The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10

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scheme would surpass the hanging gardens
Of Semiramis at Babylon.
| SUGGESTED ADVANTAGES
I OF PLATFORM IDEA.
Some of the buildings may be two OF
more stories high. Exhibits too heavy for
fireproof ware house floors can be placed on
solid ground below the grand platform, 10
which other goods will be raised direct by
freight elevators from the Mississippi River
steamers"
He continues by recountIng the perma-
nent advantages, which he believes would
result from such a plan:
1T provides for a covered wharf or levee
to prepare a landing place for a deep
water port. 1t improves all centrally TO-
vantases for the Fair which could not be
obtained otherwise. The railroad tracks
will all be below the great platform and
this platform being permanent would be
long to the present property-owners after
the Exposition unless a company should
be organized to buy them off"
Mr.. Staub then makes various suggestions
for the arrangement of the exhibits, rec
cinmending that the midway" shows and
other attractions should be placed beneath
the platform. where their noise would not
be annoying. He suggests ornate decora-
tions for the Eads bridge and takes up
the matter of architecture in detail:
Whatever site may be chosen, for the
Worlds Fair. l wound propose to build in
a style OF progress. in a style that Will
illustrate. the most advanced spirit or
the energetic spirit of the northern nations
to whom our new civilization is due as
against the styles OF ancient and worn ma.
tons, which are sleeping on past laurels.'
He concludes by giving reasons why ne
believes that the Grecian, Roman, Moresque
and Renaissance styles OF architecture
should not be chosen and suggests orisi-
nality and distinctiveness in all buildings.
WHAT A ST. LOUIS
PHYSICIAN PROPOSES.
A ST. Louis physician make the follow
Ing suggestion gas Ito w IN Tgga Fa,r to city improve
IN Mondays Republic a plan was puo-
lished.i showing the proposed park and TT.
TangeIhsns Of street street car rs tracks nor s,re ct
and north to Chestnut street. in accordance
with the terms of a bill introduced recently
in the House OF Delegates authorizing the
purchase OF a block and a half Of ground.
Now. would 1t not be better to widen
Market street from Jefferson avenue 10
approaching Union Station for a greater
distance east than Eighteenth street and
a park Is not needed in front of the station
so much as room for vehicles and pedes-
TRANS.
from Twentieth to Twelfth, property as
streets width. giving an increase Of ninety
feet. Twelfth street is a wide street and
SO is Washington avenue. This would give
a wide street from Union Station to Broad
"A miniature park with car tracks run
ming through. 1t would not be particularly
ATTRACTIVE. While d lOuS WtOc SIeSl WouiN
be, and would also be becoming in a great
Worlds Fair city. Let the House of Dele
gates think this matter over. The cost
would not be great-not over a million-and
the abutting and contiguous property might
justly be assessed for some portion of the
improvements. This Improvement of Mar
ket street would be a great help to st.
Louis in 1s02."
FEATURES PROPOSED
FOR AIR ITSELF.
Among the suggestions for Worlds Fair
features recently received the following are
among the most notable:
An immense telescope tower, the work
ing principle of which Is to be along the
lines of a regular telescope. Inc construc-
ton is OF several circular steel sections. fit
ting inside OF one another. These are to be
raised aloft by means of heavy screw
threads. Steam Is to be used as the motive
power. The tower is the invention of A. IL.
van der CruySSen OIL Louisiana.
1t has been suggested that the limestone
formation underlying nearly any site in ST.
Louis would furnish a solid foundation Tor
a huge iron and glass structure, to be a
correct copy Of an Egyptian pyramid. This
editice could contain nails anu apartments
Tor various kinds Of exhibits. and in the
for underground mining exhibits and min
eral caves.
Cave designed somewhat after the ia
nous Kentucky. grotto. This cave could
be located in the side of some hill, and
would be suitable for refrigerator displays;
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the like. The entire cavern, II the plan IS
carried out, would be Illuminated brilliant
ly with thousands of electric lights.
W. S. Mccain of Little Rock, Ark, sug-
gests that those in charge of the . Fair
should see that restaurants inside the
grounds be restrained from charging ex-
first visitors at the Chicago Exposition kept
half a million people away by telling now
milk % cents a glass, etc. He declares that !
the living in Chicago outside the grounds
was reasonable throughout. but nothing
was said of this. The impression outside
the city was that the charges for articles !
inside the Fair grounds were the prevail
ing prices in Chicago.
OF SEATS FOR
TIRED sIGHTSEERS.
A noticeable feature at the Columbian !
Exposition was the lack OF conveniences.
grounds and buildings. When tired with I.
sightseeing one was Obliged to sit on steps
Of the various buildings or pay for a chair.
To avoid this 1t Is suggested that hundreds
# benches be placed throughout every part
Of the grounds and wherever convenient in /
side the buildings. !!
q Philippine native village reproduced
within the grounds. The best location tor
such an exhibit, it is suggested. would be
on an artificial island in one of the lakes or
agoons. Several hundred natives, with their
tools, utensils and household goods, i,
could be brought over and turned loose on
the island to build their own village. Palm
.rees Ind other vegetation Indigenous to the
stands could be transported and planted
about the village.
An idea for Il Porto Rican display is to
nave an old-time native sugarhouse, such
Is were common In that island fifty years
lgo, erected on the grounds and a force OF
he hardy little islanders brought here to-
work 1t Sufficient sugarcane, it is asserted. |
,oitd be brought up the Mississippi River
% keep the factory busy through lne ram, !
md the Porto Eicans could pay all their ex-
'ei,ses by making native canuieS out OF the
manufactured and selling it to the
Visitors. They excel in the manufacture OF
,criors sweetmeats.
A Mississippi lawyer suggests that his
.orical events which occurred In the early
history Of the Mississippi Valley be repro
iuced at the Fair. He mentions the land