P 13 ' , t THE PITTSBURG- .DISPATCH, MONDAY, AUGUST" 24 ' 1891: ' " PLAXS OX A STARTLING SCOPE. Women to Take an Active Tart, With a Building of Their Own. BUILDING IX THE SHAPE OF A SHIT CiIl!lli3IIPt ffMJjUJBgrTy - - "--::-Miinirii- V"iM-rr-55iWi ln A BCTLDLNG IS THE SHAPE OP A SHIP ' ""' ' J x j5fl j ' ,&. -, ' - " ' ''"rjiJSJMjrr-l-R.P fSPECI U, COIJBESrOXDEXK OP THE DISFATCH.1 Chicago, Aug. 23. "All you see of the "World's Fair is spc miles of board fence That' what the wild waves are saying!" Bo sang Eddie Toy in "Sinbad" at the Chicago Opera House last night, and as far as the general public is concerned it is true. Jackson Tark, where the bulk of the great show is to be located, is surrounded t ith a lence mgncr, tighter, stronger and more zealously guarded than the fence around the Allegheny Ball Park. The cracks are so small that even the enterprising small boy could scarcely peep through. It is so smooth that even the young man who has caught the greased pig at the county fair would find his hands full in trying to get over it The gates are built apparently with a view to great durability and are closely guarded, nobody being allowed to enter without a permit. About four weeks ago, m hen the work on some of the buildings cot fairly under way, the policy of excluding outsiders was "put into practice, largely m ith a view of keeping out men who might make trouble among the workmen, and the results have been very satisfactory to all concerned, except those who ha e no busi ness within the enclosure. A SCENE OF ACTIVITY. Within the enclosure a scene of great ac thity pre-cnts itself. About COO men are afn ork converting the big stretch -of prairie swamp into a garden of art and industry, whose attractions shall astonish the world. At the edge ot the lake a powerful steam dredge is at work, the great shovel slips downward with much rattling of chains and a moment later comes laboriously to the surface w ith half a cartload of sand drip pling over its edge. The sand is emptied into a barge and down goes the shovel again. Each day the dredge works its way farther inland. It is cutting the broad water passage, which the architects of the Exposition call the great basin, and by which Lake Michigan is to com municate with the system of artificial wateT wavs w ith which the n.irk is tn b hennti. fkd and diversified as well as by the build ings. Thechanncls within the "park do not need to wait for the dredge. Then resort is had to the patient mule and his equally do cile Italian driver, the temporary railway and to the spade and the scraper. The La goon, with its four miles of winding shore, with its "wooded island" and its other isl and that is not to be wooded,but is to be the location of the Fisheries Building, is fast taking shape. The spaces to be occupied by the various buildings have long since been marked out, cleared and leveled. In all but one or two instances the con tracts have been let, and great double carloads of timbers have been passed through the gates for their founda tions. The scene throughout that portion ot Jackson Park to be occupied W the Fair is one of great activity, but th'e vis itor who goes without first hating studied a plan of the buildines ib very apt to come away with a confused idea of what is being done. LOQJUNG TO THE WEST. In the bird's-eye view of the Exposition the obser er is supposed to be looking west from Lake Michigan. Eight in the fore ground is a feature that above all others will be appreciated by visitors from interior States, and that is the great pier stretching 1,200 feet out into tne lake and affording a place of shelter for hundreds of small pleasure cralth. It is a remarkable fact that in all the 22 miles of Chi cago's lake front no similar accom modation for the lover of boating is to be found. He must climb over half a dozen dangerous railway tracks before he reaches the water, and then avail himself of the services of a boatman. The Fair will afford the most ample and accessible accom modations, and no visitor need go away without at least a taste of life in the rolling waves of Chicago's great lake. It exists .31.-, MHESMDMIMCBOIUIEtrOTbtataS.rttu now only on paper; the pile driving has not yet begun. A striking feature of the buildings if the present plans are carried out w ill be their varied colors and their apparently substan tial character. At a little distance they will look as if they had been built of brown or red or gray "stone, and built to last for ages. In" that respect as well as in many other appearances will be somewhat deceitful. Almost every one of the buildings will be built of wood. Outside of the wood will be placed a coarse wire netting and upon that, as a lath, will be placed a stucco-like material known among builders as "staff." Built in this way they will not be as durable nor as strong as if structural steel and terra cotta had been nsed, but the cost will be vastly less and the time" and trouble of getting the buildings up and read v will be only a frac tion of what it would be if the same materi als were to be used here as were used in Philadelphia in 1S7G. Staff has a great many other advantages. It can be colored to any desired tint. COLORS OF THE RAINBOW. One building can be made red and an other gray by "simply adding the proper coloring material, and any sort of exterior finish can be obtained simply by using the kind of finishing apparatus that may bo necessary to produce it. It is said to be a Trench invention, and was used on some of the buildings at the Paris exposition. The chief reason for using it, of course, is be cause it is cheap. ithout it tne builders , would be at the mercy of the structural iron men. i The saving is estimated to reach far up j into the millions. The greatest objection i to it, perhaps, is a sentimentalone it is a counterfeit and a sham; it derives its title to be used from the fact that it seems to be that which it is not. When foreigners come are thevnot apt tojudce everything from the character of the buildings in which their ,$$?