The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-15
UNCLE SANS BUILDING
Government a Big Stakeholder
at 1904 Worlds Fair.
STATES ERECT COSTLY BUILDINGS.
Federal Structure a Most Beautiful
Building aud Cost Nearly Half a
Million Dollars - Some 100
Feet In Diameter-Elsherie
Pavilion AdjOins.

| The National government, having in
vested more heavily in the Louisiana
Purchase exposition at st. Louis than
in any previous Worlds fair, has ap-
propriately seen fit to erect there
building more costly and beautiful
than has been erected by it at other
expositions
The building was designed by James
Knox Taylor, supervising architect of
the Treasury department 1t will stand
on commanding elevation at the end
OF the TRAVERSE avenue, being ap-
preached by flight of steps 100 feet
wide, adorned with statues.
The general style of the building is
pseudo classic. The main facade will
be 764 feet in length with center and
end pavilions, connected by a colon
made of Ionic columns, the central pa
Vilion forming portico from which
a splendid view of the grounds may be
obtained.
| The center of the building VII be
surmounted by dome 100 feet IN di-
ameter, the top of the quadriga sur
mounting it having a height of IT'S
feet from the ground. The interior
| floor area will be entirely free of col
umns, the roof being carried with clear
| spans of steel trusses. There will be
no skylghts, as the building will be
lighted by clear stories. The end ia
cades will contain one central portico
and will be $50 feet long. The build
ing will be staff covered and it's esti-
mated cost is S350,OOO. The Govern
ment Fisheries building adjoining it
will cost about $4,000.
Missouri's building will head the pro-
cession of state buildings on the
plateau of states on the highlands just
above the government structure and
overlooking the whole panorama Of
the exposition grounds and buildings,
and there also will stand "The New
Kentucky Home" 1t will cost approx
imately 100000 and will be construct
ed of wood and staff. Roman archi-
lecture with an American feeling" is
the description given of its architec-
tural style by the architect, Mr.. Isaac
S. Taylor. The edifice will consist Of
three architectural masses connected
by balconied links. The center will be
crowned by dome which will be gild-
ed and surmounted by winged vic
tory. A colonnade of Corinthian col
umns will surround the drum of the
dome The building is to be 312x160
feet and will be completely surrounded
on two floors by balconies.
i There remains but one state in the
Union which has not yet made pro-
vision for representation at the
Worlds fair, and that is Kentucky,
but there is every reason to believe
that her citizens will see that she is
not left out.
A number of states have already sub
mitted their building plans, which
have been approved, and Iowa has al
ready started the construction Of its
building. Kentucky will have one Of
the most attractive of the state build
ings if the money can be raised by the
Kentucky Exhibit association. Sew
eral states will erect reproduction of
buildings famous in their history.
Louisiana has submitted the plans for
a reproduction of the CabildO, the
structure at New Orleans where the
formal transfer of the Louisiana ter
ritory was made in 1903. New Jersey
will erect a replica of the house at
Morristown, which was the headquar-
tiers of General Washington during the
Revolution. Mississippi proposes to
build a copy of Beauvoir, the home OF
Jefferson Davis. A copy of the en-
trance to the University of Virginia
will probably be reproduced by that
state. Texas may build copy of the
celebrated Alamo, and Iowa will erect
as its state building structure that is
strongly reminiscent Of its historic
state capitol
The state reservation of the Fail
site is a beautiful wooded plateau o.
$50 acres on the higher level in the
southeast part of the site overlooking
the main part of the site. 1t will b.
further improved by a landscape lay
: out which will include a park system
of gardens and roads. A plaza will b.
: made in the center upon which mum
, Der of the state buildings will face.
l STATIIARY ON EDUCA-