The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-12-02

eien Buildings Going Up-Landscap-
Ing Adds to the Beauty.
The exposition is rapidly assuming
finished look. Figures furnished by
the builders of the great enterprise
verify the impression. Although the
work is proportionately far ahead of
any other exposition at this date In
advance of the opening, there is no
cessation OF activity and the army OF
1000 men are working with might and
main.
Director of Works TAYLOR furnished
President Francis with statement a
few days ago showing that the EXPOSE
ton exhibit palaces as a whole. were
SO per cent completed. Statistics show
that the exhibit buildings at the Co
lumbar exposition at Chicago, at
corresponding period, seven months
before the opening, we're but "A per
cent completed. Here is another decid-
ed advantage that these figures do not
show, namely, that the building sea-
son is much longer in st. Louis than
In Chicago. No doubt prevails in st.
Louis about all being in readiness for
the opening on April 80 next.
In making his report to Francis, Di-
rector of Works Taylor furnished the
following official figures, showing the
percentage of work done on the vari-
GUS exhibit palaces:
Transportation, 75; Liberal Arts,
90; Electricity, 991s; Education. so;
Manufactures. SO: Varied Industries,
9915; Machinery, 9S; Mines and Metal
lurgy, 50; Forestry, Fish and Game.
30; Agriculture, 92; Horticulture, 81;
Main Art, So; Temporary Art, S81h;
Colonnades and Restaurants, 92; Fes-
tival Hall, 2.
On the Plateau of States these au-
tumn days busy scenes are being en-
acted. Seventeen of the states have al
ready got their pavilions well under
way. Work will begin on another
dozen within a week, and bids for the
construction of many more have been
asked for. These state buildings will
prove great architectural attraction.
Every theme is treated and never in
exposition history have the architects
shown such original striking designs.
MIR. TayioT's official estimate OF the
percentage of work done on the state
buildings follows:
Kentucky, 60; Wisconsin, 1; Louisi-
ana, So; Missouri, IS; Ohio, so; New
York, 10; Kansas, 80; Iowa, 81; Ari-
1ono on. Nau Tarcar En. Todfono <.
Arkansas, Is; Connecticut, 60; Neva-
da, 10; Oklahoma, 60; West Virginia,
60; Illinois, 10.
The T. p. A. building, which is to
be headquarters for the commercial
travellers during the exposition, is So
per cent finished. The walls are be-
ing reared for the Temple of Frater-
nifty, built by the united fTaternal or
ders. The foundation work is in pro-
gress for the Inside Inn, hotel with
in the exposition grounds, containing
z, 500 rooms.
The same scenes of activity are be-
ing manifested on The Pike, the street
of amusement concessions. The Gal
weston Flood is 40 per cent finished.
"The Streets of Cairo" and the "Tyro-
lean Alps" are quarter done, and
good starts have been made on "Crea-
tion." "Old st. Louis" and other in
attractions.
The grading for the eight miles of
Intramural railway, which touches
every point of interest in hte grounds,
has been completed, and much of the |
steel has been laid
Perhaps the work that adds more to |
the apparent completion of the expo |
sition than all other is the landscap- |
ing.
Seventy-hve thousand yards of sod |
have been placed and it has converted |
barren hillsides and yellow clay plains |
INTO beautiful lawns. Other places,
where the top soil was not removed, |
has been seeded to blue grass and al
ready a good stand has been secured. |
The rose garden, on the agricultural
grounds, covering six acres and con-
aiming $4,000 rose bushes, many of |
which are now in blossom, is a rarely |
beautiful sight The landscape depart
mont az present employees 500 men and |
awns are being made, flower beds de-
signed and shrubs planted wherever
he work OF the builders will permit.
The foreign buildings are naturally |
more backward than the others. Yet |
hey are beginning to make a good
showing. Mexico has finished her
France and England are
lalf up, and China, Canada, Germany