The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-14
WORLD IN A FRAME
Grandeur of the Art Palace at
the Worlds Fair.
EIGHT THOUSAND WORKS OF AIT.

At One Minute to Zach Piece 1t Requires
Twenty-Five Days Of Six Hours to Sec
Them Au-Ali That Is Beautiful il Ma
ture or Intense or Picturesque in Life.
WORLDS FAIR. June IS. - Especial, -
1t IS worth our while today 70 take little
run through the Art palace. We do well
to go early in the morning before tie
crowds come, Tor there is no place in the
exposition where tie people congregate so
quickly and in such vast numbers as here.
II one wanted proof Of the love the people
even the plain, common people ike CUR
selves-have Tor pictures and statUaTy, he
could find Ii il abundance kere. ! have
never been IN the Art palace when il was
not thronged from ere cad TO tae other.
Even early il the morning the people are
here. sitting on the sofGs orwalking about,
Is if entraaced By the scene. Ii is easy to
see that q large majority Of them are any
thing bat professional lovers OF art. They
know little about the history Or the pro-
cesses or the technical ezceliencies Of art.
They are the farmers, the tradesmen, the
mechanics, the busy, work-a-day people
who have discovered how great and glor-
ious this Art palace and its contents are.
wish my poor pen had the power of de-
scribing the scene for you SO you might
realize it, SO you might see with my eyes
But as this is manifestly impossible, there
is nothing for you to do but come and SEQ
for yourself. When you do come you VIII
be amazed and delighted, just as | have
been, and as tens of thousands Of people
are amazed and delighted every day. For
without hesitation say to you the Palace
Of Fine Arts and its priceless contents are
alone worth journey to Chicago to see.
First as to the size OF the exhibit Size
eoesn't count for much in art. You see
that the first moment you are in the pal
ace. Supposing you enter at the principal
entrance, one Of the first pieces to attract
-FOUR attention is little bronze figure
which man could almost put ID the out
side pocket Of his overcoat. Though tiny
it pleases the eye as much as some Of the
more colossal attractions which are TO be
seen here 1t is called THE Young Aero
bat," and it is always surrounded by adj
mirers. a bronze forearm and hand stand
straight up from pedestal. The hand is
held fiat, and within it is perched nude
infant taking his first lessons in balancing
with his fathers palm for trapeze. If
you ever saw a chersb in position like
this you will at once see how admirably
the artist, an American, Douglas Tilden
by name, has done his work. On the face
is an expression Of surprise, of timidity
and yet of pride in his power and of in
fantiIe realization that it is not all of life
to lie in a crib or in the nurses arms.
How the artist managed TO depict all these
expressions with cold, hard bronze is
wonder to me, and yet there they are. And
how life-like is the little chaps flesh, par
ticularly the soft rolls pressing between
the fingers which support him. No Won
der the women gather in dense groups
about this work of genius to look, to love,
to exclaim.
But it was not to speak of individual
pieces that / began this letter. 1t was,
rather, my purpose to write Of the Art
palace as a whole and of the manner in
which it impresses visitors. 1 mentioned
the little Acrobat only to show how