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THE WOMAN'S BUILDING.
Among a great number of sketches submittad in competition tor this building by women from all over the lanl, the President of
the Board of Lady Managers quickly discoverad in the sketch suobmittel by Miss Sophia G. Hayden that harmony of grouping and
gracefulness oi details which indicate the architectural scholar, aad to her was awarded the first prizs of a thousand dollars, and also
the execution of the design. : ; :
Directly in front of the building the lagoon takes the form of a bay, about 400 feet in width. From the centre of this bay a grand
landing and staircase leads to a terrace six feet above the water. Crossing this terrace other staircases give accass to the grouni
four feet above, on which, about100 feet back, the building issituated. The first terrace is designed in artistic flower beds and low
shrubs. The principal facade has an extreme iength of 400 teet, the depth of the building being half this distance. Italian renaissance
is the style selectea. . 2 : by : he
The first story is raised about ten feet from the ground line, and a wide staircase leads to the centre pavilion. This pavilion, form-
ing the main tripte-arched entrance, with an open co.onnade in the second story, is finished with a low padimeat enriched with a hizhly
elaborate bas-relief. The corner pavilions have each an open colonnade added above the main cornice. Hers are located the Hang-
ing Gardens. .
2 A lobuy 40 feet wide leads into the open rotunda, 70x65 feet, reaching through the height of the building, and protected by a richly
ornamented skylight. This rotunda is surrounded by a two-story open arcade, as delicate and chaste in design as the exterior, the
whole having a thoroughly Italian courtyard eect, 2dmitting abundancs of light to ail rooms facing this interior space. On the first
floor are loc: ted, on the left hand, a model hospital; on the right, a model kindergartan, each occupying 80x60 feet. :
The whole floor of the south pavilion is devoted to the retrospective exhibit; the one on the north to reform work and charity organ-
ization. Each of these floors is 80x20). The curtain opposite the main front contains the Library, Bureau of Information, records, etc.
In the second story are located Jaaies’ parlors, committee-roowms and dressing-rooms, all leading to the opzn balcony in front. [he
whole second floor of the north pavilion incioses the great assembly-room and club-room. The first of these is provided with an elevated
stage for the accommodation of speakers. The south pavilion contains the model kitchen, refreshment rooms, reception rooms, etc.
The building is encased with “staff,” the same material used on the rest of the buildings, and as it stands with itz mellow, de-
corated walls bathed in the bright sunshine, the women of the country are justly proud of the result
THE MACEINERY HALL.
Machinery Hall, of which Peabody & Stearns, of Boston, are the architects, has been pronouncad by maay architects second only
to the A¢ministraton Building in the magnificence of its appearance. This building measures 850x500 feet, and with the Machinery
Annex and Power House cost about $1,200,000. It is located at the extreme south end of the Park, midway between the shore ot Lake
Michigan and the west line of the Park. It is just south of the Administration Building, and west and across a lagoon from the Agri.
cultural Building. The building is spanned by three arched trusses, and the interior presents the appearance of three railroad train-
houses side by side, surrounded on all the four sides by a gallery fifty feet wide. The trusses ars built separately, so that they can be
taken dcwn and sold for use as railroad train-houses. In each of the long naves there is an elevated traveling crane running from end
to end of the building for the purpose of moving machinery. These platforms are built so that visitors may view trom them the ex-
hibits beneath. The power from this building 1s supplied from a power-house adjoining the south side of thes building.
THR NAVAL EXHIBIT.
Uni§ue among the other exhibits is that made by the United States Naval D2partment. It isin a structura which, to all outward
appearance. is a faithful 1ull-siz>d model of ona oi the new coast-lins battleships. This imitation battleship of 1893 is erectel on piling
onthe Lake front in the northeast portion of Jackson Park. It is surrounded by water ani has the appzarance of being moorad toa wharf,
The structure has the fittings thit belong to tae actual ship, suca guns, turrets, torpado tubas, torpsio nets and booms, with boats,
anchors, chain cables, davits, awnings, decx fittings, ete., etc., tozethar wita all anpp.iancas for worsing the sam> Offizars, seamen,
mechanics and marines are detailed by the Navy Department during the Exposition, anil the discipline ani mode of life oa our
naval vessels are completely shown. The detail of men is not, howsver, as great as the compiemens of the actual ship. The crew
gives certain drills, especially boat, torpedo, and gun drills, as in a vessel of war.
