The herald., 1896-05-31

to get rich out of it and all of the officers
serve without pay. The people of the
state are putting up the money to de-
fray the expenses and are not asking
odds or favors from any one. Not much
of a hullabullo has been raised about
the exposition. and I'll has no boomers
travelling about describing 1t as the fin
est thing of the kind that has ever taken
place. But the people are interested in
it heart and soul and are quietly going
ahead to make of it something worth
going a long way to see.
The exposition proper Will not be
opened until May 1st of 1897, but the IN
auguration exercises will take place on
the exposition grounds at Nashville on
June 1St next. The exposition will con-
tinue for six months, lasting until No
vember 1, 1897. The dedicatory eXer-
cises will be of an elaborate character,
and it will require three days to put
through the program. There VIII De
parades galore, illuminations at night.
fetes big and little and tons of speeches.
1t was the original intention of j. w.
Thomas, president of the exposition, ana
T.. c. Lewis, the director general, TO
open the grounds to the public on sep
tember LIST next, but owing to the great
number of buildings to be erected TINS
plan was abandoned and the opening
date deferred to the following May.
One thousand mon have been at work
on the grounds for nine months pas.
and many of the buildings are now well
on toward completion. These struc-
lures will cover many acres in extent
and will present a magnificent picture,
as nearly all of them will be covered
with white staff in imitation of spotless
marble.
THE WOMAN'S BUILDING
The most interesting building is that
erected by the women of Tennessee. 1t
was designed by Mrs. Sara Ward-Con-
lev, who took the Hermitage the lannon's
home of Andrew Jackson, the patron
saint of Tennessee as pattern. The
Hermitage is only a dozen miles from
Nashville, the mecca or thousands t,I ol
tourists who go to the exposition.
The Hermitage is one of the finest
samples of colonial architecture in the
country and Mrs. Ward-Conley mas
idealized it by adding suggestions OF
ancient Grecian architecture. in the
woman's building. There VIII De num-
erous small apartments in the structure
ifor classified exhibits of woman s
work while the central part of the inter-
ior will be elevated to a large rotunda
with a grand staircase leading to the
right and left of the upper floors.
The exposition park is about 200 acres
in extent. and has many natural advan-
tages The state capitol, in the center
of the city, is only two miles away
from the entrance to the grounds, maxi
ing them easy of access from all quar-
ters of the city. There will be tifteen
buildings in the grounds, irrespective of
the structures which individual states
may erect.
THE PARTHENON REPRODUCED.
One of the handsomest will be a re-
production of the Athenian parthenon,
which, with it's fifty-eight massive col
umns, will form a fitting place in which
to exhibit the works of the fine arts, to
be gathered by the exposition officers.
The walls of this building are of brick.
and are forty feet high. The brick will
be covered with staff, in imitation ofthe
marble of the original Parthenon, as
will also all of the exterior features. The
roofs will be of glass, for the purpose of
affording strong light for the exhibit
tion OF art works. The Parthenon will
occupy the place of honor in the center
OF the grounds. The entrance to. the
building will be graced by fine statute
or Pallas Athena, twenty-five feet in
height, and mounted on pedestal eigh-