Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-12-03
THE WHITE CITY.
Marvellous Model of the Worlds
Fair Just Completed.
Il Exact In Every Detail, Including Build-
ings, Court of Honor. and the Mid
way - To be Exhibited
at Atlanta.

Two years ago this month the Column
bian exposition closed. The other
night it reopened-in microcosm. The
board of directors of the Miniature
Worlds Fair Exhibition company gave
an "informal exhibition" of the sixty
thousand-dollar miniature ut the
shops, SiXty-third street and Sheridan
avenue, prior to removal to the Cotton
States exhibition at Atlanta. The
model is 65 feet long by SO feet wide,
and represents all the buildings and
appurtennnces of the worlds fair on
the reduced scale of inch to 12 feet.
The enterprise was undertaken nearly
two years ngo by G. w. G. Ferris, An
drew Onderdonk and Charles Schnei-
der, an architect who conceived the
idea and who has managed the con-
struction.
The model has been shipped in Sec
tions to Atlanta, where 1t will be placed
in pavilion within the exposition
grounds between the Machinery hall
and the Mining and Manufacturing
building. The fair over, the model
will be brought back to Chicago and
then taken to the principal cities of
the world rs sample of Chicago enter
prise and ingenuity. 1t will be placed
on exhibition at the Paris exposition
In 1000.
The construction is perfect in every
detail and is the work of skilled cabinet.
mixers and sculptors and painters.
who followed the original plans of the
worlds fair architects. The lagoons,
ponds, islands, walks, drives and other
features are us perfect in construction
rs money and skill could make them
Tiny incandescent arc lights illuminate
the pretty streets of counterfeit archi-
lecture. These lamps are the smallest
ever used for commercial purposes, and
were made expressly for the exhibi-
ton concern by the Westinghouse Elec-
trio company. Then there are trees and
sidewalks, the intramural railway with
running cars searchlights, Krupp guns
and the Illinois bnttlcship, capable of
brilliant illumination. There is statu-
airy of the most exquisite character,
cadets Mt drill, guards and guides-in
fact, the whole exposition as it thrivet!
within the perimeter of jackson park Is
most ingeniously reproduced. The
structure is made of wood and metal,
and the streets of cement. There are
1000 arc lights, 5000 minute lamps i'll
the court of honor and 800 in the adj
building. In the entire
model are over 100000 openings,
through which electric lights CLEAN in
the transformation evening scene. Per-
haps the machinery hall and German
IRE the most elaborate struc-
lures on the ground" the construction
OF the four towers requiring the labor
of two men for two months. The sash
and the grille work in the loggia is all
cast. In the Manufactures building are
100000 openings.
A scenic wall twenty feet high will
surround the model, platform eight
feet in width being reserved for specta-
tors. The exhibition of the model will
DC attended by q lecture during which
dawn, day, dusk and moonlight will be
by special process. The
night scene, with every building and
street on the ground brilliantly illum-
nated,wi flash lights darting through
the whole and with electric boats tossed
about on the waves, will be the feature
Of the exhibition.