The daily sentinel., 1900-12-03

ton of the principal buildings. These
are: The Electric Tower, 375 feet
high, which Is to be the centerptece of
the most brilliant and novel electric H.
Elimination ever conceived; the Propy-
lm, 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,
the Machinery and Transportation build
ings and Railroad Station, the Temple
of Music, Graphic Arts, Horticulture,
Mines, Forestry, Dairy, Ordnance,
Service and other buildings, the Al
bright Gallery of Art, costing $40O, 1000;
the New York State building, costing
SITE, 1000, besides the state and foreign
buildings and numerous other struc
lures of beautiful and interesting de-
sign for a 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
So, ,OOO, 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
century of unparalleled progress. 1t is
distinctly n 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 exhibits are classified in the fol-
lowing divisions: Electricity and cleo
trical appliances; fine arts, painting,
sculpture and decoration; graphic arts,
typography. lithography, 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, horticul-
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, 900, but of the
national government, which appropriat-
ed 100000 for the purpose of being
suitably represented upon this great
occasion. The Exposition will con.
tinue six months and will furnish an
opportunity such as rarely comes for
the public to take note, at glance,
of the wonderful progress Of the west
ern world. 1t will be like great uni
versity, at which the young and old
will become for the time being stu
dents of western civilization.
About 1900 people have subscribed
to the stock of the Exposition, and it is
public enterprise in the broadest
sense of the term, the aim being to pro-
duce magnificent spectacle to delight
the artistic sense of all who attend
and to present through the medium of
an army of enterprising exhibitors a
true picture of nineteenth century de-
velopemnt. John G. Milburn, an emf
nent lawyer of Buffalo, is president,
and the director general is William
1. Buchanan. who was director of the
departments of agriculture, live stock
and forestry at the Worlds Columbian
| Exposition at Chicago and afterward
for six years United States minister to
the Argentine Republic
MARX RENNrTT