Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-23
PRoJrcTrD GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

south, the expenses of which exhibit will
not come out of the general government
| fund of 5000, 600. The government build
ing will he 2G0 feet long and $50 feet wide
ana will be open to the roof inside. The
main portion Of the building will be one
story high and will rise % feet to the
caves The central or clear story Of tho
/ building is designed in the form of a cross
and will rise - feet above the main story.
! The building will also be thanked by four
round towers 40 feet high and will be i'm
| posing as we'll as pleasing to the eye.
Among the other buildings now erected,
/ in process OF erection or under cOnsidera-
| ton are the Manufactures building, $40
| by go feet in dimensions on the ground,
| with tower that will rise 100 feet into
| the air; Machinery ball, leo by 500 feet
1 and IS feet high; Agricultural hall, 500
| by 30 feet and with 100 foot tower;
| Minerals and Forestry building, so by 320
/ feet; Electricity building, 81 by $50 feet,
with IA 100 foot tower for electrical dis
plays; Fine Arts building, 80 by leo feet,
with two side wings of the Same diuen-
sions, and large buildings that will be de-
voted to woman S work, transportation and
negro exhibits.
One Of the decided novelties Of the eX
position Will he the negro cXhihit, the first
of the kind ever given. Prominent negroes
| throughout the country are taking an in
| forest in the project. and the race will en-
dcavur to show the world that it has made
/ good use of the barely 30 years Of freedom
/ it has enjoyed in America State commits
sions will be organized throughout the
south, and some prominent colorCd man
| will he chairman of each commission The
/ direction of the entire negro exhibit is in
the hands Of such prominent men ms w
/ H. Ncnuble. owner of the Stone Mountain
granite Quarries; Ex-Governor Rufus b.
Bullock: General Clement A. Evans. re
Gently IL candidate for governor; j. G.
/ Oglgshy. pres dcnt of the Commercial club,
and cx- Postmaster j. r. Lewis. The col
led man did not have much of n chance
to show what he had done and what he
could do at the Worlds fair, but he VIII
have the opportunity Of the century at the
Atlanta exposition.
Representative southern women are
working hard to interest their sex in the
Woman's building, and Mrs. Josiah Kings
ley OH, who recently visited New York.
was very enthusiastic over the outlook.
The Woman's building mt the World ;
fair won't be in it with ours, " she said TO
a reporter The woman's board of the cx-
position is composed of IL members, and
these have selected the general board OF
women managers composed of 80 represent
alive ladies of the south. Some woman S
DESIGN will he accented for the buildiue-
and the nreat specinltv of the exhibit will
be woman's work in various lines Won
ans tbouoht will he shown more Inv hen
w,,k than bv the speecbes and papers s.
popular at Chicago.
ono Of the o~ent objects of the expositior
is In Stimulate trade with south America
tbe West Indies NIexiconnd Central Amer
len and snccial representatives will he sent
IN tho difIcront countries many of whirl
have already disnlaved n prent interest In
the nroiect and nre nrennring to he wei
rpnrr.ented whom rho ovnositinn onens IL,
dnnrs Cent Is 1so5 Amoro tho an,usn
mont ,ttractiops viii Inc tho Cairo stree
tb,t was soon at the World,s fair a al
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