The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-29
looked in the portion of the exposition

AldteTldlS Will De given a. prominent
place, and there will be a number OF
private exhibits Of manufactured ar
ticles made in this state, which will
show somewhat of the diversity of our
resources. The Red Wing manufac-
turers will show pottery and sewer
pipe; the Owatonna factories, agricul-
tural machinery of various sorts;
Minneapolis firm, spring beds and the
like, while a number Of exhibits will
be made of manufactured articles for
the toilet
1T is not certain yet whether or not
the Minneapolis milling concerns or any
Of them will make individual exhibits,
but In the booth in the agricultural
building will be erected a pyramid Of
sacks OF flour, representing each Of the
mills IN the state, without partially.
All the Minnesota exhibits will be
In charge of Charles j. Lundberg, Of
stallation. MI. Lundberg has for a
number of years been in charge of the
various exhibits which the Great
Northern railroad has made in many
places, including not only the worlds
fair of 1893 at Chicago, but the Sioux
City corn palace, the Nashville and
Atlanta expositions, the state fairs of
Minnesota and Iowa and other lesser
shows.
Material wealth, however, is not to
be the sole measure Of Minnesota great
ness, for one of the great musical fea-
lures of the exposition season will be
a presentation of the oratorio, Isaiah"
in which Thomas orchestra and some
of the most distinguished soloists in
the country will be assisted by Min
nesota chorus of 200 voices, under the
conductorship Of Prof. Willard Patten,
Of Minneapolis.
"wednesday, June 49, has been for
mally designated as Minnesota day.
and there will be special exercises in
honor of the North Star state that day
The entire state commission will go, as
will Gov. Clough and his entire staff
It is expected, too, that not few of
the visitors from Minnesota will so
arrange their visit that they will be in
Omaha on this occasion. There will
be appropriate addresses, and the Min
nesota building will be the center Of
interest that day for the whole show"
The Minnesota building, picture
| turesque location, overlooking the val
| ley of the Missouri. 1t will be built
entirely Of logs, although the other
| buildings, generally speaking, are to
be Of the stuff of which the World s
| fair at Chicago was built. 1t will be
in the Swiss chalet style of architect
ure after the plans made by Mcleod &
| X,
| ing has total length of Is feet and a
width Of AZ feet, with verandah II
feet wide all around it, making the
| greatest length nearly 100 feet and the
greatest width Sc feet. The building
| is not designed for exhibition purposes,
but is to be used as rendezvous Tor
the Minnesota visitors to the expos1-
cious hallway 42x35 feet. In one end
is located the ladies' parlor, which Is
30x20 feet, and which will be Hastily
decorated and furnished daintily.
| The corresponding room at the other
end of the building is to be finished
| in the style of lumber camp, it's walls
hung with skins and decorated with
way leads to the second floor, where
| there are two corresponding rooms.
The second floor Is surrounded also by
| a verandah, amply shaded by the over
hanging roof of the main building.
The location of the Minnesota build
| ing is one Of the best on the ground.
1t is in close proximity to the horti-
cultural building, and is surrounded on
every side by floral exhibits. The
| buildings in the immediate vicinity, In
| addition to the horticultural hall, are
| the New York. Kansas, Nebraska and
| Illinois state buildings
| The state commission has succeeded
| In raising nearly 1000 with which the
| building here shown will be erected,
| and exhibits made in the several de-
| partments Of the exposition. While the
| fund raised for Minnesota's representa-
| ton is less than a fifth of what was
| raised for the Worlds Columbian expo
| sition, the displays to be made promise
| to be very effective, and there will be
| no more attractive building than the
| one here shown. Almost all Of the ma
| oil In CT
generously donated by the lumbermen
| of Minnesota and some of the owners
| Of stone quarries.
| Grouped as the chief buildings are
around a lagoon, the snowy white
structures suggest picture very SIM
| liar to that presented at the Chicago
| fair, although on scale necessarily
| considera bly, reduced.
At the western end Of this lagoon is
| the government building, Ionic in style.
| It's massive dome is surmounted by a
| heroic figure of Liberty Enlightening
the World" It Is built in three Sec
lions and is 5O4 feet in length. The
from the ground. Immediately in front
Of this building is the water mirror
| built in the form of trefoil, it's ground
edges being surrounded by an attrac.
tive peristyle. Leaving the curves Of
1.-THE trefoil behind the lagoon, it be
comes straight until it reaches it's east.
ern limit at the viaduct that connects
the court Of honor with the grand plaza
| and band stand on the east, from which
diverge the Midway roadway and the
| road and walks that lead to the state
buildings and horticultural buildings
and floral exhibits on the south. Around
the lagoon on its four sides are pillars
fifteen feet high and about the same
| distance apart, each surmounted by g
dozen incandescent lights. There arr
| at least hundred Of these pillars with
1000 lights in all. These, added to the
arc lights and incandescents studdins
the fronts of the buildings that line the
lagoon and the radiance that will be
shed from the windows Of the buildings
at night, will make the court Of honor
at Omaha's exposition a feature Of
| magnificent beauty and grandeur. The
lagoon is about six blocks in length, ex-
tending from Sixteenth on the east te
about Twenty-second street on the
| west.
Skirting the lagoon on the southern
| side are four Of the main buildings Of
the exposition. On it's northern side
are three more and the smaller build.
ing devoted to the use of the boys anC
girls who come to see the Vests great
show. First on the southern side an6
adjoining the government building is
the structure devoted to exhibits OF
the fine arts, twin structures, each 81
by 100 feet, separated by a court in
closed by a peristyle. In each of the
twin buildings there are six galleries
two large and four small, for the hang.
ing Of the works Of art. Every avail
BILE inch Of space on the walls has
been allotted, and it has been found
necessary to curtail the offerings II
addition to the offerings from artists
some Of the principal museums in the