Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-11-02
PANAMERICAN EXPOSITION
The Wonderful Work Which Will At
tract Millions of People to
Buffalo Next Year.

The Wonderful Work Which Will At
tract Millions of People to
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 48 pages with l21
titles and 50 illustrations. The
publicity up to the present time
has been piece-meal, bringing out
the various features as they have
developed, but an examination Of
this booklet gives to the reader a
very comprehensive idea Of the
splendid character Of the EXPOSE
ton.
The total cost Of the Exposition,
exclusive Of exhibits, is now esti-
mated at $10,000,O00. Of this
amount about $1,000, 900 will be
expended upon the Midway. The
sum for the Midway is more than
the total cost Of some very pretent-
ious 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 enterprise.
The word "Pan" as a prefix to
American means All-that is to
say, the Exposition is for all the
Americas, exhibits from European
countries not being accepted. It
is claimed for the Pan-American
Exposition that it will be the most
artistic creation of the kind ever
brought into existence. It will
excel all former expositions in it's
court settings, having 80 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 exhibits gathered from
all corners Of the Western Hemis-
phere 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 accordance with a magnificent
color scheme under direction of
!, Charles Y. Turner, the leading
artist Of the world in this work.
? No exposition has ever under
. taken such an extensive use OF
. sculpture for decorative purposes
, This work is under the master
direction of Karl Bitter, who has
; added to the vast knowledge and
. infinite skill which gave him the
f 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, embrac.
ing all the leading artists of this
class in the United States, are a
work upon more than 1875 groups
of original sculpture.
!, In the use of electric lights fol
}, decorative purposes this Exposi
ton will outshine all former under
takings. Owing to the nearnes.
Of Niagara Falls, with unlimited
electric power, the Pan-Americar
Exposition has at hand a large
volume of energy which will b
employed to whatever extent may
, be necessary to produce the mos
brilliant, fantastic and beautiful
electric lighting effects the worle
has ever seen. The exhibits O.
the Exposition are divided int
about twenty classes and embrac,
every line of human activity.
The gates Of the Exposition vii
open on May l, 1901, continuing
six months. Buffalo, a city o
nearly 100000 population, one O
the most charming cities Of tn
world and having a climate II
: degrees cooler than any other cit,
of the northern states in summer
is preparing to welcome millions
Of Stran uarc to i+o ro4oe ,oy4 WOO,