Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-08

THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
 southern aspect throughout. The central or double story portion is designed for use chiefly as an art gallery, while the rooms for officials and the press are on | the sides.
 The other buildings are to be chiefly Romanesque and of the following di- mensions: The Manufacturers build ing, 37O by 2I6 and 6U feet high, with tower reaching 100 feet from the ground the largest building on the grounds except the great Government building; the Machinery building, 100 by 800 and 65 feet high; the Agricultural building, 300 by 150 and GO feet high, with a 100 foot tower; tho Minerals and Forestry building, so by 320, with general elevation of 35 feet and 0 cen tral octagonal tower 60 feet high; tho Electricity building, 91 by 25O, and elevation of 60 feet, with a 100 foot tower. The grounds are far more diver. sified in every way than those of the Chicago exposition, and though Lake Michigan is necessarily absent yet it is believed that other features of the topog- raphy will moro than compensate for | that
 The city is 1, ,OS0 feet above sea level, and tho summers arc singularly cool, while autumn is dry and bracing beyond description. The drainage is ideally per feet. Every rod of ground for a days ride in any direction from the city is of | historic interest. To the west are the blue mountains to the east and south the gently rolling hills. The city is a happy combination of northern and southern ill its structure and includes all civilized races in its population. | Owing to the topography, each princi- pal building will occupy a commanding cminencc, and from the towers one can | overlook those fields where so many sol dicrly reputations were made and so many sOldicrly careers ended just 3l years before.
 There will be special features of rare | interest, the most important being an exhibit by the colored people. It will be | the first of the kind and will be q valu- able proof to the world of what progress the freedmen have made. General J. R. Lewis, formerly of the federal army, has taken great interest in the matter, has procured lists of the colored men in the several states who will take action, and these will form state organizations. | The special committee in charge of thls branch consists of w. Fl. Venable, owner of the Stone mountain granite Quarries; ex- Governor Rufus B. Bullock, Gen. eral Clement A. Evans, and J. G. Ogles- by, president of the Commercial club. Congress has granted an appropriation of $200, GOO for the government exhibit, and if practicable tho government build | ing of the Chicago exposition will be removed and set up in its entirety at At lanta.
 Of the six main buildings. the con- tract for five was let to MT. Bradford L. Gilbert of New York. and that for the Administration building to MT. Walter T. Downing of Atlanta. MT. !Gilbert built the great Illinois Central depot at Chicago, which cost $2, 900, . 900 and is said to have been put through from cornerstone to the crown of the spires in shorter time than any other building of equal size in the world. He is quite an enthusiast over the site and says it gives greater possibilities than any other exposition ground in the world. His design for the Machinery building is rather new in the line of ex- position structures. It is to be simple cube in the interior, giving the largest available space, with an exterior finish, having a touch of the renaissance, and large porticoes, with immense pillars on each of the four sides. Ut is my aim" he says. ito construct building whose size will not be apparent at first. but which will grow on the observer.
 Atlanta is a very new city, with well. by the opening of the exposition its population will be about 100. 900, of whom ons-third are colored. Though survivors of the Confederate army are now but few in the south compared with the general population. yet there will be reunions of various old com mands, and as the yearly meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at Louisville next September an earnest effort will be made to have the entire body go to Atlanta If 1t does, there will be the grandest reunion of the blue and gray ever held.
 T. V. MCKNsTRI.