The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-09-29

II 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-
mansions: The Manufacturers build
ing, $40 by ale and 50 feet high. with q
tower reaching 100 feet from the ground
the largest building ON the grounds
except the great Government building;
the Machinery building, 100 by 500
and 60 feet high; the Agricultural
building, 800 by $50 and 90 feet high,
with q 100 foot tower: the Minerals
and Forestry building, 80 by $40, with
general elevation of 80 feet and o GEN.
trail octagonal tower 60 feet high; the
Electricity building, 81 by 800, and
elevation of so feet, with q 100 foot
tower. The grounds are far more diver.
sified in every way than these Of the
Chicago exposition, and though Lake
Michigan is necessarily absent yet it is
believed that other features of the topog-
raphy will more than compensate for
that. n
The city is 1880 feet above sea level,
and the Summers are singulagly cool,
while autumn Is dry and bracing beyond
description. The drainageis ideally per-
feet. Every rod of ground for d Jays
ride in any direction from the city I'D of
historic interest. To the west are the
blue mountains. to the east and south
the gently rolling hills. The city Ii q
happy combination of northern md
southern in its structure and includes
all civilized races in it's population.
Owing to the topography, each princi-
pal building will occupy q commanding
eminence, and from the towers one can
overlook those fields where so many sol
dierly regulations were made and so
many soldierly careers ended just 81
years before.
There will be special features OF rare
interest, the most important being ON
exhibit by the colored people. It viii be
the first OF the kind and will be ivalu-
able proof to the world of what progress
the freedmen have made. Generally. r.
Lewis, formerly of the federal army,
has taken great interest in the matter,
has procured lists of the colored men i'm
the several states who will take action,
and these will form state organizations.
The special committee in charge OF tins
branch consists of w. "a. Venable, owner
of the Stone mountain granite quarries;
ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock, Gem
eral Clement A. Evans, and j. @. Ogles-
by, president OF the Commercial club
Congress has granted an appropriation
Of $500, 600 for the government exhibit,
and If practicable the government build
ing Of the Chicago exposition win be
removed and set up in its entirety at At
lanta.
OF the six main buildings, the CON
tract for five was let to Mr.. Bradford
L. Gilbert Of New York, and that for
the Administration building to Mr..
Walter T. Downing OF Atlanta MIR.
Gilbert built the great Illinois Central
depot at Chicago. which cost 90, OOO,-
600 and is said 10 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
10 quite an enthusiast over the site and
says it gives greater possibilities than
any other exposition ground I'm the
world. His design for the Machinery
building is rather new in the line Of x
position structures. It is to be ample
cube In the interior, giving the largest
available space, with an exterior finish,
having o touch Of the "reminiscences, and
large porticoes, with immense pillars on
each OF the four sides. SIT Is my aim
he says, ''to construct a building whose
size will not be apparent at first, bat
which will grow ON the observer. =
Atlanta To q very new city, with
well, by the opening of the exposition
its population will be about 100, 600, OF
whom one-third are colored. Though
survivors Of the Confederate arnny are
now but few In the south compared
with the general population, yet there
will be reunions of various old conn
mands, and as the yearly meeting Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic win be
held at Louisville next September an
earnest effort will be made TO have the
entire body 60 to Atlanta. If Ii does,
there will be the grandest reunion of
the blue and gray ever held.
7. NJ. McKINsFRT.