The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-09
An ELECTRIC TOWER.
WILL BE THE WONDER or rHH@
AGE.
beauties Of the Coming Pan
American Exposition at
Buffalo.
Especial correspondence.)

Vic iidlu ana contiguous courts VI eii0
completed Pan American Exposition
which will be held at Buffalo in the
summer of 1901 will form the most
beautiful sight that the eye of man
ever looked upon? Ever looked upon
Is boundless statement, but the vera
cious chronicler, after brief glimpse
OF the block plan, makes that state
ment and respectfully invites the world
TO come forward and make successful
contradiction.
The most beautiful sight that the
eye Of man ever looked upon, and that
after due contemplation of the glorles
of the Court of Honor of the World S
Columbian Exposition at Chicago; OF
the glories of the exposition at Omaha;
of the enhancing vision of the Grand
Canal at Venice on moonlit night;
of the glories of the sunset in the Alps
or the towering Sierras; of the calm
and holy beauty of the placid Hudson;
of the wonders of the Tai Mahal; of the
eliminated beauties of all combined in
fact.
Magnified, redoubled, combined; all
will sink into nothingness before the
view which will intoxicate the visitors
to the great exposition of 1901, when
from a distance they look at the cleo
trio tower and it's adjacent and con-
tributing courts and cascades and other
features.
1t has been said many times within
the past three weeks that electricity
was to be the chief feature of this COM
ing fair, for during the period of the
fair the city intends to prove to the
world her claim to the title which some
have fondly given-the Electric City.
This electric tower will do it.
The pen halts and trembles at an at
tempted description.
Let the reader close his or her eyes
and try to imagine a structure of rarest
beauty covering an area of 10000
square feet and reaching 300 feet into
the air. On three sides it is a blaze of
electrical beauty, darts and blazes and
flashes of light, of color which would
pale a rainbow, shooting from it and
intertwined among the domeS and tow
ers of minarets which will crown it's
summit.
And on the front side of the struc-
ture will be it's browning glory In this
front there will be a grotto extending
from earth to dome, and there the Won
ders and the beauties of electricity will
be shown. At the very summit of the
building in this grotto will be fourteen
fountains of rarest beauty, with shoot
ing streams and tumbling pyramids of
water, colored by the hidden lights,
until one to look upon it would think
that milk and honey and ruby wine,
and molten gold and silver were inter"
mingled. From the broad circular ba-
cir,c into iob I,a I11i fer.-
flow it forms magnificent cascade
and tumbles into a larger and more
picturesque series of fountains imme-
diately below, and from them again;
cascades to still another series, and
again, and again, and again; down
huge fight of water and electricity
lighted stairs until it reaches the level
which all waters seek. ..11.
Two Hundred and eighty-six feet high
will this wonderful series of fountains
and cascades be, and so enormous will
it be that millions of gallons of water
will be shot to that dizzy height
through a grand, though hidden stand
pipe operated by electricity, the pipe
being entirely concealed by the mass
of fountains and cascades which will
encircle it from the ground to the apex
or the wonderful structure.
AS the water reaches the level it will
flow to two great basins in which
bronze and marble nymphs and Maids
and dophins will hold aquatic sway,
and from there it will rush under
grand bridge and by another series of
cascades down through the very heart
of the exposition grounds to the main
court, about the east and west courts,
on the banks of which the Government
and the agricultural buildings will be
placed; and about an island on which
electric fountains will play. Past those
it will go to the fore court, and from
there to the east and west lakes, which
will be beautified about all banks by
the grandest floral display ever seen
on this or any other continent
Many months ago the management OF
the coming fair made the earnest state,
ment that the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton would be the most beautiful in the
worlds history. All exposition ex-
amples We're before them and tn.
architects and landscape artists were
notified of the desire.
If human ingenuity can construct
the electric tower and it's cascades and
contributing water courts as they are
planned, the former statement of the
management will be more than carried
out.
AS this exposition will be unique and
magnificent in providing wonderful eye
feasts for the pleasure of the visitors
IT will be fully as unique and magnifi
cent in providing for their comforts, for
on the block plan where the details for
the above feature were found waiting
to be picked, was also found the plan
for a court, shelter and waiting space
for those who wish to wait the ar
rival of trains and electric cars at the
principal gate. This feature will be
appreciated by all; particularly by those
thousands who at other expositions
waited for hours at the entrances
and in the crowd stood until nearly
dead with fatigue.
Here there will be none of that. This
waiting ourt will measure 500 feet
each way and will be as beautiful as
flowers and shrubs and electrical foun-
tains and cascades can make it. and in
the center of it the shelter will be con-
strueted This shelter will embrace
over $4,000 feet of floor space and will