& juti ysr.rfSfts- exhibits are to be housed? And will it not impress them unfavorably that a nation cel ebrating the four hundredth anniversary of its birth chooses buildings covered with a cheap counterfeit imitation of stone, in which to conduct the celebration? The girl, who receives her visitor in a calico dress that cost 4 cents a yard, is apt to be thought deficient in taste and good breeding. Still nobody in Chicago objects to the use of staff. The management hailed the new material with a cry of joy. It seemed to be a means of saltation from serious financial difficulties. And the lithographs that have been printedshow that by artistic ally using different colors in the same building very fine effects can be obtained. THE FOUNDATION BEGUN. The foundation of the building devoted to manulactures and decorative arts has just been begun. As will readilv be seen from the drawing, this is by all odds the largest and most important building of the entire exhibition. It is situated on a slight elevation, made by using the sand scooped out of the Lagoon and" other water ways. Its principal front will be toward Lake Michigan. Along its south end the great basin is located, and along its west side meanders the canal .connecting the great basin with the Lagoon. As it ap pears now, the site of this building is cov- mA. -ZJ&J&&-. cred with great piles of timber to be used in its construction, which are delivered on the ground by a spur of track running into the center of the foundation. The Administration Building, with its observatory-like dome, has not yet been begun, but the eminence on which it is to rest has already assumed form. Standing upon it one can overlook the" whole of the park, and the scene is a very animated one indeed, and one which is sure to impress the visiting Etranger that Chicago means business. This point is the center of a net work of temporary railroad tracks con necting with all the trunk lines leading to Chicago. There are 50,000 feet of it altogether, and every square foot of space within the in closure is brought within easy reach. The 50 switches are in almost as constant use as in a switching vard where trains are being mnde up for a night's run. The men who have charge of the work I ft r 1 - " ride from point to point on horseback, shouting their orders to the gangs of work men. Everywhere the word is "Rush," and the spirit of rush seems to pervade everything within the grounds. Most of the contracts are taken with" a close time limit, with a forfeiture for every day of delay beyond a specified period, and the necessity of hurry ing is very apparent. P.. 1-- " .4 ?: teaC- i I MACHINERY 'HALL, THE PALACE OF MECHANICAL The "Woman's Building is moving along at a surprising rate. The timbers tor the first floor and some of those for the second are already in place. They are visible far above the big board fence, and make the passerby long to get in and see what is go ing on. The Mines and Mining Building is al ready finished as far as the foundation is concerned, and the same is true of the Elec tricity Building. Work on both of these structures has been temporarily stopped by order of Chief Architect Burnhanij who re cently assumed charge of these buildings in place'of Chief Engineer Abraham Gottleib resigned. The reason for this stoppage is not jot definitely known. The probabili ties are that Mr. Burnham merely wants to verify the estimates of Mr. Gottleib as to strength of materials, with a view of strengthening the foundations if it seems necessary to do so. Mr. Gottlieb is looked upon as a very com petent man. It is he who has the contract for the structural iron work on the 20-story Masonic building at State and Randolph streets in this city. READY FOB THE START. Upon the sites of the Horticultural and Transportation buildings everything is ready for the work of building to commence. Great piles of material are already upon the ground. Hundreds of men are at work on every kind of constructional work. Trenches are being dug for water mains and gas mains and underground ducts for electric light wires. Within a few days an electric plant will be in operation sufficient to light the mile and a half of lake front from end to end, and then work will go ahead by night as well as by day. The bird's eye view above does not by any means show the whole of the site. It is only the unimproved Southern portion of Jackson Park, which is about three fourths of the whole. To the north, within the improved por tion, is to be located the art galleiies, cov