Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-11-17
AN EXHIBIT OF SEASONS.
Odd Building Planned For the
Paris Exposition.
RUSSIA BOUNDED BY FAIR CUBA.

Step Takes Visitors FROM snow to
nm American Physician. and ihe
Schcn,c Is So Attractive That Per
init VIII Probably Be Granted.
An American physician. Or. Olcott,
has just come forward with proposal
TO erect on the exposition grounds at
Paris vast building, elliptical in form.
and divided into -four sections, each Of
which shall be devoted to typical
scenes cf one of the seasons of the
year. The scheme seems SO feasible
and attractive TO the committee on ap-
prevails that permits will probably he
granted though the time limit for ap-
pliCation is past.
II is proposed not only Ia reproduce
the -four seasons but to represent each
In the country where 1t attains the
greatest maSnitiCcnCc. For example"
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Dispatch correspondent, entering the
first hall, We will plunge into the heart
of Russian winter. We come from the
hot sun blazing exposition grounds In
July, and here the air bites kccnly, the
snow Is deep on the ground and bur
dcns the dark fir trees. OF course thick
fur oyercoats and blanket wraps Will
be loaned by the administration to Wis.
itorS.
I'm the quaint Russian village at 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 a frozen
lake for skaters and real tobogganing
on hard snow. In the midst of n
small but thick forest will be Sibcrl-
an roadside inn, with the usual acces-
sorics Of sleighing relay lying about,
and in this visitors may live a 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
durc, and in the distance will loom the
imposing mass of the Acrop0lis of
Athens BuStling about In the Greek
village he will have genuine palkari,
sons Of Greece, wearing the pictur
esQuc costume which has come down
to them from the ancient Albunians.
Next door the mercury will stand
much higher in the tube. Ii will be the
SultrY summer IN Cuba, with the newly
added stars and stripes Tapping here
and there. Scnoritas with flashing
black eyes and cleaning teeth will stroll
about lcisurc!y and smile at you shyly.
mlsChieyOnsly from behind their fans
From one part of the hall will be seen
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sugar plantation, with its negroes and
mules. In aTothcr part will be 4 street
of Havana, with its humming cafes, its
curious, lcisUrely, colorful street life.
The charms Of autumn being no.
where more penetrating than in the
country parts of England, the fourth
section Of Or. Olcotts building will
give an accurate representation Of an
English landscape when the leaves are
eddying about in the first sharp gusts
Romantically inclined couples will find
there all legitimate opportunities to
wander along secluded melancholy ave
nu"s, and to hold each others hands by
the side Of ignored and silent little
ponds.