m K^ ■on LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. ] Cjfap. 1 S Cojtijrirj^ l^a Shell £.1 W 3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. V V^ern)an's • Illustrated • J^Ibtin) • of • % • grid's • (otoiobfei) • ^xpositioi). ■. i< THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. Delight I ul I v l'" ited ii' mi the lake shore, south of the m. tin lagoon and of the area reserved (or the Foreign Nations and the several States, and cast of the Woman's Building and of Midway Plaisance, is the Government Exhibit Build- ing. The buildings of England, Germany and Mexico are near by to the north- ward. The Government Building was designed by Architect W'indrim, now succeeded by W. J. Edbrooke. It is classic in style, and bears a strong resem- blance to the National Museum and other government buildings at Washington. It covers an area of 350 by 420 feet, is constructed of iron, brick and glass, and cost $400,000. Its leading architectural feature is a central octagonal dome 120 feet in diameter and 150 feet high, the floor of which will be kept free from exhibits. The building fronts to the west, and connects on the north by a bridge over the lagoon, with the building of the Fisheries exhibit. » The south half of the Government Building is devoted to the exhibits of the Post-Office Department, Treasury Department, War Department, and Depart- ment of Agriculture. The north half is devoted to the exhibits of the Fisheries Commission, Smithsonian Institute, and Interior Department. The State Department exhibit extends from the rotunda to the east end, and that of the Department of Justice from the rotunda to the west end of the building. The allotment of space for the several department exhibits is: War Department, 23,000 square feet; Treasury, 10,500 square feet; Agriculture, 23,250 square feet; Interior, 24,000 square feet; Post Office, 0,000 square feet; Fishery, 20,000 square feet, and Smithsonian Institute, balance of space. The Treasury Department exhibit is in charge of Assistant Secretary Nettle- ton. He matured the plans whereby the Mint, the Coast, and the Geodetic Survey, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Bureau of Statistics, the Life-Saving Board, the Light-House Board, and the Marine Hospital all have made exhibits. The authorities of the Mint show not only a complete group of the coins made by the United States, but a large number of the coins of foreign countries. The Supervising Architect of the Treasury shows a number of photographs of all the public buildings of the Capital. These include not only the buildings, but also the parks and reservations. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing shows many new bills under framing. These include a sample of every bill of every denomination that the United States Government now authorizes as money. A Life-Saving Station is built and equipped with every appliance, and a regular crew goes through all life-saving manoeuvres. Perhaps the most interesting exhibit of the whole Treasury Department is that by the Coast Survey. It includes a huge map of the United States, about 400 feet square, or about the size of a block of city property. This is accurately constructed of plaster of paris, and is placed horizontally on the Exposition grounds with a huge covering erected over it, with galleries and pathways on the inside to allow the visitors to "walkover the whole United States" without touching it. This model is built on a scale showing the exact height of mount- ains, the depth of the rivers, and the curvature of the earth. The Quartermaster's Department shows lay-figure officers and men of all grades in the army, mounted and on foot, fully equipped in the uniform of their rank and service. Aside from these there are nineteen figures, showing the uniforms worn during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and thirty-one figures showing the uniforms in the Mexican War. A novel exhibit is that of a telephone as used on the battle-field. The heliograph, which practically annihilates dis- tance in the matter of talking, is shown in full operation. AH means of army telegraphing and signaling with the batteries, lines, cables, bombs, torches, and so forth, are shown with great elaborateness. Captain Whipple of the Ordnance Department, developed the plan for an exhibit of huge guns and explosives. At certain hours of the day there are regular battery drills and loading and firing of pieces. Many of the guns used are the finest of their kind in the world. The exhibit of the Medical Bureau occupies a hospital built especially for its use, operated by a corps of hospital nurses and doctors. VJ ,^ ( c^a, ' U. S. GOVERNMENT TfiE MACHINERY HALL. Machinery Hall, of which Peabody * ; St = .