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M. — Ethnology, Archaeology: Progress of Labor and Invention, Iso- 

 lated and Collective Exhibits. Chief, F. W. Putnam. 

 N. — Forestry and Forest Products. Superintendent, L. M. Evans. 

 United States Government Exhibit. Chairman, Edwin Willits ; 



secretary, F. T. Bickford. 

 Other departments connected with the executive government of 

 the fair were : 

 O. — Publicity and Promotion. Chief, Moses P. Handy. 

 P. — Foreign Affairs. Chief, Walker Fearn. 



Bureau of Awards. Executive committee, John Boyd Thacher, 

 chairman ; A. T. Britton, A. B. Andrews, W. J. Sewell, B. B. 

 Smalley. 

 Bureau of Admissions and Collections. Superintendent, Horace 



Tucker. 

 Bureau of Public Comfort. Chief, "W. Marsh Kasson. 

 Bureau of Decoration and Entertainment. Chief, F. D. Millet. 

 Bureau of Transportation. Chief, W. H. Holcomb. 

 Columbian Guard. Commandant, Col. Edmund Bice, U. S. A. 

 Fire Department. Chief, Edward W. Murphy. 



Aechitecttjee. 



The selection, on July 1, 1890, of Jackson Park and the large area 

 of unimproved land south of it as the site for the exposition gave the 

 architects and landscape gardeners a splendid opportunity for a display 

 of creative genius. The exposition officials chose Frederick Law 

 Olmsted, New York, landscape architect; Daniel H. Burnham, 

 Chicago, chief architect ; J. W . Boot, Chicago, consulting architect, 

 and Charles B. Atwood, 'New York, designer-in-chief. It was wisely 

 determined not to intrust the designing of the buildings to any one 

 man or firm, but to summon the most noted exponents of American 

 architecture to aid in the work. 



The location of buildings and plans of water and railways were 

 practically those of Boot, Olmsted & Codman after consultation with 

 the leading architects. The great buildings about the Court of Honor 

 were treated with special care, aijd intrusted to architects in sympathy 

 with the same methods and principles. The buildings had a depend- 

 ence on each other, not the case in other parts of the grounds, and were 

 made to harmonize in character. The uniform style adopted by the 

 architects was necessarily expressive of the highest civihzation and 

 free from any romantic or picturesque features. The Eoman classic 

 was the form' agreed upon as best fulfilling all conditions and capable 

 of variations according to the best Italian and Eenaissance models. 

 The architects further a,greed that the module of proportion for the 

 structure of the facades should be a bay not exceeding twenty-five 

 feet in width nor sixty feet in height to top of main cornice. In all 

 other respects the genius of each artist was left free to treat the sub- 

 ject as the space and utility seemed to warrant. The result commanded 

 the admiration of the world. The material was temporary, which may 

 provoke the argument that it was not true art, yet it was still the most 

 magniticient portrayal of the possibilities of art ever witnessed. 



