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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



with colonnades and ot&er archit'ecfural 

 features. 



The design follows classical models 

 throughout, the detail being borrowed 

 from the Renaissance of Seville and other 

 Spanish towns as being appropriate to a 

 Columbian celebration. As in all the 

 other buildings on the court, an arcade on 

 the first story permits passage around the 

 building under cover; and as in all the 

 other buildings, the fronts will be formed 

 of "sta£f," colored to an ivory tone. The 

 ceilings of the porticoes will be emphasized 

 with strong color. 



A colonnade with a cafe at either end 

 forms the connecting link between Ma- 

 chinery and Agricultural halls, and in the ; 

 center of this colonnade is an archway! 

 leading to the cattle exhibits. From this, 

 portico there will be a view nearly a milel 

 in length down the lagoon, and an obelisk ' 

 and fountain placed in the lagoon between 

 the two buildings. Agriculture and Machin- 



ON THE PIER. 



ery, will form a fittiiig southern point to 

 this vista. 



The Machinery annex will be placed in 

 the rear of the Administration Building, 

 and in the loop formed by the railroad 

 tracks. It will be entered by tunnels or 

 Bubways, as well as by bridges from Ma- 

 chinery Hall and the buildings for Admin- 

 istration, Mines and Transportation. It is 

 to be a very large, but very simple build- 

 ing. While in the Main Machinery Build- 



ing a railroad train house is the type, in 

 the annex a mill or foundry will be con- 

 sidered the model for construction. It is 

 all to be built of wood in the most simple 

 and economical manner. Its shape, how- 

 ever, is peculiar. It is to be annular in 

 form, the diameter of the outer radius be- 

 ing 800 feet and of the inner radius 600 feet. 



The building will have a nave 100 feet 

 wide, with a 50 foot wide lean-to in one 

 story on the inside, and a 50 foot wide lean- 

 to on the outside. Within the inner circle 

 will be a park in which visitors, fatigued 

 by the hum of machinery, may rest. The 

 annular form chiefly commends itself, be- 

 cause a circuit electric elevated railway can 

 run continuously around the entire main 

 nave, and passengers in it can thus see the 

 entire exhibit without leaving the cars, and 

 machinery can be easily moved by this 

 means. The power will be transmitted by 

 shafting crossing the building at each bay, 

 with a motor at each shaft. The electrical 

 power will be used in the annex, and steam 

 power in the Main Machinery Building. 



Attached to this great annex will be the 

 power house, convenient to the tracks for 

 coal supply, etc., containing an immense 

 display of boilers, while in the adjoining 

 portion of the Annex Building will be es- 

 tablished the enormous plant of engines 

 and dynamos. This will probably be the 

 largest and most interesting display of 

 electrical power ever made. It is possible 

 that gas will be used instead of coal for 

 fuel beneath the boilers, and in that case a 

 a building will be prepared for making it. 



PERSPECTIVE OF SOUTH LAGOON. 



The view is taken looking south through 

 the lagoon, which lies between the building 

 for manufacturers and that for the display 

 of electricity. This lagoon crosses the great 

 basin, and terminates beyond the second 

 bridge at the obelisk and fountain. 