«"£>£%£££% has been P^^JJ^^^S^T^fl^ measures 8 5 ox,oo ,„ £ss ; z rr -— ;-j- tss crs-isa ing alone exceeding it in size. #4ij MACHINERY. t: THE fif\LL OF MINES fVND MINING. Located at the southern extremity of the western lagoon or lake, and between the Electricity and Transportation Buildings, is the Mines and Mining Building. The architect of this building, which is 700 feet long by 350 wide, is S. S. Beman, of Chicago. Its architecture has its inspiration in early Italian renaissance, with which sufficient liberty is taken to invest the building with the animation that should characterize a great general Exposition. There is a decided French spirit ling the exterior design, but it is kept well subordinated. In plan it is simple and straightforward, embracing on the ground floor spacious vestibules, restaurants, toilet rooms, etc. On each of the four sides of the building are placed the entrances, those of the north and south fronts being the most spacious and prominent. To the right and left of each entrance, inside, start broad flights of easy stairs leading to the galleries. The galleries are 60 feet wide and 2'- feet high from the ground floor, and are lighted on the sides by large windows, and from above by a high clearstory extending around the building. The main fronts look southward on the great Central Court, and northward on the western and middle lakes, and an island gorgeous with flowers. These principal fronts display enormous arched entrances, richly embellished with sculptural decorations, emblematic of Mining and its allied industries. At each end of these fronts are large square pavilions, surmounted by low domes, which mark the four corners of the building, and are lighted by large arched windows extending through the galleries. Between the main entrance and the pavilions are richly decorated arcades, forming an open loggia on the ground floor, and a deeply recessed promenade on the gallery floor level, which commands a fine view of the lakes and islands to the northward, and the great Central Court on the south. These covered prom- enades are each 25 feet wide and 230 feet long, and from them is had access to the building at numerous points. These loggias on the first floor are faced with marbles of different kinds and hues, which will be considered part of the Mining exhibit, and so utilized as to have marketable value at the close of the Exposi- tion. The loggia ceilings will be heavily coffered, and richly decorated in plaster and color. The ornamentation is massed at the prominent points of the facade. The exterior presents a massive, though graceful appearance. The main fronts are 65 feet high from ground to top of cornice, and the main central entrances are 90 feet to apex of pediment. The long sides of the building are treated in a simpler manner than the main fronts; large segmental windows extend through the galleries and are placed between the broad piers, affording an abundance of light to the space beneath the galleries. The two-storied portion of the building, of which the gallery forms the upper part, extends entirely around the structure and is 60 feet wide. The great interior space thus inclosed is one story high, bjo feet long and 230 feet wide, with an extreme height of 100 feet at center and 47 feet at sides, and is spanned by steel cantilever roof trusses supported on steel columns placed 65 feet apart longitudinally, and 115 feet and 57 feet 6 inches transversely, thus leav- ing clear space in center of building 630 feet long and 115 feet wide, with two side divisions, each 57 feet 6 inches wide and 630 feet long, leaving the central space encumbered with only sixteen supporting steel posts. The cantilevers are of pin connection to facilitate erection. The inner and higher ends of the cantilevers are 46 feet apart and the space between them is spanned by riveted steel trusses with an elliptical chord. These trusses are designed so as to form a clearstory 12 feet high, with vertical sash extending the entire length of central space— 030 feet; this space terminating it eai !i end with a great glass gable setting back 60 feet from front ends of build- ing. The wide spacings of the cantilever necessitated an extensive system of longitudinal perlines of the riveted lattice type A great portion of the roof is covered with gla>s. It may be of interest to state that the cantilever system as applied to roofs has not been used heretofore on so large a scale. The exterior of this building, like that of all the others, will be made of "staff," similarto that usedin facingthe recent Paris Exposition buildings. The cost of the