The dimensions of the structure are those of ths actual battleship, to-wit: Length, 348 feet; width amid ships, £) feat 3 inches; and
from thc water line to the top of the main deck, 12 1eet. Centrally placed on this deck is a superstructure S reet niza with a hame
mock berthing on the same 7 feet high, and above these are the bridge, cha~‘-house, and the boats. =
At the forward end of the superstructure there is a cone-shaped tower, caTied the “military mast,” near the top of which are
placed two circular ‘‘tops” as receptacles for sharpshooters, Rapid firing guns are mounted in each of these tops. The height from
the water line to the summit of this military mast is 76 feet, and above is placed a flagstaff for signaling.
The battery mounted comprises four 13-inch breechb-loading rifle cannon; eight 8-inch breech’ loadmg rifle cannon: four 6-inch
breech-loading rifle cannon; twenty 6-pounder rapid firing guns; six l-pound repid-firing guns; two Gattling guas, and six torpedo
tubes or torpedo guns. All of these are placed and mounted respectively as in the genuine battleship. ®
On the starboard side of the ship is shown the torpedo protection net, stretching the entire length of the vessel. Steam launches
and cutters ride at the booms, and all the outward d apearance of a real ship of war is imitated.
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THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING: :
The main entrance to the Transportation Building consists of an immense single arch enriched to an extraordinary degree with
carvings, bas-reliefs and mural paintings; the entire teature forming a rich and beautiful, yet quiet, color climax, for it is treated in leaf
and is called the Geldzz Door. .
sue remainder of the architectural composition falls into a just relation of contrast with the highly wrought entrance, and is duly
fet and modest, though very broad in treatment. It consists of a continuous arcade with subordinated colonnade and entablature.
umerous minor entrances are from time to time pierced in the walls, and with them are grouped terraces, seats, drinking fountains
and statues.
The interior of the building is treated much after the manner of a Roman basilica, with broad nave and aisles. The roof is there-
fore in three divisions. The middle one rises much higher than the others, and its walls are pierced to form a beautiful arcaded clear-
story. The cupola, placed exactly in the center of the building and rising 165 feet above the ground, is reached by eight elevators.
These elevators of themselves naturally form a part of the Transportation exuibit, and as they also carry passengers to galleries at
various stages of height, a fine view of the interior of the building may easily be obtained. The main galleries of this building, because
&f the abundant elevator facilities, prove quite accessible to visitors.
The main building of the Transportation exhibit measures 96) feet front by 250 feet deep. From this extends westward to Stoney
Island avenue an enormous annex, covering about nine acres. This is one story only in height. In it may be seen the more bulky
exhibits, Along the central avenue or nave the visitor may see facing each other seores of locomotive enzines, highly polished, and
rendering the perspective effect of the nave both exceedingly novel and striking. Add to the effect of the exhibits the architectural
impression given by a long vista of richly ornamented colonnade, and it may easily be seen that the interior of the Transportation
Building is one of the most impressive of the Exposition.
| THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE.
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| A COLLECTION OF SIDE SFOWS
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: Arabs, Turks and Moors Found Liv-
ing as in the Orient—The Javan-
ese Village — An International
Beauty Show—The Wonderful Re-
volving Wheel—Other Exhibits.
There are many strange things at the fair
| with queer names. There is the “Midway
| Plaisance,” for instance. ‘What on earth
| does that mean?’ most people ask when they
! hear it for the first time. Whatever it may
mean elsewhere, in Chicago, says the New
York Herald, it means simp!y a collection of
side shows. The ‘Plaisance’ is an avenue
lined with buildings in which entertainments
are given, but where the ‘midway’ comes in
it is hard to guess. The name was selected
by a committee of leading citizens who
wanted to get up something high toned, or,
i as they put it, “‘nobby.” It is certainly a
| very nobby name. and no other word so well
| describes To call the thing an avenve, it
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IRISH VILLAGE AND BLARNEY CASTLE.
names are considered vulgar by many Illi-
noisgpeople, and so they borrowed a word
from the French,
This side show avenue is a mile long and it
smacks just a little bit of Coney Island. It is
operated under the eye of the fair manage-
ment and it is in the grounds, strictly speak-
ing, admission being included with a fifty
cent World's Fair ticket. It is very broad;
600 feet wide over all. Every ‘‘concession-
aire”’—more French—pays a percentage
of his receipts to the World's Fair Ways
and Means Committee. Guarantees are af-
forded that the exhibits are worth the price
of admission.
