The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
OUR BUILDING AT THE PARIS SHOW
1t VIII Be Replica of the Old Capitol
ofWashington Without the New Wings.

1t VIII Be a Replica of the Old Capitol
ofWashington Without the New Wings.
The men who will direct America
part of the great Paris exposition #
1900 say that they are up with their
work That is, they are as far add
vanced as they should be at this time
and they have no doubt that they will
be ready for visitors by the time the
visitors are ready for them. They are
ahead of the managers of the eXposi-
ton of any one of the European nations
are ahead of France ITSELF
Before adjournment congress appro-
priated $1210,O00 to be expended in per-
fecting the American exhibit as a
whole. This was $780, less than the
sum asked by General Commissioner
Peck and 100000 greater than the sum
recommended by the president to be
appropriated. The managers say that
they are short $4,000 on the building
fund, but they will manage to get along.
This sum of nearly S1,2l0000 is to be
expended in the following manner, if
present plans are adhered to: For the
national building, 5000. 900: for the agri-
cultural building. $i5O,000; for the lib
eral arts building. 10000; for general
purposes, $S0O.G00. The agricultural
building and the liberal arts building
VIII NC NbilSlI utIth dHlltHeS " lllt
French buildings to be devoted to those
departments. The national building.
beautifully situated, will stand by it.
self. 1t promises to make a most i'm
posing structure. Architect Coolidge
sailed from New York for Paris last
week. AS soon as he has personally
surveyed the ground he will cable in
formation as to whether or not there
will be any change in his plans. 1t is
,s,sI NI
will be any change, as he had full in
formation concerning the extent and
lay of the site before he began work on
his drawings. These plans and draw
ings have been formally accepted by
the authorities and the shape, size and
style of the American building at the
Paris exposition may be regarded as
settled.
The structure will be practically a
replica of the capitol building at Wash
ington as it stood before the senate and
house wings were attached to it. 1t
will have the same high. wide and no.
Bile front and the same enormous dome.
f1Oat ting like a bubble in the heavens.
1t will be even more imposing in ap-
pearance than the capitol, because in
the house which shelters the national
legislature there is a squat appearance
caused by the length to which the
wings run north and south. The Ameri-
can building in Paris, devoid of these
wings, will look taller. 1t is to be built
of wood and steel and will be colored
as the national capitol is colored. At
its entrance will stand an enormous
equestrian statue of George Washing
ton. Its interior will be reproduction
of the rotunda at Washington, with its
sky-reaching roof vaulting overhead
and its black and white stone floor.
This rotunda will contain heroic stat
ue of President Mckinley, another
statue of Washington and statues rep
resenting the men and deeds of Ameri-
cas- past. 1t will not hold. of course,
more than a 1.-THE of the American eX-
hibit. At Nincennps there has been
much space set aside for an American
industrial exhibit, railway trains, fac
tories and things of that character, for
which the French government will pro-
vide buildings.
The exposition officials say that they
have obtained all of the space that was
possible to give them. but they have not
enough and do not know what the out
come is to be. They can display the
strictly national exhibit in such room
as has been allowed them. but they will
have no place for other exhibits.
There is says Mr.. Thompson. "a
sort of exposition craze sweeping over
the country, and I do not know where
it will end, nor how it will end. Kan
sas, Indiana, California and dozen
other states have passed resolutions
and made appropriations for exhibits,
but no one can see where they are to
be put. Certainly, we will have no room
for them and / do not believe that they
will be able to obtain the space from
the French government"
The total amount of space given to
Mr.. Peck is 25S,000 square feet, which
includes the anneXes Work upon the
national building will begin early in the
spring, and by the advent of 1900 the
entire work, huge as it is. will be near