Show CHICAGOS PALACES Visit to the Fair Ground and a Look at Its Wonders ALADDINS MAGIC LAMP OUTDONE Fountains of Jewell and Lakes of Gold How the Crowd at the Fair Will be Taken Care of CHICAGO Juno 141S92 Special correspondence corre-spondence of THE HERALD Wonderful wonderful wonderful is the magic wand of Chicago 1 The genii of the lamp of Aladdin are pigmies pig-mies beside it The wildest dreams of Monte Cristo become be-come tame and prosaic before it and the mightiest works of the historic past iu Rome in Egypt and in India dwindle under its spell Pharaoh kept his one hundred odd thou > ottnd laborers at work for decades under the lash to build the great pyramid of Gheops Slaves innumerable worked for many years in oonstructing the Coliseum ind the stones of the Taj Mahal and the great fort at Agra were cemented together with human blood and with tens of thousands thou-sands of human lives The wand of Chicago In a few months Has created massive structures which in magnificence and splendor outrival anything any-thing ever conceived by man and the human mind grows dizzy in trying to comprehend com-prehend the immensity of the mighty exposition ex-position she is building I have spent the day in wandering in and out among the massive palaces which are springing up like magic on the banks of the lake and the din of great hammers the shrieking of engines and the running to and fro of 6000 workmen still ring in my ears as I write The exposition grounds cover just about the area of a section of land and if they were square it would be Just about lour miles around them This space is today the busiest place in the I world The crowded streets of Canton in China are not more lively than it and every kind of work almost under the sun is going on in the building of this exposition city of great palaces Hundreds of landscape land-scape gardeners are digging and planting and in one little island in the lake inside I the ground there will be ten acres of I flowers A halt million of pansies will I I hero turn up their many colored faces to the sun ana roses by the thousands will bloom Hundreds of men are working in iron and other hundreds are hammering I I sawing and cutting in wood There are f scores of artists here modeling In clay the t delicate carvings which are to decorate the great buildings rind other artists are making 1 r mak-ing the gigantic statues which are to stand guard over the doors or upon the roofs j There art painters by the hundreds designers I de-signers of all kinds workers in tin and in copper masons and plumbers and in short men of every trade and vocation required f in the building a city It takes big restaurants restaur-ants to furnish the feed for the workmen and corps of policemen are presen t to koco guard over the whole I I SOME BIG FIGURES I despair of giving nnygadoquate idea of r these buildings Figures alone are worth I nothing except to an Isaac Newton or to mathematical minds and I will try to descrIbe de-scribe their size in homely everyday language lan-guage Take the average farm of a qu < < r tar section of land or 100 acres and put over the whole a roof and jou will have just Lao Amount or space that will be under the roof of these exposition buildings There IB a sawmill hero that will cover an acre The machinery exhibits will be in one hall under a nineacre roof and there will be an annex to this which will have a roof of six acres in size The building devoted to fine arts will be bigger than the Capitol at Washington and you could plant the treasury treas-ury the Capitol and the grent state war and nary building inside the exposition agricultural ball and have room to spare to drive around them inside its walls The electric building covers more spaco than John Wanamakers Philadelphia store and Its five and a halt acres of floor would give room for more than the average block and the building devoted to women is as big as the great pension building at Washington which covers almost ten acres The biggest big-gest building of all is that of the manufactures manufac-tures which covers thirty acres and which will be the biggest structure ever put up by man large part of the roofs of these buildings is of glass and it will tako about thirty acres or plate glass for this purpose and there will be 120 carloads of glass required re-quired or a train load of glass over half a mile long The amount of timber used in the buildings will give scow idea of their size There will be enough lumber to make a board walk two feet wide from London to can ixancisco or one four feet wide from New 3 ork to Seattle or Portland A plank walk a foot wide could be run around the outside of the Chinese wall with this lumber and if it were all in big pine trees these would make a virgin forest of 5000 acres THE BIGGEST BUILDING EVER MADE I spent long time in wandering about the manufacture building It is the big treat building ever planned and it will have erie root covering thirty acres Senator I Sen-ator Ingalls came out