Mines Building is S2bo,ooo. -\- THE ART PfVLflCE. Grecian-Ionic in style, the Fine Arts Building is a pure type of the most refined classic architecture. The building is oblong, and is 500x320 feet, inter- sected north, east, South and west by a great nave and transept 100 feet wide and 70 feet high, at the intersection of which is a great dome 60 feet in diameter. The building is 12; feet to the top of the dome, which is surmounted by a colossal st.ituj of the type of famous figures of Winged Victory. The transept has a clear spaee through the center of 60 feet, being lighted entirely from above. On either side are galleries 20 feet wide and 24 feet above the floor. The col- lections of the sculpture are displayed on the main floor of the nave and transept, and on the walls both of the ground floor and of the galleries are ample areas for displaying the paintings and sculptured panels in relief. The corners made by the crossing of the nave and transept are filled with small picture galleries. Around the entire building are galleries 40 feet wide, forming a continuous promenade around the classic structure. Between the promenade and the naves are the smaller rooms devoted to private collections of paintings and the collec- tions of the various art schools. On either side of the main building, and con- nected with it by handsome corridors, are very large annexes which are also utilized by various art exhibits. The main building is entered by four great portals, richly ornamented with architectural sculpture, and approached by broad flights of steps. The walls of the loggia of the colonnades are highly decorated with mural paintings, illustrat- ing the history and progress of the arts. The trie/e of tin- exterioi walls and the pediments of the principal entrances are ornamented with sculptures and por- traits in bas relief of the masters of ancient art. The general tone or color is light-gray stone. The construction, although of a temporary character, is necessarily tire-proof. The main walls are of solid brick, covered with "staff," architecturally orna- mented, while the roof, floors and galleries are of iron. All light is supplied through glass sky-lights in iron frames. The building is located beautifully in the northern portion of the park, with the south front facing the lagoon. It is separated from the lagoon by beautiful terraces, ornamented with balustrades, with an immense flight of steps leading down from the main portal to the lagoon, where there is a landing for boats. The north front faces the wide lawn and the group of State buildings. The immediate neighborhood of the building is ornamented with groups of statues, replica orna- ments of classic art, such as the Choriagic monument, the " Cave of the Winds," and other beautiful examples of Grecian art. The ornamentation also includes statues of heroic and life-size proportions. This building cost between $500,000 and Jooo.ooo. The Art Palace was planned in the Exposition's Construction Bureau, under the eye of Chief of Construction D. II. Bumham, and the details worked out by Chief Designer P. B. Atwood. The outline pi. m was kit l>\ the late 1 onsulting an hitei t, ( ieorge W. Root. THE FISHERIES BUILDING. Om -I the most artistic ol the Exposition palaces is the Fisheries Building, which I irge central structure with two smaller polygonal buildings connected with it on either end by arcades. The extreme length of the building is 1,100 feet, and the width 200 feet. It is beautifully located to the northward of the United States Government Building. In the central portion is the general Fisheries exhibit. In one of the polyg- onabybuildings is the Angling exhibit, and in the other the Aquaria. The exterior of the building is Spanish-Romanesque, which contrasts agreeably in appearance with that of the other buildings. To the close observer the exterior of the building cannot fail to be exceed- inglv interesting, for the architect, Henry Ives Cobb, exerted all his ingenuity in arranging innumerable forms of capitals, modillions, brackets, cornices and other ornamental details, using only fish and other sea forms for his motif of design. The roof of the building is of old Spanish tile, and the side walls of pleasing color. The cost was about 5200,000. The Fish exhibit is a wonderful one. and not the least interesting portion of it is the Aquarial or Live Fish display. This is approached through one of the arcades from the main building. In the center of the polygonal building is a rotunda 60 feet in diameter, in the middle of which is a basin or pool 26 feet wide, from which rises a towering mass of rocks covered with moss and lichens. From clefts and crevices in the