ering a space 320 by 500 feet, and facing to the north. Within easy distance of the art galleries on the spaces alloted to the various Sstates, that of Pennsylvania has al ready been allotted. It is directly north of and faces the center of the art" galleries and is about 150 by 200 feet in dimensions. Adjoining Pennsylvania in the east is New York, with precisely the same space. Both lots are located on the line of Fifty-seventh street, extended east through the park in the most prominent and con spicuous locations to be had. Ohio has a large slice of park just west of the art gal lery building, and West Virginia has an ex cellent location a short distance north of that of Pennsylvania. It is very evident that THE 'WOJIEN'S tfUILDING. the interests of all of these States have been well cared for. An admirable feature of the management of the Exposition is the arrangement for the accommodation of representations of the press. Mr. Kichard J. Murphy, Secrc- .&?& .r??4Vt- n-v. tary of the Press Committee, who has charge of this part of the work, is a well known Chicago newspaper man, and nnder him two or three other experienced repor ters are Tconstantly at work going from one department tonother and making a daily report of the day's doings, which is furn ished in duplicates to each of the Chicago dailies. It is a rather trying position to be placed in, but Mr. Murphy's good nature ' T T7i " ' ARTS. has always been found equal to the strain put upon it, and his management of the de partment up to this time has amply demon- strated the good sense of the committee in making the appointment. MINERS AND MINING. The Manner In Which Rthe Wonders Be ' neath the Earth's Surface Are to Be Ex hibited A Building of the Classic Style of Architecture. Just north and a little west of the Ad ministration Building stands the structure in which the growth and development and' S modes of working Pennsylvania's coal and iron mines will be exhibited. The style of architecture of the Mines Building is classic, and its dimensions are 700 by 350 feet The height to the main i :: cS- t "-iagCa'-. i .I Bird's Eye View of the Columbian Exposition at the South End cornice is 65 feet. There is an entrance on each side of the building, the grand en trances being at the north and south ends. These are 110 feet' high and 32 feet wide, each opening into a vestibule 88 feet high and elaborately decorated. At each corner of the building there is a pavillion 68 feet square and 90 feet high, surmounted by a dome. A balcony 60 feet wide and 25 feet high encircles the building, and leading to it are eight stairways. The roof is of glass, 100 teet from the floor. The cost will be 5350,000. The gold and silver mining States of the West, especially Colorado and California, are preparing to make great exhibits in this department, and every stage of the process of obtaining gold and silver and converting it into the finished product will be shown. Their mining machinery is, of course, of a more interesting character than that in use in the coal mining districts about Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania, but that is no rea son why the latter should not be fully rep resented. It is understood that an elaborate display will be made by the anthracite coal miners of the eastern end of the State. IN THE SHAPE OF A VESSEL. The Building In Which the Naval Exhibit Is to bo Placed. As shown in the above cut the exhibit of the Navy Department will be in a building built in the form of a modern war vessel and resting on piling a short distance out in the lake. The berth deck will be used, in the main, as the exhibit deck of models and various other naval appliances, such as have hereto fore been shown on the exhibition floor of the previous exhibitions. The exterior, the main deck, the battery deck, and the mili tary mast, will be a fac simile of the three battle ships now being constructed. The turrets will be in place, the guns in place, the boats in place, and. in fact, all the ap pliances as far as may be practicable. The artaament of these vessels, and which will be represented in the proposed building, will consist of four 13-inch guns, eight 8-mch guns, four 6-inch guns, 20 six-pounders, and a number of smaller guns wnich will be mounted on the upper deck and on the military mast. The vessels of which this building will be a prototype are larger, heavier and more formidable than any ever built in this coun try. They are also equipped w ith torpedo tubes and torpedo boats, and protected by 17-inch thickness of armor platintr. All the appliancss at the service of a modern naval commander, such as torpedo netting, torpedo guns, search lights, etc., VIEW LOOKING will be shown in this exhibit, and the vis itor will be placed, for the time being, as if he was in command of a vessel about to go into action. LOOKING OVER THE LAGOON. One of tho Prettiest Things Abont the Columbian Exposition The Domain of the Landscape Gardener An Incompar able Plan. One of the prettiest things about the grounds will be the view looking south over the Lagoon where it extends between the buildings of manufactures and decorative arts on the cast and the Electrical Building on the west. On the extreme right of the picture a portion of the east front and ono