A Tower of Babel is built near the entrance
to the Plaisance. It is 400 feet high and has
a diameter at the hase of 100 feet. This
tower deviates from the plan of the original
by having a double track electrical circular
railway from the base to the top. A chime
of bells is installed at the top, from which a
good view of the ground is had.
Lord and Lady Al.erdeen have been inter-
ested in making a display of the cottage in-
dustries of Ireland. 'fowering over a row of
Irish cottages in fac-simile is a reproduction
of Donegal Castle. ‘Throughout this exhibit
there are specimens of the work of Irish
peasants and some of the people themselves.
A Kerry cow has been brought over specially to
show one of the means of livelihooa. Laces
and shawls are made and sold here. The
simple architecture of these homes, like
that of the convent of La Rabida, is a pleas-
ant relief to the eye aiter the stuzco flowers
and figures crowded oa 100 many of the
buildings.
Come with me to Cairo. It is shown by a
gtreet scene peopled with more than one hun-
dred and fitty Egyptians who were taken
from the midst of their dancing, smokingand
trading and dumped into the Windy City.
Dark brown beauties from the banks of the
Nile, who dance oriental measures, look
coquettishly upon the Yaukee, their hig eyes
winning his attention as soon as they flash
them upon him. They wear spangles, chains,
beads and gilt bands. Black slave boys wait
upon the dainty ladies, some of whom cover
their faces in the modest fashion of the East.
Arab traders, donkey boys and camel
drivers are there. While the dancers are
performing in the theatre the merchants sell
beads, turbans or shells from the Red Sea
and other curiosities, and thesnake charmers
subdue reptiles and the magicians show
their familiarity with the black art. There
are performing monkeys, too, and parrots.
It is truly a glimpse ot an Eastern city, and
here and there one gets a whiff of it.
An old priest goes up into the tower of
the mosque at daybreak and calls upon all
believers in Mohammed to pray. The people
periorm their ablutions and then bless the
prophet. When they have done this the
long-bearded merchants take their pipes and
squat in the bazaars, looking indolently at
the passers-by, while the women and chil-
dren gaze in wonder and smile knowingly at
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the ignorance of their ways betrayed by the
Americans, who are as great a show to them
as they are to the purchasers of admission
tickets.
Fanda, a gaudily dressed woman, rather
fat, is the beauty of the party, and among
them are Egyptians ‘bearing such names as
Fahima Osman, Hosma Bint, Mitwali Naba-
weih and Falmi Houri. Curiosities of divers
sorts from the museums of Cairo and Alex-
andria can be seen.
One of the old streets of Stamboul is repro-
cuced and tenanted with people from that
city and from Constantinople, who show
pretty much the same sort of entertainment
as their Egyptian neighbors. One of their
features is a fire department such as is
in rvice at the City of the Golden
Horn. The. fire pump. which has a
big capacity, is sung on poles
on the shoulders of the natives. wao trot
throuzh the streets astonishingly fast. When
they roach the fire tne water is supplied to
them by carriers. who bear leather bags that
are refilled from the wells as fast as their con-
tents are usad up.
Turkish luncheons are peddled by costumed
natives, who serve them from a tray.
A saddle belonging to the Suitan of Turkey
is placed in the Transportation Building. It
is covered with red plush and gold and is
uscd by its owner only on the most solemn
occasions, Arab horses of pure blood were
allowed by the Sultan to be exported.
A silver bed, owned by one of the sultans
of Turkey, and said to weigh two tons, is in
the collection, and a Turkish tent once be-
e Transportation exhibits naturally includes everythiirz, of whatsoever name or sort, devoted to the purposs of transportation, and
pange from a baby carriage to a mogul engine, fron: a cash conveyor to a balloon or carrier pigeon. Technically this vxnibit includes |
gverything comprised in class G of the officiel classification, The Transportation Building cost about $300,000. i
longing to a Persian Shah, and used by him
in traveling. It is made almost wholiy of
embroidered cloth,
Near the Toandalan and Alger®n section is
a Moorish palace modeled after one of the
old style temples which are found in Spain
and Northern Africa. A restaurant, accom-
modating five hundred people, in the palace
shows that the Moors are a practical race. In
the building is an immense collection of gold
coins.