rocks, crystal streams of water gush and drop to the masses of reeds, rushes and orna- mental semi-aquatic plants in the basin below. In this pool gorgeous gold fishes, golden ides, golden tench, and other fishes disport. From the rotunda one side of the larger series of Aquaria may be viewed. These arc ten in number, and have a capacity of 7,000 to 27,000 gallons of water each. Passing out of the rotunda, a great corridor or arcade is reached, where on one hand can be viewed the opposite side of the series of great tanks, and on the other a line of tanks so-iewhat smaller, ranging from 750 to 1,300 gallons each in capacity. The corridor or arcade is about 15 feet wide. The glass fronts of the Aquaria are in length about 57; feet and have 3,oco square feet of surface. They make a panorama never before seen in any exhibition, and rival the great permanent aquariums of the world not only in size but in all other respects. The total water capacity of the Aquaria, exclusive of reservoirs, is iS,72v cubic feet, or 140,000 gallons. This weighs 1,192,42; pounds, or almost 600 tons. Of this amount about 40,000 gallons is devoted to the Marine exhibit. In the entire salt-water circulation, including reservoirs, there are about So.ooo gallons. The pumping and distributing plant for the Marine Aquaria is constructed of vulcanite. The pumps are in duplicate and each has a capacity of 3,000 gallons per hour. The supply of sea water was secured by evaporating the necessary quantity at the Woods Iloll station of the United States Fish Commission to about one-fifth its bulk, thus reducing both quantity and weight for transporta- tion about 80 per cent. The fresh water required to restore it to its proper den- sity was supplied from Lake Michigan. In transporting the marine fishes to Chicago from the coast there was an addition of probably 3,000 gallons of pure sea water to the supply on each trip. Every visitor will take a deep interest in the Fisheries exhibit. FISHERIES. THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. Forming the northern architectural Court of the Exposition is a group of edifices of which the Transportation Building is one. It is situated at the southern end of the west flank and lies between the Horticultural and the Mines Buildings. Facing eastward, it commands a view of the floral island and an extensive branch of the lagoon. . The Transportation Building is exquisitely refined and simple in architectural treatment, although it is very rich and elaborate in detail. In style it savors much of the Romanesque, although to the initiated the manner in which it is designed on axial lines and the solicitude shown for fine proportions, and subtle relation of parts to each other, will at once suggest the methods of composition followed at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Viewed from the lagoon, the cupola of the Transportation Building forms the effective southwest accent of the quadrangle, while from the cupola itself, reached by eight elevators, the Northern Court, the most beautiful effect of the entire Exposition, may be seen in all its glory. The main entrance to the Transportation Building consists of an immense single-arch enriched to an extraordinary degree with carvings, bas rel.efs and mural paintings, the entire feature forming a rich and beautiful, yet quiet, color climax, for it is treated in leaf and is called the golden door. The remainder of the architectural composition falls into a just relation of contrast with the highly wrought entrance, and is duly quiet and modest, though very broad in treatment. It consists of a continuous arcade with subordinated colonnade and entablature. Numerous minor entrances are from time to time pierced in the walls, and with them are grouped terraces, seats, drinking fount- iiris and statues. The interior of the building is treated much after the manner of a Roman basili, a, with broad nave and aisles. The roof is therefore in three divisions; the middle one rises much higher than the others, and its wa Is are pierced to form a beautiful arcaded clearstory. The cupola, placed exactly in the center ot the building and rising .6; feet above the ground, is reached by eigh elevators. These elevators of themselves naturally form a part of the Transportation exhibit. and as the, als rj passengers to galleries at various stages of height a hm- view of the interior of the building mav easily be obtained. The main galleries of this building, because of the adundant elevator facilities, prove quite accessible " "xhe main building of the Transportation exhibit measures 960 feet front by 2 sO feet deep From this extends westward to Stony Island Avenue an enormous annex, covering about nine acres. This is one story only in height Ini maybe seen the more bulky exhibits. Along the central avenue or nave the visitoi . nav e faringeach other scores of locomotive engines, highly polished am, render- ng the perspective effect of the nave both exceedingly novel and staking. 