St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-31

the prettiest in the whole grounds. In
front of each palace are gardens.
The hanging space for pictures in
the Fine Arts Palace is 2A times
greater than that at the British Roy
al academy.
In the very center of the grounds,
with their various palaces on either
side, is huge lake, from which run
lagoons. On this waterboats and
launches will fit to and fro laden with
visitors, the total navigable distance
being nearly mile in length. In all.
there are no fewer than 76 buildings
in the grounds.
A portion Of the grounds, known as
the Elite Gardens, will house the
Garden club. 1t will be the finest sum-
mer club ever built. 1t will contain a.
large banqueting hall, a dining-room.
with glass front similar to the,
great dining-room in the Bots de Bou-
olgne, and ten smaller dining-rooms,
as well as "a outdoor dining boxes. In
addition to the Garden club there will
also be equally magnificent quarters
for the Sports club.
There win also be an Irish Village
and a native settlement including an
Indian village from western Canada
Actors will find all the newest the
atrical appliances and equipment on
show; medical men will see the latest
discoveries In medicine and surgery.
Agriculturists, gardeners and florists
will here be able to study the methods
CT the greatest modern experts In their
art. In word, the Franco-British ex-
hibition will cater to all.
| To the American nation the fea,
ture of greatest interest is the stadi4
UNI, built after the design of the IA
nous Coliseum, at Rome. Here will
be held the quadrennial Olympic
games in which it is hoped all the civ.
ilized countries of the world will meet.
As generations will pass away before
the Olympiad is held again In England,
and as at least % nations are taking
part in the contests, the occasion win
be unique in the annals of British
sport.
The Stadium has length of 1000
feet and is 594 feet wide. The seating
and standing accommodation is rs
feet wide and consists of 80 tiers for
seats and IS tiers for standing, the
standing being at the circular ends OF
the building, and the seating at the
fiat sides, the whole being thus able
to accommodate 100000 people.
In addition to a huge grass lawn
where cricket, football, polo and other
games will be played, there Is q
cycling track So feet wide with 2%
laps to the mile, and a cinder running
track rs feet wide and one-third Of a
mile in circumference, as well as a
, tank 240 feet in length and IA feet
] deep for the swimming and high-diying
} competitions.
There will be more than 5000 rep,
resentative athletes taking part In the
/ varied contests, and the curves of the
; running track have been so delicately
calculated that runner will be able
to get around a corner at full speed
: The Aero club will conduct a mum,
Der of flying machine contests and
competitions. Perhaps the most sen
) sational item in connection with this
} feature Of the exhibition will be the
i Marathon race, the competitors Of
which will start from Windsor and fin
! ish up in the stadium. This one build
ing, which is double the size Of the
] stadium erected at Athens where the
Olympic games were last held, has
: cost $25O,O0O,