| Show P GOVERNMENT b BUILDING U AT THE FAIL I The Tho Largest r o Exposition I Building Ever Evor V r by Uncle 5 Sam Is 18 n Ii Model of Grace Grce and Beauty 1 I n n I n n nn n n n ln iii 4 L U 14 U N U U U UThe The government building nt at the thc worlds fair ranks with any on the exposition ground In of ot archi architectural design and amid sculptural beauty b auty Tho Tim architect Is Mr Ir James Knox Tay Taylor f flor lor br supervising architect ot or the lie United States treasury The ri sculptor Is Mr lr James the time youngest pupil VCr ver admitted to the no nl academy The fhe exterior of or the lie building Is 19 class classIc cla s sIc Ic be stately anti ami beautiful The Tha maui main 1 II In entrance consists of ot a portico of eight I Ionic columns live lve feet Coet In lit diameter and feet teet high surmounted by h an nn attic alc enriched eight cc The Tho attIc nto Is II by eliM female figures eleven eleen feet high representing Music Painting Sculpture Architecture Agriculture Manufactures tures Ures Transportation mid Ild Commerce On each cach nide of ot the tho central portico and 1111 just above tho the top of ot the tho attic are arc groups of or tour four figures each elch A seated female figure fourteen feet teet high rep Ilp resenting with wih a I torch In iii one hand an eagle at al her feet teet In is li our sur surrounded lur UI rounded by three young athletes each elch ten feet reet lx Ix Indies Inches high typifying tIn thu tl youth anti and strength of the tho lie republic his hand Each Ench ha a ii 1 laurel wreath In hil Tim Tho dome Is III surmounted by hy a quad feet reet fourteen riga rhen a Goddess of or Liberty n hand and high bearing u n torch In ono one 01 nn nil ni eagle In iii 11 the other standing In tho tic WW w triumphal chariot drawn by toUr four i r Inseal horses The tire by hy two nude nl e male figures each t h UM ILi tee feet teet high The rhe Fisheries hercl building which d I I MI t e with wih the lie United States mont ment building by b a it 1 lc l lly is mU suture ly hy y classic lo In outline It I Is 19 as at Irl ns as time the Greek temple of ot Poseidon vM hit b still crowns Marbled St p Groups of at naiads 1 0 11 dolphins sea soa IC shills Md IrH cuts adorn every available Thi Thu n friezes and crests around the hue all suggest the tho sea rea reaTho al fin Tho central for the nIte States government building proper n mu the time statue of or Armed Liberty Thc h hIrst first plaster cast enst of f this statue va us 3 made In iii II Homo by b Thomas Thoma Crawford Ilce time the sculptor It I was IS ty ti lalk Mills In Iii 11 mo 1560 for tor nicking making the M lii MII which ho lie cast the bronze statue tu su mounting tho tIme dome of ot the he Capitol pitol n I Washington come The lw height of oC tM t s Is IR nineteen feet foet tOlt six Ix The ItS TP government board appropriated li for Cor the Interior decoration nf or the ROY goY OV building This work wa au un en tier der the lie Immediate lupe Islon 1 lolor of Jim iiii Mil mace draco Temple 1 pIe whose whole w ole platte plant however were subject tf C 11 i of ot tho the of o the board t |