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 Transportation exhibits naturally include everything of whatsoever name or sort devoted to the purpose of transportation and range from a baby carriage to a mogul engine, from a cash conveyor to a ball oonora «™« P^j Technically, this exhibit includes everything comprised in class (, o tic of. , lassification. The Transportation Building cost about $300,000. Adler & Sull. van, of Chicago, are the architects. TRANSPORTATION. TM& MANUFCTURE6 AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. Notable for its symmetrical proportions, the Manufactures and Liberal Art- Building is the mammoth structure of the Exposition. It incisures 1,687x787 feet and covers nearly 31 acres, being the largest exposition building everconstrui ted. Within the building a gallery 50 feet wide extends around all four sides, and pro- jecting from this are eighty-six smaller galleries. 12 feet wide, from which visitors may survey the vast array of exhibits and the busy scene below. The galleries are approached upon the main floor by thirty great staircases, the flights of which are 12 feet wide each. "Columbia Avenue." -o feet wide, extend- through the mammoth building longitudinally, and an avenue of like width crosses it at right angles at the center. The main roof is of iron and glass and arches an area 385s 1,400 feet and has its ridge 150 feet from the ground. The building, including its galleries, has about 40 acres of floor space. The Liberal Arts Building is in the Corinthian style of architecture, and in point of being severely classic, excels nearly all of the other edifices. The long array of columns and arches, which its facades present, is relieved from monotony by very elaborate ornamentation. In this ornamentation female figures, symboli- cal of the various arts and sciences, play a conspicuous anil very attractive part. Designs showing in relief the seals of the different States of the Union and of various foreign nations also appear in the ornamentation. These, of course, are gigantic in their proportions. The Agricultural Building, perhaps, is the only one which has a more elaborately ornamental exterior than has this colossal structure. The exterior of the building is covered with '•staff," which is treated to rep- resent marble. The huge fluted 1 olumns and the immense arches arc apparently 1 1 autiful material There are four great entrances, one in the center of each facade. These are designed in the manner of triumphal arches, the central archway of each being 40 feet wide and So feet high. Surmounting these portals is the great attic story ornamented with sculptured eagles 18 feet high, and oh each side above the side arches are great panels with inscriptions, and the spandrils are filled with sculpt- ured figures in bas relief. At each corner of the main building are pavilion- forming great arched entrances, which are designed in harmony with the great portals. The interior- of these pavilion- are richly decorated with sculpture and rural paintings. The long facades of the great hall surrounding the building are composed of a series of arches filled with immense glass windows. The lower Portion of tins, arches tip to the level ot the gallery rioor and 2; feet in depth, is opi n to the outside, thus forming a covered loggia, which forms an open prom- enade for the public, and will provide a very interesting feature, particularly on the east side, where it face- the lake. It 1- intended to locate here a number of cafes, where the great crowds can loiter at their ease and enjoy the breezes and cool shadow- ot the afternoon. The architect of this gigantic building. George B. Post, of New York, has been remarkably successful in giving architectural symmetry and effectiveni the immense proportions with which he had to deal, and his work stands as one of the marvel- of the Exposition. The building occupies a most conspicuous place on the grounds. It faces the lake, with only lawns and promenades between. North of it is the United State- Government Building, south the harbor and in-jutting lagoon, and west the Elec- trical Building and the lagoon separating it from the great island which in part is « led and in part resplendent with acre- of bright flowers ol varied hues. MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS. THE ELECTRICAL BUILDING. The Electrical Building, the