Art Out-of-Doors 



have at command the shores and waters 

 of a veritable ocean, and to the use which 

 has been made of these a very large part 

 of the beauty as well as of the individu- 

 ality of our Fair is due. 



Only a landscape-architect, and a very great 

 one, could have foreseen how, by regulating 

 that lake-overflov/ which seemed to others a 

 fatally deterrent feature of the proposed site, 

 he might turn a big, barren swamp into a 

 palatial pleasure - ground — creating wide 

 water-ways instead of avenues, using the ex- 

 cavated earth to solidify the building-sites, 

 varying the character of these sites and 

 water-ways, thus preparing for formal, ar- 

 chitectonic beauty in one portion of the 

 grounds and for irregular, picturesque beauty 

 in another portion, and yet so associating 

 and harmonizing the two that the transition 

 from straight quays and canals to the broken 

 outlines of islands and lagoons might be- 

 come the finest feature of the imposing 

 whole. But Mr. Olmsted foresaw all this, 

 and he and his associates have done it all ; 

 and, moreover, while thus actually creating 

 a large part of the Fair-grounds, they have 



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