Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-15
THE NEW REICHSTAG.
Germany's Magnificent Legislative Build
 ing Formally Opened Teday.

BERLIN, Nov 15-The massive govern ment building the new reichstag struo. ture, was formally opened today. It is by no means complete. but 1t is the young kaiser's earnest wish that the German parliament should hold its next session in the great hall designed for It. There is fully another years work within the building in the way of great decorations and the making and placing of the statu- ary designed to fill the thousand inches in the massive corridors of this monu- mental structure.
 For 12 years tho workmen have besn busiod on this building. which. with It's graceful front. faces tho famous green sward of tho still more famous Thiergar- ten and with Its terraced rear looks down upon the hustle and turmoil of busy Der lin. It is an ideal location. selected as 1t was by the greatest of Germany's land scape artists. From its top. on which the imperial crown rests like a gem set in the sky, the view of tho great city is en- trancing. It towers even above the great column of Victory, which commentaries the result of tho Franco German war.
 Tho statue of Germania holds the place of honor on the facade, and ahe fr!szes underneath 1t are adorned with tks Ger man arms and mythological figures tell ing the story of early Teutonic times Underneath this is the dedicatory inscrip- tion. To the German People" Its Ger man letters form the words. Dom Deut. schen Volke." The ornamental work and the statuary which already adorn the outside of the structure are the work of n host of Germany's masters. anon 2 whom towers the sculptor of the Ger:n1 mia statue. Rcinhold Vegas.
 It was in 1880 that the reichsrnth Cr@t gave to the world the conception u 'hj. new structure. It seemed t1 ,. aI 2. pulse Of the nation, and the Gr 2 ulation showed In unmistakah!c w,.~ l..., nothing would tend more To con .....t cement the German iederation than a monumental structure which would D, long to the nation and Do typ:cIl uUt alone of its unity. but of its great Ed. vances in science. art and architecture, It was to be a crowning event in tho his- tory of the new Germany, and this indeed 1t has proved to be. When on Juno g., 1884. the old emperor. William l, laid the cornerstone, his impressive words, few as they were, breathed tho noble spirit ol patriotism. and were much in the nature of a prediction that the completion of the structure would find reunited Germany tho strongest nation on the face of the earth.
 Not until lssa was the prize arohitec. tural competition decided. Hundreds ol plans had been submitted by the greatest and the least. by the masters and the me diocre. and 1t remained for a man prac. tically unknown to even his own nation to win the great prize.
 It was to Paul wallot that the honor was accorded. He Is now not alone ( great architect, but a talented landscape artist and remarkably clever civil en gineer. It was he who laid out the fa nous Central cemetery of Dresden, ant in 1881 took third prize in tho competi tion for the conception of the great Ste phania bridge of Vienna.
 The cost of the building will, wher completed, reach perhaps 60, 900, OOC marks. This is exactly double the amoun at first voted to carry out tho colossa project. Had the original design for in terior decoration and statuary been car ried out, it is likely that the building would have cost over 100, 00U GOO marks