An Algerian merchant who erected villages
at the three last Paris expositions has put up
a building in which are quartered a large sup-
ply of natives who maintain a bazaar, in
which are displayed precious stones, swords,
pistols with antique flint locks, daggers,
laces, brocades, cushions and table covers. In
another store are found perfumery, seragiio
pastilles, attar of roses and sweetmeats,
though these are not half as sweet as the
dreamy damsels who sell them to you. A
Bedouin camp, presided over by a real Be-
douin chief, who, of course, would cut a
throat with no compunction, is shown. Tha
dancing girls keep the hall crowded with
spectators.
Javanese, 10 the number of seventy. have
buiit a village inthe style of their country on
the Midway Plaisance. It is made of bamboo
poles, split bamboo and palm leaves and
thatched with native grasses. A screen of
split bamboo and leaves encircles the village
to keep out those who haven't paid. The
Javanese girls dance to the music of an or-
chestra and puff cigarettes. They are little
bits of creatures with black shiny hair.
In the eentre of the settlement are two big
bamboo poles with holes cut through them.
When the wind whistles through these holes
a strange melody is produced that makes the
Javans feel homesick and romantic.
With the Javanese is an old priest named
Hadji, who has a great influence over kis
flock. They are a very lazy race and get
tired of work about once a day, throwing
down their tools and saying they have had
enough. But the old priest knows his busi-
ness. Just as soon as they quit he has a vis-
ion in which it is revealed to him that if
they do not at once resume they will be de-
voured by red devils or develop horns and a
tail. Humility and paucity of clothing are
characteristic of the Javanese and both char-
acteristics have been carefully encouraged by
the Hollauders who control the island. One
of them, a real Prince named Raden Soekma-
dilaga speaks Dutch and German, but no
English. Some of the dancing girls are
quite comely. They wear their black hair in
knots and cut away the bangs from the fore-
head with a razor.
A remarkable display in the Plaisance is’
' that a fy mum have that sits on {he side of g
cart wheel and feels it revolve.
The wheel is 264 feet high and 254 feet in
diameter. It bears thirty-six passenger cars,
each larger than a railroad coach, and with a
seating capacity of sixty persons. When the
wheel is ‘‘loaded” it contains 2160 citizens.
They are carried up and then down like birds
sitting in their nest.
PART OF THE CHINESE VILLAGE,
It is steel throughout and is not unlike a bi-
cycle wheel revolving between two huge
towers. There are realiy two wheels placed on
thesame axle and 2814 feet apart, and held to-
gether by struts and ties. The cars are built
of wood and steel, upholstered and artisti-
cally finished. and each weighs 19 tons. The
great axle, it is said, is the largest piece of
steel ever forged. 1t is 33inches in diameter,
45 feet 2 inches long and weighs 56 tons.
Arranged in groups on the rods around the
crown of the wheel are 3000 incandescent
lights eof various colors, which are extin-
guished and relighted at intervals as the wheel
revolves, producing at a distance an effect
like that of huge fireworks. Six cars can be
loaded at a time from the platforms. The
wheel takes ten minutesto make a revolution,
so there is no danger of the passengers being
emptied out of their nests. The engines are
of 2000 horse power. The wheel was the in~
vention of G. W. G. Ferris, a bridge engineer
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THE WONDERFUL REVOLVING WEEEL.
that of feminine beauty. A building has
been put up and in it are instailed fifty young
women, who represent the style of fafa of va-
rious Nations and their fashions in costumes.
They were got together by a Chicago beauty
collector who spent some months in Europe
advertising for types of the different races.
Minister Lincoln when the party were in
Southampton notified them that they were
violating the Contract Labor law in coming
to America, which was not so, as Congress
exempted the World's Fair from the law.
After they arrived in Chicago all their cos-
tumes were burned in a fire that very nearly
burned them, too. All these had to be du-
plicated and the girls sit in their pavilions
and smile day after day. The management
contracted for smiles lasting six months. The
Vienna girl is a musician, and others have
accoinplishments as dancers. Rugsia, Greece,
Italy, Germany, France, England, Austria,
Bohemia, Hungaria and Chicago are equally
well represented, and there are beauties from
different parts ot the United States.
