The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-23

CHICAGO OFFICE BUILDING ERECTED SINCE
THE FAIR.
ings erected since the fair, for instance
show remarkable progress in the popular
idea of harmonious and correct architec-
ture and display wonderful advancement
in professional knowledge and technical
skill on the part of those who designed
them
Chicago had some fine buildings before
the fair, but the predominant characters
tics of her architecture then were rather
startling than refined. The six months
object lesson in grand architectural ideals
afforded by the exposition wrought an inn
menSe change The people learned not
only to appreciate the beauty and symme-
try Of the classical architectural orders and
their legitimate descendants, but to dis
criminate against the inharmonious mon
gres that had been foisted upon them
when their taste for such things was not
properly developed. Architects and others
concerned I'm the erection of buildings will
find the people better critics in the future
than they have been in the past, and the
wise ones among them will strive to keep
ahead of the newly developed current of
popular taste
Similarly in the kindred arts of sculpture
and painting and i'm those branches of art
that are more particularly allied to house
hold decoration and furnishing the great
lessons of the exposition have not been lost
either upon the people or upon those who
supply their wants. The growth of APP
probation for really good etchings and en-.
cravings may be taken as "A prominent in,
dication of this and is likely to be merely
the forerunner of a largely increased de
mand for those higher forms of art that
find their eliminating expression in mas
terpiecos of the painters and the sculp-
tor ) art. Chromos and plaster of paris
casts have had their day and will hereaft-
er be rolegated to the limbo of outgrown
books, with colored pictures and other evil
dences Of immaturity
The growth Of a feeling for art in a com.
munity, of better and purer taste in
buildings, sculptures, paintings and sim
liar things must bring about n more re
fined and correct taste in all those interior
decorations which go so far to embellish
home. For evidence of what the exposition
has brought. about in this direction mos
men need not go beyond their own thresh
olds. There is hardly an American house
hold but has felt its influence in some de
gree. The demand for more artistic hang
ings, rugs, furniture and purely decorative
articles has taken immense strides forward
during the past year in spite of the flnan
cial panic, which would naturally curtai
indulgence in mere luxuries, and Ameri
cans who formerly gave little thought t,
such have learned to study their more ef
fectiye and harmonious arrangement.
As to the broad domain of science littl
can be said, of course in an article like this
but there are two important branches of i
wherein the stimulating effects of tn
World fair have been particularly notice
able. These are medicine and chemistry
The influence of the exposition on tn
whole science of chemistry has been YER
considerable, but more particular illustra
tions of it have been seen in the fields o
metallurgy and mining. Aside from thei
purely scientific aspects, too these field
have attracted attention. The fair ha
opened the eyes Of all Europe to the i'm
mensity of our mineral resources, and Ger
many and England have sent larg
amounts of capital over for investment ii
our gold, silver, iron and coal lands An
other benefit the fair has wrought 70
chemistry is that it has brought over
number of expert chemists, technologist
and mineralogists, who will do their shar
in developing our chemical industries an
leave their impress upon the scientific his
tory of the time.
The exposition undoubtedly impaired
tremendous stimulus to medical science al
over this cOuntry--all over the world, fol
that matter. The great exhibits of appa
ratus, surgical instruments and other aid
to medical science and practice We're u rev
elation to many physicians as well as t.
those Of the laity best able to appreciat,
them Hundreds Of country doctors dc
voted days and weeks to the study of thesC
exhibits, which proved "A vertable up t.
date postgraduate course for many of then
and must have been of immense benefit t.
their patients as well as themselves
Q. ~ BANTER