of the towers of the Electrical Building are visible. Beyond and opposite the building across the basin is seen part of the Palace ot Machinery, its eastern facade crowded with domes and towers. This is the domain of the landscape gardener, and will be de voted to flowers, shrubbery and gravel walks. Some four feet above this terrace is the great paved platform serving as a base to the buildings. This platform is finished with balustrades, vases and statuary, and approach to it from the first terrace is gained at intervals by monumental flights of steps. This view, down the Lagoon toward the basin, represents a part of thp grounds 'where the buildings are most thickly clus tered, where distances are at the minimum, and where the prospective is least extended. Picture then the grand scale on which the scheme is being worked out, the care and attention that has been given to produce impftsing effects and magnificent vistas; and the enticement offered to architects and ar tists to create masterpieces. Surely the M nr " .". plan is incomparable and its culmination will close an epoch in the history of art. HORTICULTURAL HALL. The Department for the Chieftainship of Which There Has Been Snch a right A Building 1,000 Feet Long The Compre hensive Plans. Horticultural Hall, in the proposed plan of the Exposition, faces east on the Lagoon. In front is a flower terrace for outside ex hibits, including tanks for nympheas and the victoria-regia. The front of the terrace, with its low parapet between large vases, borders the water, and at its center forms a boat landing. The building is 1,000 feet long, with an extreme width of 286 feet The plan is a central pavilion with two end pavilions, each connected to the center pavilion by front and rear curtains, forming two interior courts, each 88x270 feet. These courts are beautifully decorated in color and planted with ornamentat shrubs and flowers. The center pavilion is roofed by a crystal dome 187 feet in diameter and 113 feet high, under which will be exhibited the tallest palms, bamboos and tree ferns that can be procured. There is a gallery in each of the pavilions. The galleries of the end pavilions are designed for cafes, the situation and the surroundings being particularly well adapted to recreation and refreshment. These cafes are surrounded by an arcade on three sides, from which charming views of the ground can be obtained. In this building will be exhibited all the varieties of flowers, plants, vines, seeds, horticultural implements, etc Those ex- SOUTH OVER THE LAGOON. hibits requiring sunshine and light will be shown in the rear curtains, where the roof is entirely of glass and not too far removed from the plants The front curtains and under the galleries are designed for exhibits that requne only the ordinary amount of light. Provision is made to heat such parts as require it. The exterior of the building is in staff or stucco, tinted a .soft warm buff, color being reserved for the interior and the courts. The appropriation for thi3 building is 5400, 000. It will probably be built for some thing less than this sum. THE WOMAN'S BUILDING. A Remarkable Feature of the Coming Ex position Is tho Active Part That Is Be ins Taken by the Fair Sex A Model Kitchen and a Cooking School. Nothing is more remarkable about Chi cago than the conspicuons part the women play in everything. They are on the School Board, on the Board of Factory Inspectors, a few of them have clubbed together and put up a 12-story office building finer than nine-tenths of those erected by the men; thev have "invaded almost every kind of business and are successful, too, and in the Exposition they are going to play an im portant part. The Woman's Building, a cut of which is given above, will occupy a con spicuous place on the grounds. As THE Dispatch readers are aware, it was de signed by MissSophiaG. Hayden, of Boston, who won the $1,000 prize given by the ladjr managers for th'best design. The style of architecture i3 Italian Re naissance, with end and center pavilions. The first storyis Doric, the second Ionic and the whole is covered with a low Italian roof. By a modification of the original plan of Jaokson Park, Chicago, Looking enclosed gardens will be located on the roof at either end of the building, where ladies visiting the Fair may rest and enjoy the scenery. Among the exhibits there will be a model kitchen and cooking school. A PLACE FOR PITTSBURG. The Iron City Expected to Furnish Many of the Exhibits In 'Machinery Hall It Will Be a Palace for the Mechanical Arts An Effective Background. It is safe to saythat no part of the Ex position will be quite so interesting to the average visitor from Pittsburg as Ma chinery Hall. There he will find the choicest products of his own shops, the mills and factories, for which that city is famous the world over, in competition with the products of other mills where the work men think themselves quite as ingenious and brainy, if not a littie more so. The main Machinery Building measures 850 by 500 feet. It is spanned by three arched trusses, and the interior will present HORTICULTURAL HALL. the appearance of three railroad train houses, side by side, surrounded on all the four sides by a 50-foot gallery. The trusses are to be built separately, and so