50O iHiiiiiH!!';!;;- it' ■ [ill!; li|!;| ii : mi- \'\\\ ""^m liili: .< '^rS.. . ,s^% °.W^^ ^^:^^'^ / ^?^V' ,-7JS \ - r ^^\ ^."^QWS '^'"^ '^' -0^ ^^ A\^ > .0 o. CO :^ 7-,, , ^-y^ V^ o X- -^ .■^ <^^ *^.cC^^^:^^^ % ,V^' \0 o. %, '"^^-^ xOo. ..SV -oc^ ^ A\ ; "o 0^ '■ .^^W/. '■^1 THE BEST THINGS TO BE SEEN AT THE WORLD'S FAIR PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE EXPOSITION MANAGEMENT. COMPILED BY JOHN J. FLINN. ILLUSTRATED ^ Price 50 Cents CHICAGO THE COLUMBIAN GUIDE COMPANY ADMINISTRATION BUII.DING WORIvD'S COIvUMBIAN EXPOSITION 0-b COFYHaGHTK© BY world's COLUMBIAN ESPOS11CO« Tg. HE AIM OF THE COMPIIyER has been to point K out to the visitor the best things to be seen at the ^ "World's Columbian Exposition, and this includes K everything- that is remarkably beautiful, wonderful or curious. Hints are given here which, if followed, will assist the visitor in his efforts to see the greatest attractions of the fair without loss of time. It is presumed that many thousands of people will visit the fair who have at their command but a few hours or a few days. They cannot see everything. They will want to know where to find the things that are likely to be longest remembered and most talked of after the Exposition shall have passed away. One might spend a week in the great Manufactures building alone, and still come away without seeing many of the beautiful or the wonderful things displayed there. One might spend a month inside the Exposition and still discover that he had failed to see some of its greatest attractions. Midway Plaisance itself is so crowded with exhibits of an amazing, inter- esting and pleasing character, that some of them must necessarily be passed over by the visitor. In order that in hurrying through the Exposi- tion and Midway Plaisance the visitor may not miss the very things it is most important that he should see, the hints in this book are given, and this is the excuse for its publication. I desire to give credit and thanks to T/te Chicago Graphic for the use of the originals of many of the sculptural sketches used in this work. The Graphic has done as much as any other American publica- tion toward presenting to the public the unparalleled artistic features of the Fair. And I am equally indebted to the reporters of Chicago newspapers for valuable information and much matter of a discrip- tive character. John J. Funn. June, 1893. GENERAL INDEX. GENERAL INDEX. [See map of grounds and buildings; also map of Hidway Plalsance and matter relating to special fees within and outside of Exposition enclosure, in front of book.] PAGE Administration building 47 Administration building, dome 29 Administration building, sculpture 29 Adornment, etc ^3 Agriculture, palace of 4 Agricultural building, decoration 3' Agricultural building, sculpture 3° Agricultural department 4 Agricultural department, best things m -48-54 Algerian exhibit Anthropology, department of Arkansas building • Art building, decoration Art building, sculpture Art department Austrian building Austrian village Auxiliary buildings, etc B Balloon ascension Bernese Alps cyclorama . ... Best views of the exposition. Blarney castle. : Brazilian building Buildings, the great Bureau of public comfort 181 Cairo, street in • California building H? Canadian building ..' '39 Casino pier 123 Casino, the 123 Ceylon building '39 Children's building 125 Chinese village i<58 Choral hall 224 Cocoa exhibit 13' Cold storage warehouse 133 Colorado building 148 Columbia fountain 40 Columbian guards 24 Columbus statue 42 Columbus statue, lake front 42 Columbus quadriga 37^39 Connecticut building 148 Cost of exposition II Costa Rica building 139 Court of Honor , 39 PAGE Dahomey amazons 168 Dairy building S3 Delaware building 14^ Departmental exhibits 47 Dutch settlement 169 E Egyptian village I7S Eiffel tower 169 Electric buoys i34 Electric illumination '3- >4 Electric launches IS Electric search lights 15 Electricity, palace of 60 Electricity building, decoration 33 Electricity building, sculpture 33 Electricity department 60 Electricity department, best things in... .60-62 Engines of the exposition 20 English building 139 Eskimo village 129 Ethnological department 63 Ethnological department, best things in..63-7i Exposition from the lake 18 F Federal exhibits, palace of 107 Ferris Wheel 170 Festival hall 124 Fine arts, palace of 54 Fine arts department, best things in S4-S9 Fish and Fisheries department 73 Fish and Fisheries departm't, best things in 72-74 Fisheries, palace of 72 Fisheries building, decoration 33 Flags and decorations 13 Florida building 149 Foreign headquarters 139 Forestry, palace of 74 Forestry department 74 Fort Dearborn 129 " Forward," statue of 43 French bu ilding 140 French cider press 171 French colonial exhibit 130 German building. German chimes . . , German village . . Geyser exhibit..., ... 