The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-05
OUT AND ABOUT,

| there will open tomorrow afternoon in
the art rooms an exhibition of engrav-
ings, photographers, typogravures and
colored prints illustrative of the
worlds Columbian exposition in Chi
cago. There are about 300 of them in
all, and as the grounds, the exteriors
and interiors of the main buildings,
many of the national departments, and
separate works of art are depicted,
: the exhibition is calculated to give the
/ spectator fairly complete impression
of The White City"
The views are taken from three i'm
mense folios owned by the library.
} Perhaps the finest Is ''The Book of the
Fair by Hubert Howe Bancroft, pub
llShed in ten sections by the Bancroft
company of Chicago and San Francis
co. The Marvels in Art of the Fin de
Steele by Henri Sylvester, Jr., pub
lished by the Gebbie Publishing Com
pany of Philadelphia, is also stand
ard work on the exposition, and so is
; Art and Architecture by William
, Walton, published by Barrie of Phil
adelphia. All three are superb works.
For the assistance of the spectator
the plates have been arranged in
groups, each group and each picture
being marked In the middle art room
and the buildings both insida and OFF
The west room Contains renresentetions
of the paintings and sculpture Of
American and French artists, while the
| other modern schools are contained in
the south room.
Some of the most attraotiva ,,ictures
show features If the nNTidwav Plat
sance" such as tho Cbinasa fhaotra
/, with a NAV in nroprees on tbe funnv
little stage: a groun az Javanesa dane.
, ing girls, half clad with all their har-
. barrie finery and wearing strange
/, EGYPTIAN headdresses IN tbair heads
|, and c1rio,1s vineSsbaned rTn,actions
between their shoulders. tba Serroan
, castle and tba etreet ~ nId Vian,,a
. There are three views of the etraet in
!, Cairo. which are fasninating in their
, brilliant weird COLOR effects Tn one
1.-The shin Of the desert wifh large
mink font on HE haclr ie Iad b,, q ,,,on
in a Yellow esoy,n. apo+ha,. s,o ~ nc -
wedding procession in nroeress wbiIe
the third danints ~ a 49, fa,,s
Mecca ~ a nsrty op ailo,.i,,1s a,,a ,,,e,.I
chants Reside their ioyous mnahatad
colorinp how tbin ana ooId 1oolrs tt,a
New Esnoiond cabir, MA, t tt,S
FERRIS WHEEL
-
mn,
Ane GROUNDS iurnlsn material Tor sew
eral delightful bits. First you see the
site Of the exposition before nick and
shovel began to redeem tia waste of
undulating land with a sluggish river
serpentining through If and after that
Won get a birdseve view az tba erounds
from a balloon. and YOU see them in
the soft languors of summer and fine
cooler russets of autumn. There are
moonlight views of the Court of Honor
: and the lagoons. and one of the Colon
, made with the stars twinkling between
|
Court of Honor irradiated with fhe mild
| splendor from Thousands of electric
lamps, while the Macmonnies fountain
splashes into a gilded seq and the
searchlights peer and beokon through
the upper sky from the SUBMITS Of tba
, tall buildings. A number of the mates
are deyoted TO reaches of ouiet I E,te,
with the anacbronistic and naredovtcai
gondolas steering across the refiections
of the noble BUILDINGS which for,9o az
many-eolored background Tbav make
one feel that he did NOT make the most
of his opportunities when he was tbare
i There are eight views Of different sec.
/ lions of the manufacturers b,IiIdino
! showing the Austrian Jananase
French, Danish and Russian denert2
\ ments. There are tbraa of Tho NV.
ans building one heine nsrtic,,Ie all ~,
pleasant to look at viii he glars n ~
July sun striking white mon fba loo
gla, while the white lagoon was hor-
| dered by n rim IF foliage ana ha,,o,ld
that again an italian slS9 The .,oroI dt,n
door, of the RECONSIDERATION hni1dinS is
the subject of cbsrnSi,,er 1870 -
/ while a colored nrfnt ~ 81 sben,s ~ -
Elections in a thousand hrolra, I t,rf
Well. and then there are vielrs l e. p ~
Horticultural and Aforementioned h,,iId-
mos tbe u,1oat,,,1 "a 10y al puliu-
buildings the hall Of mines and tee
palace of mechanic arts ~ az Az AZ
1ministration h1liIdine tbara - e., ~ ",
more-one is conceived verv drap,at ~
a sunset sky of purple and gold, ana
lagoon g,.. OF dying magnificenoe.
of more focal sienifiesn Io lne puliain a
street of state buildings, with The rino
| turesque old Spanish mission-with q
| modern roof gardeni-that renrasante
California; and the court Of the French
building and the quaint nediaavai
building Of Germany, and the BraziIian
| house, and the East Indian pavilion
More than half Of the plates renre-
sent the art treasures of the exposition
| especially the paintings. Among the
| American artists represented are Wal
ter Macewan Elizabeth Gardner Ed-
win L. Weeks. John S. Sargent f,1itb
| his portrait of Ellen Terry as I.adu
Macbeth), Charles Sprague Pearce
| with 1.-THE Shepherdess'1 Walter Co,
and Carl Melchors Some OF the finest
works sent over by the French govern
ment are in the same room. Then in
the large room are hung in order he
/ ginning with the left, pictures renre-
sentative of the schools of Great
| Britain, Holland Belgium. Swedan