Show FRENCHMAN HAD CORRECT IDEA Now How Staff Came to taBe Be Used as Construction Material for Exposition Building AT JAMESTOWN NEW DEPARTURE FOR NEXT YEARS YA S CELEBRATION TION Norfolk Va Aug 12 Leo Bonet Boet Bonet of New York who first Introduced staff as asa asa asa a construction material l for f r exposition buildings and statuary s t ar in In the United States has arrived In Norfolk on oil busi bust business business bustness ness connected with the Jamestown ex exposition exposItion position of 1907 Mr Bonet through I his suggestion that staff be used In the construction of the Columbian exposi exposition exposition exposition tion at Chicago may be credited with having saved about to the builders benders of ot the several expositions that have save been held In this country since 1803 3 The late Colonel Sellers of Mis Missouri Missouri Missouri was a of schemes with millions in them This mans sug suggestion estIon really e lly panned out the millions Solved the Problem Born In France Prance Mr Bonet Bonot came to the United States twenty years ago and became an American citizen In 1891 when ichen hen the first great American exposi exposition exposition exposition tion since the Philadelphia Centennial was in embryo Mr Bonet went to Chi Chicago Chicago ChiI I cago The problem of creating an arch architectural archItectural display with the maximum of magnificence at the minimum of ex ox expense expense pense was under discussion Wood Woo glass and tin Un were chiefly employed at Philadelphia resulting In structures more useful than beautiful be Mr Bonet proposed to the Chicago exposition builders that staff s aft be employed as the principal constructive material for out outside outside outside side finish and ornamentation ornament Uon At first his suggestion was not very seriously considered The Frenchman was told that staff was not sufficiently durable that like the fabled wings of Icarus it stand sun heat and hard v hacks and other wear and tear of ot weather ceather To disprove this notion Mr Bonet made some staff figures and set them on top of the Rookery building in Chicago exposed to a winter of rough weather The next spring it was dis discovered discovered discovered covered that the staff had stood the storm After due consideration staff vas as adopted and the Columbian expo exposition exposition exposition thereby ther by saved in addi addition addition addition tion to the achievement of the most beautiful exposition ever held up to that year Since then every exposition has been built chiefly of wood and staff saving sa In each Instance millions of dol del dollars lars Had these worlds fairs been built of ot steel and stone the cost would have been be n enormously greater and the time required In construction would have been doubled For temporary buildings staff Is now universally used The First Staff Building The first staff building in America was Avas the womans building at the Chi Chicago cago cao ao fair which was the work of Mr Bonet The fine arts building of that I fair which was the work of Mr Bonet I still stands as a monument to the en endurance endurance endurance durance of staff stat or rather the endur endurance endurance endurance ance of paint which protects the staff from the ravages of inclement weather Paint sticks to staff tenaciously and the material Is capable of treatment to any color scheme desired The bewildering dering beauty of expositions in tint and hue is due to a combination of plaster of If paris hemp and com component elements of staff and the pig pigments month ments which protect and beautiful its surface Not only in the buildings themselves but In their artistic orna ama ornamentation ornamentation of frieze and cornice and in inthe Inthe the statuary that embellishes the grounds is staff stat now employed Permanent Buildings At the approaching Jamestown n expo exposition which will open April 26 1907 on Sewells Point six miles from Nor Norfolk Norfolk folk tOlk another radical S in the construction of ot exposition buildings is islo Isto isto to lo be taken Heretofore every great ex cx exposition exposition position In this country has been built only for temporary use Most of the buildings at Sewells Sewalls Point are to be permanent perr anent Accordingly the quantity bf lit staff used will be comparatively small The exposition site is on the shore of Hampton Roads that famous seaway and summer resort region It Itis I is 1 believed that after the exposition there be a demand for the various buildings to be used as hotels club clubhouses houses houe hou c and summer residences this idea in view there is extra induce inducement Inducement ment for the participation of the vari various various van vanous ous states The site of each state building Is deeded to the state occupy ing it ft The state tate Is In erecting a structure of brick or other durable material and at the close of the expo exposition exposition the building and site may be sold by the state just as any other desirable improved real estate is sold Thus each state will be able to recover the cost of its building and in some instances probably make a profit on the Invest Investment investment investment ment Heretofore exposition buildings have been sold to wrecking companies at a mere pittance sometimes less than 5 5 per cent of the actual cost The Jamestown buildings located on splendid splendid splendid did sites overlooking Hampton Roads close to beautiful bathing beaches and swept by ocean breezes no doubt will willbe be bein in demand for permanent use Much staff however will be used in iii inthe the exposition features that are necessarily temporary such as the statuary the arches the bridges and the exhibit booths and decorations The grand group of government buildings will be of staff I |