The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-07-24
WORLDS HANGING GARDENS
These Beautiful Landscape Effects
Will Be RivaIled by the Worlds
Fair Architects,

Fair Architects.
When the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
tion directors located the Worlds Fair in
beautiful Forest Park, with its hills and
valleys and picturesque woodlands, they
had in mind the possibilities there pre-
sented for landscape picture that would
include series of hanging gardens and
cascade effects to rival, if not surpass in
grandeur, the worlds famous hanging
gardens of Babylon, of China, and
Arabia.
More than a thousand men and two
hundred teams are now engaged in
grading the hills on two sides of the big
exhibit places into terraces rising one
above the other, and these terraced gar
dens are to be the hanging gardens of the
Worlds Fair of 1904.
The hanging gardens of Baby lon. con-
structed over 500 years before the Chris
tian era, were reckoned at that time
among the wonders of the world. There
were five of these gardens at Babylon H.,
| each consisting of an artificial hill, 400
feet square, the sides divided into terra
ces of earth resting on stone platforms
covered with groves, avenues, and buds
| of flowers, and provided with galleries
and banquetting rooms. They were IT.
| rigated from a reservoir at the summit
filled with water raised from the Euph-
rates, just the hanging garden cas-
cades of the Worlds Fair at st. Louis
| will be irrigated from the big 40 acre
| reservoir on the ground recently acquired
| for that purpose, to which water will be
| raised from the Mississippi river.
| There are today many hanging gar
dens in various parts of the world, par
| ticularly on the mountain sides in China.
| water being raised in buckets sometimes
thousands of feet to irrigate them.
| Colonel S. B. Miles of the British army
has just described the hanging gardens
| he found on the mountains in the interior
| of Arabia about sixty miles southwest OF
| the trading port of Muscat. Visitors
have to cross stretch of desert to reach
this beautiful region of verdure amid the
| thirst lands. One of the inland towns
| is Sheraizi, perched on the brow of {
lofty cliff which falls to the valley be-
meath. The town is built on the brow OF
a lofty cliff which falls to the valley be-
meath. The town is built on so steep
decliyity that the houses appear to over
hang one another, the only way commu
| nication being by means of steps leading
from one to another row of buildings.
| These extensive gardens, spread alons
| the precipitous valley walls are the mos
beautiful feature of Sheraizi. Tht
whole face of the mountain side to
depth of over 900 feet is cut into par
alle1 series of lodges or terraces. Owing
to the sharp angle of the slope, the ledg.
es are not over ten to twelve feet ii
| width. The inhabitants would be glat
of greater depth OF soil and the gardel
spots have been enriched by a larg'
amount of fertile earth brought to them
The steep mountain side is almost barrei
except for the beautiful striDs of greer
where vineyards, orchards and whea
fields are bearing. These curious gar
dens with their varied foliage and ripen
ing fruit. grain and vegetables form
very attractive and pleasing sight.