Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-28
PLANS AT ST. LOUIS FAIR.
Main Buildings in Two Rows Each
Half Mile Lona.

Half Mile Long.
ST Louis, Jan 27.--A ground plar
| showing the development of the world S
fair site at st. Louis has been prepared
by Director of Works Isaac S. Taylor.
The group of eight main buildings
| arranged in two rows, is over q mile
long, and, naming them from east to
west are as follows: Outer row. LIBERAL
arts, manufactures varied Industries
| transportation: inner row, mines and
/ metallurgy, textiles, electricity, and ma
| chinery.
| The government building is to be To-
Gated en- the hill to the southeast of the
Main Picture. A single building to the
south Will house the fish exhibit of the
United States government. On the plat
also is shown the power plan in the
machinery building the four units be-
| ing arranged in tandem. The boiler
house. where the power to operate these
machines Will be produced, is also
shown in the plan west of the machin-
cry building.
The plan shows the ITO acres added
to the site by the acquisition OF the
Washington University tract. The So
cial economy and educational building.
ard the fish. forestry and game build
ings are to be located on the Wash
ineton University tract east OF the uni
versity buildings.
All the diagrams of buildings shown
on the scale are drawn to scale Of 200
feet to the inch. The comparatively
small size of the university group when
compared with the exhibit buildings is
a notable feature. The entire university
group of permanent buildings could be
placed in either of the big exhibit build
lngs TO be built for the exposition on
the university tract.
The agricultural building. over 4 mile
IN outside measurement, will stand
apart from the main group the site not
having been definitely settled. Nearly
all buildings Will be connected by an
intramural railway system. so that Wis
itors may readily travel about the
grounds.
A lagoon. about one mile in length,
surrounds the textiles ard electricity
buildings. Ten ornamental bridges at
convenient intervals afford a means OF
crossing to and from the buildings.
The plan shows the art building we'll
back from the brow or the hill, in the
picture is closed by festival hall and
balustrade course, a the end OF which
are two restaurant buildings. These are
at the crest of the hill. The festival hall
in the center. which terminates the pic
ture and forms a crown, is of sufficient
proportions to accommodate 2,5G0 per-
sons and is calculated to be the scene
of exercises and meetings on tn,
grounds.
Between the festival hall and the two
restaurants pavlions a balustrade
course three and one-half feet high is
located The art building consists of
three pavilons. forming a parallelo-
gram S3ex450 feet.
According to the plan of Professor
Haisey c. Ives. chief of the are de-
partment the center of these pavllions
is to contain the international sculptor
court the United States section and
the loan collection The two side pa
vilons are 10 be devoted to foreign ex-
hibits, which is to be enriched with
sculptures pergoas, tree, vines. etc.
The galleries are all on the ground floor
and are spacious. with ample provision
for illumination, ventilation, and the
circula ton OF large crowds.
Beneath the festival hall is the cas-
cade picture, but the development is
still so imperfect that the point OF issue
of the cascade is not known. Design
er MasQueray is at work on this feature
The outlines of the structures GROWING |
the hill above the cascades are perfect |
ly developed and Will be built as
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