140 .... 23 ... 171 ••• 133 JENEKAL INBEX. PAGE "Golden Door ' 43 Golden Door cafe 131 Gondolas and gondoliers 16 Government building, dome 33 Grant relics 135 Great White Horse inn 132 Grounds, ^vaterways, etc 11 Guatemalian building- ^ 142 H Hagenbeck menagerie 173 Harbor for yachts 23 Haytian building 143 "Hiawatha," statue of 43 Horticulture, palace of 75 Horticultural building, sculpture 34 Horticultural department 75 Horticultural department, best things in. 75-78 Hunter's camp 128 I Idaho building 149 Illinois aquaria 134 Illinois building 150 Illinois building, sculpture 34 Illumination of the grounds 14 India tea house 130 Indiana building 151 Interior illumination 13 Intramural railway 17 Iowa building 151 Irish village 16S-173 J Jackson park 11 Japanese hooden 127 Japanese tea houses 132 Japanese village 174 Javanese village 174 K Kansas building 152 Kentucky building 152 Kilauea volcano panorama 175 Krupp gun exhibit 136 L Libbey glass exhibit 175 I.iberal arts department 93 Liberal arts department, best things in. .. 93 Liberty bell 135 Lincoln relics 135 Live stock pavilion 52 I^ogging camp 129 Lowney pavilion 130 n Machinery department 78 Machinery department, best things in. . .78-82 Machinery hall, sculpture 35 MacMonnie's fountain 40 PAGE Maine building 153 Manitoba exhibit .. 131 Manufactures, palace of 83 Manufactures and Liberal Arts depart- ment S3 Manufactures building, domes 35 Manufactures department, best things in. 83-94 Maryland building 153 Massachusetts building 153 Mechanic Arts, palace of 78 Merchant Tailors building 133 Michigan building 155 Midway plaisance 167 Mines and Mining, palace of 95 Mines and Mining department 95 Mines and Mining departm't, best things in 95-98 Mines building, sculpture 36 Minnesota building 155 Missouri building 154 Model hospital 132 Montana building 156 Montana fountain 134 Moorish palace , 175 Movable sidewalk 133 Music hall 124 Music hall and casino, sculpture 36 Mummi-^s 134 N Nebraska building 156 New England clam bake 129 Ne\v Hampshire building 156 New Jersey building ijg New South Wales building 143 New York building, 157 Nicaragua building 143 North Dakota building 157 North Pole skating rink 177 Norwegian building 143 o Obelisk 19 Ohio building 158 Ohio monument 44 Old Vienna 179 P Pennsylvania building 158 Peristyle 37 Police station 133 Puck building 129 Q Quadriga, the Columbus 37 R "Republic," statue of 39 Reynolds' Corliss engine 20 Rhode Island building 159 Rose island 12 GENERAL INDEX. s PAGE Sculpture on bridges 44 Sculpture and painting 28 Shoe and leather building 127 Siam building 144 Silver building 13J Site o€ exposition 11 South Dakota building :6o Spanish building 144 Spectatorium 129 Staff and its composition 21 State buildings, best things in 147-164 State headquarters and displays 147 " Still Hunt, " the 43 Street in Cairo 1 8j St. Gauden's pillars 42 St. Peter's model 179 Sunday School building 128 Swedish building 143 T Territorial building 160 Texas building 161 Transportation, palace of 99 Transportation building, sculpture 36 Transportation department 99 Transportation department, best things in 99-106 Tunisian pavilion 130 PAGE Turkish building 14^ Turkish theater iSo Turkish village 182 U U. S. Government department 107 U. S. Government department, best things ill 107- 1 12 V Venezuelan building 144 Venice Murano exhibit 182 Vermont building 162 Victory statue 42 Virginia building 162 w Walk, shrubbery, etc 21 Washington building , . 163 Wisconsin building 164 Wisconsin cranberry patch 182 Woman's building, decoration 37 Woman's building, sculpture 37 Woman's corn kitchen 134 Woman's department 113 Woman's department, best things in.. 113-120 Woman's exhibits, palace of. 113 Wooded island , ....^2: Z Zoopraxographical hall 183 ILLUSTRATIONS. This volume is embeliisticd witii illustrations showing the principaS buildin$:e and attractions of the Exposition proper, and of Midway Plaisance. The illustra^ tions, as a rule, accompany reading matter to which they are related. PALACE OF ADMINISTRATION. Grounds, Waterways, Etc. NE OF THE MOST STRIKING and beautiful fea- tures of the Exposition is the landscape garden- ing-, which embraces the roadways, terraces, waterways, bridges, islands, landings and general ornamental work. This feature sets off to great advantage the magnificent palaces which rise on every side. The visitor will be as much interested in the exterior as in the interior views of the World's Fair. The roadways, as well as the ter- races and terrace walls, are exhibibts in them- selves, and are intended to introduce new methods to the attention of the public. (See "Walks, Shrubbery, Etc.," and "Staff and Its Composition." RIGHT GROUP OF COLUMBIA