Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-11

Toy- -rffDT1 U7 IJpTBrr 10 and ornamentation.fd At, t,frstshis1sug. gestion was not very seriously con- sidered. The Frenchman was told that staff was not sufficiently durable that like the fabled wings of Icarus, it couldn't stand sun-heat and hard whacks," and other wear and tear of weather To disprove thls notion, Mfr Bonet made some staff figures and set them on top of the Rookery build ing in Chicago. exposed to a winter of rough weather. The next spring 1t was discovered that the stan had stood the storms. After due con sideration. staff was adopted. and the Columbian exposition thereby saved $4,500,00O in addition to the achievement of the most beautiful exposition ever held up to that year. Since then every exposition has been built chiefly of wood and staff, saving in each in- stance millions of dollars, Had these worlds fairs been built of steel and stone the cost would have been enormously greater and the time
 
 been doubled. For temporary build- in2s staff is now universally used.
 The first stan building in America was the women's building at the Chicago fair. which was the work of Mir Bonet. The Fine Arts building at that fair. which was the work of Mfr Bonet. still stands as monument to the endurance of stan. or rather the endurance of paint. which protects the stan from the ravages of incle- ment weather Paint sticks to staff tenaciously, and the material is capa- ble of treatment to any color scheme desired. The bewildering beauty of expositions. in tint and hue Is due to a combination of plaster of paris, hemp and dextrine. component ele- ments Of staff, and the pigments which protect md beautlfy It's sur face. Not only In the buildings them selves. but In their artistic orEamen- tation of frieze and cornice and In the statuary that embellishes the grounds. Is stan now employed.
 At the approaching Jamestown ex- position, which will open April 26. 1907. on Sewelrs Point. six miles from Norfolk, another radical depart ure in fhe construction of exposition buildings is to he taken. Heretofore every great exposition in this coun- trv has been built for temporary use. Most of the buildings at Sewell's Point are to be permanent. Accord- ingly. the quantity of stan used VIII he comparatively small. The exposi- tion site is on the shore of Hamp- ion Roads. that famous sea-way and summer resort region. IL is believed that after the exposition there will he s ieusnf for the various buildings. to be used as hotels. cInbhouses and summer residences. With this Idea in view. there is extra inducement for the participation of the various states. The site of each state build- ing is deeied to the state occupying i,. The state is erecting q substsn- tiaI strrefure of brick or other du-- sbIe material. and at the close of the eyposltIon the building snd site may r,e soIf iyv tle state just ss any other sc<Irshre grnprovpf real estate is sold Inn. eari, state win be able to recov- CT inc cost of It's building and n some instances probably make prof if o1 the investment. Heretofore ex- position buildings have been sold rD wreckinz companies af a mere pit tsncr. sometimes Ices than five per cent of the actual cost Tbe Janes- town bufbifnzs. located cn splendid sites overBookfnx Hampton Roads. cIo~e fo beaufifui bafhIne beaches and -swepf by ocsan bre<ss4 no