Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-06
THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.


Next year all roads Will lead to St
Louis, where present prospects are
bright for holding the greatest worlds
fair in the worlds history. The ST,
Louis exposition has not been cramped
for funds. Ten milliors We're pledged
the undertaking by st. Louis and the
citizens of that city and congress APP
propriated S6,500,0O0. The aggregate of
the various state guarantees approXi-
mates 100000 and foreign countries
have appropriated enough to bring the
total close to s3o,OOo,0Oo All told it is
expected that the exposition will cost
between forty and fifty millions.
Two hundred and fifty of the 1.2o0
acres comprising the exposition grounds
will be under roof. The agricultural
building alone will cover twenty-three
acres. The length of the grand court is
1900 feet.
One of the most beautiful sights of
the exposition will be the electrically
lighted cascades. From the foundations
OF Festival Park three cascades will
plunge down a series of twenty Lodges
to grand basin below. The greater OF
these cataracts starts with a width OF
eighty feet, gradually gaining in width
until the final fall into the basin, where
1t attains spread of lao feet. The VOL
ume of water projected over these falls
will be about $4,000 gallons per min
ute. The sister cascades, bursting from
the foundations Of the pagodas. at the
ends of the hill. will have a width of
twenty-five feet at their point of issu-
ance and increase to width of eighty
grand basin. Each of these cascades
will discharge $4,000 gallons of water
per minute and will be rendered trans
parent at night by powerful search
lights thrown from beneath the falls.
Another most interesting feature will
be the Philippine exhibit for which the
100000. This exhibit will cover forty
five acres, including ten acres of wood
land. 1t is intended to bring nearly 1000
natives from the Philippines to COM
plete this exhibit. About 100 buildings
will be necessary and 1t is purposed to
show the architectural types of the
Islands in their construction, including
tree jewellers and lake jewellers and
their peculiar houses built on trees or
on poles set in the water.
A naval exhibit at Gree instructive
and interesting has been arranged. A
fleet of thirty vessels, correct in detail
and representing every type of United
States battleship, is to perform naval
maneuvers in a miniature ocean. Tar
get practice viii be INDUCED in, sub
marines will explode ;orpedoes and
a naval battle wherein ships are sunk
and land forts attacked is part of the
program.
But three OF the great buildings have
been completed. These are the cleo
tricity, education and varied industries.
The home of the liberia. arts, however,
is so nearly finished that the dedicatory
exercises were held there. The rest of
the buildings have partly been planned
and contracted for, or else are actually
in process of construction.
The main spectacle or picture" of the
fair has been geometrieaily laid out in
the form of vast fan. Three radiating
avenues extend from the axis--the
northern limits of the site, the main
transverse avenue one and one-eighth
miles in length, beginning at the Petit
Tiianon, which is the French national
pavilion. This boulevard makes a great
bow across the entire face of the fan
picture, bisecting it's surface between
the axis and the great euler rim of the
fan, and ending at the United States
government building at the extreme
eastern limits. AT present the grounds
are confusion of activity, which must
prevail without stop or .Ielay if they are
to be ready for the holding of the big
fair next year.