FOUNTAIN. Jackson Park, site of the World's Columbian Exposition, is a right an- g-led triang-le in shape. It is four times as large as the ground devoted to the Paris expositions of 1878 and 1889. It has a frontage of nearly two miles on Lake Michigan, the largest body of fresh water on the globe. The waters of the beautiful system of lagcons pass every one of the main buildings and all but surround some of them. On their surfaces all the palaces are reflected, and by day and night the water duplicates the full brilliancy of this the greatest of World's Expositions. Gondolas brought from Venice loaf luxuriously along these liquid avenues, to be distanced contemptuously by fleets of steam and electric launches. The prepara- tions for the greatest event of the nineteenth century were carried out on a scale commensurate with the determination of Chicago that this should eclipse in every way all previous World's Fairs. The cost of the exposi- tion proper was about $22,000,000. Including the cost of adm.inistration from, beginning to close, with the cost of State, foreign and special build- ings, the total cost will foot up to very nearly $33,000,000, and this is aside irom the cost of exhibits. The visitor will be curious to know where and how the immense sum set aside by the local management for the exposi- tion was expended. A personal inspection of the exposition as a whole, covering a period of not less that one month, will alone be sufficient to ofive one a perfect understanding of the magnitude and grandeur ^f the 12 THE GROUNDS, WATERWAYS, ETC. undertaking-, and the success which has crowned the efforts of those who have had it in charge. Some facts must always be borne in mind. It would be well for the visitor to commit them to mem.ory. The exposition grounds cover an area of 633 acres. Of this 80 acres are in Midway Plaisance, and 553 acres in Jackson Park. The area available for build- ings was 556 acres, there being 77 acres in the Wooded Island and the in- terior waterway. The total exhibition area under roof of all buildings erected by the exposition company is 109.9 acres. Of this about 50 acres are in the galleries and 47 in the live stock sheds. One hundred and twenty carloads of glass , enough to cover 29 acres, were used in the roofs of the great exposition structures. More than 41 carloads, or eleven acres, were required by the great Manufactures Building alone. Other interesting facts, descriptions of main features of grounds and buildings, etc., are given in the pages which follow. I,EFT GROUP OF COLUMBIA FOUNTAIN. THE WOODED ISLAND. In the lagoon, runs north and south, opposite Horticultural, Transportation, Govern- ment and Manufactures buildings. The Wooded Island, or "Rose Island," as it is sometimes called, is one of the most charming spots in the l^xposition. It is really a part of the Horticultural display, being covered with the loveliest exhibits of flowers and shrubs to be seen outside the Horticultural building. The Japanese Hooden or palace is located at the northern, the Hunters' Cabin ?+ the southern end. The island is laid out in graceful walks, which The; grounds, waterways, etc. 13 wind their serpentine course around, flower beds and bushes of shrubbery, leading to many restful nooks and corners, where the visitor may obtain seclusion and repose. Refreshment booths are located here, and there are plenty of comfortable seats. The " Hunters' Cabin" and the "Japanese Hooden " are referred to elsewhere. FLAGS AND DECORATIONS. The most prominent flag poles on each building carry the Stars and stripes and the poles of secondary prominence carry the flags of those nations which take the lead in the several departments the buildings rep- resent, as in the production of machinery and manufactures. On the poles of less degree are hung banners, carrying devices having some reference to the character of the exhibits or a subject connected in some way with the depart- ment. On the Agricultural Building the ban- ners bear the signs of the Zodiac, on the stock pavilion images of domestic animals, and so on. Another factor in the color effect of the Fair as a whole is the tinting of certain parts of the large buildings. INTERIOR ILLUniNATION. The most striking features are the 16,000 incandescent lights in the Fine Arts Building-, - MUSIC. , .., .L -1 X ^ .