The Globe-republican., 1896-11-26

again, the inspiration of the feminine
genius of the sunny south will manl1est
itself in the erection and adornment OF
a building at the Tennessee Centennial
and International exposition at Nash
Vile, which will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of its birth as
state. The exposition will open to
the public ON the list of next May Tor
six months. the most beautiful season
Of the year, that of flowers and fruit.
Bright minds and busy hands have con-
spired together, and in the West driv-
ing park, of 200 acres, two miles from
the capital, there is now being I'M
rolled a picture which will charm the
eye, while it feeds the mind with indeli-
BILE Impressions Of what the brains and
Drawn of the south, supported by ma
ture and industry allied, are capable of
producing. The picture will really be
symphony in blue and white of a
park carpeted with the famous blue
grass and strewn with handsome edi-
fees, their snowy walls Stimulating
marble, with miniature lakes dotted
with fitting gondolas, pretty drives,
terraces and fanciful bridges, and here
and there interspersed among the more
imposing buildings little pagodas, tenn
pies of amusement and county build
ings, which, when completed, will COM
mingle in a scene of picturesque ma
ture and art combined.
In each of the buildings will be seen
a distinctive type of architecture. The
Commerce building, 691 by 256 feet, is
Of massive appearance, with great
dome, ITS feet high, rising at the CEN
ter. The fine arts building, an exact
reproduction in size and appearance of
the Parthenon at Athens, will give a
fire-proof housing for the art treasures
to be collected in it. The auditorium,
with its beauty of enriching colonnades
and its tower, 40 feet high; the ma
chinery building, 526 by 124 feet; the
transportation building, 400 by 125 feet;
the buildings for the agricultural, min
erals and forestry, livestock and horti-
cultural displays; the woman's, chill
dren's and negro buildings, will all
unite in an architectural panorama COW
ering 200 acres.
The women have had no little to do
with the plans for Tennessee's big
birthday fete, and their building will
come in for generous share of atten-
ton in May. Indeed. the talented, in
fluential, enthusiastic and patriotic
southern women are already tasting
glory. They have proven beyond a
shadow of doubt that the women of
Tennessee are not wanting in progress
iveness, preferring the dainties of dress
and the hammock to the more interest
ing current events surrounding them.
They have shown their ability and ex
ecutive capacity by very substantial
fact, which is that their building is the
first to rise upon the exposition
grounds.
In one thing especially the women
have proven not only their patriotism.
but a keen sense of what the poet is
pleased to call the eternal fitness of
things. They have made their building
a representation of The Hermitage, the
home of Andrew Jackson, twelve miles
from Nashville. 1t was here that Old
Hickory lived when he held the execu-
tive chair, and the old mansion has
been preserved by the association bear
ing its name as patriotic Mecca. Thus
the woman's building derives its mo-
tive from a well-known existing local