they can be taken down and sold for use as railroad train houses, and it is hoped to have iron trusses instead of cheaper ones, which may, however, be necessary. In each of these three long naves there is to be an elevated traveling crane, running from end to end of the building. These will be useful in moving machinery, and when the Exposi tion opens platforms will be placed on them, and visitors will view from these the entire exhibition at a great saving of tramp ing. Shafting for power will be carried on the same posts which support these traveling bridges. Steam power will be used through out this main building, and this steam will be supplied from a main power house ad- juiuiug me suuui siue oi me Duiiuing. j.ue exterior towards the stock exhibit and the I U & Coet Lwf &tmc Sk railroad is f obe the plainest description. On the two sides adjoining the grand court, the exterior will, however, be rich and pal atial. All the buildings on this grand piazza are designed with a view to making an effective background for displays of every kind, and in order to conform to the general richness of the court, are enriched with colonnades and other architectural features. Large consignments of fine furnitnre at auction by Henry Auction Co. at new store, 24 and 26 Ninth street. See ad. Whv not make vour wants known through the cent a worn columns ot THE JJISPATCHV It circulates everywhere. West From Lake Michigan. COTE KIND OF GBA.TTTUDE. Emily Wilson Snpposcd to Have Carried Off Jewelry. Emily Wilson, an English woman, who was taken into an Allegheny home as a stranger, because she was an object of char-, ity, has disappeared and with her went considerable jewelry and money. Miss Wilson arrived in Pitts burg last week from England and was to have met her brother at the Union depot. The brother failed to put in an appearance and the young woman was in a pitiable plight, a stranger in a strange land, without money or friends. Depot Master Butler heard the woman's story and interested himself in her behalt The result was that a position was found for her in the Penn Mills, in Allegheny, and she secured boarding at No. 46 Darrah street. Thuriday Miss Wilson mysteri ously disappeared from the boarding house, and sit the same time a gold watch, a gold ring and 50 in money belonging to a man named Hawkins also took a mvsterioua fight. The police were notified, but it is sup- posed that Miss Wilson has gone back to her native England. THEY T00Z THE STOVE. A Sonthslder Charges Larceny Against Two Installment Hardware Men. Joseph Pentecost, of South Nineteenth and Wharton streets, ha3 caused tha arrest of Frank Snow and George Hardy, two Southside business mi, on charges of larceny. Snow and Hardy keep a furniture and hardware store at South Twentieth and Carson streets. A few weeks ago Pentecost says he bought a stove valued at $18 from them on the instalment plan. He had paid 511 75 on the stove, and through sick ness says he missed one payment. Shortly after this he "left home for a couple of days, and on returning he found the stove missing. His wife told him that the two men had come to the house early one morning, and after gaining admission, took the stove and hauled it away. Mrs. Pentecost says she remonstrated with them, and that Snow assaulted her. An informa tion has also been entered against Snow for assault and battery. All three cases will be given a hearing by Alderman Beinhauer some time this week. THE SPEAKEESHIP FIGHT: Crisp Will Get theJSolid New York Vote, Ex. cept One for Mills. rrnost A STAFF COBRESPOIDEXT.J Washthgtoit, Aug. 23. A member of Tammany, who is interested in the Seaker ship, was in AVashington to-day, and says that the New York delegation will be di vided as follows: One for Mills, sixfor Mc Millan, and the rest of the 23 for Crisp. The unit rule will be followed, he says, and therefore Crisp will get the votes of tha entire delegation, except the one for Mr. Mills, Mr. Tracey, who will vote for the Texan regardless of what the rest do. THE STJB-TBEASUEY WING Of the Arkansas Farmers' Alliance HarU Hot Shot at the Other. St. Louis, Aug. 23. The Arkansas State Farmers' Alliance, in session at Little Bock, has passed resolutions indorsing the Ocala demands and favoring their enact ment into laws, especially the land loan and sub-treasury features; denouncing the Fort Worth convention of "so-called Alli ance men as an abortive attempt of schem ing politicians and political trimmers, got ten up for the purpose of side-tracking tha great reform movement by creating dissen sions and divisions among members." A Law and Order Man Arrested. Mark Wishart, son of Captain Wisbart, of the Law and Order League, and who waa himself at one time a prominent worker for the league, was picked up by Officer Adams at the market house Saturday afternoon ia a condition of" drunken stupidity. He waa taken to Central station and locked up. Employers of labor always read Thb DisrATCH. That fact makes it th best medium in which to advertise for a situa tion. Only a cent a word now for such ad vertisements. 81 OO Until September 1, '91. 83 50. 12 cabinets for $1 00 and a life-size crayon for 53 50 at Aufrecht & Cc's Elite Gallery; 615 Market street, Pittsburg. MWS
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