• where there are two miles of reflecting screens. At each of the eight corners in the interior of the Administration build- ing there are 58 candelabra, and the gallery is supplied with 56 seven- light candelabra. Still higher up in the dome in which is painted the " Glorification of the Arts and Sciences " are hundreds of concealed lamps, which illuminate that beautiful picture. In the Manufactures Building there are five great and beautiful chandeliers of arc lights. Four of these carry 60 lamps each and the fifth 75. There are 1,200 arc lights in this building ; 500 in the Agricultural ; 350 in the Transportation ; 250 in Horticultural , 200 in the Mines ; 50 in the Fisheries and 77 in the Illinois State. On the extreme point of the piers great lights serve as beacons for all crafts on the lake. Each pier is supplfed with a double line of or- dinary arc lamps which make a grand display. The electroliers in the Manufactures building are the largest ever made. Four of them — two at the south, and two at the north end of the building — are sixty feet in diameter, and the one in the center is 102 feet in diameter. They are made of cast iron and are supported from the iron girders 65 feet from the roof by steel cables. At regular distances around the outside rim are 78 uprights curved like a boat davit, with a small wheel at the end. From each of these is suspended an arc light of 2,000 candle-power. The car- bons have to be changed every day, and to get to the electrolier the at- tendant has to climb to the top of the building and go through a small 14 the; grounds, waterways, etc. hole to a ladder. The five electroliers have a combined light equal to 828,000 candle-power. ILLUniNATION OF THE GROUNDS. There are 2,000 arc lights on the grounds. Most of these are mount- ed on handsome and artistic metal posts, though the extreme south and borders of the park everywhere have only common cedar posts, surmount- ed with the usual metal arms sustaining the lamp. The ornamental posts themselves are not insignificant features of the fair. Some of them are designed to receive one, two or three arc lamps, and even to have arms supporting incandescent lamps of high candle power enclosed with- in colored glass lanterns. The posts are placed from 60 to 75 feet apart, though in extreme portions of the grounds the intervals are in some places 125 feet. Around the main entrances to the principal buildings clusters of lig-hts are placed, while the general center of illumination is the court of honor, surrounding the Administration building. Here the visitor who steps from the train finds the south fronts of the Mines and Electrical buildings, and the north wall of Machinery Hall, the boundary lines about the heart of the exposition. The lofty posts are grouped thick- est here, and the great statue of Franklin at the portal of the Electrical building rests in a blaze of splendor. The posts are placed, as a rule, in a straight line, thus securing the added effect afforded by converging lines of light. In the vicinity of the main buildings three lines extend about 40 feet from the walls. Single lamps stand at the approaches of bridges, while clusters are placed in the center. Each of these arc lig-hts is of 2,000 candle power. To supply them requires 90 miles of underground wire and 170 miles of overhead wire. In incandescent lighting the dis- play is even more marvelous. The visitor will observe one fact at night which, perhaps, not one in 10,000 would discover by day. There is a uni- form cornice level on all the buildings, 60 feet from the ground. This line is marked at night by rows of incandescent lights. The little bulbs are placed at narrow intervals, seemingly only a few inches when viewed from the ground. The administration building is studded with lamps from foundation to dome. All about the grand basin and canal are rows of lamps like living lines of light set just above the water surface. Each light is repeated in the water by a dancing counterpart, and both lend a charm to the scene. About the Wooded Island and the borders of the fiower beds, everywhere incandescent lights bring out the beauties of flower and foliage, as in the radiance of the sun. Every point of im- portance is so clustered about with light that it would be impossible to imagine the variety and extenfof this sort of illumination. A simple in- stance will serve as an illustration. On the dome of the Agricultural building, the beautiful golden figure of Diana stands poised and free of movement to every point of the compass. Below her is a sunken space — the corona of the dome — and in this circle, hidden from view, is a multi- tude of lights which reveal her graceful figure as in the very eye of a calcium reflector. The absence of other lights near, together with her height, produce the effect of a gold goddess swinging in mid-air, and dis- THE GROUNDS, WATERWAYS, ETC. 15 daining all support. The darker the nig-ht the more beautifully does, Diana appear. THE ELECTRIC SEARCH LIGHTS. One of the novel nig-ht effects is secured by the iise of powerful search lights, which are so employed as to light up certain portions of the grounds for specified periods, and give panoramic glimpses of the build- ings, grounds and lagoons. The