Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-27

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an American Physician. and the
scheme Is So Attractive That Per-
init VIII Probably Be Granted.
| An American physician, DIR. Olcott'
| has just come forward with proposal
| to erect on the exposition grounds at
! Paris a vast building. elliptical in form
! and divided into four sections, each OF
| which shall be devoted to typical
| scenes Of one of the seasons of the
wear. Tie scheme seems so feasible
and attractive to the committee on APP
prevails that permits will probably be
granted, though the time limit for ap-
plication is past.
Il is proposed not only to reproduce
the four seasons, but to represent each
in the country where it attains the
greatest InaGuificcnce. For example"
said Or. OIcOtt to the st. Louis Post
Dispatch correspondent, entering the
first hall. we will plunge into the heart
of Il Russian winter. We come from the
hot sun blazing exposition grounds in
July. and here the air bites keenly, the
snow is deep on the ground and bur
dcns the dark fir trees. OF course thick
fur oycrcoats and blanket wraps will
be loaned by the administration to Wis
itors.
In the quaint Russian village ut one
side women in peasant dress will at
tend to their housekeeping. Farther up
the hill in the log cabin the genuine
high booted hunters will lounge about
their fire, smoking their long. heavy
porcelain pipes. We will have frozen
lake for skaters and real tobogganing
on hard snow. In the midst of 4
small but thick forest will be Il Siberi-
an roadside inn. with the usual Access
series of Il sIcighing relay lying about,
and in this visitors may live n few
hours of backwoods Siberian life, eat
ing the exquisite roasted game Or the
greasy cakes that TOlstoi loves, and
washing down the whole with deep
drafts of hot vodka
For the springtime compartment DR..
Olcott has chosen Greece at the ideal
moment when everything is freshly
green and the graceful pomegranate
trees are bulGing into fruit among the
scarlet blossoms. Ruined temples of
marble will be seen through the YER
dUre. and in the distance will loom the
imposing mass of the AcropOlis of
Athens. Busting about in the Greek
village he will have genuine Palikari.
sons of Greece, wearing the pictur-
esque costume which has come down
to them from the ancient Albanians.
Next door the mercury will stand
much higher in the tube. 1t will be the
sultry summer in Cuba. with the newly
added stars and stripes tapping here
and there. Senoritas with flashing
black eyes and cleaning teeth will stroll
about leisurely and smile ut you shyly,
mischievously from behind their fans.
From one part of the hall will be seen
the country, with palms and section of
n sugar plantation. with its negroes and
mules. In another part will be street
of Havana. with its humming cafes. its
curious, leisurely. colorful street life.
The charms of autumn being no.
where more penetrating than in the
country parts of England, the fourth
section of DIR. Olcott's building will
give an accurate representation of an
English landscape when the leaves are
eddying about in the first sharp gusts.
Economically inclined couples will find
there all legitimate opportunities to
wander along secluded melancholy ave
nueS. and TO hold each others hands by
the side of ignored and silent little
pondS