The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-19

rOT TWO weeks IneTe mas DeeH al
lexciting controversy between Director
Turner the designer of the unique "col-
or scheme for the Pan-American
buildings and the supervising architect
fof treasury over the color of the
government building. Mr.. Turner
lplanned to have the building painted
yellow. The supervising architect sign
led a contract to have it painted the
lcolor of grey stone, the central dome
to be surmounted by a gilded group
and the two smaller domes to be entire
Ily gilded. The general effect, accord
ing to the supervising architects plan
was to be that of a building of stone
with touches of gold as before men
toned. The contractor bought the
grey paint and forty men are now busy
putting it on. Director Turner natur-
ally included the government building
in the general color scheme, which is
to give every building a different tint
and insists on having his original plan
carried out. The members of the gov
Iernment board have established head
Quarters in the new federal building.
Messrs. Michaels, Brownlow, Ravenel.
and Captain Harris are here. Secretary
Cox is expected this morning.
mother controversy IS on foot which
is far mole important in its results
than the color of a building. A COM
mi-tee of five members of the Rice AS
lSociation of America was appointed at
a meeting of the association held
at Lake Charles, Louisiana, the
Hath of February, to Superlntend
the buildings of a rice kitchen" in the
Pan-American grounds. All sorts or
ldishes prepared from rice will be pre-
pared in this kitchen by negro cooks
land will be sold at a cost so small as
to cover only h actual expense OF
preparing and serving. The lumber
men of the south will furnish the wood
for building this rice kitchen' which
is to be as artistic as the uses to which
lit will be put will admit. The sole OBJ
Iject of the kitchen is to show our north
lern brethren the capabilities of rice as
AN article of food. 1 hear the produce
of the Louisiana and e rice plant
lers largely prepondenateS in this e%-
ihibit and that the fine grain which
lcomes from the rice plantations around
Wilmington, N. c. and Charleston, =.
lC., stands as yet no chance whatever
of being exploited. In fact, a proml-
Inent emb of the board argues that
Louisiana and TeXaS rice is far Supe-
lrior to the product of the Cardinals! 1t
would be a good idea for the planters
in the Carolinas to look to their laurels
i'm this particular. Maryland Will have
a similar xhibi on the grounds to eX-
lploit the food products of the eastern
shore.
Director General Buchanan has been
successful in inducing Richard Wat
son Glider to write the inscriptions on
the Propylaea, Stadium, bridges, Pala-
IaaS ani fonnn1aS nf the magic civ now
nearing completion on the great wa
tiers of the north" Nothing could be
more appropriate than the legends ne
has just sent in to be put on as a hn-
fishing touch to the, artistic masterpiece.
No one should visit the
lean exposition without taking the troll
LEY ride to Niagara Falls. 1t is a pity
that it did not occur to the indomita-
bic exposition board of management to
preserve the spectacle as it appears -
lwinter-on ice-or in some XII of cold
iStorage-for a more wonderful object
lis seen only nee in a life time. Niagara
is perhaps more beautiful, and 1t is GER
ltainly more comfortable in the spring
and summer but no pen picture, nor
i~artiSt'S brush can do justice to 1t in its
lmantle of ice and snow. Recently
left the sturdy workmen busy as bees
Irearing h exposition city, to ride over
fields of snow on a smooth track bord-
Tered for miles with acres of apple, pear
land peach chard through whose
Ibare trees on the left glinted the dark
blue waters of the rapid river. On the
fright as far as the eye could reach
were serried rows of fruit trees. 1t re-
lquired no great stretch of the magma
, Ition to picture these orchards in May
! when pink and white blossoms, green
!, ~Ileaves and grass, will take the place OF
!, 1.-THE snow fields n naked brown
, branches. The enc becomes more
romantic as the falls are approached
1.-THE river dotted with miniature cas-.
lcades comes nearer and wider, thu
cedar and balsam trees, heavily ladeI
with snow and ice, mingle their deepel
Ihues with The bare trunks of the gian
., loaks Of a primeval forest. A light fall
l Iof snow had covered. the ground tn,
4 might before and the bridges, the rocks
the mighty icicles that 4nng pendan
/. from the great overhanging boulders
and above all the famous ice bridge o
: niagara, looked as il they had beel
!. made of ~alabaster, or carved from
Z louarry Of stainless marble.
: The falls alone looked as they Gil