Evening journal., 1900-10-06
FLATTTRING RECEPTION
DAILY.
PAN-ANERICAN EXPOSITION
The Wonderful Work Which Will Attract
Millions Of PeOlle 10 Buffalo Next Year

The Bureau OF Publicity of the Pan
American Exposition has just issued
a very complete booklet descriptive OF
the enterprise to be held at Buffalo
next year. The booklet contains 10
pages with 121 titles and 80 illustra-
lions. The publicity up to the present
time has been piecemeal, bringing out
the various features as they have de-
veloped, but an examination OF this
booklet gives to the reader a very com
nrehensive idea Of the splendid char
acter of the exposition.
The total cost of the exposition, ex-
elusive of exhibits is now estimated at
$4,000 600 or this amount about 49,
100000 will be expended upon the mid
way. The sum for the midway is more
than the total cost of some very pre-
tentiOus expositions, so that by COM
parison one may gain a very fair idea
OF the work which Buffalo is carrying
rapidly to completion. A beautiful
landscape comprising $50 acres, half a
mile wide and a mile and a quarter
long, is devoted TO this wonderful en-
terprise.
The word "pan" as a prefix to Amer
lean means all-that is to say, the ex-
position is for all the Americas, ex-
hibits from European countries not be-
ing accepted. It is claimed for the
Pan-American Exposition that it will
be the most artistic sreation of the
kind ever brought into existence II
will excel all former expOsitiOns in
its court settings, having thirty-three
acres of courts alone, upon which to
bestow the wonderful embellishments
of fountains and cascades, pools and
lakes. canals and lagoons, lawns and
gardens. The twenty or more great
structures which are to shelter the ex-
hibits gathered from all corners Of the
Western Hemisphere and from all the
island possessions OF the United States
will surround these courts. Every
building is richly adorned with plastic
ornamentation and tinted in accor-
dance with a magnificent color scheme
under direction OF Charles Y. Turner
the leading artist of the world in this
work.
No exposition has ever undertaken
such an extensive use OF sculpture fOI
decorative purposes. This work /.
under the master direction of Karl Bit
ter, who has added to the vast knOwl-
edge and infinite skill which gave him
the leading position at the Worlds
Fair at Chicago, the experience OF
seven more years of activity in his
profession. Under his direction thirty
or more sculptors, embracing al the
leading artists of this class in the
United States. are at work upon more
than 125 groups OF original sculpture
In the use of electric lights for deco.
rative purposes this exposition will
outshine al former undertakings. Ow.
ing to the nearness Of Niagara Falls
with unlimited electric power, the
Pan-American Exposition has at hand
a large volume of energy which will
be employed to whatever extent may
be necessary to produce the most bril-
liant. fantastic and beautiful electric
lighting effects the world has ever
seen. The exhibits Of the exposition
are divided into about twenty classes
and embrace every line of human ac-
tivity.
The gates Of the exposition will open
on May /. 1901, continuing six months.
Buha.o a city of nearly 10000 popu-
lation, one of the most charming cities
of the world and having a climate 10
degrees cooler than any other city OF
the Northern states in Summer. is pre-
pairing to welcome millions OF strang-
ers to its gates next year.