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WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



exhibit, Forestry exhibit, Ethnographical exhibit, 

 and an Indian school. 



Leather Building. The size of this building 

 is 150x625 ft., having an area of 4.3 acres. 

 The approximate cost will be $100,000. Every- 

 thing of interest in connection with the leather 

 industry will be shown in this building. 



Forestry Building. --The size of the Forestry 

 Building is 208x528 ft., having an area of 2.G 

 acres. The approximate cost will be $90,250. 

 The structure is of a rustic order of architecture. 

 There is a veranda supporting the roof, the colon- 

 nade of which is composed of tree trunks, each 

 25 feet in length, all of them in their natural 

 state. The roof is thatched with tan bark and 

 other barks. The various wood finishings of the 

 interior are both unique and attractive. The 

 tree trunks were contributed by different States 

 and Territories and foreign countries, the name 

 of each tree being shown by a placard. The 

 building has on exhibit forest products, logs and 

 sections of trees, dressed lumber, such as flooring, 

 casing, shingles, etc., dye woods and barks, 

 lichens, wood pulp, rattan willow ware, wooden 

 ware and numerous other specimens. Several 

 complete sawmills will be in operation. The 

 sawmill plants occupy a separate building costing 

 about $35,000. 



Ethnological Exhibit. This exhibit, origin- 

 ally intended to be held in the Manufactures and 

 Liberal Arts Building, has been moved to a sep- 

 arate building, thus giving additional space to 

 the Educational Department. Its exact location, 

 size, area, and cost, under the heading of Ethnol- 

 ogy are not available at this writing. 



The scientific exhibits of the department will 

 furnish a tableau of six months' duration, and so 

 far as they were obtained by special exploration 

 at the expense of the Exposition, will be retained 

 in Chicago as the nucleus of a Museum of Nat- 

 ural History to be established as a permanent 

 memorial of the World's Columbian Exposition. 



The section of American Archeology will begin 

 as far back as the existence of man in America 

 can be traced. The conditions under which man 

 lived at that remote age will be shown by dia- 

 grammatic paintings representing the terminal 

 portion of the ice sheet, with the deposits of clay, 

 gravel, and boulders at its edge, and the flora and 

 fauna of that time. In this connection will be 

 shown portions of human skeletons and objects of 

 man's handiwork which have been found in the 

 glacial gravel, and which furnish evidence of his 

 existence at that early period. 



Collections and models illustrative of the 

 Eskimo and other Northern tribes of the Conti- 

 nent, and of the tribes of Central and South 

 America, will be shown. All the most distinctive 

 earthworks which show the phases of prehistoric 

 life on the Continent will be represented. All 

 the material collected this year by the Peabody 

 Museum Honduras expedition will be loaned to 

 this department. 



Pier, Movable Sidewalk, and Greek Pavil- 

 ion. The pier, or landing point for visitors 

 who shall arrive on the grounds via Lake Michi- 

 gan, runs into the lake for 1,500 feet or more, 

 the entrance to this pier from the grounds being 

 east of the Casino. A movable sidewalk, with 

 seats, will traverse the pier from end to end. At 

 the eastern extremity will stand the Greek Pavil- 



ion, light, airy, and artistic in appearance, yet 

 well secured on firm foundations of masonry. 

 The size of this pavilion will be 200x100 feet. 

 Architecturally, it will combine the Doric and 

 Ionic orders, the decorations being of white and 

 gold. 



Casino, Peristyle, and Mnsic Hall. The com- 

 posite structure is Roman in character and was 

 designed by Charles B. Atwood. The Peristyle 

 consists of forty-eight columns disposed in four 

 rows on each side of an archway spanning the 

 entrance from Lake Michigan to the great basin. 

 These columns are sixty feet in height, and 

 extend from the Music Hall on the one end to the 

 Casino on the other. The central archway is 80 

 feet high. Upon the top of this arch will be th 

 Columbian quadriga. As the structure as a 

 whole is one of the most striking features of the 

 Exposition, the description of F. D. Millet will 

 be of interest : 



"Names of eminent musicians find a place on the 

 Music Hall, and the composers are duly honored in 

 like manner on the Casino, while the wealth of 

 statuary on the Peristyle will have an echo in female 

 figures representing music, which adorn each of the 

 above mentioned buildings. All these single figures 

 are now being executed by Theodore Baur of New 

 York, a sculptor of great skill and widely recognized 

 ability. The great archway which spans the canal 

 between the basin and the lake, and forms a great 

 central feature dominating the Peristyle, is dedicated 

 to the discoverers who figure in the history of this 

 Continent ; and it might, therefore, more properly 

 bear the name of Discoverer's Gate than the rather 

 absurd title by which it lias been known, Columhus 

 Portions. The great pylon-like pedestal on top of 

 this archway is to support a colossal group, by Mr. 

 D. C. French and Mr. Edward C. Potter, the former 

 modeling the figures and the latter the horses. A 

 Roman chariot with a typical figure of a discoverer 

 is drawn by four horses, each pair of which is led 

 by a female figure, graceful in action and beautiful 

 in proportion, and on either side of the chariot 

 mounted pages accompany the quadriga. The whole 

 composition is exceedingly rich in grouping, joyous 

 and free in movement. Seen from any point of 

 view the Peristyle is marvelously impressive. From 

 the lake it towers like a palace of the Csesars, Viith 

 the additional charm of the reflection of its beauties 

 in the mirror of the water which washes its very 

 foundations. From the basin it extends with its 

 bewildering profusion of columns from the huy;e 

 pavilion of the Manufactures Building on the one 

 side to the stately colonnade of the Agricultural 

 Building on the other. The opening of the archway 

 frames a bewitching expanse of the lake with its 

 ever changing lines, and, seen between the columns, 

 the water often takes a clear turquoise hue by con- 

 trast with the pure warm white of the graceful 

 shafts." 



The Casino and the Music Hall will each be 

 devoted to the work of the Musical Department. 

 The Music Hall will hold 2,000 persons, exclusive 

 of stage accommodation for a chorus of 300 and 

 an orchestra of 120. A separate room, to seat 

 500 persons, has been set apart for chamber music 

 and recitals. As many of the choral and orches- 

 tral entertainments will be held in these two 

 buildings, this may be the most fitting place to 

 state briefly the plans of the Musical Director, 

 Theodore Thomas. The range of work proposed 

 is thus classified : 



Semi-weekly orchestral concerts in Music Hall. 

 Semi-monthly choral concerts i;i Music Hall. 



