The times., 1898-07-31
At OMAHA'S FINE SHOW
The Wonders and Beauties of
the Government Exhibit.
MISS OCTAVE THANET'S VISIT
What the AnthOrcss Found TO Inter-
est Her in the War Departments
sen1mti0n in Every Way Admira-
bIc-otfer Entertaining Features.

Omaha, July 2s.-The Omaha Exposition
occupies three separate tracts. known as
1.-The Main Court" THE Bluff Tract and
The North Tract" The Main Court is
built about the central lagoon; it is the
Main Court which recalls the lovely de-
light of the Worlds Fair sky line. All
the architecture is classic, and, as l have
said, the stucco is always white The
North Tract. however, has a character
of its own; the architecture is mainly
modern Swiss, except in the Midway
buildings, which are as gaudy and various
as they were at the Worlds Fair. A
blending of gay color here relieves the
classic delicacy of the larger buildings.
The Main Court contains the principal
Exposition buildings, the Government Che
United States exhibiD, the Fine Arts.
Arch of States, Liberal Arts, Mines and
Mining, Auditorium-these in the order
named on the south side of the court;
On the north, Agriculture, Administration
Arch, Manufactures. Machinery and Elec-
tricity, Girls and Boys Building.
The North Track has not only a section
OF the Midway (the West Midway. but a
most interesting exhibit of practical agri-
culture dairy and apiary products and
transportation facilities. Here are the
agricultural and Implement Building.
Dairy and Apiary and divers individual
exhibitors buildings. To an Eastern OBJ
server the irrigation exhibit is as inter-
esting as any. These unobtrusive little
bitches show the triumph OF the Ne
braska farmer over the cruelest blow of
nature, and they hold the prophecy of
far greater triumph in the future A lit
tie water is all that is needed TO make
the Nebraska roads as fine as there are
in the world. AS / drove from Council
Bluffs 10 Omaha, or was blown over on
the electric road, longed for that highly
civilized day when dust should be abol
ished. The Bluff Tract is the distinctive
feature Of the Omaha Exposition land
scape- Its green heights in
All the pomp that nils
The circuit Of the summer hills
its lovely outlines Of hill and dale, its
sumptuous foliage and its rich blending
OF the field, tfnts. VIII hnger on the mind
OF the visitor just as that wondrous
sweep Of tine lake beyond the gate lin
gers ON the mind OF the visitor TO the
Worlds Fair. The different States have
N-t~-A cummings All DUH tract. Some
OF them are very beautiful Some of
them are picturesque; and some of the
minor buildings are startling For in
stance the enormous yellow wigwam
But 10 return TO the Main Court on the
lagoon. The first building is the mag
niflcent Government building which con-
tains the United States exhibit The
building fronts the lagoon, having
frontage of 20S feet and height 10 top
Of balustrade over cornice of fifty-eight
feet II is of Ionic order, and color has
been used lavishly in decorating the en-
trance, which is reached by a broad
fight Of stairs and through colonade
just before it the slender shaft of the
fountain rises out of the lagoon; and
Neptune fourishes his trident above the
Clustering lines of water lilies in which
al night glow white eIctric lights The
COLOSSAL dome IN the center bears a heroic
fsure Of Liberty enlightening the world
with an electric torch. The figure is
magnttcently simple and far more i'm
pressave than the Golden Goddess that
biazed at US from the Court of Honor
Nothing could be more harmonious than
the proportions of the buildings on the
Aaln Court, and the Government Build