Carl Hagenbeck, a famous German animal
tamer has a building with a hall seating 5000
people, in which he gives his performances.
He domesticates the lion so that he will lie
down with the lamb, and tigers and wildcats
become so tame under his care, it is said,
that they are no more dangersous than
guinea pigs. Such animals as these he does
not coop up in their cages, but gives them
plenty of breathing space and they live to-
gether without fighting. :
Germany has a village in which the artis-
tic and mercantile tastes of her people are
combined. The Germans have put up a
model of a town of the Middle Ages, and
there are houses of the Black Forest and the
other divisions of the empire. The houses
are filled with original furniture. Dr. Ulric
Jahn, of Berlin, manages a German ethno-
logical museum.
The Ferris wheel is the real triumph of the
Midway Plaisance. It represents better than
any other exhibit the genius of American in-
vention. It looks something like the paddle
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| wheel of a steamer, multiplied, however, a
| hundredfold. Instead of the paddles it bears
| passenger cars, and when it revolves the
' passengers get something of the sensation
‘| Poland). 37,00i from England and
of Pittsburg, Penn. It is said that the cost
of construction was $400,000.
A model of St. Peter’s at Rome, which was
begun in the year 1600 and finished in 1700,
is exhibited in the Midway Plaisance by L.
de B. Spiridon. It is of carved wood, coated
with a substance in imitation of marble,
and is constructed on a scale of one-sixtieth,
This makes it about 30 feet long, 15 feet wide
and 15 feet high. It is placed in a building
of Roman style, which contains besides the
model the portraits of many of the Popes.
Then there are models of the Cathedral of
Milan, the Piombino Palace, St. Agnese
Church and the Roman Pantheon of Agrippa.
The attendants in this building are dressed
in the uniforms of the Vatican Guard.
Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, has besides
his large assortment of performing animals
an ethnological collection consisting of arms,
implements, household goods, theatrical
goods and utensils. Of these 490 numbers
come from=Africa, 373 from New Caledonia,
40 from New Guinea, 406 from Islands of the
South Seas, 823 from British Columbia, 80
from Greenland and 128 from Ceylon, mak-
ing a total of 2340. There is also an artifi-
cial aquarium forty feet long, showing
fish, corals, gorgomas, etc., from the
Indian. Ocean, and a number of hunt-
ing trophies, skulls, horns and skins. The
trained animals are a group of six lions, two
tigers, two leopards, one sloth bear, one Thi-
bet bear, six large boarhounds and one polar
bear, all trained at one time in the great
arena cage, and a group of three tigers, twa
lions, three panthers, goats, sheep, bulls,
onies and dogs, flve lions and two hoar-
ounds performing ; six male lions; a lion
riding on horseback, and a lion riding on
horseback, trained with a large bearhound.
There are a number of other features such as
a collection of two thousand parrots and two
hundred monkeys.
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THE TIDEOFIMMIGRATION.
A Falling Off Shown by the Bureau of
Statistics.
ports that during the 10 months ending
April 30, 1893, 453,958 immigrants arrived at
the ports of the United States. Of this
number 96,679 came from Germany, 69.519
from Russia (except Poland). 43,823 from
Italy, 38,031 from Sweden and Norway, 40,-
902 from England and Wales, and 34,055
from Ireland. The number arrived during
the 10 months ended April 30, 1893, was
334,825, of which 72,167 came from Ger-
many, 44,589 from Italy, 35,196 from swed-
en and Norway, 22.116 from Russia (except
Wales.
and 32,095 from Ireland.
CURFEW RINGS AGAIN,
And All Canadian Children Must be
Housed by 8 O’clock.
The old custom of ringing the curfew in
the evening has been revived in all the vil-
lages and towns throughout Canada. An
act passed at the last session of the Domin-
ion parliament provides that at 9 o'ciock
the curfew shall be rung, and if any person
streets they shall be locked up. Unless a
satisfactory explanation can be given the
parents must suffer either by confinement
in jail, fine or by sending the children to
some public institution where they wiil be
taken care of until the authorities see fit to
let them out. The act is meeting with favor
throughout Canada.
A Noted Elocutionist Dead.
James E. Murray, the noted elocutionist;
died at Cincinnati, O., on Friday.
The chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
under 17 vears of age are found on the
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