Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-01-21

will thus have the setting of trees,
lawns and water features which have
cost the city of Buffalo millions of dol
lars. The main Exposition buildings
are some 20 or more in number and are
arranged about a system Of beautiful
courts some 80 acres in extent. The
arrangement is such as to permit the
most exquisite decorative effects that
the best trained artists Of the world
may be able to produce.
Space will permit only an cnumera-
tion of the principal buildings. These
are: The Electric Tower, 375 feet
high, which is to be the centerpiece of
| the most brilliant and novel electric H.
| Elimination ever conceived: the Propy-
lac, 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 Mac hinery and Transportation build
IliSS uIiN AuIlOdI totatlOIls ItC CLPAC
of Music, Graphic Arts, Horticulture,
Mines, Forestry. Dairy, Ordnance,
Service and other buildings, the AL
bright Gallery of Art, costing 100000:
the New York State building. costing
S175.00O, besides the state and foreign
buildings and numerous other struc
lures Of beautiful and interesting de-
sign for variety of purposes.
The Midway at the PanAmercan
Exposition alone will cost more than
some large eXpostions. 1t is estmat-
ed the cost of the Midway will be about
$3,000.OOO, as it will have more than a
mile of frontage closely built with the
most picturesque structures conceiva-
BILE and will contain between 30 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
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 a
century Of unparalleled progress. 1t is
distinctly western world affair, all
the governments of the western hcmi-
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, photography, steel and cop
per plate printing, photo mechanical
processes, drawing. engraving and
bookbindlng; 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-
hbits; agriculture, agricultural imple-
ments; machinery and appliances,
foods aud 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 100000, but of the
national government, which appropriate