and looked at it the I Other day and as he gazed astounded at its I Immensity he said It Is exhalation 1 Yesterday it was not today it and tomorrow it will havo passed awy I can see how you can fence it but to iobf it almost surpasses human conception Think of putting a massive glass and iron toot oor a thirty aero field1 That is what ttoeee Boa are doing here today and I saw ifeera at work putting up the great iron ipusws which will support this roof These are Yst arms of iron each weighing more than SQOOOO pounds and these arms spring from the floor on each side and clasp hands M it were away up there 211 feet above the IDOl It is a good sized church that has i spire as high ss that and there are twentyseren of these trusses and their pan is iou JOOL juey weign sp much that thirtyfive piles havo to be driven down for each and foundation of logs and iron built Bpon tnem for they would grind an ordinary ordin-ary floor te powder Each arm is fourteen fftt thick at the base and ten feet thick at tfca apex They are made by the biggest bridge building company in the world and this company will I am told get half a million dollars and the lumber in it is quite M wonderful as the iron It would take 1100 acres of forest to supply it and it took just five carloads of nails to fasten flown tho floor Think how much a car 4 load of nails Is and multiply It with five And theee nails were used for the floor clone You cannot conceive the size of this structure without eeelag it Three hun J J dred thousand people could be seated on the floor and in the galleries and 80000 could be seated on the floor alone The Coliseum at Rome with all its galleries could only seat 87000 people andit was never roofed except with canvas You j i could put four Coliseums on that floor and two pyramids as big as Cheops would sit upon it side by side and leave room for the i Capitol at Washington If the great pyramid pyra-mid was taken to pieces and carried here its material could be stored inthis building and you could look down upon its masses of stone from the galleries ThiS building is about a third of a mile long It has in each of its four sides a pavilionlike entrance en-trance and these today look small c Still each of them is the size of a top story office I building and they are dwarfed by their surroundings The floor is already down in this building and the trusses are now I being put Up Thirty great staircases so wide that two carriages could bo driven up them side by Bide will lead to wide galleries galler-ies anti there will be a street fifty feet wide running through the centre With its galleries it will he forty acres of floor spaco and it tires one to even think of its possible contents A crrr OF PALACES I had somo idea of tho seize of these bg buildings before I came to Chicago but I had no conception of how they will look Tho general impression over the country is that they will be massive factorylike structures of iron and glass The truth is they are to be palaces which will look as though ages had been consumed in thoir building By the aid of a sort of stucco material made of plaster and hair in such composition that it will take all the wonder derful finish of marble ana the mouldings of plaster of paris every iron bone in the great skeletons of these buildings will be covered by the most beautiful of architectural architect-ural flesh and the whole will be a grand creation of carvings statuary beautiful pillars and graceful forms These carvings will be decorated in colors and many of them will be plated with gold leaf and bronze The administration building build-ing is crowned by a great dome 220 feet high and 120 feet in diamater and this is to be gilded at a cost 50000 for leaf while the interior is to be decorated with paintings representing tno arts and sciences and the walls will be covered with sculpture Tho sculpture on the various buildings will be one of tho sights of the fir and the work now being done is wonderful In its beauty The capitals cap-itals of the columns of the fisneries building build-ing are designs of fishes heads and each building has sculptured figures appropriate appropri-ate to itself The golden door of the transportation trans-portation building will surpass in its carvings carv-ings and on its gold leaf decoration the famed temples of Bangkok in Siam and it will take days to note the beauties of these buildings to sa > notning of their contents THE AGC OF ELECTRICITY Twenty years ago little was known of electricity outside of the telegraph At this exposition it requires a building of nearly six acres to hold the different electrical elec-trical inventions and Edison alone will use up about an acre of space An electricity firm of Berlin wants nearly an acre and this firm has offered to spend 200000 on its electrical exhibit Edison is getting up new matter for the fair and he proposes pro-poses to show his kinetograph and other things which will be new The exhibition of electricity in lighting and in power