Administration building, with its gilded dome rising nearly 300 feet high, in the center of a spacious plaza, 700 feet square, at the head of the Court of Honor, is one of the central points for the radiation of powerful electric light. From the lofty dome of the Administration building is shot at night sessions a constantly broadening band of light northwest over the lagoon and striking the Horticultural and Woman's building. This is a Adew of several minutes duration, during which the golden door of the Transportation building, the water-lilies and marble corridors of Horticultural Hall, and the aerial gardens of the Woman's build- ing are flooded with light. On the right of the band of light may be caught glimpses of the Wooded Island and aquatic plants. Another, and perhaps m.ore beautiful view is along the line of lights extending from, the Peristyle out on the lake. In this stream of illumination appears all the novel craft sailing in the pleasure harbor, as well as the steamboat pier, and back along the broad basin 300 feet wide, the light speeds to the east PI,ENTy. front of the Administration building, and illumin- ates the facades of the Agricultural, the Manufactures and several other of the beautiful structures. These are but bits of the general effect. The waters of the outer basin, the canal, the lagoons, are all lighted by the soft incandescent glow of electric lamps. Along the borders of the water- ways, amid the foliage, are concealed electric lights. Grand and Drexel Boulevards, Stony Island, L THK GREAT BUILDINGS, ETC. 103 PULLHAN EXHIBIT. Central court, Transportation building. This consists of an exact counterpart of the New York & Chicago limited express, made up of specially built Pullman cars, of the most luxurious and expensive style. Pronounced the finest railway train ever constructed. Other beautiful railway trains are exhibited by the Can- adian Pacific Railway, and the New York Central Railway. NICARAGUA CANAL MODEL. Transportation building, gallery. This model is one of the two that were constructed at Washing-ton in 1888. The other was sent to the Paris Exposition and presented to the French department of engineering. The present one was brought from Washington by P. H. Bevier, Assistant Bngineer of the Canal Construc- tion Company. It represents the topography of the country through which the line of the canal is laid, and presents a very pretty and in- structive picture to the curiosity seeker or student. GREAT TRIP HAMMER. Transportation building, central aisle. This is a hammer of cyclopic proportions, dwarfing everything near it. It is a 125 ton hammer, exhibited by the Bethlehem Iron Works, and it rises almost to the roof beams. To all appearances the model is of solid iron. It is a faithful reproduction of the greatest hammer in the world. The original is used in forging heavy iron and steel work, armor plating, etc. HISTORICAL WAGON. Transportation building, main floor. A wagon ISO years old is exhibited. It is of quaint design and be- longed to the late Nancy Standish Welles, of Wethersfield, Conn., who was a direct ascendant of Captain Miles Standish, and also of Thomas Welles, Colonial governor of the Connecticut colony. GRACE DARLING'S BOAT. Transportation building. The little craft in which the heroine went to the rescue of the passen- ger steamer Forf arsahire, on the rocks of Fame Island, September 6 and 7, 1838. BICYCLE EXHIBIT. Transportation building, main floor. Fvery variety of cycle, embracing tandems, triplets, solid, cushion and pneumatic tires, forgings, brazings, bearing cases and balls, in fact, everything of interest to wheelmen, may be found in the Transportation building. Former cycle exhibits in Furope and America are eclipsed by this display, not so much in the number of machines shown as in exquisite- 106 TH^ GREAT BUIIvDINGS, ETC. ness of desigfn and finish and in the elegance of the booths. One Boston firm has a brass and bronze enclosure about its allotment space costing $10,000. Another Massachuetts firm, has a booth of solid mahogany about a space of 1,500 feet square. The machines placed on exhibition are the finest in point of finish possible to turn out, the manufacturers giving special attention to enameling, plating and polishing. One firm shows two full gold plated racing wheels and several show different styles of machines with gold trimmings. The entire purpose of the bicycle ex- hibit is to display the latter-day utility and comfort of the bicycle as a means of conveyance upon the road or as a record breaker on the track. All weights are shown, to cover all uses from severe work upon wretched roads to the attainment of speed on the track. Many of the exhibits are groups of a dozen designs or weights, gradient from a 40-pound roadster to a 