The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-02-25

is eleven hundred feet in length and
has an average width of eighty feet.
Festal hall has seating room for five
thousand people. The palace of horti.
culture covers nearly six acres. The
building is 627 feet in length and has a
maximum width Of 800 feet. It is sur.
mounted by a glass dome 1856 feet in
length. The largest building is the
palace Of machinery, being 968 feet
long and 1858 feet wide Over four car.
loads Of nails and fifteen hundred tons
Of bolts and washers being used in put
ting together the frame work. Imagine
if you can tower 1875 feet high cover
ed with 100000 flashing jewels, as the
novagem prisms are called, each reflect
ing the rays of the sun by day and at
night throwing back brilliant rays of
light as $50 powerful search lights play
upon the prisms.
The edifice used for liberal arts is
5S5 feet long, 47O feet wide, 60 feet
high and covers nearly six acres of
space. The palace of agriculture COW
ers about eight acres, while the entire
section devoted to this most important
division covers an area Of nearly fifty
acres. The agricultural exhibits far
excel anything ever before attempted.
The section devoted to live stock COW
ers many acres and the prizes for win
ners of various classes runs into thou
sands Of dollars. In addition to the
exhibits of the Breeders association
there will be a continuous exhibit from
the twenty-seventh of February until
the closing of the exposition. This de-
partment shows how careful breeding
has helped the stockraiser.
The transportation building is large
enough to house hundreds of mammoth
vehicles used in transportation work,
running from giant moguls to the little
gasoline truck used by section hands.
Here are to be found the primitive To-
comotives and ears and by their side
we see the latest word in speed and in
comfort.
In the building devoted to machinery
you will find thousands of exhibits, the
building covering eight acres.
Mines and metallurgy are housed in
a structure covering about six acres
and here we find wonderful exhibits of
ores and the processes by which men
wrest from the earth gold, silver, COP
per, lead, zinc, iron, aluminium, etc.
The buildings of the foreign nations
are many and diversified in character,
running from the handsome structure
occupied by Argentine to the curious
Mosque of Turkey, from the temple of
China to the solid and substantial edi
flee erected by our neighbor, Canada
The majority of these buildings con
form to the styles used in their coun
tries.
The state buildings are, as a rule, a
replica of some historical structure, as
for instance, Virginia 8 building is a
reproduction of George Washington s
home at Mount Vernon; the New .Jer-
sey building shows the quarters occu-
pied by the father of our country at
the time we We're struggling for our in
dependence. The gilded dome state
house of Massachusetts is another ex,
ample.
In these buildings the visitor from
afar will meet the "home folks and
read the news of what is going on in
the town from which he comes.
April II, the ninth anniversary of the
destruction of San Francisco by fire and
earthquake, is the date set for the con.
vention of the great International In.
surance congress, truly most appros
pirate date.
Those interested in the peace move.
ment to hold their celebration conferl
once on July 4-5-6 and and on the
Fourth the Civic Auditorium will be
turned into peace palace where dele
gates from all over the world will meet
to formulate plans to bring about uni
versal peace.
Many of the warning nations had not
intended to send exhibits but changed
their minds when the war started as
they realized that it would be to their
interest to show America what thew had
to offer and tho result has been that
the foreign countries are better repre-
scented than they would have been if
the struggle in Europe had not occurred
at all Some of the exhibits are mas
terpieces and will be described in ar
ticles which are being specially prepar-
ed for this paper.
Foreign commissioners are displaying
a great interest in tho United States
and the general manager of the Pan
Pacific Press association has requested
me to state that the association will be
glad to distribute free of charge any
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