production pro-duction will be shown in tho different buildings in a way cover dreamt of before The electric plant of tho Worlds fair will cost more than 1000000 and electricity will turn the night into day The manufactures manu-factures building alone will have 33COO lights and there will be 127000 electric lamps blazing away every night The effect ef-fect of these lights will be wonderful beyond be-yond description There are a quarter of a million panes of glass on the exposition buildings and these will be turned into gold by the glare of electricity and the 40000 panes of glass in the electricity building build-ing will fairly blaze FOUNTAINS OF JEWELS AND LAKES OF GOLD The electrical water display will surpass anything ever attempted Tno great basin I which runs from the lake to the adminis 1ralOn iiuing Will uo encirciea wita eiec I Inc lights and lights will bo sunk under the water and tho effect will be a lake of gold The fountains will flow over electric rays of all the colors of tho rainbow and there will be search lights arclights and all sorts of electrical appliances even to the I most wonderful fireworks operated by electricity elec-tricity and made to go off by the playing of the keys of a pianolike instrument so I that they will change at the will of the player and produce wonderful fire pictures pic-tures ffl THE CROWD AT THE FAIR Tho prospect of an immense crowd at Chicago grows better and better and the managersarenowpropbesyingthatthere I win uu ouiwueu tuirtry auu iur y minions of tickets sold The exposition hss been advertised as no exposition has ever been advertised before and all of the newspapers of the world havo been publishing articles about it Major Moses P Handy has in his bureau of publicity and property writers of all languages and letters and news are sent out every day in Spanish Russian French German English and Italian The mail of this department is bigger than that of any factoryin the country coun-try and it has 37000 addresses to which matter is regularly sent Among these addresses ad-dresses are 23000 people in the United States and about 14uOO foreigners representing repre-senting eighty Different nations in different differ-ent parts of the world There are 15000 newspapers on the list and during the past month about 2000 words a day have been sent on the average to these papers or about one and a half columns a day This average has been kept up for nearly a year The bureau gets newspaper clippings show ing hat at least 3000 000 words a day are printed about the expositon and thatabout half this is matter sent out by its departments f depart-ments Information is sent regularly to all I possible exhibitors The whole world is studied and the class of information likely to move certain people is sent them The result is that the foreign attendance at the exposition will be very large and the people peo-ple of every part of the United Stales are preparing to come to Chicago in greater crowds than were at the PHiladelphia exposition ex-position quite a number of the nobility will be among the foreigners Some of the royal family of England will probably be here Tbe Emperor of Germany who is a great traveler is thinking of coming and President Diaz of Mexico will very liKely visit the exposition and he is doing all ho can to make the Mexican part of the show a success Information lately received from India states that several native Indian In-dian princes and rajahs will be here and the shah of Persia has talked of coming Speaking of Mexico the Panduro family i t of sculptors from Guadalajara are coming I i They are the finest of Mexico and their portrait work is wonderful I met the 1 I i great Panduro while wa In Mexico and I saw him model in clay Ho can make a life j i like portrait bust in eight hours and his I i work has become famous Therawill be a fine exhibit of art works from Japan and i among the foreign curios in the way pf people aro a troupe of African pigmies which arc expected frOm Tippoo Tib SOME QUEER EXPOSITION SIGHTS I I asked one of the exposition officers to tell me some of the queer things about the I exposition He replied The wholo show will be queer and Its oddities are innumerable innumer-able Thfc foreign shqw D ill be wonderful c Y 0 iI and the streets of Cairo will attract thousands thou-sands The agricultural show will have all the fruits of the United States and wo will have watermelons from New Mexico which will weigh one hundred pounds apiece In I the Moorish palace there will be 1000000 in gold coin and the dancing girls of Tunis and Algiers will bo another sight The fiifst map of the world that was ever made I is to be sent here by the pope and our relics rel-ics of Columbus will give a better idea of the times of the discovery of America than any collection ever gathered together The management of the exposition and the exposition buildings will be wonderful and the exhibits will in every respect surpass those of any Worlds fair of the past FUASK G CAnrEsrea |