Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
TEN DAYS At THE FAIR.
(CONCLUDED)

It may seem appropriate to close
this series of articles on the Fair this
week, inasmuch as the Exposition is
set to close on Tuesday next. We
have to regret that we have been able
| to give our readers only so small q
part of the Fair as it impressed us in
a few days spent on the ground. One
fails to realize how much he can see
and learn in a brief visit of this kind
until he attempts to put it on paper.
When we began, under somewhat
unfavorable circumstances, to "take
inn the Fair, as the slang phrase has
been, we began to take a few notes,
but soon found that was useless, as no
one could give his time to taking notes
and see the Fair. So the note book
was given up and the memory called
upon is take a rapid invoice of the
great thing, holding, as best it could,
the material for this paper. Some
mistakes have doubtless been made,
but in the main, we believe, facts
have been given. It has been a some
what pleasant, though a wearisome
task to turn over the leaves of memo
ry for the facts recorded, to put them
on paper for the compositors. We
hope our readers who have been de-
prived Of the Fair may have learned
something from these articles that has
paid the perusal. Among the many
things which come to mind, not yet
written about, we hardly know what
to use in this space.
Intending to have given a full arti-
Gle to Woman's building, we give but
paragraph. Everybody who visited
the grounds visited it. It was plan
ned by woman, has been run by wo-
men, and everything exhibited within
it is the work Of women. The women
of the different countries of the earth
We'd with each other in placing on
exhibition something superior in it
self, which should at the same time show
what that particular country excelled
in.
The walls Of the great interior Sec
ton are decorated with paintings that
equal those OF the Art Palace; in the
rooms surrounding the great hall are
many pavilions and departments
which show handiwork. The best is
embroidery, embroidered pictures and
work of the needle that the world has
produced. Sitting in the gallery space
above the eye feasted on the beauty
of the pictured walls, or, passing into
one of the side halls one could visit an
oriental country where there are nee
! dlework pictures made on silk, with
stitches SO fine that the Impractical
eye could scarcely discover them,
which must represent the work Of
years. Here could be seen the opera
| ton Of fine lace making, where dex-
trous lady was handling her bobbins
and thread in bewildering manner
while the intricate work was growing
in her hands. High up in the building
was restaurant, and over on one
side was sort of chapel room, where
various lady organizations held their
assemblies and had their "spats." We
did not feel it safe to remain there
long.
Building long enough to see that stat
ue of silver and few other interest
ing exhibits. The silver statue rep
resents Justice, modelled after Ada
Rehan 1t stands over six feet high
above the pedestal and was cast from
silver, over two tons of the white met
al having been used in it's construc-
ton. 1t is a thing OF rare beauty.
Close by the statue is slab of onyx
stone over seven feet in length and
two feet in width. We pass to some
thing that to us was most beautiful,
specimens of polished petrifed woods
from the buried forests of Arizona.
This timber of pre- historic age has
been taken in it's petrifed condition,
sawed into blocks and polished to
take as fine a polish, probably finer,
than marble. The beauty is in the va
riety, shadings and forms of the pol
ished surfaces. Every color magma
BILE, running up through the shadings
is seen, while forms of beauty such as
no artist could design, cover the whole
block We mentioned this in former
article. Canada showed an ingot of
pure nickel metal which weighed
500 lbs. Some exhibitor had placed in
fine view tall statue, Liberty Enlight-
ening the World, made of crystal rock