultimate in human energy; or turning to the quiet simplicity of the Mines and majestic upward crown of nistration-viewing these in turn, one may we'll wonder if human hands will ever rear such beauty again for transient glorifcation of one mans achievement. Realizing to the full all the impressiveness of the sur roundings here, there are those who will prefer the Wooded island as van tage point when they seek the most beautiful place in the park. It may be that the very serenity of the place gives it charm to those who have wearied of the stupendous oppressive ness that overwhelms the appreciative elsewhere; or it may be that the mind, unaccustomed to art impressions in structural forms, turns instinctively to the shadowed walks and greenery of the island, for the rest that nature holds. However that may be, certain it is, that the lagoon-encircled oval, set down in the midst of an almost ideal | symphony of architecture, leaves one refreshed as if he had been leagues from the haunts of men, in primitive woods and amidst the waters of the northern lakes.
 Something of the same idea has found expression in the treatment of lake shore. There is this difference, however, that while the island is for isolation, the promenade on the beach is for the leisure of crowds, whose very number isolates the individual almost as effectively as if he were alone in the wilderness. One is natures own; the other is the last degree in modern de- velopment.
 These two haunts of the crowd typefy the dominant features of the fair. And that strange diversity Of treatment, which secures the same re. suit by widely different methods, illus trates as nothing else could the core lation of varying intellects to pro- duce a harmony of designs-structural and industrial every department of the whole exposition. Individuality is expressed in every exhibit, in every cornice line, in every statue and every painting. Looking at the buildings, viewing the endless vistas, studying | the interiors, the thoughtful observer