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Show BUILT TO REMAIN. With hut ono or two exceptions thero Is not a building of tho Chicago world's fair standing as a permanent -KSfe-.-fi HjJJ III1"' nwJtf" 9 ' The Virginia State Building. structure. This Is true of tho more recent St. Louis exposition and tho still moro recent Lowls and Chirk exposition ex-position nt Portland, Ore. Hut such Is not to bo tho cnBo with tho Jamestown exposition which has Just opened, for the stato buildings which hnvo been erected upon tho splendid slto on Hampton Roads aro to bo n permanent mmumont to the event, nnd will nftor tho bIiow cIobcs Novombur 30 next bo transformed Into homes, club houses, hotels, nnd tho llko. This means qultu un array of flno structures, tho following Btntos having made appropriations for buildings build-ings und exhibits: Alabama. $20,000; Arkansas, $15,000; Duluwaro. $10,000; Connecticut. $70,000; Loulslano, $15, 000; Georgia, $50,000; Illinois, $25,000; Kentucky, $40,000; Maryland, $05,000; Michigan, $20,000; Missouri, $10,000; Massachusetts, $50,000; Now Jorsqy, $75,000; North Dakota, $15,000; Now York, ?ir.0.000; North Carolina, $50.-000; $50.-000; Ohio. $75,000; Oklahoma, $10,-000; $10,-000; Pennsylvania, $100,000; Illiodu Island, $50,000: South Carolina, $20.-t 000; Tennessee, $20,500; Virginia, $300, POO; Vliglnla counties (additional), (addition-al), 1150,000; Vermont, $10,000; West Virginia. $55,000; New Hampshire. $10,000. Tho exposition buildings proper consist con-sist of about 25 structures, among them being an auditorium nnd con-ventlv con-ventlv hall ICO by 23G feet, with wings C2 feet long, having nn auditorium audi-torium 01 by 91 feet, with a seating rapacity of about 3,000; a pttlaco of manufactures und liberal arts, 2S0 by 550 fr,?t; a palace of machinery nnd trnnsrnrtatlon, 280 by 550 foot; states' exhibit palace, 300 by 500 feet; n mining and metallurgy building, build-ing, 100 by 250 feet; n hygienic nnd medical building 100 by 250 feet; n puro food building, 90 by 300 feet; a pnlaro of history and historic arts, 121 by 129 feet, nnd an educational bulldlnr 121 by 129 feet. Upsides theso, thero Is what la known as tho Arta nnd Crafts Village, Vil-lage, conslBtlng of soven cottages of colonial nrchltecturo. Theso aro tho textile building. 53 by 88 feot; copper, silver nnd woodworkers' shops, -14 by 137 feot; pottery shops 48 by 50 feot; Iron Bhops, IS by 50 foot; model school, 35 by 45 feet, with a modol schoolroom, 25 by 52 feot; mothers' and children's building, CO by 100 feet, and Pocahontas hospital, 50 by 80 feet. This docs not Includo tho various government buildings nor thoso on the so-cnlled "Worpnth," nor does It Includo tho two government piers that nro each 200 feet wldo nnd ox-tend ox-tend 1,000 feet Into Hampton Konds. They aro connected by a cross pier 800 feet long and of equnl width with tho parallel plor. Tho wotor s'piico Inclosed within theso plors will bo UBCd for smullor craft to maneuver In and for aquatic sports. A reproduction of tho hattlo tio-twecn tio-twecn tho Mcrrlmnc nnd tho Monitor, In Hampton Itonds, as It was fought In 1SG2, Is ono of tho features In this connection. The government has appropriated ap-propriated $10,000 for thl alone. |