Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-29
Nothing But a Miracle Can Put Things
In Even Passabie Share BY Opening
Morning Yet Many Claim Is Will Be
Done and Enthusiasm Is at High
Pitch.


claim that the miracle will be wrought.
So great. moreover, Is their enthusiasm
that it is contagious. They do not as
sert that all the buildings Will finished,
or all exhibits installed, but they stub
bornly declare that the unsightiy
heaps OF dirt will be gone from the
roadways, that the mud of the thor
oughfares themselves win he yelled by
white nlacadam, that water will flow
thru what today We're dry, uncouth
channels. and that the great architec-
rural scheme OF the actual exposition
buildings will stand perfectly forth.
These latter giant structures are. In
fact, externally complete. Scaffolds
still desate some OF the entrances, and
ladders find foothold at the pedestals OF
lofty statues, but they can come down
in night.
1t is the other buildin estate, for
eign, and commercial-tfat still halt at
the skeleton stage. Some are complete.
others scarcely have risen above the
foundation.
The Illinois building and the Lincoln
museum, its nedg1bor. ire sidered
among the most forward in erection,
but the interior mosaic work on the
state building was not half done yes
terday, and nothing had been done to-
ward the furnishing
How much can human Industry do
In thirty-six hours?" and How much
then Will be left undone.
- A. 3~Aa al vHty "a ~
help to an answer. The agricultural
building, the monster OF the giants,
was yesterday forenoon Q. huge, quarter
filed granary. For several blocks
down It's center line were the railroad
cars upon which exhibits We're arriving
That railroad track will have to come
out before the building is anywhere
near exhibition shape. For days II not
fortnight 1t Will be needed to carry
the exhibits themselves. A few OF the
state displays had assume ed form. The
majority had not. The horticultural
building. just IN the rear. was practf-
caffv hare No rr,cr--~.iy,y NJ >'aazen.
carloads OF produce were In sight.
These two buildings stand remote from
their fellows among the principals.
The hill topped by the Illinois building
is between.
or the Others beyond the hill the
transportation building was most adj
vanced, yet not more than quarter OF
it's space was occupied by o'clock.
The Columbian memorial display OF
early locomotives had prominent
place here.
The manufacturers building possess
sor OF II noble contour-was Within
hardly more than disordered store
house. Machinery hall did not have
one Complete exhibit, and work had not
begun upon more than a dozen dis
plays. The hall OF varied industries
rave no hint OF what the Industries
were to be: the liberal arts building
was nearly as backward: the educa-
tional building showed a few dozen
booths. So 1t was with the mines and
mining budding and the exposition
home of electricity.
Pike Only Half Finished.
Even the Pike, the noisy, fiaring
midway OF the fair. was as yet board
bordered by half-finished.
gaudy hued payillions ard show places.
What the waterways Will be
may be able to tell. Yesterday the
future lagoons were dry and dusty.
water has passed thru them. but 1t
has been pumped out to repair leak.
and also that the water on the opening
day may be fresh and clear.
Comparison between Chicago's
worlds fair and the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition on ensemble would be
unfair at this moment, but the cues
ton Of relative water supply invites
comment from any Chicagoan. Lake
Michigan lent it's beauty to the Chi
cago fair st. Louis is dependent upon
an artificial source. Every drop of
the lagoon supply must be pumped.
Water Spectacle Great.
From the plant alone one may per-
ceive with a slight call on the imagl-
nation what marvellous achievement
has been done literally by hand. but
withal Chicago's pride may rest easy
on one score its court of honor has
not been outdone.
The great spectacle of the exposition
nevertheless, is to be water scene.
Cascade court Is named because wat
er Is to come leaping down the front
of building and empty itself into a
broad, statue lined basin. Half way
up the side of Festival hall the foun-
tain will have Its birth. in three brok-
en- strides 1t will descend.
The channel today was blue painted
and hot in the sun. But the beauty of
the idea did not need the reality to
bring conviction.
Here is to be the famed spot of the
fair.
All the genius of the creators of the
plan has been expended
to give the scene a fitting background.
The sculptural splendor of the exposi
ton is on the rising hillside. Heroic
figures rise tier by tier, some on the
lawns, others beside the grand stair
case, and others abreast the fountain.
course For a hundred yards on eithe:
side the emblematic figures are packed
like artillery.
Before the summer passes some
critic will come to cry blatantly that
art Is lost in the tumble. but he vii
be talking for effect. ard. pressed to
the wall, will have to admit the COM
pelling effectiveness of the scheme
AS for the individual figures some
may be good and some may be bad.
but the time for such study has not
come.
1T has been declared that Amer1-