The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-09-30
ANOTHER DAY
AT SEATTLE FAIR
A Note Book Page Reserved
for Big Things Seen
at the Fair.
THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS
Some of the Most Exquisite
Pieces of OrnamentatiOn in
the japanese Building---SiIk
Work and Other Features.
[BY pnoF. A. D. BRADFIELp.l ]

BY PROF. A. D. BRADFTELD.
Those who go through the exposition
grounds with pencil and note book in
hand making study and classifica-
tion of the exhibits will reserve a page
for big Things Seen at the Fair"
Under this heading, should be placed |
first, perhaps, the immense locomotive
weighing half million pounds, ver-
liable giant in size and power beside
the small engine that was first used in
the Northwest. Near it is a gigantic
revolving snow pillow used to clear the
railroad tracks in winter. On the
same track is a powerful steam shovel,
which gives daily exhibitions of its inn
mense lifting power of $4,000 pounds.
The mining building has a lump of
coal 7 feet 5 inches long, 5 feet inches
wide, and feet inches thick, and
weighs 1900 pounds. In the manu-
featuring building is a circular saw
$50 inches in diameter and weighing
1900 pounds. The visitors registra
tion book in the California building is
the largest book in the world. 1t
! weighs $50 pounds, is 35 inches long,
80 inches wide and 26H inches thick.
A manufacturing concern of Washing
ton state has bar of soap a yard
long; another firm, loaf of bread 9
feet long and made from barrel of
flour. Near the Forestry building is
the big Stick, = a hewed log AZ feet
SOU ire and "a feet long. Another
squared timber is Is inches square and
room followed from a cedar stump
I9 feet in diameter. In the War De-
partment is a model of ourlargest sized
naval gun, bearing this label: ''Most
powerful Gun in the U. S. Navy;
diameter, u inches; cost, 500, 100 04;
weight, 55,7 tons; weight of projectile,
$40 pounds; weight of powder in one
charge, $40 pounds; cost of each charge,
$400; cost of wear and tear of each
shot, $3.50; total cost OF each shot $1050;
range at 20 degrees elevation, d, 900
yards (about II miles) muzzle velocity,
200 feet per second; length, AS feet"
The palace of Fine Arts is a perma-
nent structure of pressed brick and
will be used by the University of
Washington after the fair is over. Here
are hundreds of grand paintings, some
lifesized and many worth thousands
of dollars. One loves 10 linger long
in tn e presence of these master works
of genius, these canvasses that seem
almost to live and think. In one room
are the products of the gold and sill er
smiths. These are polished to 50 high
a degree of brilliancy that one, "a first
glance, mistakes them for glassware.
In the center of the room in a heavy
glass case is the Century Vase, that
magnificent work of silver valued at
$50, 900, which was made for our first
worlds fair at Philadelphia in 1876.
This vase, richly adorned with human,
animal and vegetable figures in silver
ware was made to symbolic the peace,
prosperity and progress of the first
century of our nations life.
In the Italian building are hundreds
OF sculptured figures in marble, ala
baster and serpentine. So exquisite
in form, so true in outline, and so life
like in expression are they, that one il
lost in wonder and admiration. Th,
student of classic literature recognizes
at once in the life-sized figure near tn
door the form af Bacchus,
THAT first from out the purple grape
Crushed the sweet poison of mIsuse'
wine -
He stands with hand outstretched,
Offering to every weary traveller,
His Orient liquor in crystal glass
1t would require whole catalog
mention all the different pieces, bu
there are several that one instInctiyel
remembers. "The First Sorrow" is
child with one hand upraised to it
eyes, the other holding a dead birt
The marble features with their e2
preston of grief are so perfect that on
almost expects to see the tears flow
Il he Spoiled Dinner" is child wit