The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-05
A MARVEL OF MACNIFICENCE.


plays of the mines and mining inter
ests. From Klondike gold to Arkansas
lead, all kinds and varieties of miner
ais are displayed. There is no limit
TO the wealth lying west of the Mis-
! sissippi, and the full and complete rep
resentation of these wonderful unde-
! veloped resources form a feature be-
/ fore which the world must stand in
/ amazement. Arizona, Idaho, Utah and
! Wyoming all send rich mining exhibits
/ and help make up an extensive display.
/ The grounds lack that never to- be-
forgotten background of the green blue
( lake, against which the white city at
Chicago was Silhouetted in enhancing
! beauty. But there are compensations.
The view from the bluff tract up and
down the valley of the river and way
across to the bluffs of Iowa, is most
striking and impressive, while peep
ing out from between the pillars which
form a colonnade connecting the build
ings in Kodntze park are bits of green
sward and leafy hillsides as exquisite
as could be desired
On the KountZe park is what is
known as the main court, with a grand
canal sweeping down the center and
thanked on either side by the stately
buildings of the general exposition. The
architects have exhausted the resources
of their craft in the designs, and they
-
caSion and would not put to shaiiIe
even the artistic French capitol They
are variations of the pagan Greek with
mere and there an impudent, though not
offensive, intrusion of bits of fin de
steele. AS you look west, a long canal
sweeps away at your feet. Half way
down the picture is an standard still
further a massive electric fountain,
while at the west end rises the great
This structure surpasses in beauty and
expense anything that the federal au-
thorIUIeS have ever attempted on expo
sition grounds. In design the buildings
suggests at once the capitol at Wash
ington and the great church at ST.
Peters at Rome. The surrounding
dome, unlike that which adorns the
average state capitol, is gratifying
in proportion and really looks as if the
building beneath it is heavy enough to
carry it. 1t is gilded as bright as the
crown upon st. ISaac'S in St. Peters
burg, and rising above it is a colossal
reproduction of Bartholdi's statue of
Liberty Enlightening the World The |
approach from the green lawn connect |
ing the mirror lake with the United |
States building is up a massive fight !
Of spets, fanked on either side by fig |
Ires of Herculean mould, while stretch |
ing away from either end of the struc-
-ure are the curVing colonnadeS Sug- |
gestive of st. Peters.
The dozen buildings which stand like
sentinels on either side of the canal,
are occupied by mining, mechanical,
electrical and agricultural displays,
With manufactured goods, fine arts, etc.
The first building on the right as you
stand at the east end and look over
he scene is to be the depository for the
rich collection of electrical
appliances.
The next buildings in order are the
lall of manufactures and the house of
Igricultural display.
AT your left hand and Immediately in
ront of you is the auditorium, a build
ng for conventions and concerts and
mass meetings Next the building for
mines and mining, and last the hall Of
inc arts. Posed midway between the
Xtremities of this long canal of honor,
n the right, is a building Of colossal
esign to be used for administrative
and facing it and forming
he main entrance to the grounds is
7hich Bonaparte adorned Paris and
Iilan. Scattered over all the picture
re statues, representative of the best
ypeS of sculpture in ancient and mod
IN art. The scene, particularly at
light, when the silence is broken only
Y the tapping of the waters and song +,
f the gondolier and the hum of a
lyriad voices, with the great buildings
utlined by 10000 electric lights; with
ne bridges in graceful arches span
ing the canal on which the Venetian
oatmen glide, in soft and rhythmic mo-
on, is a thing of exquisite joy and
eauty. All this is the picture of the :
lain section of the exposition proper.
Farther north lies the passing show,
-
nee at the Chicago exposition. There
a rue de Cairo, with the white dom Y
eys and the frolicsome darkey boys,
le numbering camelS, the attractive
losque with it's slender heaven-point- :
ig minaret, and shrill-voiced muezzin; ,
lie snake charmer, and the antique
hop. The Moorish village is finished \
the style of the Alhambra and con-
inns traditional labyrinth, Bedouin I
amps, stalls for the sale of bijouterie
nd all the other quaint and interest '
e features of life in Northern Africa
ne exhibition always attracts great 4
'owds. 1t is a typical old time plan
tion scene with growing cotton, sugar S
Inc and tobacco, with cake-walks,
I'd the infinite variety of other exhi- q
lions of life way down south"
Besides all this there is the usual S
und Of vaudeville and theatrical en-
rtainments. A
1t is not yet certain that the returns -
ON gate receipts or concessions will
lance the outlay; but no one in n
naha seems to care fig whether they
or not. The managers will be quite a
intent if when the gates are closed II
KIT November they shall have W
hieved the glory of having done the n
ing fittingly and well. They think, ~ q.
I'd not without reason, that the Span Ii
4 war is likely to check the usual di
gira to Europe, and that a great a.
any people who, under ordinary cir CO
instances would go abroad, will this VI
ar employ their vacations in a visit .,
the mountain resorts, the lakes and "
e Omaha exposition.
They are prepared to accommodate
any visitors, for the hotel accommo- c,
tons are ample, of excellent charac-
: and moderate in price.
ELSIE REASONER. n
Very Embarrassing.