scat of perhaps the most novel and brilliant exhibit in the whole Exposition, is U : feet wide and 700 feet long, the major axis running north and south. I he south front is on the great Quadrangle or Court; the north front laces the lagoon; the east front is opposite the Manufacture- Building, and the west faces the Mines Building. The general scheme of the plan is based upon a longitudinal nave 11- feel wide and 114 feet high, crossed in the middle by a transept of the same width and height. The nave and the transept have a pitched roof, with a range of skylights at the bottom of the pitch, and clearstory window-. The rest of the building is covered with a flat roof, averaging 62 feet in height, and provided with skylights. The second story is composed of a series of galleries connected across the nave by two bridges, with ac cess by four grand staircases. The area of the galleries in the second story is 118.-46 square feet, or 2.7 acres. The exterior walls of this building are composed of a continuous Corinthian order of pilasters, 3 feet 6 inches wide and 42 feet high, supporting a full entabla- ture, and resting upon a stylobate 8 feet 6 inches. The total height of the walls from the grade outside is 68 feet 6 inches. The north pavilion is placed between the two great apsidal or semicircular projections of the building; it is flanked by two towers 195 feet high. The cen- tral feature is a great semicircular window, above which, 102 feet from the ground, is a colonnade forming an open loggia or gallery, commanding a view over the lagoon and all the north portion of the grounds. The east and west central pavilions are composed of two towers 168 feet high. In front of these two pavilions there is a great portico composed of the Corinthian order, with full columns. The south pavilion is a hemicycle or niche 78 feet in diameter and 103 feet high. The opening of the niche is framed by a semicircular arch, which is crowned by a gable or pediment, with smaller gables on the returns, and sur- mounted by an attic, the whole reaching the height of 142 feet. In the centei oi this niche, upon a lofty pedestal, is a colossal statue of Franklin, whose illustrious name intimately connect- the early history of the Republic with one of the most important discoveries in the phenomena of electricity. \i each of the lour corners of the building there is a pavilion, above which rises a light open spire or tower. [60, feet high. Intermediate between these corner |.,i\ limns and the central pavilions on the east and west sides, there is a subordi- nate pavilion bearing a low square dome upon an open lantern. There are thus ten spires and four domes. The entablature of the great Corinthian order breaks amund each of the pilasters of the four fronts, and above each pilaster in the Attic order is a pedestal bearing a lofty mast for the display of banners by day and electric lights by night. Of these masts there are in all fifty-four. The first story of the building is indicated in these facades between the great pilasters of the Corinthian order, by a subordinate Ionic order, with full columns and pilasters, forming an open screen in front of the windows. The Electricity Building has an open portico extending along the whole of the south facade, the lower or Ionic order forming an open screen in front of it. The various subordinate pavilions are treated with windows and balconies. The details of the exterior orders are richly decorated, and the pediments, friezes, panels and spandrils have received a decoration of figures in relief, with architect- ural motifs, the general tendency of which is to illustrate the purposes of the building. The appearance of the exterior is that of marble, but the walls of the hemi- cycle and of the various porticoes and loggia are highly enriched with color, the pilasters in these places being decorated with scagliola, and the capitals with metallic effects in bronze. In the design of this building, it was proposed by the architects to so devise its details and general outlines, that they might be capable of providing an electric illumination by night on a scale hitherto unknown, the flag-staffs, the open por- ticoes, and the towers, especially, being arranged with this in view. Van Brunt & Howe, of Kansas City, are the architects. The cost is $375,000. It was proposed that the hemicycle or niche, which forms the south porch, should have either a great chandelier or crown of lights suspended from the renter of the half dome, or should be provided with electric lights masked behind the triumphal arch which forms the opening of the niche. piiil M^SijI i& ^S^S, ^ jmEc ELECTRICITY cammmBinnaEi TfiB WOMAN'S