Tlie Humming Bird. 37 



Addresses were delivered by Marie Stromberg (Russia), 

 Miss Unwin, Mrs. Fenwick Miller and Marie Fisher (England), 

 Isabelle Bogelot, and Cécile Ranoz (France), and by other 

 delegates from Canada, South America, etc. 



On the 1 6th, twenty different conventions were in 

 session. 



The French Section of Fine Arts attracts a great deal of 

 attention. On the 9th, a banquet was given by Mr. Roger 

 Ballu, the principal French Commissioner of Fine Arts, to the 

 Officers of the Chicago Exhibition, the foreign Commissioners 

 of Fine Arts, artistic notabilities, and others. 



The Japanese Exhibition is also much admired. 



Much remains to be done ; but even as it is, months 

 would be required to see all the marvels accumulated in the 

 Exhibition. 



It is a great pity that such a wonderful display should 

 have such an ephemeral life. 



During the six months of its existence there is scarcely 

 time enough to study conscientiously only those peculiar 

 branches which interest most. 



The Chicago Exhibition occupies about ten times more 

 space than the last Paris International Exhibition of 1889. 

 Those who saw the Paris Exhibition will know Avhat that 

 means. 



The Palace of the Administration is in the centre. It is 

 a wonderful structure and one of the great attractions of the 

 Exhibition. It cost very nearly one million of dollars, or 

 /,2oo,ooo. All the buildings are distributed right and left 

 of that palace. On the right, the Palaces of Mines and 

 Electricity, two colonial structures. Further on, the leviathan 

 of all, or Palace of Manufactures and Liberal Arts, the centre 

 of which is occupied by England, France, Germany, and 

 United States. Then comes the Palace of Music where 7,000 

 spectators and over 2,000 artists can be easily seated. 



Opposite the Palace of Liberal Arts is the Palace of 

 Agriculture, another colonial structure, and so many others that 

 it would fill several pages of this journal to give their names. I 

 shall only mentiontheHorticultural Palace, the Women's Palace, 

 the Federal Government Palace, the States Buildings, the 

 Foreign Palaces, and the gigantic Aquarium. 



