Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-02

million dollars, for the PARTICIPATION OF
Japan in the coming exposition.
Speaking of buildings one is particu-
larry interested in the German building.
Tor Germany has of all countries the
widest latitude architecturally as well as
nationally. The Germans, great and
unW1eldly though they are. hold, in THEN
tenements of body and soul, the magic
or the world. From Germany emanates
the discoveries of medicine and the opera
tlons OF the exact sciences. From Ger
many also comes the intensely practical,
the solid and substantial. What sort of a
building then would these men select,
one that should show the solid outlines
OF the latter German architecture, or the
wonderfully fancy designs of the early
days of the Rhine settlements Z?
Your correspondent went to some diff
Guilty to learn the course which had been
taken by this great nation; and was told
that the matter had been under discus
sion in royal circles for some months. At
the beginning, after the emperor hal de-
cided to allow Germany to be represent
ed, plans We're called for, ms the archi-
tects of the German empire responded
generously. Their plans We're laid be-
fore the German commissioners. when to
their surprise. they found themselves
unable to agree. None ould decide aud
the commission presented the unique
spectacle of a body of men who did not
know their own minds: there was so
much from which to choose.
Finally they centered upon two de-
signs. one was a copy of the famous old
city hall at Lindau. massive. yet decora-
tive "a style that was in its day a revival
of still older styles. The other design
was for a pavilion, modelled after one CT
the man pretty castles that are to be
seen on the banks of the Rhine. Queer
gables rose at unexpected places, and the
entrance lay beneath the ground in true
medieval style.
The matter was finally laid before the
kaiser, who decided in favor Of the castle
design. The horse is very pretty and
will be carried out in many colored ma
tive stones. It will have a triple arch
facing the Seine, With gable ends, a stee-
pie. and the roof and faca1as Will be
cased with red and green tiles Herr
Radke, whG. designed the German section
Of the Chicago exposition, will be the
builder.
The word Chicago" carries a great
deal of prestige and you readily step
aside for the man who assisted in making
the exposition Of seven Years ago a sue
cess.
The Seine from being a bugahoo to
the managers of the show has been turn
ed and trained into an advantage. 1t
was in 1889 feared that the river would
separate the exposition proper from the
other part of the city, But it has now
been SO arranged that the exposition lies
on both banks Of the Seine, connected
closly by many bridges which are 50
constructed that they shall be the most
ornamental features of the exposition.
example, three new foot-bridges are
being constructed independent of the IA
Alexander bridge. One of these
is about twenty feet from the Invalides
bridge. 1t is being erected by no less
a parsonage thar the distinguished NJ.
Albert Gauthier. who is outdoing
in artistic details. 1t is to be
decorated with garlands CT luminous
built Of Il material that is brill