BUILDING. Encompassed by luxuriant shrubs and beds of fragrant flowers, like a white silhouettrSst a background of old and stately oaks, is seen the Woman s BuHdTn^sSd in the northwestern part of the park, separated by a .generous distance from the Horticultural Building on the one side and the Illinois State lu dmg on the other, and facing the great lagoon with *£™^™^>£ vista. A more beautiful site could not have been selected for this daintily kM \mongfgr n e g at number of sketches submitted in competition for this building by women from all over the land, it did not take the President of the Board of Lady, Managers, Mrs. Potter Palmer, long, with her exquisite tu-n t,, decide upon her choice.' She quickly discovered in the sketch submitted by M.ss .Soph a G Havden that harmony of grouping and gracefulness of details which indicate the archfrectural scholar and to her was awarded the first prize of a thousand dollars, and also the execution of the design. The second and third prizes were riven respectively to Miss Lois L. Howe, of Boston, and Miss Laura Hayes, of Chicago, both fully deserving the honors conferred upon them. _ Miss Hayden.who was a pupil in the architectural class in the School of Technology, in Boston, and graduated with high honors immediately went to Chicago, and personally made the plans an 1 elevation for the building DUectly in front of the building the lagoon takes the form of a bay, about ,00 feet n width From the center of this bay a grand landing and staircase tods to a terrace six ieet above the water. Crossing this terrace other staircases Sveaccesfto the ground, four feet above, on which, about .00 feet back the buikW is situated The first terrace is designed in artistic flowerbeds and low shrubs forming, together with the creamy-white balustrades rising from the water-sedge and also in front of the second terrace, a charming foreground for he fine edifice The principal facade has an extreme length of 400 feet, the depth of 'he ouilding being half this distance. Italian renaissance is the style selected. Its delicacy of lines is well adapted to represent this temple for the fair The main grouping consists of a center pavilion flanked at each end with corner pSn^s connected in the first S tor 5 by open arcade, m the curtains, forming a shady promenade the whole length of the structure. The first story is raised I bout ten feet from the ground line, and a wide staircase leads to the cen- ter pavilion. This pavilion, forming the ...am triple-arched entrance with an open colonnade in the second story, is finished with a low and beautifuUy pro- portioned pediment enriched with a highly elaborate bas rel.e Tl c ,ncr pavilions, being like the rest of the building, two stones high, w.th a total eleva- tion of 60 feet, have each an open colonnade added above the main cornice. Here are located the Hanging Gardens, and also the committee-rooms of the Board of Lady Managers. \ lobby 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 court-yard effect admitting abundance of light to all rooms facing this .ntenor space. On the first floor, on each side of the main entrance, and occupying the entire space of cur- tains, are located, on the left hand, a model hospital; on the right, a model kin- dergarten, each occupying Soxoo feet. The whole floor of the south pavilion is devoted to the retrospective exhibit; the one on the north to reform work and charity organization Each of these floors is 80x200 feet. The curtain opposite the mam front contains the Libra. >, Bureau of Information, Records, etc. In the second storv. above the main entrance and curtains, are located ladies parlors, committee-rooms and dressing-rooms, all leading to the open balcony m front, and commanding a splendid panorama of almost tenure ground, rhe whole second floor of the north pavilion incloses the great assembly-room and dub-room The first of these is provided with an elevated stage for the accom- odation of speakers. The south pavilion contains the model k.tchen, refresh- ment rooms, reception rooms, etc. The building!, encased with -staff,- the same material used on .the .rest of the buildings, and as it stands with its mellow, decorated walls bathed in the I,, i g h1 sunshine, the women ol the i ountry are |ustlj proud ol the result. WOMAN'S EXHIBIT TttB HORTICULTURAL BUILDING. Immediately south of the entrance to Jackson Park from the Midway Plais- ance. and facing east on the lagoon, is the Horticultural Building. In front is a flo\v t* s -a a tin mnu» Of jr^t,/TA 6691 "Til 'OOVOIHO '3nN3AV NOSMOVP 0NV.L11M18 HAV6 ,c n| 'oo\=£oiw>0 '6* S,NVIAm 3 XVA\ ^ V V ,v iLiu^* 1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 019 713 568 2