Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
CHICAGO OFFICE BUILDING ERECTED SINCE
THE FAIR.

LIE TA1rs
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 i'm
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 inhar1nonious mon
grels that had been foisted upon them
when their taste for such things was not
properly developed. Architects and others
concerned in 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
n painting II in 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
terpieces of the painters and the sculp-
tors art. Chromos and plaster of paris
casts have had their day and will hereaft-
er be relegated to the limbo of outgrown
books, with colored pictures and other evil
dences Of imlnaturity.
The growth of a feeling for art in a COM
munity, of a better and purer taste in
buildings, sculptures, paintings and SIM
liar things, must bring about a more re-
fined and correct taste in all those interior
decorations which go so far to embellish a
home. For evidence Of what the exposition
has brought about in this direction most
men need not go beyond their own thresh-
Odds. There is hardly an American house
hold but has felt it's influence in some de-
gree. The demand for more artistic hang
tngs, rugs, furniture and purely decorative
articles has taken immense strides forward
~~~o oNS I@oo SNA AL ol4U III ~ llSLl
cial panic, which would naturally curtail
indulgence in mere luxuries, and Ameri-
cans who formerly gave little thought to
such have learned to study their more eff
fectlve and harmonious arrangement.
AS to the broad domain of science little
can be said, of course, In an article like this,
but there are two important branches of it
wherein the stimulating effects of the
WORLDS fair have been particularly notice
able. These are medicine and chemistry.
The influence of the exposition on the
Whole science of chemistry has been very
considerable, u more particular ~illustra-
lions OF it have been seen in the fields of
m~etallurgy and mining. Aside from their
purely scientific aspects, too, these fields
have attracted attention. The fair has
opened the eyes OF all Europe to the i'm
mensity Of mineral resources, and Ger
many and England have sent large
amounts of capital over for investment in
our gold, silver, iron and coal lands. An
other benefit the fair has wrought for
chemistry is that it has brought over a
number OF expert chemists, technologists
and mlneralogists, who will do their share
IN developing our chemical Industries and
leave their impress upon the scientific his.
tory of the time.
The exposition undoubtedly impaired g
tremendous stimulus to medical science all
over this country-all over the world, for
that matter. The great exhibits of appa-
ratus, surgical instruments and other aids
to medical science and practice were q rev
citation to many physicians as we'll as to
those Of the laity best able to appreciate
them. Hundreds of country doctors de.
voted days and weeks to the study Of these
exhibits, which proved q veritable up to
date postgraduate course for many of them
n must have been of immense benefit to
their patients as well as themselves.
c.. T. BAXTER.