The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

Foreign Ministers credentiaIed to The Hague. This wonderful room is pan eled with rosewood and satfnwood and hung with Japanese cartoons and eEn-
 broidered silks. There are the rooms also for the President Of the Court, the Seer cretary-GeneraI and his assist
 ants, and numerous handsome recep- tion rooms, all adorned with oil paint ings and ornamented with carvings in ] rare woods.
 Apartments also have been set aside
 for the press, and a complete system of 1 vaults and steel lockers for the pres ervatfon of the records of the impor-
 tant congresses which will be held in i the Palace.
 The Library, which occupies the two
 stories to the west Of the Quadrangle, l consists of a reading room, lecture
 room and central office and many
 rooms for study, while upstairs are the ! book compartments in steel.
 Many nations have made gifts to the
 Palace, one of the most interesting be- i ing that of Greece It is a white mar
 b1e copy of the famous throne found l at Knossos, in Crete, which was sup poseed to have been the throne of King Mines. E tzs The building materials of the Peace Palace came from many countries
 The brick, which is the chief com l ponent, came from the famous fields
 near Ileyden, while the hard white l sandstone used for trimming is from French quarries, and the wood used 1 for flooring and paneling is largely
 from Austria The granite constitut- ling the base of the walls was present ed by the Governments of Norway and Sweden The Italian Government presented the marble which decorates the. interior of the corridors, and the grand marble staircase is a gift from the city of The Hague. The stained
 glass windows are the gifts of the Dutch Government and Great Britain; France has sent not only the great painting which is the most striking l decoration of the great hall, but many Of the tapestries and minor decor ations There are vases of precions
 materials from Russia, Hungary and
 Austria, and groups of statuary in
 marble and bronze which ornament the first landing of the great stair ease are the gifts of the United
 States. The beautiful rosewood and satinwood paneltng of the Admfnis- tratfve Council Chamber came from Brazil, and there are gifts of silk oar toons and vases from China and
 Japan. Rare woods from San SA1-t
 vaior are used to line many of the l chambers.
 Turkeys gift is a wonderful car pet. which, as one writer has said, is @ a gift symbolic of his fate, to be l trodden under the foot of man. The
 clock in the great tower is Sw1tzer- lands tribute, and the beautiful
 wrought-fron grill work of the main
 entrance was presented by Belgium.
 The gift of Germany is the great
 front entrance to the ground, con
 sistfng of walls and handsome
 wrought-iron gates.
 The-capitaI is. .gai1y decorated in hon.
 or of the cerernonies incident to the I dedication of the Palace of Peace Many notable men, principally dtpIo-
 mats, have arrived from other coun- l tries to attend the ceremony. The American minister to the Netherlands. Lloyd Bryce, MT. and Mrs. Carnegie
 and Oscar Strauss, of New York, 9
 member of the permanent court of
 arbitration, were among the dtstin= II guished Americans here.