Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-01-30


,rneral public interest.
The Exposition grounds are
divided into two main sections,
one consisting of the old Washing
ton Race Course property and the
other of the Wagner farm, for
merly the Lowndes place. The
Architect-in-Chief has adopted the
general plan of developing the
Race Course proper on purely con-
structive lines and of preserving
as far as possible the natural
beauty of the Wagner place. The
Race Course property has been
employed for years for purely
agricultural purposes, 10 races of
any Importance having been given
there since the War between the
States. This part of the grounds
is entirely level. No better site,
in the opinion of expert artists
and builders, could be found.
About % acres have been reserved
on this part of the grounds for the
Midway Concessions, The main
Exposition buildings surround
grand court at the western ex-
tremity of the old Race Course.
This will be il shape someth-
ing lake an elongated hoseshoe,
with the Cotton Palace, or main
Exposition building, occupying
the toe of the shoe, with the Com
merce Palace and the Agricultural
Palace occupying respectively the
two sides of the shoe. These
buildings, with their connecting
colonnades, will extend for a dist
ance of about one mile. Within
the horseshoe there will be
Sunken Garden covering several
acres, with a lake in the center.
A wide esplanade or Alameda about
60 feet in width will surround this
garden.
At the northern end of the
garden there will be- a grand Plaza
from which splendid view will
be obtained of the main Exposi-
ton buildings. The vistas OPEN
ing out fr,m this point through
groves of palmetto trees which will
line the outer edges of the walks
around the Garden will extend for
a distance of 1000 feet. Just
north of the grand Plaza withstand
the Auditorium building, directly
opposite the Cotton Palace, from
which view may. be obtained of
the entire Court of Palaces, with
the Sunken Garden, and it's trees
and flowers and the sloping banks
which surround it. Each of the
Exposition buildings will be 400
feet in length, with an average
width of 100 feet, and, as already
stated, will be connected by
colonnades, the construction be-
fng such that the colonnades can
be used for exhibits.
Among the special attractions
of the Court of Palaces will be
fountains and bits of statuary
and handsomely designed columns
of the Spanish type, all contribut-
ing to the beauty of the scene.
Al one end of the Sunken Garden
a music stand will be erected, and
at the other end a pergola or lattice
work screen, against which will
grow during the Exposition period,
the most beautiful of tropical
vines. In the centre of the Plaza
there will be a sun-dial ten feet in
height and thirty feet in diameter.
Which ever way the eye looks,
there will be visions of beauty.
Toward the south, the great Court
of Palaces, toward the east, the
towers at the entrance to tho
Midway, and looking across the
entrance way the groves and
minarets of the Wagner place.
The main Exposition buildings
will be the Cotton Palace, the
Commerce lalace the Agricultural
Palace. the Mining and Forestry
Building, the Auditorium, the
Administrator Building, the Ma
chinery and Transportation Build
ings, and other structures devoted
to railroad exhibits, to restaurant
purposes and to public comfort.
Besides all these there will stand
on the Wagner place the United
States Government Building, the
Woman's Building, the several
State and City Buildings and the