Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-01

fact, in the world The Exposition
will thus have the setting of trees,
lawns and water features, which have
cost the city of Buffalo millions of dol
lars. The main Exposition buildings
nre some 20 or more in number and are
arranged about a system of beautiful
courts some SO acres in extent. The
arrangement is such as TO permit the
most exquisite decorative effects that
the best trained artists of the world
may be able to produce.
Space will permit only an enumera-
ton of the principal buildings. These
are; The Electric Tower, 375 feet
high, which is to be the centerpiece of
the most brilliant and novel electric IL
Elimination ever conceived; the Propy-
lH, or architectural screen, at the
northern end of the grounds; the Sta
dunn, for sporting and athletic events;
the Agriculture building. Manufactures
and Liberal Arts building, Ethnology
building. the Government group of
three great buildings, the Midway res
taurant building, Electricity building,
theMachinery and Transportation build
tngs ani Railroad Station. the Temple
of Music. Graphic Arts, Horticulture,
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Service and other buildings, the AL
bright Gallery of Art, costing 100000;
the New York State building. costing
$4,000, besides the state and foreign
buildings and numerous other struc
lures of beautiful and interesting de-
sign for variety of purposes.
The Midway at the Pan-American
Exposition alone will cost more than
some large eXpositionS. 1t is estimat-
ed the cost of the Midway will be about
$4,000 900, as it will have more than a
mile of frontage closely built with the
most picturesque structures conceiva-
BILE and will contain between 80 and 40
entertainment features of most novel
and interesting character.
The purposes of the Exposition are
not merely to give the people a most
magnificent and attractive entertain
ment, but it will furnish the opportu-
nifty for every one to inform himself
upon the progress of the nineteenth
century. The Exposition is held for
the purpose OF celebrating the achieve
mentS OF the western world during a
century of unparalleled progress. 1t is
distinctly western world affair, all
the governments of the western hemi- |
sphere having been invited to partici- |
pate in all departments. Official re-
sponses have been made by every i'm |
portant government, state and depend |
ency of the western world, and they |
are preparing to be represented by |
most creditable exhibits.
The exhibiA are classified in the fol- |
lowing divisions: Electricity and cleo |
trical appliances; fine arts. painting,
sculpture and decoration; graphic arts, |
Typography, TYPOGRAPHY, steel and cop |
per plate printing, photo mechanical |
processes, drawing. engraving and |
bookbinding; liberal arts, education,
engineering, public works, construc- |
tive architecture, music and drama,
sanitation and hygiene; ethnology,
archaeology, progress of labor and |
invention. Isolated and collective ex-
hibits; agriculture. agricultural imple-
ments; machinery and appliances. |
foods and their accessories. horticui-
ture. viticulture, agriculture, forestry |
and forest products, fish, fisheries, |
fish products and apparatus for fish,
ing; mines and metallurgy, machinery,
manufactures, transportation, rail-
ways, vessels, vehicles, ordnance, ex-
hibits from the Hawaiian Islands,
Porto Rico. Guam, Tutuila and the
Philippine Islands
The Exposition has the Endorsement
not only OF the state OF New York,
which appropriated $500. 600. but of the
national government, which aPpFppriat-