17-pound racer. The safety type of bicycle of course, predominates. HADEIRA EXHIBIT. Transportation building, main floor. There are no boats, no wheeled conveyances in this exhibit. The people of Madeira travel in sleds, not because snow and ice are on the ground at all times of year, but because the highways anu .jy\/ays are so peculiarly constructed that runners are preferable to wheels \vhea quick transportation is desired. The streets of the town are paved with stones scarcely as big as base balls, and so smooth have they become through the years of unceasing travel that they are as slippery as the surface of a well-swept skating rink. The well-to-do man of Maderia trt,vels in state. His sleds are not so elaborate as those of King lyudwig, but fully as ample, and look like a richly upholstered closed carriage of our day set upon clumsy runners. Seated in this conveyance and guided by the steerer or pilot, who directs the movements of the bullocks from a rear but honor- able perch, the worthy Madeiran travels about over the glassy but bare pavements. Another conveyance of the people of Madeira and one which accompanied the bullock " cart " is the mountain sled. This looks like a church pew set upon runners. The seat will accommodate but few per- sons, however. It is upholstered in red and has no covering or side cur- tains. People of that far-away country who use this conveyance simply sit beside each other before making the descent down the well-worn mountain road and then when the steerer is ready the sled plunges for- ward with incredible speed. It is said that it will slip over thirty and even thirty-five miles an hour. The mountain hammock, another means of conveyance among the peaks of Madeira, resembles our own hammock attached to poles like those of an ambulance stretcher and carried at the head by a sunshade. Then, there is a little, primitive looking sled which the islanders use to carry wood things from place to place. QUEER EXHIBITS. Transportation building. Among the queer things are the following : A sled of spruce, witii runners made from the jaw-bone of a whale, received from Unalakilt; a set of snow shoes without netting, used on the hard packed snow of the THE GREAT BUII^DINGS, ETC. 107 coast ; a set of harness made of sealskin thongs ; Yukon river sled, har nesses, rain-coats, made from salmon skin, ice spears with points of rein- deer antlers, snow shovels of spruce, ropes made from the fibres of the nettle, canoes of spruce, birch bark, etc.; from the upper Yukon, a tobog- gan sled, made of birch held together with thongs of reindeer hide, which carries a regular load of 400 pounds ; from the Alaska Commercial Com- pany six cases containing hunting implements, spears, paddles, and pumps, hunting sleds, etc.; from Constantinople specimens of costumes worn by firemen, porters, and water carriers, saddles, leather head- bearers, Sedan chairs, two Turkish rowing boats, etc.; a rolling hogs- head used 200 years ago to deliver tobacco to market in Virginia, and an ancient chariot from the Etruscan museum in Florence. U. S. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. PALACE OF FEDERAL EXHIBITS. Location, between Lake Michigan and lagoon on the east and west, and Manufactures building and the foreign group on the north and south. Dimensions 345x415 leet; cost $400,000. Delightfully located near the lake shore, south of the main lagoon, and of the area reserved for the foreign nations and the several States, and east of the Woman's building and of Midway Plaisance, is the Gov- ernment Exhibit building. The buildings of England, Germany and Mexico are near by to the northward. It is classic in style, and bears a strong resemblance to the National Museum and other Government buildings at Washington. It is constructed of iron and glass. Its leading architectural feature is an imposing central dome, 120 feet in diameter and ISO 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 Postoffice Depart- ment, Treasury Department, War Department and Department of Agri- culture. The north half is devoted to the exhibits of the Fisheries Com- mission, Smithsonian Institute and Interior Department. The State De- partment 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 biiild- ing. 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 ; Postoffice, 9,000 square feet ; Fishery, 20,000 square feet, and Smithsonian Institute balance of space. U. S. GEOLOGICAL DISPLAY. In the U. S. Government building. This exhibit is a remarkable one of the natural science which treats of the structural and mineral construction of the earth's crust and was collected only with great labor. The first thing that greets the eye as one enters the door is a highly colored and finely delineated raised map of the 108 Tun gre;at buii