The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-10

of American wood, will be displayed in
its various uses. Petrified woods from
Arizona will be made one of the fea-
lures of this building, although such
exhibits are curious and of scientific
interest rather than of practical value.
Progress and Improvement in educa-
tional methods and systems have been
so marked within a few years as to call
for special attention from the eXposi
ton management.
The Buffalo Art museum will be one
of the most beautiful temples of art
in this country. 1t will be $50 feet long
by $50 feet wide. The type of architec-
ture chosen is the classic Greek of the
Ionic style The principal facade will
face toward the east.
Temple of Music.
The Temple of Music viii be a charm
ing rendezvous for all lovers of music.
1t Will be a place Of delightful enter
talnment-not for the exhibition of mu-
steal instruments. These will be found
in the Manufactures building. A board
I OF women managers will bring to pub
lie notice the accomplishments of WO-
men in the arts and trades.
The question of art has caused much
discussion because it was at first
thought almost impossible to exclude
works from the foreign artist and yet
the desire was to have none but Amer
lean productions exhibited. The man
agement, however, has reached a wise
conclusion in determining to confine the
collection to purely American work,
and not to include any products of
European origin.
In outlining this proba Bile art disDlav
the New York Tribune says: 1T is in
tended that the exhibitions shall illus
trate our art from 1876 to the present
! time. Possibly there will also be
retrospectVe collection, comprising
works by Gilbert Stuart and other
painters of our earlier history
The use of sculpture foS decorative
purposes in exposition architecture has
increased from year to year since the
great English exposition of 1853. There
the buildings and grounds were entire
! " unadorned with sculpture. and the
Statuary was confined entirely in one
or the buildings as d mere exhibit
where its effectiveness was lost. At
the Buffalo fair, the use of allegorical
sculpture for the adOrnment of build
ings and grounds will be on a more ex-
tensive scale than at any previous ex-
position. The greatest effect in the
way of sculptural adOrnment will be
made in the two courts. the 'Esplan-
| ade" and the Court of Fountains"
A Stately Structure.
The "TriumphaI bridge" crosses the
Esplanade" and, when completed, il
! VIII be stately structure, swung from
| four monumental piers, 100 feet in
| height. Each pier will be surmounted
by a sculptural group-a muscular
youth on the back of a horse thirty
feet in height, which rears above a
mass of trophies indicative of feudal-
ism, slavery and Subordination to ty-
| rannical power, the whole expressing
the triumphal struggle Ga the United
States to free themselves from the in
SututlonS or despOtIc ages and govern
! ment. These groups were modelled by
Karl Bitter, the director of sculpture
The piers of the bridge wore designed
by John NJ. Carrere. Each Of the but
treSses to the front pier is terminated
by groups of trophies. typifying Peace
and Power" The cables connecting the
piers are adorned with feStoo2s, shields
of polished copper, flags and coats of
arms of the various Pan-American
I countries. On each side of the bridge
VIII be tOun tdl7S composed of erOuDs
of rearing horses and figures clustered
about a tall pole, from which AZ huge
Silken flag will float. The fountain on
the east Will typify the Atlantic ocean.
and that on the west the Pacific with
one base uniting the two The water
from these fountains viii gush from
the sides of the bridge in . waterfall
into the mirror lake, passing through
the Subterranean grotto which will
constitute one Of the unusual features
of the fair.
Fountain of Abundance.
Opposite the TrfumphaI bridge across
the E-Splanade is the 'FOuntain or
Abundance, designed by Mr.. Carrere.
1t is to be composed of myriads of
bubbling jets and bits of sculpture sur
rounding a central group. The subject
of this group is that of the fountain of
Abundance"
There will be three fountain groups
in each of the two tkasins at the ex-
tremities of the 'Esplanade" Of the
two subordinate fountains at the west
end one is the Fountain of Kronos."
and the other the Fountain of Ceres"
At the opposite end near tho govern
ment building. Hercules, Prnmetheus
and other heroes of Greek mythology
greet the vision The predominating
idea of this end of the "Esplanade'' is
Man which is the subject OF the
main fountain.