The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
SIGHT AND
ECHOES OF
HE EXPOSITION


has exhausted the possibilities il e.
seers TO cover distances has reache
.Ssts Limit here. No fair will ever sur
pass this one in generosity OF area.
None will ever be attempted beyond it
sslafitndinallyr. It must now go upward.
And to express the modern spirit of
architectural development, it should.
While the old science of building pro
duced the classic grace of the Greek
facade as its climax, the new will de-
pend on soaring into the air By means
: OF steel construction. Let us imagine
the next worlds fair with the palaces
of industries AMI art twenty-eisht sto-
arieS high IN the midst of lakes and
EroVes and gardens, with proper per
zspectiYe to set them off. The sky
scraper thus imagined must not be
supposed to resemble these huge COM
merci1 behives full of rows upon rows
OF little perfora lions called windows.
The worlds fair sky scraper viii be
work of arr with domes and miIarets
! towering in Eiffel and awful grandeur
to the very fringes of the clouds.
There will be magnificent oriel and
rose windows in them, spanning five
stories in heir height, glitteriny with
jeWeIed glass beyond the dream Of
4 any cathedral builder, medieval or
modern There will be porticLs and
pergolas 200 feet above the earth
hanging gardens that will prove the
superiority of the twentieth century
over the heydey of Babylon. Tie
worlds fair of the future will not ask
Sof MS excrnciating leg work.. 1t will
carry us-t,r; more likely, our descend
ants-in elevators like eggs in bas-
1ket, by the gross from the earth l,011
i feet in the air The questio of ia
sidgue and uncomfortable temperatures
& viii be at once solved. 1t may Ee that
: universal exposition will be housed
ina single building mile square. sur
rounded by. landscape suit1!;s,e e
!, its prodigious size. This idea is re-
specful1y offered to New York, which
hasn't SO much room, and may he
ent,' with which to startie the nations.
This viii do it,
In the Art Gallery.
Like climbing the steep OF llnovl-
edge IS. the getting up TO the Art Gal
sTery on its lofty hill. and when after
Z rasping over the burnt gumbo which
we are coming to regard as one Of the
most exasperatipS materials on earth
Z To walk on, we reach the home of the
muses.. we are thankful to the man
who Invented sofas before the one
who invented painting. Painting we
can live without but repose we must
E have when we climb hills. The Art
Gallery is just open, and the men are
5 all wearing their hats. When S-u
notice the hats you see why The Wis
8 ifors are not as yet the familiar fire.
quenteB OF art galleries. Why we
3 are supposed to take off our hats in
( art galleries has not been made the
subject of an investigation by the in
irrespective persons who write the sew
enth column on most editorial pages,
but it has something to do with sup
posed awestruck feeling in the SPEC
tator- You are oppressed by Art with
large A Or OF as some people
pronounce 1t, even though the: may
come from west of the Wabash river.
where we all say .'Ah-r-r-t," aI:G are
not ashamed of it. When the people
who call it OF arrive they will take off
their hats-see if they don't. 1t is
S highly irritating to those of US who
8 have been all the way 10 New York as
much as twice, and in an ART gallery
at least half a dozen times TO be tolu
& in a loud harsh voice: .'YoH cant |
bring your umbrella in here boz I =
we have had time to close ii. Just as
if we didn't know that canes and TN.
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